, and mobile fixed. the theme. we're also talking about deals in brazil, things like that. but then they're controlled by european operators with the same mindset, convergence matters. that's the reason why you're seeing the theme there. it is definitely an issue for telcos over the course of the next 12 to 24 months. we're going to hear to hear stories like this. >> thank you so much, head of european tell telecommunications research. coming up, we look at what moody's rating cut means for the country and for prime minister abe's election campaign. ♪ >> we're bringing you lives pictures from brussels. there's a new president of the european counts simple he's overtaking van room poy. he's served two consecutive terms since the position was established in 2009. you can see that's going on live at the european council, the main building in brussels where all these sum its take place, and we'll bring you any breaking news from that as we follow that live event. the downgrade of japan's credit rating by moo

. >> we crunched some of the numbers and in terms of mobile shopping, mobile shopping is on the rise. your of your paypal, a 62% increase in mobile shopping volume. as compared to last year on black friday. on thanksgiving, it is 47 percent. >> sales at paypal's current company ebay. ebay is spinning off paypal in the new year. two hourly. monday, starting to lose some of its importance. people are expected to shop online today. that is down about 3% from last year. that follows a pattern from black friday which saw over all sales down 11%. will cyber monday follow the trend? amazon is certainly prepared for the company for using 15,000 robots at 10 of its u.s. film it centers. cory johnson is live at one of those fulfillment centers. in tracy, california, 50 miles east of where i am here in san francisco. the story is a little bit different for amazon. >> yes. a lot of important things are going on here at this fulfillment center. it is cyber monday, the biggest day of the year for amazon. facility is really important first of all because of its location, and there was a time when am

mobile revenue more than doubling. 70% of their business is the mobile area. if you are a shareholder, you've got a little smile on your face today. 200 million pounds coming in your direction in shareholder givebacks. ryanair, up more than 5%. for the third time this year, they raised their profit forecast. they are now winning in terms of their focus on the business. .hey have been more huggable,

mobile advertising.w with a look at the competitive mobile ad space .s brian we hear so much about marissa mayer spending money on video, has been on a on bringing in katie couric, bobby brown, and the like. why is yahoo! showing so much traction in the mobile advertising space? a big focus on mobile and when she arrived, she inherited a company that was not doing a lot in mobile. this was a time when the revolution in mobile was well underway. she put a lot of money, time, resources, and said we have to get more people. they have done a lot of that. they have hired, rolled out new programs. it is starting to pay off a little bit. that's not overstate how big they are in this market, but we are starting to see signs that there is traction here. >> what was it about the strategy? they camehe strategy up with, this new ad format? >> this was a key moment in early 2013, melissa called this team together, this team of great engineers together and said, we need to do a new kind of that here. basically, it loo

, what is the legacy of the mobility that we have now compared to the acknowledged lack of mobility then question. the second is, did that lack of mobility and the disease that it fostered, was that a primary reason for ending the war, or was it some mystical battle that forced armies to separate? and that is aimed at the spanish flu and the tens of thousands of people on both sides of the line that died of it. were the countries just not able to continue fighting because of the lack of sanitation and the lack of disease control? >> i think it comes late in the war. i don't think any of us are qualified to answer that. maybe some can address that issue. >> to give you -- it's really late. i mean, really, the spanish flu epidemic comes after. so it's off -- it's in 1918 and it begins in august of 1918. so you are actually already kind of past that stage. i mean, if you want to look it from my research, if you look at the austrian border, those areas are 90% obliterated by august 1918. they're gone well before the flu. >> andrew wants to contribute something. >> i think we have to say that

