sarah frier, always wonderful to have you. a story that is trending.st company to tap into artificial intelligence. it is developing apps to help customers with simple requests. it may someday enable customers to track passages -- packages using voice command. that does it for this edition of bloomberg technology. all episodes of bloomberg tech are live streaming on twitter. check it out. that is all for today from san francisco. ♪ >> pushing policy, donald trump ix theking to ne transpacific partnership and his first day in office. >> maintaining monetary stimulus. exit.g against a hard they said that pulling out of the market would be damaging. we will bring you the interview this hour.

emily: sarah frier who covers twitter. snapchat, and thank you, sarah, as always.tition and corporate messaging is heating up. teams, the new product is supposed to facilitate conversations in real time with team chatting, private messaging, and voice and video conferencing. the move places the tech giant squarely against industry leaders slack which welcomes the competition. flack took out a full-page ad in the new york times to give microsoft some tongue-in-cheek advice, saying business is "harder than it looks." coming up, toyota heading down the ridesharing road. we break down the automakers ridesharing get around, next. ♪ emily: toyota is the latest automaker to switch years into ridesharing. the japanese carmaker announcing apartnership with get around, san francisco-based ridesharing company. the test program will start in san francisco january 2017. the ceo joins me now in the studio. explain how this partnership will actually work? >> the simple way you can think of it as you walk into a toyota dealership and buy a car, finance or lease a car that you will

emily: jennifer font standard and sarah frier. and twitter investor prince always been tall spoke to us this weekend and waiting on his various investments, namely twitter, despite its falling stock price, he remained optimistic for the future of the site. >> jack dorsey was my friend. he to go over a year ago. this has to begin sometime. -- anything over that would be sweetener for us. the best daysve are yet to come. palantir'sl ahead, cofounder joins us about his partner and how donald trump may affect tech. effect of donald trump on tech stock. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: let's turn now to the global forum, where tech pioneers are talking about innovation and how it might help diversify saudi arabia's economy away from a reliance on oil. erik schechter sat down with joe lonsdale, cofounder of palantir technologies. the question, what will peter thiel bring to donald trump's transition team? >> he is been one of the most important mentors. i think what is unique about him is that he is able to look at things from a contrary in

sarah frier is joining us. whatus the highlights of he had to say. this has been driven by incredible demand across all sectors. this is a very strong quarter for them. he said instagram started contribute into the growth and has been growing faster than facebook, though facebook and treated the most to the ad revenue this quarter. you mentioned the shares went down, that had to do with comments he gave on the investor call when he said add load facebook was going to put in the be seed was going to not increased in a the middle of the year. so the revenues were going to be hit materially. emily: explain how that plays out in terms of what we see on the site. sarah: you how when you have an ad, it's mixed in with photos of 80's and an article about trump. they want to keep the news feed the way it is and in the past, increasing that add load has really increased revenues, including in this quarter. this has been a quarter where the add load was responsible for a lot of growth. starting next year, they are not going to pull that letter -- that lever an

me, the cofounder of asked tech centers, and sarah frier, who cover social media companies for bloombergech writer let's start with the banning of white supremacist accounts from twitter. how connected is this to the election of donald trump? sarah: twitter in the run-up to the election has understood that there has been a dramatic hateful conduct on their sites try to the anti-defamation league has run studies straight has been an increase in white supremacist, tic, those commentaries, as a result of the excitement over the election. not necessarily endorsed by trump, but they have found a way to rally around the election. and so the company was already working on tools to current harassment in light of that, and i think that the news they released earlier this week about some of the more stringent rules are going to be in place, better reporting tools people will have , and now they are showing they can actually take action. this is something to have come under fire for in the past and in light of the election, they really need to take a serious look at it. there is a fake news on twit

