sam shank and matt maloney. but we're going to start with twitter. perhaps no tech ceo coming under such fire and constant speculation. but he's been busy shuffling his c suite, tweaking twitter's product, and focusing on revenue. costello spoke with us. topic number one, twitter's acquisition of niche project a company that connects social media stars with advertisers. >> it's absolutely the very beginning of providing opportunities to viners who have done such great work at building this unique community of creators and connecting them to brands we think is just going to be awesome for the brands who want to leverage the great work they do to create stories and then build a career off the fun things. >> do you find yourself competing with snapchat with this new generation of video creators? >> i think about it more as this unique platform we've developed and this awesome -- there are these stop motion animation experts, there are these comedians, there are these sort of vine magicians through some of the frame by frame animation work they do. and b

with me now is someone from rbc capital and sam shank ceo of hoteltonight. talk to me about online travel. since you are the senior guy here. what does this mean or lose public companies -- for these public companies? >> we have seen tremendous consolidation over the past few years. has become a duopoly. two the cap. expedia and priceline. they have a lot of the vertical planes. they may look to buy more like hotel tonight, but this base is consolidating and they do it in a way that is usually pretty smart. setting up accretive deals, a multiyear trend, probably will see more of it >>. >> euro about no antitrust issues. this is what was called a life is. >> you don't make any money selling airline tickets. all the economics are in the hotel market. >> the smart thing would be to start a hotel business -- wait that is what you did with hoteltonight. what is the trap you see orbitz having to deal with? >> the shift to mobile is the big trend. the starting point for online travel, the largest is google. that is where people go to start their travel. in a mobile

. >> mark mahaney and sam shank. google created a new high-end robot called spot.t dog means for the world of big data. that is next on bloomberg west. ♪ >> welcome back to the best of bloomberg west. i'm corey johnson. is uber worried about google rolling out a service with driverless cars? benchmark capital's bill gurly spoke to us at the conference where he had some tough words for google and it's so called moonshot project. >> a lot of the really large companies have done a good job of what i would call distracting the press by profiling self-driving cars or drones. how many large market cap companies have done a drone pr event? and i think it's -- they want to appear innovative this kind of thing. but ask any analyst covering google what are the revenues they have in their model for autonomous cars in the next five or ten years? and i know the answer zero. >> but revenue aside google is certainly putting some mind capital on those moon shots, including the acquisition of a robot company. innovation far from slowing. they just released video of a brand new robo

sam shank, mark, good to see you both. questions about twitter and ceo dick costolo. he gave an interesting interview yesterday. our exclusive interview with dick costolo. ♪ >> here is a check on your world news headlines. citigroup is raising prices on currency trades. for some clients, it could be a 25% hike in fees. citigroup is looking to boost revenue after suffering more than $150 million on losses from the search of the swiss franc. train manufacturer bombardier is replacing its ceo. the new ceo is elaine belmar of united technologies. they have faced delays and cost overruns in developing its new c-series jet. it's been postponed four times and is expected to cost $5 billion, up from $1 billion a few years ago. chinese smart tv maker lay she -- leshi will invest billions to sell electric cars in the u.s.. the executives tells us they can be successful because it will capitalize on the design manufacturing, and distribution strength. twitter does not want to become an electric car company but are talking about an ecosystem of products and they want to make more

sam shank and matt maloney. but we're going to start with twitter.o tech ceo coming under such fire and constant speculation.

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