on. facebook finally on feels it's cryptocurrency so could libra transform traditional payment systems and will governments seek to regulate it. also on the show all eyes are on istanbul ahead of sunday's new york. voters punish the ruling party for turkey's economic woes. real estate costs are skyrocketing in berlin driving the german capital to consider an unusual solution. and unlocking the hidden beauty of sales we'll share some surprising uses for europe's slimy of cash crop. welcome to business i'm stephen beard and blend it's good to have you with us. can facebook take cryptocurrency mainstream the world's largest social network unveiled the digital coin it plans to roll out next year a libra is its name and proponents say it might just revolutionize digital payments under a single streamlined currency now over a dozen global firms will invest in and govern the currency including master card vodafone and as group will supposedly wall off control of the currency from facebook itself the new coin will be pegged to a basket of global currencies such as the dollar and the euro with the

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players in the crypto world it is hard to imagine that there will not be some regulatory scrutiny on facebook so that is one of the big ifs and then facebook itself is saying that what we've seen right now is libra it's a prototype so far so let's see how this whole old thing will work in the next couple of months to come so you know the excitement 1st and the details come later now you stay with us while we look at another market story u.s. president donald trump criticizing mario draghi on twitter after the european central bank chief hinted at future interest rate cuts to lift flagging growth a trump said drug he was trying to lower the value of the euro in a bid to boost european markets investors saw his tweets as evidence that the u.s. self will soon cut interest rates markets were also we when we did we would meet chinese premier she jean king at the g. 20 this month for trade talks. the dow moving up and down on trump tweets what's really driving us markets right now you're well short with a huge shimmin pick the s. and p. 500 now is shy only one percent of the new record lows and i w

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facebook planned to have over 100 developers on board by launch facebook has a plan to profit from librating a new subsidiary, a new app called calibra it will be a digital wallet that will operate on top of whatsapp and messenger and also as a stand-alone app. calibra aims to enable anyone to securely store money for free and to allow people to send and receive libra instantly around the world with no fees facebook does plan to add other financial services such as loans, which it could profit from facebook says it is keeping this digital wallet division totally separate from the rest of facebook to ad targeting will not be impacted by the financial data that this division of facebook will have on you >> hacking, cybersecurity been in the news a lot. how is facebook going to help make sure that libra is safe >> here's the thing. i think facebook is trying to make sure that it is not the only one runninglibra. it is handing over the running of libra to a non-profit based in switzerland the key thing is calibra, facebook's app, that does need to be secure facebook says they will have this

and the fcc says they might be doing it on facebook. rprising just in the sense that there is a lot of concern that for certain things on the internet, we are seeing a tendency toward some dominant players. ming to theirlom services. they are very good. you are right. that creates an environment in which there could easily be harms the competition if they abuse their power. you're totally right for the antitrust officials to be monitoring and investigating where they have evidence of harm. people are complaining about certain things. right,n't mean, carl's that there is automatically some violation of law. it certainly does not mean that you automatically need a sledgehammer. antitrust also has scoble -- sc alpels that can do brain surgery. not everything we are talking about is antitrust but we are talking about important american policy values like press freedom, diversity of news and information. more choices in the marketplace. and in every other sector, whether it is agriculture, communications, securities, we have an agency that he

to riches thai style however once for son of a fisherman is making millions today selling fish on facebook. this is business. as welcome as a military clash between the u.s. and iran looks only to have been narrowly averted the tensions are making the air above iran unsafe some of the world's biggest allies voiding flying over the over a section of iranian airspace after a u.s. military drone was shot down america's federal aviation administration has banned all u.s. registered passenger jets from passing through iranian controlled parts of the gulf of oman and the strait of hormuz other areas are also taking action. a global hawk drone like this one has a wingspan greater than a boeing 737 after one was downed over the strait of hormuz the u.s. federal aviation administration began to fear an actual commercial jetliner could be next the f.a.a. says the nearest civil aircraft was around 80 kilometers away when the strike happened in the busy section of sky he clearly thinks that's too close for comfort and is banned u.s. registered planes from flying over rainy administered waters in the p

and we'll introduce you to the thai internet sensation selling dried fish on facebook and getting rich doing it. welcomes your business report i'm stephen beard chamberlin thanks for joining us apple wants a trade war truce it joins a list of companies appealing to u.s. president donald trump to forgo tariffs on another $300000000000.00 of chinese imports which would include consumer goods like i phones and air conditioners apple argues that adding tariffs on july 2nd will undercut its competitiveness microsoft dell and intel also warn that tariffs would raise prices for laptops and tablets by 19 percent angering u.s. consumers and media reports say apple may shift one 3rd of production from china to southeast asia. and let's go now to yen score to our financial correspondent in new york yes can we realistically expect apple to move parts of its production line outside of china. it's not impossible and there are a lot of news and speculation so what do we know is that will actually at least is talking to suppliers to just get an idea how costly it would be to shift some of the producti

