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you have john donahoe trying to run the company. he is trying to attract really top people.p people are not going to work for john donahoe just as they would not work for motorola. when you get these top people, the only way you can get a man of a certain caliber, and i did him great credit for saving a company that was really going off a cliff, i worked extremely to gety and night, and someone like him in, and that was a great guy that i love and am still friends with who ran motorola, and he said he would not come to the company unless it was going to be split, so we he wasm co-ceo, and willing to do this, split these companies up. sanja did a good job. the company was in disarray. motorola mobility. and we were able to sell it. and let me tell you this. i have looked at a lot of these. i think i have pretty good instincts about this. paypal is doing great. paypal has a big chomp. i am afraid that paypal will not be able to compete, looking three or four years ahead, with -- even motorola did not have the kind of competition that you have with things like samsung and apple

nobody wants to work for john donahoe. at is one of the things that he said to me. >> skype was going to be sold by donahoe. he is naÏve or just asleep at the switch here. >> there you have it. the sounding off on management team and ebay, pushing again for this spin off of paypal. there will be votes that are nonbinding. that will happen in april. perhaps their shareholders will like to see a spinoff. a message toend management. biggestis microsoft's element? eric schmidt gives us his biggest proposal. is this the beginning of the end of bitcoin? of the take stock virtual currency. we are live on the ground in key kiev.h the latest -- ♪ >> in ukraine, the vote to select a new government has been delayed until later this week as leader struggle to fend off a default. more on the country stubble, we are joined by bloomberg's managing rector for economy and government. what about hopi echo is there any hope for ukraine to receive this bailout that is being worked on by the u.s. and the eu ? been put off for two days now. will

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an activist investor carl icon escalating his attack on john donahoe, the ebay ceo. carl icahn sent his letter to shareholders highlighting the leadership of mark andreessen and scott cook. ebay holds the claims quote blatantly false -- ebay called the claims "blatantly false." >> my next guest turned what kids did for fun into a moneymaking sport. he turned pro by the time he was 14. since then, he is taking skateboarding mainstream. he is taking his clothing line global. tony hawk's one generations chairman of the board and he joins me now from los angeles. great to have you with us. tell us a little bit about how you managed to turn skateboarding into almost everything, a videogame, on online experience as well as the clothing line. what haven't you done yet? >> well, i just did things that i felt were intuitive and that were easily associated with our culture and our sport. skateboarding is not so much a sport as a lifestyle. there is so much night that transcends in terms of music and fashion and entertainment. that is what i wanted to do. i wanted to promote sk

it is a criticism not just to him, but to john donahoe. >> does this happen elsewhere in the industry unusual. if you are the shareholder of ebay, and you look at the value skype was able to get in the i think it is a great concern to ebay shareholders. there are assets at ebay that ebay is not monetizing. quickly bought skype for $2.5 billion, and shortly afterward, sold it for $8.5 billion. >> ebay sold it and did not make much of a gain of anything. it was obviously worth more to microsoft than it was to ebay. >> ebay has said carl icahn is taking things out of context. has notreessen responded, although he has been tweeting up a storm about net neutrality. conferenceurity kicked off in san francisco today. for cyber security, big topic edward snowden. we talked about everything from snowden to cyber security to the latest security flaw in apple products. take a listen. >> we are trying to encourage them to share only cyber threat information. we said, if you are sharing in good faith, cyber threat information, we should encourage that behavior. no different than if you are on the

he is accusing ceo john donahoe failing to spot conflicts of interests on the company's board.harlie gasparino with billionaire investor carl icahn. charlie. >> thank you. carl, how are you? >> how are you doing, charlie. >> boy, you didn't minutes any words today. >> i'm too old to do it. too old to minutes words. >> see if i got this right. you think the board is kind of corrupt. [. ceo donahoe is incompetent and the company is so poorly-run it needs to spin off the only thing that is really good here which is its paypal subsidiary. does that sum up what you think. >> you're saying a lot there, charlie. let me start off saying i've been through a lot of these. of boards that are just basically, i say, a non-caring and incompetent to some extent but never seen one like this. i never saw one that is so blatant they gave away $4.5 billion, to a board member. they gave it to one of their own board members and donahoe, what the hell was he doing?% sitting there sleeping or going alongwith it? i mean, amazing thing is knew that he had a safe harbor in a sense with the fact that he

