sarah frier, fantastic reporting from f8. thee was also news on company's messenger platform.ook announced new features its primary app. i asked about his goals to make messenger a one-stop shop for users. >> it depends on what you are trying to do, but there are lots of things that belong in a conversational context to it when you think about the messenger app, it is the place you go to to coordinate plans him of making reservations, building a playlist with friends, or many other things that require some form of conversation and coordination, so instead of switching to other do it right there and then inside of messenger natively, so it is easier to do the things they were already doing. no cape: therefore switching, keeping within bots.nger, and using tho there was a lot of hype in 2016. can it live at to the hype in 2017 -- live up to the hype in 2017? every new technology has a hype cycle when it lives on a platform as largest ours. i feel like we have made a ton botrogress, up to 100,000 s, 65 main businesses, of which 20 million respond to messengers on messenger every

great insight from sarah frier. check out the "decrypted" podcast.id kirkpatrick sticking with us. you can hear more on this week's "decrypted" podcast. ♪ alisa: i am alisa parenti and you are watching "bloomberg technology." . set of executive orders to review u.s. tax regulations and rollback dodd-frank. he spoke before the signings at the treasury department. president trump: we have taken unprecedented action to bring back our jobs and return power to our citizens that has been taken away. terribleifted one regulation after another from the energy sector to the auto sector. we have many more to go. that will be happening over the next four to five weeks. alisa: french officials have the gunman who killed a police officer in paris last night was born in the french capital. they also say his car was loaded with weapons. documents also found next to his body and in his car had messages which suggested support for islamic state. that group claimed responsibly for the attack. france's prime minister is dismissing criticism from marine le pen in the wa

sarah frier, fantastic reporting. thank you for the analysis.g up, a taiwanese company, we will bring you the plan to invest in asian startups. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: a new development in the bid for moneygram. shares surged more than 6% after jack ma's company raised its bid by 36% to about $1.2 billion. euronet with a competing offer is reviewing offers saying it continues to believe u.s. regulators will thwart the chinese bid for the company. one company in taiwan is making a big leap into investing in startups. taiwan accelerator is the country's first accelerator based on the accelerator in the bay area. it recently invested in eight startups. after going through an eight-week program, it is in the u.s. for its first road trip. show. joining us is richard kang. you are based in toronto, canada. you are here with the eight companies you have helped to mentor and coach. what does the u.s. roadshow bring for them? cash, i suppose. >> hopefully some cash. we have heard a lot of technology coming out. i don't know if many p

caroline: plenty of challenges but still opportunities as well it would seem. , sarah frier, fantasticorting from f8. sticking with facebook, there was also news on the company's messenger platform. facebook announced new features to make it its primary app. i asked about his goals to make messenger a one-stop shop for users. >> it depends on what you are trying to do, but there are lots of things that belong in a conversational context. and when you think about the messenger app, it is the place you go to coordinate plans of making reservations, building a playlist with friends, or many other things that require some form of conversation and coordination. so, instead of switching to other apps, you can do it right there and then inside of messenger natively, so it is easier to do the things they were already doing. caroline: therefore, no app switching, keeping within messenger, and using bots. this is a way you want to see companies interacting with people, people interacting with companies more. there was a lot of hype in 2016. can it live up to the hype in 2017? >> every new techno

sarah frier covers the company, and bob o'donnell. great reporting throughout.sible to call this a victory? >> this is a victory for twitter. when i saw the headlines come i thought oh, my god, they already with drew their suit? they withdrew because the government stopped asking, they scared the government away. caroline: talk to us about some of the background to all of this. twitter was taking the government head on. it is fascinating considering how much trump has driven the agenda. >> twitter will cooperate when there is a criminal case. there was a case a couple of weeks ago where a user sent an epilepsy inducing tweet to a journalist and he had a seizure. twitter gave the government information about that user and he was arrested. in those cases, twitter will help and actually provided a transparence report of all the government request they have gotten around the world. when it comes to free speech matters, they are steadfast about not giving information to the government. twitter has been shut down when they have refused to give information. caroline: r

vonnie: sarah frier, thank you for that, much appreciated.omve more from david marcus at 4:15 p.m. eastern a big transaction this morning, we will be getting to that in a moment, it is part of our business flash that you need to know this hour. is going to buy cardinal patient's care. insufficiencyl business. johnson and johnson, the 6%ghtest -- the latest drug, -- a $30 billion of this drug maker, gives the company a time where its own medicine sales are falling. this private equity fund gathered $15 billion in just four months. theyompany said contributed $500 million to the pool. the initial targets was 12 and a half million dollars. that is your latest in bloomberg business flash. coming up, we will hear from the german automaker ceo. how he plans to meet the new green regulations. his profession -- his perspective from shanghai next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets, i'm vonnie quinn. yahoo! is reporting earnings after the closing bell today. investors will want details on the purchase of verizon for 4.5 -- $4.5 bil

joining us to discuss, sarah frier, who is live from the conference.g tech, hearing through your skin. tell us more about some of these new, slightly more, perhaps, crazy and announcements. isah: the second day of f8 where facebook tries to blow you away with all the crazy, innovative things they are thinking about. is this going to be a product in the next year? absolutely not. but the building -- this lab they started last year by hiring from google is working on ways us so muchot tether to our phones in the future, the next step of socializing may not require us -- make itt step is to easier to communicate telepathically. the manyust one of things they are looking into. zuckerberg has been fascinated with this kind of technology for years. caroline: we also heard about camerasras, 360-degree is something they unveiled through samsung a while ago, but they would be producing their own and handing them out free to anyone who wants one. sarah: every guest of the conference got a little 360-degree camera they can click on to their phone -- can clip onto