marc andreessen or warren buffett? warren tweets, age is the best teacher in this market. >> reasonable tweet there. >> buffet is a richer, older white guy. but andreessen knows tech. buffet is right. ask anybody in mt. gox, their money did turn into a mirage. >> three for three, siding with warren buffett. andreessen needs to be careful. he's not a youngster in silicon valley. >> i don't like the ageist comment, either. >> we said the same thing back in the '90s, right? the younger guys said warren buffett didn't know what he was talking about. who was right? >> he would agree with that. he would say, he invests in what he knows. marc andreessen knows tech. >> he has so much to gain from this. he has a ton to gain. >> the distribution process of it, a distributor or something, you can't underestimate this point. an old white guy. >> you are not an old white guy. >> representing, herb, i love it. >> it gets at the point that this is going to be a hot debate. the believers and the haters and every, single day there's another high-profile example of this. final thought as we

melissa: my favorite tweeter of the day, marc andreessen is saying, east coast establishment accusingilicon valley being ageist like with the equal sign, bill clinton accusing you of having a wandering eye. >> there you go. melissa: andreessen is my new favorite guy to follow on twitter s this pervasive on silicon valley. >> it is. a lot of people are trying to come up with venture capital to take a lot of plastic surgery business to wall street. melissa: yeah. >> of course i predict in some markets it will be popular but in others -- melissa: dr. manny, don't change a thing. you look fabulous. don't do a thing. >> email me here at fox. melissa: as fun as that was we have show you what is going on in the markets. look at the dow right now, it is trading up 106 points on the session. we are not at our highs of the day but still doing well. nicole petallides on the floor right now? no? >> indeed. i'm here. i'm so ready to talk about e.rnival cruise lines, shall we. >> why not. take a look at carnival, melissa, this is name we follow so closely over the last year or so. they have been pl

melissa: lee, is marc andreessen a pirate in your opinion? >> right. >> probably. i think, and i think there is some good point to both sides of what this argument is. >> thank you. >> but why we're really here is not about whether or not andreessen is doing something wrong or somebody is doing something right or fact certain market participants like to come out with information they think the public should know b the real issue how we should view carl icahn. >> wait a second. why is it heresy, view him on his words. >> heresy? >> take on appeal. >> not heresy. he is a pirate. why do we call him a shareholder activist. melissa: there is the bell. we could do this for the whole hour. alas that was the bell. charlie is sticking around. want to show you shares of staples are plummeting. the office supply retailer plans to close 225 of its stores. al hundred knuckman. show you what is going on with the stock. alan, what do you think? >> i have to look at this as maturing industry of the they had a huge growth phase. we need consolidation. from risk/reward stand.as offi

mark an address sown is one of the -- marc andreessen is one of the main founders.is the goal of company? will you solicit advertisers from say like news companies? or are you trying to go to the twitter, you know, build it they'll come and what is the business plan here? >> i think we need to build it first. any investors, people like marc andreessen invested the reason they invested, the round came two weeks, the reason they invested, they were using app themselves. they came to conclusion how many apps i use every day that are not worth a billion dollars, whatever the new standard is. $19 billion i guess. cheryl: okay. >> we're focused on building this thing and sort of transforming how news is delivered across the web and across mobile devices an transforming how people consume the news. cheryl: right. >> we think that is profound thing, if we accomplish that, we'll look at market and see what add models most respectful of your users. we'll do that at this time. we're focused making a great product for people to love. cheryl: jonathan abrams. two of you made, cr

interesting that marc andreessen of andreessen horowitz, as well as formation eight, have banded togetheroculus. they've done some deals together in the past. >> yeah. that's interesting. i think for the shareholder type issues, the management issues, it's a little different because mark zuckerberg controls how facebook -- he is the final word. to piggyback on what josh lipton was talking about. he was talking about sony's platform. and what it could be used for. i think it's important for us to remember that facebook is very much about advertising and marketing. it's about personal experiences. it's about targeting. you can imagine putting on a v.r. headset in the right environment, and feeling like you're actually inside that car that you might want to test drive. being able to potentially look at different interiors, the way they look. also, walk through a home that you might be interested in actually literally walking through. walk through it virtually, wearing one of the headsets. there's all sorts of applications like that, that you can imagine for the very types of verticals where