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he sent two letters to shareholders complaining about the conduct of board members, john donahoe and.'s is expanding build your own burger test. they launched the concept at single california location, offering tablets for customers to use to select bun, cheese, choices. that option is bringing in more customers and more dinner traffic. that is the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. adam: legendary financier and major gop donor ken langone is leading pack of republicans calling for re-election of the democratic governor andrew como, chairing a committee for his re-election. is the billionaire selling out and rest of wall street following him. charlie gasparino has that. >> group is called republicans for como. headed by a guy named mike mckeen, lobbiest in washington, new york. used to be a flak for governor george pataki, the last republican governor of new york. langone is chairman of this group, at least what he professed to be. what is going on is interesting dance with major wall street, major republicans, contributors, that generally give mone

the ebay ceo, john donahoe, here to answer the questions. leisure to have you in studio.talk about what carl proposing. almost half of the business comes from paypal. >> we look at this every year. ebay and paypal can be most successful and we continue to believe the best way is together. ebay makes paypal stronger and makes paypal stronger by helping it grow faster. it provides more data and a strong financial provider. there is no question ebay and paypal goto question. i am a huge ebay user and paypal makes the whole process easier and more pleasant. not company, they could still cooperate just as closely as they do now. >> not integrated as closely as they are now. mobile payments. mobile is the most important platform shift arguably in the past decade. when mobile for started, no one would have downloaded the app. but 100 million people downloaded the ebay mobile app. allowed ebay to start what was initially 600 million of total mobile payment in 2010. billion last to 27 year. >> you see that 70% of the revenue 70% of paypal is a non-ebay platform and growing. paypal

regarding hiring -- what's interesting here is that john donahoe, the ceo of ebay, he was on the shownciliatory relationship with carl icahn. it seems like this deteriorated. carl icahn was very aggressive in his letter and ebay was aggressive in the response. say- mudslinging attacks and it looks like they are firing back in their dissent. i what did carl icahn describe donahoe? >> he questioned whether he was asleep at the switch. he was asking why you would have board members that have these perceived conflicts. it's an interesting drama unfolding. i will talk to carl icahn at 3:00 so we will have lots of questions for him. >> thank you so much. tune into that interview on "street smart" at 3:00. isle tv rival roku considering an ipo this year. its devices connectivity to the internet and are giving the cable guys a run for their money. many people are trying to break this cable-tv model. jon erlichman broke that story and joins us from l.a. what is the likelihood r that thisoku ipo could happen? >> i spoken to several people with direct knowledge. they have not made a final decisi

. >> this is just the beginning for john donahoe, it he was on bloomberg just last week with me sayingnterested in devasting paypal right now. >> we look at how ebay and paypal can be more successful, and the board and i continued to believe that the best way is to gather. ebay makes paypal stronger. it makes paypal stronger by helping grow faster, it provides more data, and it provides a strong financial foundation that will make it more successful as part of ebay than separate. >> we're looking forward to your interview with carl icahn at 3:00 p.m. on street smart. watching. >> when he says it is the most blatant he will ever see, i cannot wait to talk to. >> today is the start of the frence.world con there are plenty of new gadgets and belt, especially by asian companies. tell us about the things that you have seen. >> we are actually getting things quite cheap, mozilla was a new cheaper phone, android operating systems for emerging markets. nokia was hot by microsoft, and they are using an android operating system. the asian players, trying to move the global -- developed markets w

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carl icahn escalated his attack on ebay, john donahoe, and the board of the company, calling them dysfunctionaled with conflict, something that he said to us just recently on monday. you know have -- you now have ebay firing back in a statement saying that carl icahn does not let the truth get in the way of a good story. his letters may be entertaining, but they are not factually accurate. i think he did say bull on our air, right? they say that he seems to be deliberately disseminating dead wrong claims. i just have to say, it is kind of a weird conflict of interest, right? to have a board where the members are advising your company, but yet they have a hand in all these other things? in general they have a lot of them. >> not just technology. if you are talking about reforming boards? >> someone on the board of general motors owns a stake in volkswagen. >> peter cook. >> that would never happen. >> i do not think that alan mulally would like the idea of someone having a stake their. >> i will come out against it. >> what i am actually saying is that mark andreessen, right, he was on the board

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