sarah frier and eric newcomer are here along with tom metcalf.e a long way in just a week. you have mark zuckerberg denying facebook had anything to do with the outcome. you have president obama talking about fake news running rampant on the site. sarah, is there any indication from what you are hearing that mark zuckerberg is changing his mind? sarah: i think zuckerberg is going to want to do what is best for the user experience. in the past, they've pulled their users and the users don't like being misled. even if it is 1% of the news that is fake, and some people suggest it might be more than that, people don't want that. it doesn't create a safe environment for facebook. there are people who are telling zuckerberg, you need to take more responsibility for this. , he seems torberg be holding fast to the notion that he's not responsible in public. emily: there are reports that employees are horrified and going rogue. sarah: protesting. people have talked to me too, current and former employees, about ways they think of solving this problem that

i think the problem -- your colleague sarah frier said something yesterday, that they really want towhat is best for the user. i think that is what nicola was saying as well. going to improve the user experience because that is their bread and butter. it is probably starting to affect the user experience and a way that is serious and that is incentive to take action. emily: this is certainly not the last we will be talking about this issue. david kirkpatrick, sticking with me. coming up, apple closing down its router division. what the move signals for its focus on consumer products. this is a bloomberg. ♪ emily: apple has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers according to people familiar with the matter. the move is intended to sharpen their focus on other consumer products that generate the bulk of its revenue. alex webb is here with me your is interesting that apple is doing this. why? market that has increasingly become a commodity. if you sign up for a service, you will be giving a router. it costs money to develop the stuff, and it is not a project a lot of peop

we caught up with venture capitalist jennifer fonstad, co-founder of aspect ventures and sarah frier,overs social media for bloomberg television. >> twitter has, in the run-up to the election understood that there has been a dramatic increase in hateful conduct on their site. their anti-defamation league has run studies. there has been an increase in white supremacists, anti-semitic. those kind of commentaries. emily: as a result of donald trump? >> held up by the excitement over the election. not necessarily endorsed by trump but definitely they have found a way to rally around the election. and so the company was already working on tools to current harassment in light of that, and i think that the news they released earlier this week about some of the more stringent rules are going to be in place, better reporting tools people will have, and now they are showing they can actually take action. this is something they have come under fire for in the past and in light of the election, they really need to take a serious look at it. for facebook there is fake news. there is a fake news on

for more on this, i want to bring in longtime media exec patrick keane as well as sarah frier from bloombergam a little depressed today given that my cleveland indians were defeated in an epic game, but it is great for chicago and it is great for major league baseball. why was this ratings turn out such a big win for the league? >> yeah, it was an absolutely huge one for the league. if you look at this, this was the highest rating in 25 years for major league baseball. let me repeat, 25 years. so to have 40 million viewers nationally watching the game is pretty extraordinary. i know we will get into it in a little bit, but this is just bad news for 280 park avenue. i think it is another example of the national football league, and that is their headquarters, being really hit by get yet another league that is starting to grow share. brad: let's talk about that. it is the cover of this week's "business week." a great piece by felix gillette talking about the problem. do you think it is a fair juxtaposition? game seven of the world series versus the week to week performance of the nfl in an ele

. >> great conversation corey speaking with sarah frier in 46.cks are trading now. to thosech holding on gains in case of nasdaq, holding declines. we've seen the big names like facebook, amazon, netflix and slump.all down more than 2.5%. and thee industrials financials lead the dow industrials higher up by 259 points. the s&p gaining 10 points. looking ahead to the close, keeping eye on disney. thes reporting anniversary close -- earnings after the close. focus is on espn performance. for disney is expected to come in $13.5 billion. unchanged from the same time a year ago. tonings are expected to fall $1.16 from $1.20. bloombergy on technology, david west din will ceoitting down with disney bob eiger and what happens next at espn. in the meantime, coming up, the commodities close, copper seen biggest gain in two days. more than five years. have more contacts on that move. this is bloomberg. >> from bloomberg world headquarters in new york this is "bloomberg markets." in new york.sing let's check on the movers with abigail. >> it is a tale of two