if they are selling mobile, they will discount mobile.ll destroy a little bit of the value in the market for everybody. if they do by a network, they can afford to use the new asset as a loss leader. they will have to make money from mobile. >> thank you so much per i guess there is one thing we have to say. whatever happens in the next the landscape will be very different. different andvery the next year even more different. >> thank you very much. nations comesed closer to fossil feel reduction, japan maybe getting further away from its clean energy push. intoll put this perspective. ♪ >> welcome back. we're live on bloomberg television and streaming on the ipad. >> it's that time of day. this is the new energy headlines. the push to resurrect japan's idled nuclear reactors will be high on the prime minister's agenda. involve keeping the renewables policy vega. since the flick off the switch to the new energy program, imports have worsened the trade deficit. 190 countries agreed on key parts of a deal following two weeks of discussions

this happened at the villa teresa mobile home community on coleman road. marianne favro joins us live in san jose with a look at the damage done and the lasting impact on hundreds of families today. anyone injured when those power lines came down? >> reporter: no one was injured, thankfully. but you're right, there was definitely a ripple effect here. this came down at 8:20 this morning. take a look at what pg&e crews are doing now. they are still working to restore power here after the storm caused a bell to snap and come crashing down on this mobile home. >> i heard a pop or something. >> reporter: this is what ron ellers heard, a power pole crashing down on the roof of his neighbor's home at villa teresa mobile home park in san jose. it happened just before 8:00 this morning. no one was hurt but at least five people had to be evacuated. when the storm sent the pole down it sparked wires and caused a power outage that impacted hundreds in the almaden valley neighborhood, including here at action day primary plus which takes care of 300 children. administ

what stood out most of all was the move to mobile. a tremendous move to mobile this year. >> what does that do? you talk about, there used to be this ebb and flow in the retail shopping season from black friday through cyber monr satur. that has been diffused now by online shopping and mobile shopping. so take it to the future. what happens now? >> i think if we were to take it to 2015 and beyond, without question, mobile shopping, we call it web rooming, becomes the new way that people actually browse for products. what will be fair to say is that if we think this year was big in mobile shopping, next year will be explosive. it will be a year in which retailers must must deal with omni channel retailing. >> as you look to the last days of december, as you heard in our package, a lot of people take advantage of their gift cards and the big sales. i mean, how much more shopping and profits can retailers expect in the next few days? >> you know, if you offer cheap enough, they will buy. so let's expect, let's expect that the retail shop

mobile accounted for 39% of shopping traffic so far compared to 30% a year ago. be will cyber monday sales at amazon, the world's largest retailer by revenue? amazon's for paired for huge volumes of orders, with the company using 15,000 robots at 10 of its the film and centers. cory johnson is at one of those fulfillment centers and tracy, california, about 60 miles east of where i am in san francisco. is a little different for amazon, isn't it? >> there are a lot of important things going on at this fulfillment center. it is cyber monday and it is the biggest day of the year for amazon and big for online retail as well. this is still important because of its location, because there was a time when amazon did not want to have facilities in states like california because they did not want to pay sales tax. they bit the bullet and it allowed them to change their business model. this is in tracy, california. it equal distance, about an hour francisco, san jose, sacramento. all reachable from this facility. notable because of the robots they are using. a $75 million

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. >> you bet on mobile before mobile was big. >> i bet on mobile in the year 2000. it's funny, i have people calling me, investors calling me, telling me that the money that you have, company money, belongs to them. it didn't belong to me. for me to invest, and waste it in areas like mobile, i may as well divident it back to them. thank god i re-did it. we were stuck at a value of $2 billion. mobile took us to almost six batting dollars. billion >> what was the hardest thing you had to do at sybase? >> the initial rounds of letting people go, refocusing the company, and being able to convince the remaining employees and the people you try to recruit that there is a future. >> and you eventually sold to sap. >> eventually. long time. what, 13 years later? >> people are telling you blackberry is already dead. >> yes. >> why did you take this job? >> i think i flunked retirement. ♪ >> you came out of sybase looking like a hero. great ceo's and executives, there is often a myth about them that is boiled downt to legend. what is the myth of john chen? what is the reality

