josh lipton has the details. crazy, butht sound people really do love watching other people play video games. it's known as e-sports, teams of video game players competing before pac stadiums of fans, froman sose to seoul, where top players can earn millions a it's a big topic of conversation at this year annual game developers conference in san francisco, and for good reason. more than 140 million pple all around the world now regularly watch theseti compes online. that's expected to jump to 250 million b2021. here's another way to think about it. in the u.s., e-sport viewers already outnumber those of the national hockey league and are expected to surpass major league baseball in just two years, becoming the second-most watch sport. e-sports generated an estimated $65 million in revenue last year. that'sust a fraction of the $100 billion gaming to really break into the mainstream and prove succesul. game analysts say e-sports has a lot to learn from traditional sports leagues like the nfl. >> it needs something

worked on these important questions and written about them in the recent scientific american alexander lipton alexander welcome let's start with the energy used to confirm crypto transactions on the block chain the used to be decentralized they took place all over the world but that's not happening as much right now when we see these bit coin and other cryptocurrency mining operations explain what that's all about. ok hello thank you very much for inviting me for this interesting program and indeed we have observed that. you know with the growing popularity of beat coin tearoom and other crypto currencies the requisite. mining expenditures grew from nomic clearly and in many instances you know people some of the people some of the observers think that the mining will be to coin for example consumes as much energy as the republic of ireland or the kingdom of denmark which obviously is very disconcerting given that the. transaction volume for bit coin and other cryptic currencies in spite of the very high price is actually quite small in fact to be to coin from no more than seven transactions p

one of the far leaders in the world on this and we thank you so much for being with us alexander lipton the c.e.o. of stronghold bank labs and the connection science fellow at the massachusetts institute of technology thanks for your important work alexander and thanks for helping us to better understand these complex issues thank you very much it was a pleasure and time now for a brief pause but stick with us because when we get back ashley banks looks at the global market reaction to steel and aluminum tariffs and melissa are mo and i sit down to talk about markets and stocks and then you'll get my old steelworkers perspective as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell green arrows for stocks to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. jamie diamond no matter how much you try to talk down because i don't matter how much you try to. get his buddies in washington and out walk because i mean the fact this is lost he has lost the battle of big client these

with me are martin lipton, deputy sports editor at the sun, and benedicte paviote, correspondent withforeign press association. welcome to you both. lovely to have you here. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the ft weekend leads with a deepening rift between the us and eu over steel tariffs and proposed changes to digital tax. the daily mirror says police are investigating 12 new claims of child sex abuse carried out by gangs in telford. the i has more on the launch of a murder inquiry after the death of a russian exile in london. the telegraph also has that story. it says nikolai glushkov was found strangled to death in his own home. the express reports on comments made by prince harry over defence cuts. during a visit to the army air were a where he trained as a helicopter pilot. the daily mail has reaction from the foster parents of ahmed hassan after he was found guilty of trying to bomb a train in london. the times reports on a second sex scandal to hit oxfam concerning the conduct of its staff in haiti. so developments in the russia story still making the front page

unilever consumer goods giant behind brands like to of lipton's tea as magnum ice cream has chosen rostam a london for its courses. it comes as a blow to uk prime minister theresa may who have always hollis to avoid the move. concerns about the message it was sent to the rest of the corporate world balloon he case decision to split from the e. u.. unilever ceo however was awesome and so we've had nothing to do with brexit. continue to stress and i will discuss that once this is nothing to do with brexit that these are long term decisions. and that we are deciding to make major investments in the uk as a result of f these mountatai. judy the has said it dropped itits u. k. heheadquarters r technical reasons at fifty five percent it says which raised in an evidence. however was to simply was just over three thousand people in the netherlands. that raise the seven thousand people working for you even in the uk. that will be some trance us but known in the uk will lose that job. it's only the corporate headqdquarters is moving i ia relativevely sml number of kills a a once in fact on the amou