we put that question to you on facebook. black from nigeria says he's too addicted to his phone to know how to limit it and he asks were suggestions. one from mexico has one he says you have to occupy yourself with other things like playing an instrument reading a book or meeting up with actual people. frederick from kenya says the only time he can resist checking his phone is. he's doing chores and errands at other times he will have his phone in his hand and check social media even when he's watching t.v. . the cd has a simple remedy go fishing he says. and octavius comment is that if he had no smartphone he wouldn't see our question on facebook and we wouldn't exist no worries we definitely exist. traffic jams also take a toll on our nerves according to one study in los angeles is the most congested city in the world people there spend an average 102 hours a year in traffic jams in moscow or new york 91 hours many traffic rich cities also struggle with evolution it's no wonder many people dream of escaping the smog at stre

we've got the details on a potential second public listing. and facebookhareholders pressed for more checks on ceo mark zuckerberg's power. we will bring you highlights from his annual investor meeting. first, to the top story, uber, the biggest ipo of the year, has had a bumpy start to public life. investors remain concerned about the size of the ride-hailing market, the reality of self-driving cars, and taking on another risky asset amid a worsening u.s.-china trade dispute. the ride-hailer gave insights into its growth, reporting first-quarter results thursday. dan ives, managing director for wedbush securities and bloomberg intelligence's mandeep singh joined me shortly after they came out. dan: right now for investors, the focus is on growth, take rates, and bookings. the last thing you want to do is back yourself into a corner, talking about profitability lovers. it's going to take a few years. right now, they're doing the right things. i view this as a step in the right direction, especially after what's been a shaky start since the ipo. emily: mand

dot com slashdot internet and on facebook in the uk still. learn german for free with t.w. . this is d.w. news asia coming up on our show today chennai run strong india's heat wave has led to massive water shortages in the 6th biggest city locals are desperate for grain but is on the rise also coming to. show you an initiative that's bringing for cycle bicycles to kids to me and mark and cutting down their ride to school and back every day. i'm sumi so much going to thank you so much for joining us on dia news asia today. well we start with the heat wave that continues to batter india extreme temperatures across the north and the east of the country have caused hundreds of deaths in the south the searing hot spell has led to severe water shortages the situation has reached a crisis point in chennai this is india 6th biggest city chennai's 4 main water reservoirs have dried up take a look at the satellite image from one year ago you can see the water levels there and this is what it looks like now residents are desperate for rain but monsoon season and that will not it isn't su

fish on facebook. this is business africa. if it's a dispute between the government or an indian mining giant vidanta is raising borys over the nationalization of resources in africa zambia as the continent 2nd biggest producer of copper more than 70 percent of its g.d.p. depends on its copper exports it can see it's obvious for biggest mines the one that's been making headlines recently is this one here run by call a couple mines ok c.m. in may the zambian government decided to liquidate the business a breached its license and sell it to an outside by this dismayed vedanta of course which holds an 80 percent stakes stake in the case compared with the zambian government's 20 percent yet zambian courts have ruled that the indian company cannot take part in the liquidation process that is shaken the wide of mining communities driving up fears of resorts nationalism and driving down international copper prices to talk a bit more about this story joined in the studio chimbo. to tell us why is there such a big dispute over k c m ou

on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. on. facebook is going crypto after rumors have been flying for months the social media company finally presents its new crypto currency will it really give traditional payment systems a run for that money. and official numbers are hard to come by but it appears more chinese tourists are flocking to north korea than ever the full. and it's harvest time for cherries in america but nobody knows exactly how many it's a pick for exports because of higher tariffs to china. business business news on. can face book take chris. currency mainstream the world's largest social network unveiled the digital coin it plans to roll out next year the project is called libera according to media reports and proponents say it could revolutionize digital payments under a single streamlined currency more than a dozen global firms will invest in and govern the currency like master card vodafone and this group was supposedly whorl of control of the currency from facebook itself the facebook coin will be picked so