it is were you not only have tv and broadband, but mobile. vodafone has mobile. it wants to add tv.t is were liberty global could come in. -- that is where liberty global could come in. suddenly these adversaries could become friends. they could team up. we could see a merger creating a $130 billion company because they feel they need the wealth of offerings to stop people may , sooving to bt in the u.k. you have virgin media and vodafone. in thecomes a good mix u.k., but you are a european juggernaut. we know liberty global has a lot of debt on its plate. >> this would be a monster of a company. i look at this company and portuguese assets. i can't keep up. >> this is a global play. --ember, communicate communications is the second hottest in terms of deal offerings. basicallyllionaire, wheeler dealer back in the 90's, he has up his offer for -- upped his offer for portuguese assets. get his hands on portuguese assets. what is in it for them? they are big in brazil. they want to pay down some of their debt and create more consolidation in brazil as well. this could be a global for

germanyst asked russia to stop their mobilization process and if russia mobilized they would declare war. germany declared war. and then there's sort of a e's o cascading effect which then nce france stepped in in support of russia, and then when germany invaded france by way of belg belgium, britain declared war in order to defend belgian belgia neutrality. we focused on the western front. for practical reasons. chos that's where the strength of the holdings of the university of wisconsin are. so a lot of material on germany's role, as well as what was happening in belgium and france. so we wanted to bring these sources to the fore.oor and really sort of focus on jus the western combat experience. okay. so these first cases here in tht collection focus on the outbreak of the war in different d countries. so here is what we're calling germany mobilizes for war. and within the case, you can see different images of -- here for example, crowds assembled in in berlin, to receive news that net germany was declaring war on russia. and right here, the kaiser is greeting a crowd from the roy

mobile devices are never more than three feet away from you. >> if you're accessing your bank on a mobile device, you can't double factor authentication it. >> there's lots of things that take place with mobile devices. a little over 50% of people use a pin lock on their screens. almost half don't, which is just mind boggling. >> users still use 1234 for their password because i'm thinking if you're dumb enough to do that, somebody could steal your information. even if you do have dual authentication. >> at least if you have two-factor authentication, they still can't access your account. >> because it's a one-time code as well. >> because it requires a code. so the problem with all the breaches that are happening these days is if hackers go in, they'll hack someone, get 100 million user names and passwords, publish them on the web. so it doesn't matter how complex your password is. that doesn't help you. everyone can cut-and-paste. so as long as you have two-factor authentication turned on, they still cannot access your accounts. you'll receive a pin code on your phone going i didn't do

crews started pumping water from the mobile home park. residents tell us the management's pumps were overwhelmed by the rain. >> definitely some of the houses go the the water inside. hopefully it didn't go inside, but it was pretty high. >> they were not allowed to get inside to see the extent of any damage. 85 homes have been evacuated. the whole park is red tagged because standing water may be contaminated. down the peninsula and redwood city, two other mobile home parks will be red tagged. >> we will be here to pump out any standing water and they will be working with the owner on working how to clean the facility. >> crews mobilized quite a response using a boat to help some residents out. nearly 60 people from the lamar mobile home park was evacuated during the storm and still out of their homes tonight. in san mateo, this massive oak caused quite a mess. >> there was a tree that had fallen on our house and here we are. >> she says the tree came down this morning around a 10:00. around 10:00. she showed us. no one was inside when th

crews started pumping water from the mobile homeark. residents tell us the management's pumps were overwhelmed by the rain. >> definitely some of the houses go e the water inside. hopefully it didn't go inside, but it was pretty high. >> they were not allowed to get inside to see the extent of any damage. 85 homes have been evacuated. the whole park is red tagged because standing water may be contaminated. down the peninsula and redwood city, two other mobile home parks will be red tagged. >> we will be here to pump out any standing water and they will be working with the owner on working how to clean the facility. >> crews mobilized quite a response usi a boat to help some residents out. nearly 60 people from the lamar mobile home park was evacuated during the storm and still out of theirhomes tonight. in san mateo, this massive oak caused quite a mess. >> there was a tree that had fallen on our house and here we are. >> she says the tree came down this morning around a 10:00. around 10:00. she showed us. no one was inside when the tre