marc andreessen has caused you a human router or the godfather. can connect anyone from mark zuckerberg to ashton kutcher. how'd did you do it? how do you keep doing it? >> you build relationships with people by getting involved in business, investing in a company together, and helping the entrepreneurs solve problems. when you do that, you form lasting, lifelong partnerships and relationships. i started my career in the semiconductor business. many of the people went to work at apple. then they went to work at software startups. a lot of this old guard is still around. they are helping launch the new economy. >> founder and general partner ron conway. we will be right back with more "bloomberg west." ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. marc andreessen is defending his role on the ebay board after carl icahn accused him of putting his self interests ahead of the ebay's. because of false and misleading. -- he called this false and misleading. he said he refused himself on all liberations. he was part of the group of investors

marc andreessen has caused you a human router or the godfather. can connect anyone from mark zuckerberg to ashton kutcher. how'd did you do it? how do you keep doing it? >> you build relationships with involved intting business, investing in a company together, and helping the entrepreneurs solve problems. when you do that, you form lasting, lifelong partnerships and relationships. i started my career in the semiconductor business. many of the people went to work at apple. then they went to work at software startups. a lot of this old guard is still around. they are helping launch the new economy. general partner ron conway. we will be right back with more "bloomberg west." ♪ minutes after the hour. we are on the markets. we are looking at fox continued to deteriorate. the s&p is off the lows of the session and down by less than 1%. we are watching kroger and safeway. kroger is said to have approached safely about buying part of its operation. we will be keeping our eyes on the headlines for you. we are back "on the market" in 30 minutes. ♪ >> you

it is the latest round of icahn taking on ebay ceo john donahoe and marc andreessen among others butt on top. here is the rumble, charlie gasparino's to lee munson. thanks for joining us. lee, i will let you go first. who do you like in this matchup? >> i don't like carl icahn in general. this guy is a pie rate and mercenary by any other name means the same. i

billionaire marc andreessen going after our own charlie gasparino on twitterverse. to it. you raised the point that andreessen didn't respond to the self-dealing charges. what is he saying? >>

coin base in addition has wallet services and i also like marc andreessen is the fellow who basically invented the web browser and he's the money behind. base so for those reasons we want with them but it was really a toss up court important but they are both quite good but we actually part of the decision was based said they would flies developers out to help on our end to help our developers so we could do the integration faster and that was really the deciding factor that sounds like a pretty solid deciding factor now mt gox was the biggest exchange at the time when you guys decided to actually use client base but why didn't you go with them were you suspicious little. well it really it's not suspicious so much as i wanted someone on shore and i wanted to really the fact that marc andreessen was behind it all so all of these ones that i just mentioned are silicon valley firms and being a silicon valley guy by background and such and being in it i just felt more comfortable going with a firm that was in silicon valley that rather than one that was in japan seems like trust in your g

it was less than a year ago i had the opportunity to interview marc andreessen in "all things d" andou go to a store with 3 d printer and whatever you want and it would be boom, made on site s that happening far faster than he anticipated it? >> anybody who has been around three d printing and discussing had that vision. it comes down to pace of innovation. when two d printing came along it took a long time to mainstream out in part because so few companies are involved. today with crowd funding and all things going on with multiple companies participating the needle is moving a lot faster in terms of getting products to retail. for retailers the challenge is equally big because you know, e-commerce has certainly played a role how they changed their business model. for brick-and-mortar to remain relevant, tools like 3d printing are very valuable. adam: john howard, from 3 dlt prints ice cream. you will be a gazillion nair. >> thank you. cheryl: i should hope for hundred dollar bills. adam: someone will figure that out. cheryl: someone will get there. it's a wall street mystery. we yo

