eric schmidt and jerod cohan are here.hey announced digital age grants for groups who use technology to solve pressing global problems. they are funded through a $1 million donation to eric schmidt. the effort grew out of their ideas and their best-selling book, "the new digital age." the book comes out in paperback next week. i am pleased to have eric schmidt and jerod cohan back at this table. welcome. let me start with this -- what is new in the afterword that was not in the book earlier and what are you saying today? >> the biggest thing that has happened since the first book came out has been so many revolutions, the disc poachers from -- disclosures from snowden and the crises that governments are having with individuals. we think this was anticipated in the book, "you judge. of citizens has a lot of implications. >> i want to talk about all those things. you suggest that we have not seen nothing yet when we about how important the internet will be in medicine and education. let's reference that back. >> i will start

this is a that jerod to answer better. -- something that jerod could answer better. >> we continue to see these difficulties of trading, some prices that have been quoted not just $100 higher, but quoted way out of whack with where it is trading elsewhere. what is it about the exchange that tolerates these problems? >> historically there had the liquidity and they say that liquidity begets liquidity. if you're not doing an over-the-counter trick about a lot of times it is your only option to buy $100,000 or $1 million from bitcoin. that is not true anymore. many are gaining in volume, and there is a lot of options for those who want to buy large .olumes bitcoiin -- of bitcoin when it dropped, and drop the price down, and was hacked back in 2011, there were not any really good options. had there been, it probably would have died dan. this might be the end now. >> we'll continue to follow this story. thank you. coming up, wyatt robinette venture capitalist -- why a prominent venture capitalist headed to the midwest. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." shares of linkedin are falling t

welcome to the team, jerod. >> thank you very much.ia especially at a time when the professional teams are very good like the san jose sharks even if they stumbled of late losing three of their last four after winning six in a row. hosting the flyers tonight. first period, brett burns with a great move, 2-1 sharks. flyers catch fire in the third. phil philly up 3-2. 4-2 flyers. and they shock san jose. 5-2 the final. >>> what do you have planned for joe pavelski day? it's coming on friday in clover, wisconsin. the town has to be proud of this. he was named the nhl third star of the month for the month of january. he will also represent the u.s. in the olympic games. >>> richard sherman telling the monday morning quarterback the nfc championship was the super bowl. the 49ers were the second best team in the nfl and also says about his attempted handshake with michael crabtree after that game if i went up to larry fitzgerald in that situation he would have shaken my hand. it's all about respect. >>> vegas agrees with sherman with the fir

today he wore a gray blazer with a giant red flower broach on it and jerod's look a pink blazer withed necklace. our janell wang asked him about his choices and he said he and co-host tara lipinski borrow each other's clothing. he's a full fashionista. >> our primetime coverage begins at 8:00. gold medal finals in downhill skiing, women's halfpipe and men's speed skating. got a lot. >> brian williams is next. be back with you at 6:00. >> i did like the leather pants. >>> on our broadcast tonight, hitting hard, those warnings about a crippling situation in the south, they're now a reality. hundreds of thousands of people are in the dark, big cities like ghost towns, airports shut down and cars abandoned on highways and it is all sliding north. >>> also sky high, the weather continues to make news here in sochi, as well, where it is warmer than almost the entire continental u.s. some tough conditions out there on the course. >>> fighting breast cancer tonight. tonight one of the largest studies on whether or not mammograms actually save lives, controversial research reigniting this deb

he spoke about the strengths of these companies in the industry with charlie rose and was joined by jerodthe co-author on his best-selling book "the new digital age." started by asking why microsoft did not make his list. microsoft has is the model was organized around a officey with windows and for products which are now free and used in platforms they do not sell. nokia is busy announcing and entered -- android-based phone. shocking. the power of open source. >> there is also this. you have acknowledged google missed social media. microsoft missed social media and in number of other things. and ass someone as smart savvy as google missed social media? >> i took responsibility for that. we were busy. we were doing chrome, the number one browser, you should use it. tremendous improvements in search and maps. we were and able to do that one part. we had a good period while we were missing that. i think the company is very happy. , google andyou google plus, which is our entry the last two years, continues to do well. if you take a look at google plus hangouts, phenomenal. there are many re

. >> best supporting actor, jerod rod leto. >> the critics love him. he has this one wrapped up. >> his speech at the golden globes was very moving. we will be watching to see if you can get six out of six right this year. thank you so much for joining us today. we will be back with more of the show after a quick break. ♪ >> welcome back. google wants to give your phone 3-d vision. project tango. >> pretty exciting. a smart phone with lots of sensors, at different things. we are seeing these as they start to be added. hardware as well as software adaption's. the latest effort. >> we have a guest with us right now to talk about it. in mechanical engineering professor who joins us now from m.i.t. seeing about what we are that is so very different right now. >> great to talk to you. they are taking a technology that has been around a wild, localization and mapping developed primarily for robots and sticking it on a smart phone. what is exciting is bringing 3-d perception of our environment onto a phone. indoor gpses like and the ability to build 3-d peopl

tomorrow, jerod: joins us. jared cohen joins us. this is "bloomberg surveillance." johnson and tom keene. our guest host is michael wolff. let us get you some company news. ford is dropping microsoft for blackberry. this according to people briefed on the matter. it'll be cheaper for ford. cool increase flexibility and speed. bikers up plans to push into mobile software. it is working with qualcomm on a phone design. divide -- used to provide devices for emerging markets. the company is making it easy for developers to put apps about loud. ibm will spend $1 billion in cloud where -- cloud software development. for.ges are up where going to head to barcelona. mobile world congress. .he just spoke with whatsapp what was the room like? do they hang on every word that he is saying it? there was a cheer when he came to the stage. everyone was so excited to hear from the man of the moment. he is the new addition to the billionaires row. guy overall.humble my first question to him was it was born from his own personal of grain -- upbringing in the ukraine. there is very li