the question is, all right, i have my friends on facebook. you know, you're my friend. you share with me your birthday. facebook reminds me of that. am i allowed to take that birthday and put it in my calendar app and should facebook allow me to do so that my other calendar i use can remind me of my friends' birthdays? is your birthday my information or yours? who gets to decide that? if i want to export my friend's birth day to a calendar, do i need to ask them for their permission? if i do, that app is probably not going to be built because that's a lot of friction. let's talk about another example. news feed, right, one of things that people have talked about for a while is hey wouldn't it be nice if i could bring my news feed, the content that i see from my friends to another app, either so there cob competing news feeds -- so there can be competing news feeds so another company can innovate on top of that or academics do research on top of it. a lot of people want to have people come in for studies and say can i see what's in your feed and can i pull that data and t

lawmaker a member of congress wants a hearing to be held on facebook's move into crypto currency is that something that facebook should see as a positive or is that a negative. that's definitely a negative but facebook has been trying to work with regulators and it said up front we're open to discussion we're not trying to replace sovereign currencies we're not trying to just ruin the existing banking system and we're not going to control this quaint we're going to be sharing control of these all these other people with that said with all of its history of privacy problems and concerns about anti-competitive behavior that could lead to antitrust regulation a lot of politicians still might be worried that baseball getting into a new business especially something as important as the financial sector could give it even more power over our lives at a time when everyone wants it to have less yeah that's a very good point you make there josh constant editor at large at tech crunch joining us tonight from san francisco josh we appreciate your insights thank you my pleasure. all right the day is

prices because of illegal practices by facebook so the answer is it doesn't cost anything to get on facebook right now is this is this is this is really interesting because here we have for the layman it seems obvious that facebook is a monopoly right it controls one 3rd of the entire planet market sirrah of the planet we're talking about billions of people on facebook and there is nothing like facebook so for the from the layman perspective it's clearly a monopoly but this investigation it's supposed to look into 3 areas competition in digital markets and the competitive conduct and dominant firms and whether current laws are adequate so let's start with are the current laws and enforcement policies over these behemoths adequate misty well i think that really there needs to be some changes and the 1st step the 1st step that's being taken here by conducting these investigations and making these inquiries and when i think that's a geisha is i'm not talking about formal investigations to identify violations of the law i'm talking about inquiries into. 2 the business practices i think what we'r

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i c o's weren't allowed to advertise on facebook and so the idea was well facebook is protecting from scammers and all that well ok if you want to ban the i.c. it was because you claim that they're all scams why did you stop people from even learning about crypto currencies they banned everything and then turn around and loosen those controls about the time that they said oh by the way we're going to issue our own crypto currency and so here's the problem with that of course antitrust laws and even just going back into the 1950 s. laws have been passed that essentially say you cannot block advertisements that are competitive to you facebook was doing exactly that only at least i think the argument could be made for that they were protecting themselves against mass adoption of these other kryptos while they themselves were designing them planning to release their own crypto. now moving on to apple of they kind of did the same thing they said that they are now going to be released saying that i os 13 software which will feature a cryptographic developer's tool and this is also interesti

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and scared off many average investors and potential users but will the new cryptocurrency catch on facebook bets the state of the social network alone with 2400000000 monthly users will forge a new huge marketplace for streamline purchases and exchanges facebook also says liberal will help to bridge the so-called banking gap given the 1700000000 people around the world to do not have a bank account a secure alternative to catch facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg ory already had this to say about the project which will be officially announced later on tuesday. i believe that it should be as easy to send money to someone as it is to send a photo so we're already touched on this in india we've got a 1000000 people it's been used a lot in the feedback so far is great. we're already working on rolling this out in a number of other countries later this year. about that joining me here in the studio now is jeff gallus he's an investor an entrepreneur specializing in block chain application that is the technology that underpins all major digital currencies jeff we have bitcoin we have a theory and man

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the pressure was not on facebook to label it as fake, the pressure was on facebook to prevent it from appearing in the first place. >>> a flashback to 2017, president trump and president xi chatti chatting. earlier this week, the fed was said to be an independent body, independent of politics, and that's not a controversial statement but president trump took that as a statement and responded while call into fox business travel. >> he's trying to prove how tough he is. here's a guy, nobody ever heard of him before, and now i made him and he wants to show how tough he is. okay. let him show how tough he is. he's not doing a good job. >> president trump wants the fed to lower the interest rates at a time when the economy is very hot and that would lead the fed with few choices as to what to do with the economy slowed down. the pressure is clearly on fo . powell. >> thank you. >>> watch out elon musk, another company wants to develop a better hyperloop. they have developed a full hyperloop scale in nevada going more than 600 miles per hour. >> i don't understand what that means. >> it's l