here at coin summit at bitcoin conference going on in san francisco, today marc andreessen of andreessenz took the stage. remember bitcoin does have its critics, including warren buffett. he called bitcoin recently a mirage. andreessen was asked specifically to respond to that criticism. here is what he had to tell the crowd. >> the historical track record of old white men who don't understand new technology crapping on old technology is i think at 100%. >> andreessen with some tough words for the oracle of omaha. he was asked how do you invest in the space? how do you commit capital? andreessen saying this is a growing ecosystem that's attracting top engineers. he compared it a lot during his speech to the early days of the internet. firms like andreessen are looking to make big bets on companies that are really trying to build out the core infrastructure around bitcoin. so the security outfitting websites with bitcoin wallets. as a firm they have committed $50 million to bitcoin related companies and marc andreessen talking about bitcoin said it's as bulletproof as anything he's seen.

marc andreessen, making justification to paypal, i think that's good. >> inconsistency and the latest one today. scott wapner will have more on that on the halftime coming up right about now, right, scott? >> we are indeed, carl. thanks so much. noticing mashlgts are at the lows of the day. real flight to safety today, carl. you see wlast going on in gold and yields are dropping as we speak now under 2-6 on the ten-year. >> yeah. and hearing from rick harrison from "pawn stars" made it seem like it's going to go higher. >> yeah. have a great rest of the day. welcome to "halftime show." here's what we're following, putin and your portfolio. what the aggression in ukraine really means in the markets. we're covering it this hour. and ariel investments return. and the oscar goes to how twitter and samsung owned hollywood's biggest night. and what that means for facebook, apple and everyone else. we begin though with the markets, which are sharply lower as i said today as tensions continue to escalate in ukraine. this is u.s. secretary of state john kerry headed to that region. our stephen

>> i think he's been unfair to marc andreessen, making justification to paypal, i think that's good.ay. scott wapner will have more on that on the halftime coming up right about now, right, scott? >> we are indeed, carl. thanks so much. noticing mashlgts are at the lows of the day. real flight to safety today, carl. you see wlast going on in gold and yields are dropping as we speak now under 2-6 on the ten-year. >> yeah. and hearing from rick harrison from "pawn stars" made it seem like it's going to go higher. >> yeah. have a great rest of the day. welcome to "halftime show." here's what we're following, putin and your portfolio. what the aggression in ukraine really means in the markets. we're covering it this hour. and ariel investments return. and the oscar goes to h

to be, you know, because it's gone back and forth in a fairly contentious way between carl and marc andreessenck to the skype transaction. they have fired off some pretty nasty letters and comments at one another so, you know, carl's pretty cagey. >> right. >> i'm not necessarily sure he's walking away. >> well, is there any hope at some point between 12:00 and 1:00 we might hear from carl? >> you never know. >> i'm glued to your show if that's the case. >> you never know. >> talk to people that work at microsoft, they find it odd here's carl saying, listen, skype, they let it get away, it's worth fortunes, talk about andreessen stole it, but microsoft gets no credit whatsoever for owning skype. and isn't it interesting that microsoft started labeling xbox the most exciting part of their portfolio as xbox brought to you by microsoft. they no credit for skype or xbox. it's really kind of extraordinary how much is buried within the rubric of microsoft. >> the stock has gotten a nice lift lately off of the office for ipad announcement or reports and, you know, there seems to be i guess a more pos

icahn is focusing on the $4 billion figure going back to 2008, what happened with skype and marc andreessen'solvement. you see prior examples to point to mismanagement. i wonder if dwelling on the past, which he does for 2/3, 3/4 of the latest thing that he's written before he gets into the case for spinning out paypal, is that a mistake? >> i just think it doesn't resonate. what people want is to try to figure out exactly whether you get 70, 75 if you split it off. we want to see paypal comps versus visa and mastercard. we want to know what the ebay web services is worth versus amazon. whether the growth market value of the general merchandise is going higher. we want fundamentals and breakup analysis. i don't know if we care about mud. the mud i see trying to get the oil out of the ground is more valuable than the mud he's slinging. >> how did you work out? picked up heavy rebar. >> drove me crazy. i got up at 3:30, i wanted to be able to do something, all i saw was true detective territory. i figured maybe not jog on my own, you never know what you'll come up with in the bayou. >> how do p