>>> let's check in with josh lipton at the apple event in chicago.>> reporter: well, this keynote here is just wrapping up of course, some of the big news here, the new hardware apple unveiling the new ipad $329 but for schools, cheaper at $299 does have apple pencil support, apple arguing that will help those kids be more creative and productive in the classroom. not just hardware, though. apple also introducing today a new app called school work which they say is a free cloud-based app that will make it easy to assign handouts, get visibility into each student's progress the reason that's so important, i was talking to iec's lynn wong about that and lynn's point was part of the reason google has had so much success, they made it relatively easy for administrators and teachers to use and manage all those devices in the classroom with today's announcement, apple trying to close that gap back to you. >> josh, thanks. google classroom, really effective platform for what google is trying to build out. apple had a classroom app in the past but really has

reporter: jersey rotterdam over london, unilever, the group behind products such as lipton tea and magnum cream has chosen the netherlands as it's a single base. the company which currently has head offices and legal entities inin both countries, said the me was intended to simplify corporate structure. >> thehe decision to creree a singngle entity incorpororated n ththe netherlands reflects the fact that you know ever -- that represents a larger portion of unilever. reporter: critics say it is a sign of the u.k. is becoming unattractive for businesses and investors as they continue to negotiate index it from the european union. the decision of the company to opt for the netherlands affords a greater protection and hostile takeovers, like the one last year with heinz kraft. they said they will continue to be listed in london and new york, and said that this not threaten the jobs of thousands of employees in the u.k. stephen: they have also filed -- and toys "r" us has filed for bankruptcy. the chain has been struggling with increasing competition from amazon, as well as price wars with wa

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a cover story about the future of money and we are fortunate to have an author with us alexander lipton from the massachusetts institute of technology joins us to talk about crypto mining and the future of money and actually banks looks at the global market reaction to president strong statements about opposing steel and aluminum import tariffs which seem to be the starting sellable as of a global trade war and melissa arm all of the stocks who should sit down with us to talk markets and stocks plus before we go as a former steel worker myself who would have thought i have a few thoughts about what's been going on all of this by the way coming up soon but first really get to some headlines. italian voters gave a large majority to populist outsiders and the right wing in sunday's parliamentary elections the five star movement won thirty two percent of the. vote the largest vote for the say a single party and the northern far right league one thousand percent outpolling their center right coalition partners for a talia led by former prime minister silvio bristlecone by six points the winn

products soft drinks and personal care products under brand names including hellman's ben and jerrys lipton's and trust so many do you. fear opinion is preparing a so-called digital tax on tech companies that could raise over five billion euros annually according to the financial times the f.t. also reports that the tax will be set at three percent while precise details could change the draft proposal calls for taxes to apply to companies with more than seven hundred fifty million euros in revenue and total the e.u. based revenue of fifty million euros while the proposal would require approval from all twenty eight e.u. member nations to become law is already reported lisa.

products soft drinks and personal care products under brand names including hellman's ben and jerrys lipton's and trust so many. do you. fear pain and is preparing a so-called digital tax on tech companies that could raise over five billion euros annually according to the financial times the f.t. also reports that the tax will be set at three percent while precise details could change the draft proposal calls for taxes to apply to companies with more than seven hundred fifty million euros in revenue and total the e.u. based revenue of fifty million euros while the proposal would require approval from all twenty eight e.u. member nations to become law is already reportedly supported by france and the u.k. . a once senior trader at de frank first base deutsche bank has pled guilty to fraud and rigging the benchmark interest rate euro bore in two thousand and eleven hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt around the globe are based upon the euro bore the trader christian but har who hails from france will be sentenced in the next two months and deutsche bank for their part in the role paid two

a cover story about the future of money and we are fortunate to have an author with us alexander lipton from the massachusetts institute of technology joins us to talk about crypto mining and the future of money and actually banks looks at the global market reaction to president strong statements about it posing steel and aluminum import tariffs which seem to be the starting sellable as of a global trade war and melissa are no of the stocks who should sit down with us to talk markets and stocks plus before we go as a former steel worker myself who would have thought i have a few thoughts about what's been going on all of this by the way coming up soon but first really get some have one. italian voters gave a large majority to populist outsiders and the right wing in sunday's parliamentary elections the five star movement won thirty two percent of the vote the largest vote for the a single party and the northern far right league one thousand percent outpolling their center right coalition partners for a talia led by former prime minister silvio bristlecone by six points the winning parti

a lot of people have to hear what they want to sachlt now let's get to job lipton. >> a lot of traders and investors may not know his name but they're a lot more familiar with it. alex stamos is now front and senter in this latest controversy. he plans to step down from his post in august according to reports. in a tweet stamos said he was still employed but his role had changed to exploring emerging security risk and working on election security. facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment. staple yo stamos tweeted several times over the weekend detailing kaim's ukai cambridge analytica's data they said they should be alleged publicly down at facebook hq, stamos is clashing with other facebook executives about how much the company should have been disclosing about the efforts of russian backed propaganda. stamos wanted more disclosure which reported conflicted with the views of facebook's policy team led by cheryl stanberg. stamos, very familiar with the impact of russian cyber activity remember, before he joined facebook, he was the chief information security officer