shockingly, the terrorist was allowed to live stream on facebook where the gruesome video went undetected initially. instead, law enforcement officials in new zealand had to contact the company and ask that it be removed. when new zealand authorities called on all social media companies to remove these videos immediately, they were unable to comply. human moderators did not keep up with the volume of videos being reposted, and their automated systems were unable to recognize minor changes in the video, so the video spread online, and is spread around the world. the fact that this happened merely two years after facebook, twitter, google, microsoft, and other major tech companies establish the global internet forum to counter terrorism, gifct, is troubling, to say the least. gifct is to share best practices to combat the spread of online terrorist content. back in july 2017, representatives of the gifct briefed the community on this new initiative. at the time, i was optimistic about its intentions and goals and acknowledged that members demonstrated the willingness to engage on this issue

let's bring you more now on one of the key stories today on facebook because the senior facebook executive former liberty prime minister nick clegg says he wants to create a new oversight board for the company with the power to create independent rulings over whether questionable content should be removed. he was speaking to bbc head ofa removed. he was speaking to bbc head of a major speech in germany this evening and said facebook should play at your role in advocating rather than shunning legislation. in westminster studio as damian collins, chair of the digital culture media and sport committee who led an enquiry into facebook earlier this year. they called for compulsory code of ethics to be imposed on social media companies. thank you forjoining us. do you think the suggestion goes far enough? no. i welcome think the suggestion goes far enough? no. iwelcome any think the suggestion goes far enough? no. i welcome any move facebook make to bring more scrutiny into their practices but this has to be done by an outside body independent of facebook and with the legal powers to launch inve

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especially the attacks on privacy we know facebook is so well known for. y: that a senator sherrod brown -- was senator sherrod brown. it is one of the busiest times of the year for travelers, but is market volatility impacting them? our conversation with expedia's ceo next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: last week, we learned airbnb is expanding its experience business and doubling down on tourism. this is as they brought in its business in advance of an ipo, likely next year. just one of the many travel players trying to be a one-stop shop for all vacation needs. so how are traditional travel sites gearing up to compete? expedia's ceo joined us to weigh in. >> with have always been at the forefront of travel. one thing that has been consistent is this is an incredibly competitive industry. despite the competitive forces, expedia last year did $100 billion of bookings, multiples of the size of airbnb and many of these players out there. we have thousands and thousands of the top engineers, data scientists, and product minds in the world focused on travel, and

that comes from africa join us on facebook in africa. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes on africa monita its population growth the continent's 2nd most populous country has found one solution is it one to follow. and increasingly being watched and money ted everywhere in this electronic world many are comfortable with that bought in one township near cape town the citizens demand more surveillance not less. onto angola we meet some of the veterans who are still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of the brutal civil war. it's great to have you june then we're facing a possible major challenge research suggests that africa's population will double to 2500000000 within the next 30 years clearly this impacts on all sectors of society food supplies and education and the health sector if our population groups are not addressed and managed will be faced with huge problems now the 2nd most populous country on the continent ethiopia has taking up the challenge and a spot of addressing the issue that country has over

pressure continues to fire on facebook just after social media giant has introduced plans to launch their own digital currency partly nailer a public defender is on hand to pick through the good me of facebook and we've got a show today so let's go and dive right in. a jump in global oil prices after another violent incident near the strait of hormuz leads our global report today as a run shoots down a u.s. military surveillance drone the latest flashpoint developed in predawn hours on thursday in the gulf region or wednesday night in washington and trip administration officials quickly huddled to assess the situation and possible responses on thursday morning prices spiked after u.s. president donald trump responded to the incident on twitter brant crude prices surged as much as 3.9 percent while west texas intermediate jump by 6 percent before falling back to the mid pfizer around noon iranian officials claim the drone was in their air space when it was down while the u.s. armed forces directorate for the region central command insisted that the drone was attacked over international wat

facebook this morning is defending itself against accusations of political bias an article posted monday on the tech news side gizmodo said facebook workers suppress conservative leaning news stories in its trending section and that creates a terrible dynamic when it comes to the consumption of information and news because it leads us to only see the world in a very very small and narrow way it makes us easier to control and easier to be manipulated. the. i think what's so troubling about google and facebook is you don't know what you don't know and while the internet provides a lot of openness in the sense that you have access to all this information the fact of the matter is you have basically 2 gatekeepers facebook and google which control what we have access to news organizations have to be prepared that their home pages are less important people are using they're using facebook as a whole they're using twitter as their own those. are their portals world of information. that started out as internet companies and it has changed they morph into media companies they've. into telecommunicat