day is a new chapter in the fight between ebay, its ceo john donahoe its director in particular marc andreessenixawn and today is another day and, yes, we have another misive, if you will. this time it comes from mr. andreessen in response to mr. icahn perhaps it was yesterday. there he is saying carl icahn's 2014 would look askance at carl icahn's 1985 choice of a business partner. this is getting ugly. when ivan bosky is the first name it's gotten down in the dirt. suggested bosky look into the share of gulf and western, i won't go into the details of this point of the letter, you can find it on andreessen's blog, his weblog at pmarket.com. but suffice to say this continues to get even nastier. we got ebay's response to icahn's nominees summarily dismissing the two of them as not overqualified and overboarded meaning they are on too many boards to begin. and andreessen is on facebook and hp and ebay's board, his argument would be, you want me on those boards in terms of my technical expertise, look who else is on many of the boards. there's not the conversation going on in the room about what

the company has defended itself very vociferously on behalf of scott cook and marc andreessen. they can accurately price the individual components and it's the same thing with dan loeb at sony ceos want to keep everything together they can cross subsize and hold the floor. >> he said even washington does a better jonathan the management at these corporations. but the question is what does it mean for the stock? i've been going through the analyst reports this morning, they are agreeing with the company and the ceo that ebay should stay together. i thought it was interesting that bank of america and merrill lynch said the activist pressure but on my carl icahn should actually help this stock because it should lead to more shareholder friendly type of moves. >> that's why he buys in and says it presumably. >> including cash, for instance. ebay has a huge cash pile $8.3 billion internationally, $3.2 billion domestically, they could return it more to shareholders and try to offset some of the distraction here. >> i was going to say on that broader point that politicians are less ab

. >> i miss you talking about ebay because of the missive and marc andreessen -- >> firing back at icahning a letter a day on this. as we talk so often, it changed from a debate about the merits of whether this company should split up paypal or not which, by the way, is worth coming back to. it's back to andreessen and his actions during the skype transaction. andreessen fires back at icahn and said carl icahn 2014 would take a dim view of the business ethics of carl icahn 2005 given various things that he did on the board of xo and weighs that he went about making decisions. >> yeah. >> he sold it to himself. >> and selling things to himself. >> i thought that was a really interesting point. it was a different era. xo that was all insider. do you know what, this is the kind of thing where andreessen is reacting to what happened on "squawk box" the other day where icahn called in and said this is the most egregious! it didn't take long for them to find something equally as egregious. >> and silicon valley is ral rallying around ebay, reed hoffman defended why paypal belongs with ebay and

andreessen is 50, isn't it? >> no. he's 42, maybe 43. >> that shows you how important hair is. anyway -- >> marc is 42 years old, born on july 9th. >> oh, boy. i'm sorry. oh, i'm old. >> coming up this summer. he used to have a beautiful head of hair, by the way. >> he did? >> yeah. >> absolutely. >> all right. >> handsome young man. >> you're so p-c. >>> anyway, when we come back, we're going to talk about another rally for the dow. will the economy continue to impress the markets? we'll kick off that discussion in the next hour. >>> no snow for the new york area yet, but other areas of the northeast expecting big snow amounts. let's get the national weather forecast now from alex wallace. >> at least the major population centers dodged it. but you can't see that out along the cape. getting socked with the snow and the wind. nantucket, 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts and snow. that's not a fun situation. but you can see you just head west a little bit. basically, nothing. this system is just a little farther to the west, it would have been a completely different story. for now, between, as you ment