the ipad costing $299 around $100 more than the google and microsoft models i'm happy to say josh lipton. >> reporter: the global education tech market generated revenues last year of nearly $1 billion. tim cook would enjoy a bigger piece of that market, so today he was on stage here at lane tech high school in chicago talking about his company's commitment to the also a room. >> at apple we care deeply about education, because we love kids. and we love teachers we love creativity and curiosity. and we know that our products can help bring out the creative genius in every kid. >> apple set up demo rooms here to show off the product. the new ipad would cost schools $299 the overall tablet market has been under pressure, though apple grew 3% last year and controls about a quarter of that market apple also introduced a new app today called schoolwork which helps teachers manage ipads in the classroom. they have plenty of competition. devices running google's operating systems control nearly 60% of the u.s. education market according to idc >>> also happy to say joining us on the set is neil

josh lipton is in chicago with the details. >> bill, so we're here at lane tech high school in chicago. now recode's kara swisher and msnbc chris hayes sat down with an interview with apple ceo tim cook some of the highlights, facebook and the data scandal did come up and he said we've never believed such detail profiles of people should exist and regulation could have unexpected consequences but i think we are now beyond that, cook said he called privacy a human right and said, listen, we could make a lot of money if we treated customers like our products but we've elected not to do that and then he was asked pointedly, if you were mark zuckerberg and what you would do. he said i would not be in that situation. apple talking about its new campus apparently it is geared toward technical support for customers. cook saying it is not in california he went on to say we're not doing a beauty contest for where that campus will be. if states want to compete, god bless them but we don't want to create that kind of contest. and they are a not so subtle jab at amazon. back to you. >> it seems li

and he is commenting on facebook we want to go to josh lipton who has those details. >> reporter: cook saying that we've never believed that the dpl profiles of people should exist. regulation can have unexpected consequences cook saying that i think we are now beyond that. privacy to us is a human right he goes on to say that i don't think all companies are in the same position. he says everyone needs to understand that silicon valley is in fact not a mondmonoliff everybody should know that they are just not giving up specific data point, it is the whole line you can draw on. and this guy would seem to echo comments that cook made in china recently where he also weighed in on this issue saying he thought well krachted regulcrafn was necessary. >> josh, thank you pete, we had a debate yesterday, facebook got down to $149 and change and bounced eight or nine bucks. what do you do with the stock today? $153, a little bit of a bounce is it a buy? >> i got in too early but that is why i used options instead of stocks stock was 165 when i decided to buy the 175 calls. now, you're asking me

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no, josh lipton is not standing by with news but another hawaiian private eye is.e najarian is coming us to us live from honolulu with a special edition of "fast pitch." aloha, pete. look at you. >> aloha great to see you. >> are you unponytailed? this could be tv history. >> i am. i'll give you a little tease i'm a little unponytailed. >> wow. >> i'm letting it fly today, mel. >> all right, pete, go ahead with your pitch. what is it >> here's the pitch for today, it's coca-cola i liked this name for a long period of time. >> i've owned it for a long time and i think there's plenty of upside i'll give you the three reasons why i think that the management kent was great he did a great job with diversifying the company but somebody else who's been with the company for a long time, since 1996 is james quipsy who's been phenomenon 58 he just got in over a year ago but the diversification of what they are wanting to do with this company, now they didn't go the frito-lay's route we've seen out of pepsi but they've diversified away from carbonation. what i really like abo

noted brain surgeon and hud secretary ben carson has a surprising answer but first josh lipton is here stocks rise as concerns that the president trump's tariff announcement would spark a potential trade war. the dow soaring 336 points with share gains from katzer pillar the biggest. s&p climbed 29 and nasdaq picked up 72. and amazon is in early talks with financial institutions to get checking accounts for millennials. that is it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? i asked my doctor. she told me about non-insulin victoza®. victoza® is not only proven to lower a1c and blood sugar, but for people with type 2 diabetes treating their cardiovascular disease, victoza® is also approved to lower the risk of major cv events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. while not for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. (announcer) victoza® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. do not take victoza® if you have a personal or family his

but first here is josh lipton. >> thanks, chuck. u.s.traded sharply lower earlier in the session-based on fears that the president trump's announced tariffs are on steel and aluminum could spark a trade war. dow was 70 points lower after falling 391 points. the s&p rose 13 points. the nasdaq picked up 77 points. thanks to a sharp rise in health care shares. and delta ceo says it is values are not for sale after georgia lawmakers killed a tax break the airline wanted thursday to pressure the company into reinstating its relationship with the nra. that is it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you. you or joints. something for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. we have one to two fires a day and when you respond together and you put your l

