digital tattoos in the concentration camp victims was provided for i.b.m. i.b.m. actually they created a special aren't string for the nazis called phantom coca-cola right yeah who funded the frickin nazis j.p. morgan well you know there's another big supporter want is that you're bringing up inconvenient truths of people don't want to talk about but little i mean we talk about here pittsboro because pittsburgh in durham and this area of the country is a hotbed of liberal and progressive and political awareness of what your are at the forefront well people are willing here to ask these questions and these questions need to be asked you're right i mean who is involved in media connects to the bush family i mean there's plenty of scholarship on there brown and herrmann and others that were funding the nazi regime that just we don't like to quote talk about it in polite company let's talk about it you know it's an impolite concern in terms of baseball now the unchecked corporate fascist crowds that don't think net neutrality is a problem if you have corporations runn

better ok but big data actually helps companies make decisions that improve our lives so i think about i.b.m. watson for example they've been analyzing thousands of pieces of data millions of pieces of data to come up with ideal health care treatments that will in the future help millions of patients surely that's a good thing. yes of course you have very nice business models but you have to differentiate whether you apply big daytime profiling to the human being as such to the person because the individual or whether you apply it to up jacks to the things of our daily life i'm really thinking of industrial internet of things which is also big data and analytics and that gives us big advantages in the industry that's for sure but nevertheless big data profiling hurts fundamental rights we have clashes with the fundamental rights for example with our freedom rights so we basically whence we are manipulated it doesn't mean that we have no free will anymore and that's also in the data a certain bias bias we can get out through data analytics and this means also that if you took a license for ex

in demand but there is a talent shortage that goes with the demand for that rich data according to i.b.m. in by twenty twenty there will be a growing a twenty eight percent increase between now and twenty twenty and the demand for for data scientists and the skills that those people need are different than those that we've seen in the past and people need in order to be capable to use that data in meaningful ways to help make better decisions need to study statistics python machine learning those are all twenty first century skills that will be we can have the data you know i like to say. you know the internet of things everyone talks about the internet of things what is the internet of things it's data ultimately so we can have a student in nigeria some company can go and lay you know all sorts of sensors on an ag large agricultural field at the end of the day that's data and we need people who are skilled and equipped and educated to take that data and bring it together and help make develop knowledge and apply those skills analytically to make better decisions sort of the nuts are tra

companies are from the united states with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i.b.m. intel cisco systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year is a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a brighter future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. on tuesday president trumps nominee for president of the us export import bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the senate banking committee here to discuss that as former u.s. trading commissioner bart chilton part as background for our viewers what is the export import bank and why is it important. it's super important to our to our economy it's been around since one thousand nine hundred thirty four and the idea is that it will help exports of u.s. goods made in the u.s. goods and you know it did so back in thirty's and after the second world war it was a big part of the marshall plan trying to get exports to france and germany and then you know fast forward to eighty nine when the berlin wall came down trying to get u.s. go

in demand but there is a talent shortage that goes with the demand for that rich data according to i.b.m. in by twenty twenty there will be a growing a twenty eight percent increase between now and twenty twenty and the demand for for data scientists and the skills that those people need are different than those that we've seen in the past and people need in order to be capable to use that data in meaningful ways to help make better decisions need to study statistics python machine learning those are all twenty first century skills that will be we can have the data you know i like to say. you know the internet of things everyone talks about the internet of things what is the internet of things it's data ultimately so we can have a student in nigeria some company can go and lay you know all sorts of sensors on an ag large agricultural field at the end of the day that's data and we need people who are skilled and equipped and educated to take that data and bring it together and help make develop knowledge and apply those skills analytically to make better decisions sort of the translators

bitcoins market capitalization is now larger than giant reality based companies like walt disney and i.b.m. investors have taken notice point base a popular online trading platform now has more than thirteen million users up more than three hundred thousand in the past week alone some financial experts see the rapid run up in bitcoins price as a classic symptom of economic delusion bitcoin as a speculative bubble the only question is when it's going to burst and who is going to be left holding the bag in the end the people that are holding it will hold something that is worth nothing but going trading as historically been extremely volatile with the price spiking and crashing as it did in two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen and bitcoin has also been linked to crime as hackers narcotics sellers and child pornography peddlers prefer the anonymity it provides for illicit transactions. history has shown that every so often investors can get caught up in a bubble and asset bubble happens when human emotion takes over markets the belief that we are in a new era where the pric