passengers have been using the mobile phone to plead for help. several called in desperation with some saying that explosions are heard on the ship. passengers strapped on a high deck for more than six hours told the greek media that life boats were unable to take them off due to the high seas. dozens of cars and lorries armed the vessels, with several olive oil containers believed to be among them. it's unclear if there have been casualties or passengers in the water and priority has been given and that crew members is telling the media that the fire is under control and not in danger of sinking. that is an intense situation. >> thank you so much >>> to afghanistan where a ceremony is held marking the end of n.a.t.o.'s comeback mission after 13 years of conflict. let's look at how things will change on the ground from january the 1st, the u.s.-led force replaced by an n.a.t.o. training and support mission. foreign troops will assist the afghan army. 2014 has been one of the worst years for casualties with more than 4,600 afghan soldiers killed.

. >>> plus a community mobilizes to help. how families affected by the storms are getting a helping hand as they struggle to go back home. >>> also, four cars torched in 40 minutes. you will find out where this happened. >>> and there is still time to find the perfect holiday gift for the music lover in your life. 7 on your side's michael finney looks at the best wireless features. >>> lots of bay area reaction to the historic u.s. move toward improving relations with cuba. an agreement which followed an exchange of imprisoned spies from both nations. president obama today announced a plan to end what he calls an outdated approach to the communist island nation. the plan includes easing economic sanctions, opening an embassy in havana and easing travel restrictions but tourist travel will still be banned. in the bay area, reaction has been mixed. many people say they are optimistic but extremely cautious. >> once the door cracks open it's not going to stop. the flow is going to be intense. it's going to grow. >> we cannot tru

newspapers treated mobilization positively. excitement met the montgomery advertisers october 13th announcement that the expanded e guard, then numbering 4,955 would move to the mexican border. departing montgomery on six trains bound for camp little in arizona. they slept on the trains on the way out there and prepared their meals.repa these are shots from the mexican border, the one on the left is a payday and the one on the right was taken on a fairly recent visit to nogales. very little in the area has changed from as it existed in 1916, except it's no longer gringo town. it's now, essentially, a mexican town. more complicated, heavily armed patrols of platoons and largest strength were practiced.prac the men leshl e learned to set up ambushes for the capture of prisons. and to conduct rage and surprise and skill groups on the enemy. the practice trench was constructed in techniques to get relief troops in and out of of those trenches and out posts and no man's land were practiced during this advanced infantry e training lo

crews started pumping water from the mobile home park. residents tell us the management's pumps were overwhelmed by the rain. >> definitely some of the houses go the the water inside. hopefully it didn't go inside, but it was pretty high. >> they were not allowed to get inside to see the extent of any damage. 85 homes have been evacuated. the whole park is red tagged because standing water may be contaminated. down the peninsula and redwood city, two other mobile home parks will be red tagged. >> we will be here to pump out any standing water and they will be working with the owner on working how to clean the facility. >> crews mobilized quite a response using a boat to help some residents out. nearly 60 people from the lamar mobile home park was evacuated during the storm and still out of their homes tonight. in san mateo, this massive oak caused quite a mess. >> there was a tree that had fallen on our house and here we are. >> she says the tree came down this morning around a 10:00. around 10:00. she showed us. no one was inside when th

mobile is a huge challenge. around 25 million mobile subs. o2 is similar as well.spective, they need to manage that brand very carefully. >> what is the regulatory issue around it? >> the o2 deal is much more easily straightforward. ee would be the biggest mobile operator. o2 the biggest carrier. you remove one of your biggest rivals in the marketplace. view, o2ice point of would be more attractive. ,> for everything that bt does it is going to have an impact on sky. is it just through the sports? is the bidding process starting again? does that push vodafone and sky closer together? >> sky has obviously been very busy as of late. they bought sky germany and sky italy. we believe that that move has made themselves an acquisition target and a potential company to buy them would be vodafone nude it would build on the existing relationship. , sky does notk. have -- >> what kind premium would you look at in that scenario question mark >> i am not a financial analyst. i cannot really comment on that. here in the u.k., they don't have mobile. vodafone lacks a strong vide

