. ♪ emily: uber may have lended microsoft as a backer. at the company's $50 billion valuation. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." could apple be planning to roll out a new tv set boxtop in september? we look at the report that has tech blogs buzzing. $12 billion wiped off samsung's market cap in the last month. what the company could do to improve its smartphone business. expedia shares hit its highest

emily: uber may have lended microsoft as a backer. we look at the company's $50 billion valuation. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." could apple be planning to roll out a new tv set boxtop in september? we look at the report that has tech blogs buzzing. $12 billion wiped off samsung's market cap in the last month. what the company could do to improve its smartphone business. expedia shares hit its highest value since it spun off. i sit down with the company's cfo to talk about competition from google and airbnb. all of that i had on "bloomberg west." first our lead -- microsoft is considering an investment in uber at a valuation of about $50 billion, but a final decision has not been made. microsoft declined to comment but uber recently bought a portion of microsoft's bing mapping unit from the software giant and they are integrating uber into cortana's voice control assistant, which means synced with an uber microsoft devices. dina bass is on the phone. with me in the studio is hunter walk, who will be my guest h