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what about i.b.m.? on block chain, does that make it positive? michael: the i.b.m. involved? yes, absolutely. i think she is finally begun to turn that ship around. i think the quick answer, yes. happy new year. carol: you don't have to be that quick. i.b.m. down 8% this year. michael hollooned, always a pleasure to have you here. bloomberg surveillance continues with myself and pam fox. michael holland will be there, join us in a moment. you're listening to and watching bloomberg surveillance. and this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: market rebalancing, the yield curve flattens and dollar sinks and commodities climb as traders square their books before the year ends. a cold cell washing over the northeast and powers surge. prices resume their tumble as south korea looks at a shutdown with the crypto currency exchanges. welcome welcome to this daybreak, i'm david with alex steele. you're excited about the weather. alix: 12 in brooklyn. i haven't seen the wenter in new york in a long time. 2 1/2 hours for the ca

weight or loses weight based on updating now you have to feed those notes to do that we've teamed with i.b.m. the idea lab and watson watson can read you know two hundred mill. and twitter feeds simultaneously i might look at ten but you know the two hundred million so plain language ability in eight languages so now we really go way beyond this is really a three way of artificial intelligence as i described ok so as always in these situations you have a problem i guess you could call it of slippage. in for example our bit arbitrage opportunities open up the market share and then everyone jumps in on those arbitrage opportunities you know by the spread between t. bills and one market versus another market in the arb's come in and it shrinks down to zero in this type of work and i know having and created the i was stock exchange and invented the predicting prediction market industry thank you. have a problem and this happens in markets all the time where you are the intelligence that you think you are gleaning as far as a predictive intelligence starts to get discounted by the fact that you'r

she goes, this annual report i understand what i.b.m. does.nd it was 50 vignettes, 50 short little vignettes about how the world and professions and industries change because of watson, a.i., cloud computing, and how it'll make life better. right? my mom goes, this is now i understand. and then she had some comments about the look and the paper type and other things. she gave me a report card. david: did you give any of these comments back tour colleagues at ibm? ms. rometty: yeah. i gave them all. sure. i have a large retail shareholder base. david: you graduated from northwestern and then although you had a scholarship from general motors, you weren't required to go work at general motors but you felt you should. ms. rometty: yeah. this is, you know, these were wonderful programs and from companies in that day and age, this was an effort to get women and minorities into businesses. and at that time general motors had a program which was they went to some of what were the best schools and they said, if i can get you, the deal was i'll pay you

allen is one of 31 dreamers working for i.b.m. he is the reason that i.b.m. and other business leaders are calling us and saying, are you crazy, senator, you would deport allen torrez. he earned his education the hard way. he succeeded where others failed. he has the kind of ambition and drive that we pray for in our children and those we admire and you want to tell this youngman to leave the united states of america? these business leaders are pretty hard-nosed about it. it isn't sentimentality, they have an excellent employee and they don't want to lose him. they have written us to pass a bipartisan dream act. the letter says, dreamers are vital to the future of our companies and our economy. with them we grow and create jobs and they are a part of all we need to continue to have a global competitive advantage. that's the business viewpoint on the issue of the dream act. in a few weeks we want to go home for christmas. we want to celebrate with our families. we understand it's a special time of year for so many people in america, this christmas and hanukkah

bitcoins market capitalization is now larger than giant reality based companies like walt disney and i.b.m. investors have taken notice point base a popular online trading platform now has more than thirteen million users up more than three hundred thousand in the past week alone some financial experts see the rapid run up in bitcoins price as a classic symptom of economic delusion bitcoin as a speculative bubble the only question is when it's going to burst and who is going to be left holding the bag in the end the people that are holding it will hold something that is worth nothing big going trading as historically been extremely volatile with the price spiking and crashing as it did in two thousand and thirteen and twenty fourteen and bitcoin has also been linked to crime as hackers narcotics sellers and child pornography peddlers prefer the anonymity it provides for illicit transactions. but history has shown that every so often investors can get caught up in a bubble and asset bubble happens when human emotion takes over markets the belief that we are in a new era where the price of s

after graduating, bill returned to north carolina where he worked as a senior engineer at i.b.m. corporation in durham. bill bell has been a community development trailblazer, not only as mayor but vice president and chief operating durham, f united incorporated. we use the acronym u.d.i. bill bell had a unique vision for his beloved community. this vision led to his election to the board of commissioners in 1972. at the time bill was one of two african-american commissioners on the five-member board. bill bell served on the board of county commissioners until 1994 and, again, from 1996 until the year 2000. even serving as chairman from 1982 to 1994. in 2001, mr. speaker, bill bell was elected mayor for the city of durham. he was then re-elected seven -- yes, that's seven times serving as durham's longest serving mayor, 16 years. mayor bill bell will be remembered for leading the city of durham toward great progress. his legacy includes heading up the transformation of downtown durham from boarded up windows to a city of -- which is a top destination that is now home to a variety

companies are from the united states with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i.b.m. intel cisco systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year it's a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how.