. >> apple ceo tim cook meantime taking a swipe at amazon josh lipton has those headlines. >> reportershifting to jobs, to manufacturing. apple ceo tim cook also talking about the plans for the new campus saying that we will create it in a state other than california, and we're not doing a beauty contest that is not you said from our voint point of view, w didn't want to creative this contest where you wind up putting people through a ton of work to select one that is a case where you have a winner and lots of losers. i don't like that. if states want to compete for things like that, cook saying god bless them so to your point, cook's not so subtle swipe at amazon back to you. >> thank you josh. >>> take a look at shares, done down 4.5%. netflix also pulling the nasdaq lower right now. >> and it is interesting that he takes that swipe apple of course also looking to put a campus somewhere but not doing it with quite as much fanfare >> s&p 2600. and the curve on the bond market, 30 year almost got below 3% but currently holding on to 3.007. going to be an interesting afternoon. you got

and on afterwards, 9 pm, former usa today editor-in-chief joanne lipton discusses how to close the gender divide in the workplace. she's interviewed by republican congressman leonard lance from new jersey. at 10, former special assistant to president george w. bush eric markley retraces his journey from me historically black neighborhood of madison park and montgomery to the white house. and we wrap up our primetime programming 10:45 with investigative reporter yossi levine. he looks at how the pentagon's interest in surveillance led to the creation of the internet. that all happens tonight on book tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> why was hitler interested in los angeles. >> there are two reasons. the first and the most important is that hitler and his minister of enlightenment and propaganda, joseph goebbels, a phd and it shows you where a phd can get you, they both loved watching movies. apparently hitlerwould like to watch a movie every night before he went to bed . he particularly likes walt disney films becausethey shared alert political worldviews . they did. he als

. >> josh, thank you josh lipton.other development in this story, new revelations about cambridge analytica from a secretly recorded video of executives michelle caruso-cabrera joins with us more. >> cambridge analytica is a consulting firm that credits itself with helping donald trump win the election and facebook accuses them of violating facebook rules for harvesting user data. hedge fund manager and top republican donor robert mercer is a major investor. steve bannon who worked in the trump white house is reportedly on the board today cambridge analytica is in the news again after channel 4 of the united kingdom unveiled several pieces of video that shows the ceo, alexander nix, speaking with a man he thinks is a potential client >> what's curious is cambridge analytica prides itself on creating destatailed profiles of people on social media but the bribes, use of women on tape are much more old-fashioned. cambridge analytica explained that conversation you saw this way. "assessing the legality and reputational ri

classroom as the company prepares a product unveiling set to take place in a few minutes our josh liptonthe site of the announcement and joins us with a preview of what to expect. josh >> carl, we are here at lane tech high school in chicago where apple ceo tim cook is expected to take the stage right behind me here now today cook is anticipating to unveil new products and tools aimed at teachers and students, carl trying to broaden apple's reach in the classroom specifically, we're looking today for possible new low cost ipad that's could attract school administrators we know that overall tablet market has been under pressure shrank 7% last year. they control about a quarter of the market apple's push into the classroom, remember, it's not just about the hardware it is also offering software like the so-called classroom app. that allows teachers to manage the apple devices that students use. so, for example, teachers can make sure that kids really are working on their assignments in the classroom not just surfing the web or playing games april zl have a big fight on its hands here it kn

josh lipton has the numbers for us now. >> oracle reporting eps of 83 cents versus expectation of 72.$9.78 billion in lin with what the street was looking for. cloud revenue up 32% to 1.6 billion, also in line with what analysts modeled within that software and services up 33% to 1.2 billion platform as service and infrastructure as service combined, those revenues up 28% to $415 million. just quickly here, it looks like new software licenses, $1.4 billion. software license updates and product support, that clocks in at $5 billion. total on-premise software revenues looks like $6.4 billion. the conference call starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern and we'll be on it. back to you. >> josh, thank you also be sure to catch an exclusive interview with oracle ceo mark hurd on "squawk alley." your thoughts? >> it looks generally as expected and i don't know if that gets you a whole lot. the stock jumped up to this level around nine months ago and been riding its way side ways. i think it's on track in terms of transformation of the company. >> chris, you excited? >> not at all. i think they needed