people in redwood city are fed up and upset that their mobile home parks are getting flooded. they say the city is purposely dragging its feet. that net miranda is in redwood city. serious accusations, what's the argument there? >> reporter: very serious. if you look around, nice office and retail developments line east bayshore boulevard but they don't have the flooding problems these two mobile home parks do. residents can only believe the city wants them out. it's a race against time for resident steve parcetto, voluntarily trying to pump out water from his mobile home park and the one next door before they flood. he doesn't want families to have to suffer like they did thursday when that fierce storm left as much as four feet of standing water. >> you've seen the water and damage. these guys all cleared out and threw away all their stuff. all these people back here, they're poor and they can't speak english. >> reporter: in fact, residents were still dumping damaged property when the new storm rolled in. >> there is no silver bullet solution. >> reporter: city leaders have

newspapers treated mobilization positively. excitement met the montgomery advertiser's october 13th announcement that the expanded guard, then numbering 4,955, would move to the mexican border. departing montgomery on six trains bound for camp little in nogalis, arizona. they slept on the trains on the way out there and prepared their meals there. these are shots from the mexican border. the one on the left is payday in silver. the one in right was taken on a fairly recent visit to nogalis. they little in the area has changed from -- as it existed in 1916 except that it's no longer gringo town. it's now essentially a mexican town. four and a half months of advanced infantry training in arizona introduced rifle companies to reconnaissance patrols. more complicated, heavily armed patrols of platoon and larger strength were practiced. the men learn to set up ambushes for the capture of prisoners and to -- and to conduct raids and surprise and kill groups of the enemy. a practiced trench was constructed and techniques to get relief

if a woman from a plantation family in mobile, in alabama, got in trouble, the sister in mobile wouldg the woman to her sister in uptown new orleans. the reverse was true of a fine new orleans family got in trouble, she would go to mobile. the reason why they were able t pull this business off is because both of these women have exquisite taste. when at their trial all the papers do is fawn over what they are wearing, how beautiful their hair is, how strikingly beautiful they are and how their home was filled with rosewood furniture and paintings. this is an interesting business model where these women in a world where there were limited career possibilities for african-american women could use their refined afro-creole sensibility to create a special niche in the economy of lying in hospitals. it is these women that get accused of the crime. the trial is in many ways what you think of as a classic southern courtroom drama, standing room crowds and a sweltering courtroom fanning themselves. but unlike the trials that you know from real life and stories like to kill a mockingbird wher

who do you think is the next celebrity game from glue mobile?ame.ily chang >> i could make a lot of money if the kardashian royalties are any indication. would you play at? >> i are ready play the emily chang game. it is so much fun. >> you would be the villain in my game. >> probably. forget this tv show thing. will talk to them about that after the show. thank you for watching this edition of bloomberg west. all the latest headlines on bloomberg.com and bloomberg radio. ♪ this is "bottom line," the intersection of business and economics with the main street perspective. to our viewers in the united states and to those of you joining us from around the world, welcome, we have full coverage of the stories and stocks making headlines this monday. bloomberg's chief washington correspondent looks at the spending bill deadline and negotiations to avoid another u.s. government shutdown. su keenan follows it down to five lows. shelby

t-mobile is allowing customers to rollover data.s the latest marketing push to get subscribers from verizon and at&t. they called it data stash and will let customers utilize unused data from prior months up to a year. it's part of the un-carrier strategy that includes phone financing, the removal of contract, and free music streaming. andoke with john ledger started by asking why he is making these changes. customer solving pinpoints. it they are not marketing programs. they are fundamental industry changes that are permanent. this is one of the most infuriating gigantic issues that customers have pointed out to me. 40,000 social media messages. , the paid's about customers that exist, 110 million of them have teacher phones or unlimited which leaves 120 million people that have to purchase data. 90% of them have no idea or how much they need. is the penalty of using too much. $1.5 billion in overage penalties. we do none of that. and the rest of these people, they purchase an average between four gigabytes and five gigabytes of da

