on the reports that internally it it's looking at doing a deal with john malone's liberty global.hough whether john malone would want to go through with that, interestingly, another deal that went down today. one of the israeli billionaires by the name of patri it's a hot area of the market. one more from the debris that is the regulated energy sector in germany, eon, the biggest of them all, has decided that it's going to split itself in two finally with try and deal with a very decision. stock up 4%. a lot going on, guys. but thursday, front and center. back to you. >> simon, thank you. >>> when we come back, online sales continue to rise, why is warby parker expanding into brick and mortar? we will ask the co-ceos in a moment. and max levchin. dow is now down 39 points. just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional... or managing your investments on your own. helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. and save on taxes where you can. so you can invest in the life that you want today. tap into the full power of your fideli

starz, controlled by john malone, now considering partnerships with other media companies. ♪ >> welcomehe second half-hour of "bottom line" on bloomberg television. thinks you staying with us. -- thanks for staying with us. turning our focus to general assembly. they give students what they cannot get in classrooms -- training for the 21st century economy. upon graduation they are ready to start careers in manufacturing and design. thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> you went to yale. he went to wharton. that is your ticket anywhere. why are you doing this? you graduate with a degree, it is written in latin, and i thought it was like a harry potter phrase. i have that phrase on paper and it would open any door in the world. but unfortunately more and more we are looking for skills and what skills i have that allow me to add value to the job? what i found through that process is, there really is the slack of a bridge between the liberal arts, the core of their american educational system and important to our society, and the 21st century skills people need to be competitive. e

billionaire john malone currently controls the company. -- ismarissa mayer's mercer myer's strategy having an impact? yahoo! will command 3.7% of the market next year, edging out twitter but still way behind google and facebook. to our lead, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg wants to bring internet to the masses from poor, crowded towns in africa to the remotest parts of the globe. today we have an update on internet.org, the partnership zuckerberg launched between facebook, samsung, ericsson and others. i spoke to him about his efforts to connect the world beyond facebook. here is some of that exclusive interview. that the biggest hurdle actually isn't either technical or affordability, it is the social challenge where the majority of people who aren't connected are within range of a network and can afford it, but they don't know why they would want to use the internet. if you grew up and you never had a computer and you've never used the internet and someone asked you if you want to buy a data plan, your response would probably what is a data plan and why do i want to use this. >> facebook is

. >> and when i talked to john malone a couple weeks ago, he says those guys meaning you have to be veryalienate their traditional distribution and create an even bigger problem. because right now hbo is very profitable. the question is do you really want to walk away from that profitability and roll the dice on a different business model. his words. >> john i respect him, and he's a cable operator. and that's great. and we've always worked closely with all of our distributors. we won't alienate, we'll help and give them more products to sell anyway they want to sell. our first focus is on the video tv bundle. some of the best distributors are selling 50% more of these bigger packages than the others. those families and households, they ought to have an offer like th that. >> you're frustrated with some and happy with others. you're puzzled why the industry isn't attracting young people. >> that's right. help us out, help them out. they have the programming. th it doesn't cost more to make it available, but let's make it available the way that young people are connected can really enjoy

hasramming contracts starz or may not have going forward, and then there is the issue when you deal with john malone. he doessells an asset, not want to do it out right and pay taxes. tax-advantage transaction and it is difficult to find a counterpart. >> paul, did you watch "peter pan live." now, but i know -- no, but i know it was a big deal. d ast was not as panne expected. it got mixed reviews. it was a big gamble for nbc. >> that is right. there are only -- only so many super bowls, tony awards, and oscars. nbc has manufactured any event, a live event, and they did it last year with the sound of music. >> although that got totally boo ed. maybe that is good. >> from nbc's perspective, it was a big audience. >> we will continue to see the reaction on social media. thank you so much, paul sweeney, from bloomberg intelligence. much more ahead. pick to be the's next defense secretary -- or republican senators stand in the way of ashton carter. we are 15 minutes away now from the november jobs report. here, -- stayoop "in the loop." ♪ >> well, in a few short hours, president obama will make forcial

i talked to john malone and we talked about the bundle you pay in programming. sports is the key to that bundle. it would be the key to many of these disputes. the nfl games that will come up on sunday, including the denver broncos on cbs being a key puzzle to get dish to say come to the table. they haven't been talking. cbs sent a team to denver but their key negotiator wasn't there. charlie ergen who controls dish focused on the spectrum auctions. they eclipsed $40 billion lately. spoke to lesley moonves a few weeks back and asked him what is going to happen with this fight with dish? >> we have said to them, look, we don't want to be dark, but we want to be paid appropriately for our content. we have proven we are not afraid to fight. we would rather not. i would rather be a lover than a fighter. >> wouldn't we all? >> the key themes when it comes to many of these companies is not whether they are on or off the air, but fewer people are watching them. ratings are down and advertising, particularly in the scatter market seems to be weak. cbs had a great year l

that said, it's very much unclear whether john malone who has soft control of liberty global has anyhether they have a price that would interest them whether they could get there to try vota phone. i did speak to malone a couple of weeks ago. i talked to him about liberty global in part because there are always sort of rumors about a potential linkup. would he sell, would he buy? it stopped at that. it did lead to this. >> everything is a possibility, david. you know, you have to follow your nose basically on an opportunity. in the case of liberty global, they still have a pretty good runway ahead. the u.s. market is more mature in video, digital, so on. the european market still has a lot of growth opportunity embedded in it so i think for the moment liberty global is going to stick to their knitting for the most part and vertical integration is more theoretical. >> at least it would seem from what he says there's a lot more ahead of them in terms of what they can do. they do compete against voda phone. competing in other companies which liberty wanted to buy and then voda phone end