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. >>> moving along breaking news on salesforce, josh lipton, what's going on there?sthaert big news from mathe company to acquire mule soft. the price tag is $6.5 million. mulesoft for connecting applications its customers include everyone from coca-cola to barclays they say will power the new salesforce integration force saying it will enable customers to connect all of the information throughout their enterprises across all public and private clouds again, this news just crossing salesforce buying mulesoft for6.5 billion back to you. >> mulesoft's up 3.5%. they were up big in the session when reuters reported these talks were under way. >>> it's official now. let's get to some other big stories in our rapid recap >> facebook under fire the fallout grows from that massive data scandal. >> reporting facebook will hold an emergency meeting with employees later today to discuss the fallout. >> this is about power when you have too much power, this is what happens >> we are unbelievably outraged and beyond disturbed at the allegations that data was misused or our polici

josh lipton is looking at the impact on tech and jackie with coal >> nice to see you last week's tariffncement doesn't just help the metal producers, steel and aluminum. it will also help the coal miners roughly three-quarters of the steel used today is depend end -- dependent on coal production that means make more steel and produce and use more coal as well the eia's most recent figure showed in 2017 coal production rose more than 6 t% year over year when president trump said he would revive it, there were plenty of naysayers who said that would be impossible because the demand wouldn't be there now, a couple of other trump policies have helped coal as well the administration's effort to dismantle the obama clean power plant for one and also the withdrawal from the paris climate agreement. the u.s. also exporting more coal, certainly supportive for that industry. add to that the fact we have tariffs on metal and more steel producers and industry insiders are saying they are impressed by how several of trump's initiatives are working in tandem to revive multiple industries kelly? >> ja

josh lipton has fresh new comments from apple, josh? >> reporter: well, we sat down with an interview with the apple interview, tim cook, covering a wide range of ftopics, and cook said, listen, in his opinion, we shouldn't have detailed users of profiles they could make money treating customers as products, but elected not to do that, perhaps, most eye-catching line in that interview, asked if you were mark zuckerberg, what would you do cook saying, i wouldn't be in this situation cook talked about that new campus apple is building, not doing a beauty contest for where the campus will be, he said, if states compete for things like that, god bless them, a nice jab there at jeff besos and amazon we know what happened today, just as analysts seemed to get more cautious about the iphone, goldman sachs slashed iphone sail estimates in the first two quarters, cutting two million in the march quarter, and 3 million in the june quarter, and also said expectations for the average selling price of apple products is now about 2% below market cons

. -- at assume lipton or imf and we will be at the spring istings -- the word de jour reciprocity. have more competition around the world so reciprocity, we take action and other people react to it. importantat is an check and balance on the process because whatever your view of trade deficits is -- if you realize whatever action you take, there is a repercussion, we hear from both worried about the trade deficit. we are for trade -- free trade, but fair trade. there are abuses in traded situations. that's what happens when you have an imbalanced development underway. there is such huge opportunity down the road -- if asia's living standard can raise to of the consumer markets will be three times what they are today and that is what all of our business is no and that is why everybody is engaged in the process. we understand it's moving and there are abuses, but there's a lot of opportunity. tom: get the chart up here. this is my chart of the year. it's only march? it has got to be my chart of the year. twinabbasids, at -- deficits, add up the two trade lines buried -- trade lines.

afternoon, on top of everything else, including nike and kb home micron results are out let's bring josh liptonn with what's going on there. >> micron reporting eps of $2.80, the street was at $2.74 revenue, $7.35 billion micron preannounced results in early february at that point they were saying to look between $2.75 on revenue. as you mentioned, the street right now selling, at least initially in the after hours -- of course this symptom had been up more than 40% year-to-date heading into this print. on the call we want to hear a lot more about how the ceo sees those supply -- demand that call starts pretty soon here in about 20 minutes we'll be on it >> thank you micron has made a -- a big comeback down 7% and now down about 2.5%. >> as josh said, 40% year-to-date but 100% on the year it's basically 70% more volatility than the broad market you'll see it bounce around after markets. are we close to the end? if the answer is no, you might get reassurance there. >> charlie, anything you'd be nibbling on in tech right now? >> that's a tough one. the whole space has run so hard. a couple of nam