we have to mobilize the resources of the state. this is what we are doing and this is what we will continue to do. we must protect the general public. this is the duty of the security forces and we must also protect the police who are often the targets of terrorist attacks. instructions have been given over the past few hours by the ministry of the interior. since last week, the -- maximum security measures have been enforced for year-end festivities. patrols by the police will target the most crowded areas and stations in the cities. the number of patrols who are armed but guess you are armed by the army -- who are armed by the army will be stepped up. 200 extra troops will be deployed in the next few hours. the security measures, the intervention measures being implemented, will be strictly enforced. that is regarding uniformed police, local police firemen and the soldiers. they have to be able to protect themselves. access to public places will be enforced. security checks will be conducted. bags will be searched. mobile patrols

flooding forced 40 people from mobile home park in redwood city. firefighters help take residents to fair oaks community center for overnight shelter. the water level got up to four feet deep. >> after the south bay next where flooding caused plenty of problems there as well. that part of the community really got hammered today. lisa is live in milpitas tonight. lis lisa? >> hi dan. it has been pouring hear for hours outside flooding in this mobile home park and one next door. water level rise something fast we actually had to pull back our live truck because we were surrounded by the water. it's about 2 feet deep in some parts you can see the bottom step of that home is already disappeared and right

an opportunityis to use cloud and mobile technology to empower individuals.have almost 30 million small businesses in the u.s., where job creation happens. those businesses have been underserved by technology. with the advent of the small phone, new businesses that actually give small businesses a full stack of services that their run on their smartphone. it is a great san francisco startup and they make software for plumbers, carpenters, people run their business out of their truck. they can do ever been from scheduling to accepting payments on the smartphone. chris sounds like a huge opportunity. >> we think so. piggyback on these fundamental changes in technology, mobile and the cloud and social. >> we call it a digital democratization. everybody has a supercomputer in their pocket is fundamentally game changing. >> does it mean someone will walk in with a pitch and add one more page and say we are a do-gooder or fundamental way of thinking about it? >> one we have written about is ventures for us is the opposite of corporate philanthropy. not about runnin

that is mobile. there is online shopping and then there is mobile shopping. how much a bigger hunk of your business is it? >> mobile is really accelerating. we saw 60 plus percent of traffic coming from mobile device over the thanksgiving weekend. in china we saw a ten-fold increase. black friday was the biggest black friday in traffic we have seen. it was a mobile weekend for sure. >> are people just as inclined to buy an expensive diamond, a $10,000 piece, a $40,000 piece or greater online than they are -- via mobile as they are online or in a store. >> rue sell $40,000 diamonds on mobile device. we have sold $225,000 stones on a mobile device. >> your stock is up over the past month or so but it has been a rough year for you. how hopeful are you that the stock is now in a different gear than it has been? >> we really concentrate on driving our business. although q 2 wasn't as strong as we had hoped for there was increased volatility in the market. what we have done in q 3 was a 7% growth rate based on driving the value and mix. the quality with 250,000 sto

french mobilization plan. mobilization plan is a little bit less known. what we do know, however, is that the russians wanted to get a head start because they didn't mobilize as quickly as the germans, and they knewpf:bat. so they wanted to get going early. so they wanted to make sure that they had french support. now it just so happened that the president and foreign minister and premiere of france, in the second two cases the same men, were actually in st. petersburg between the 20th and 23rd of july. very convenient. it so happened that the french ambassador was able to basically green light everything the russians were doing for the next week. because he had just spoken with the president. i have no smoking gun proof of what the president told him, but it's not terribly difficult to find out in light of the french stance. without boring you with all of the details of the outbreak of the war, i do want to hone in on several days. not the best known days of the cri crisis, butrqgó to my mind ther i'll start