america's largest jewelry chain signet agreed to by zale, putting it under the same umbrella as kay and jeroding more than 3000 locations in the united states. cristina alesci has more. you can go into a mall before bumping into one of these jewelry stores. now they are all going to be under the same parent. bigger,t is the healthier company. it never really got battered in the same way zales did because of the recession. zales was really on life support for a long time coming up in -- out of recession and needed emergency rescue financing. around 1600es stores and it will be combined with the signet's 1900 stores. a behemoth. what it will do is probably get some flexibility with their vendors. where they get the raw material for their product. it could actually make the margins better for the combined company. about this being subject to shareholder approval? will it fly through? side, becausele they got rescue financing, private equity owns 22% of the stock. and golden gate already signaled they support this deal. on the other hand, signet has an activist investor, big surprise. we know bac

joining me is jerod leavy, managing director. he is in texas.ction in the russell index right now? >> it is not dating sites. it is the fact that iwbm is pressing up against the moving they average. it will not only be heavily traded typically, but much more volatile than something like the s&p 500 and nasdaq. lead markets in terms of sentiment. we're just seeing volume all over the place. the 113 level in the wm, a lot of traders positioning for breakout potentially, which is curious given today's retail numbers. >> we are trading just below that 113 level right now. etf, what is driving that movement? x was interesting this morning. the markets were up slightly and the vix is rallying. the vix trading at 14.42. .9% daily fluctuation in the s&p 500. the s&p has montmartre volatile -- been more volatile. traderstarting to see take more bullish bets because of the uneasiness in the broad market and the fact that we are seeing this data. >> do you think we might be seeing more volatility? how about orbit? shares are surging on higher than average

the owner of jerod and kay and kay -- jared andlers -- to buy zale, 3500will operate retailers, all ofhe jewelers in the whole world may be owned by them. -- may cost 500,000 people their jobs, but raising the minimum wage will raise people out of poverty. the of -- obama and the democrats want to raise the rage -- wage by $.10 per hour and republican say -- we have a reporter on the ground , helmets strong -- helmut st the correspondent on the ground in the ukraine. how safe is one walking around the streets of kiev? >> that is a good question. it is quite bizarre. we are less than an hour away from independence square. quiet. suspiciously but you really have to walk towards the square, and if you get onto the main road, then you can see the first barricade. smoke from the black the fires burning on the square. >> we had reporting of joe biden saying, de-escalate. and now the natural -- national security adviser says that this is unacceptable and the president may make a statement on this. we have heard from the polish prime minister who says we could see the first days of the civil w

guy with a gun, in tucson, it was a 64 -- a 60-year-old retired army colonel, unarmed, who stopped jerod laughlin are -- jared -- from who stopped him reloading. we have seen in two recent cases that where making the criminal reload was a beneficial thing. without question, lives were .aved lives couldny more have been saved. ban limitedweapon rounds to 10 rounds. someone like loughner would have had to reload twice. many more lives would have been saved. it is true that you cannot stop everything, but the one thing we --e learned across the board look at car accident rates -- the extraordinary accomplishment, the reduction in number of lives lost through motor vehicle accidents. it was because of a very do where it -- a very deliberate effort to restrict all of the ways that cars are deadly that we were able to achieve that goal. it really is a sad phenomenon, i think, when the nra, which is much more interested in promoting activities that will thanurage the sales of guns protecting the lives of american citizens, steps that could be taken to promote the safety are prevented. >> thank

the winner will get a wedding and there's jerod small officiating. he's getting into it too.. >> look at him. he's really into it. >> yes, he is. >> josh is on assignment. good to have amy robach with us this morning. >>> also ahead, the new app that we mentioned that, well, it bosses you around if you start veering off your diet. how is this going to work? >> humiliates you apparently. >> you'll put it to the test. >> let's move on to reality tv superstars. honey boo boo and mama june are here. you saw honey boo boo for their first interview. they had a frightening car accident back in january. it injured several members of their family. we'll talk about how they're feeling and also hear about much better things, how the show is going to change this season. what we're going to see from them. a little less pageant, a little more outdoorsy. >>> we have all been talking about the ultimate date night with george clooney. cannot wait to take you behind the scenes. i can say i went on a date with george, however, i was a massive third wheel. >> or fourth wheel actually. >> that's

the winner will get a wedding and there's jerod small officiating. he's getting into it too.g will be on valentine's day. >> look at him. he's really into it. >> yes, he is. >> josh is on assignment. good to have amy robach with us this morning. >>> also ahead, the new and then it pulls away for us tonight. that's wednesday, 9:00 p.m. on the top there and turning colder, oh, my goodness, talk about it for the parade in seattle, i just got from scott our affiliate at komo saying it is really chilly. it'll feel like it's the teens for folks, oh, seahawks, they don't care. they're celebrating. >> good morning, washington. i have got an update on the freezing rain advisory in effect in the metro area and southern maryland. that has been extended now until 10:00, so we will continue to have some intermittent light, freezing rain, but little additional icing. stillrning areas -- it is coming down a good remain a major problem in places like montgomery county and stretching on up into northern maryland. temperatures will slowly make their way above the freezing >> this is how you st