selina wang, and mark bergen of "bloomberg technology."m sure we will be debating this into the future. more reaction today, tech earnings results, including tesla. elon musk says the model three is a 10 year program, even though most cars stay on the market six to seven years before getting an overhaul. a quick programming note. tune into bloomberg tv this thursday with an exclusive conversation with a goldman sachs ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: new york city could very well be home to amazon's second headquarters. according to a new study the big apple topped the most probable list. mainly due to its extensive mass transit network. the study scored cities based on outlined in their proposal. san francisco ranked washington, second. d.c. was third on the list read . earnings season is starting to wind down for tech companies and facebook reported another record quarter. apple will record third-quarter numbers thursday. here to talk about earnings is giles.cutive editor tom let's start with facebook. we've been talking about facebook th

emily: that was technology's selina wang.roups spent $100,000 on ads to influence the election. how did they do it? it was more simple than you might think. sarah frier filed this report. ♪ sarah: facebook tells us russian groups spent $100,000 to influence the 2016 presidential election. how did they do it? it is very simple. there are only three things you need to run a very sophisticated advertising campaign. facebook, the ad, and a credit card. it holds your hand through the rest. let's it you have an ad you want to show to gun owners in pennsylvania. simple. facebook and route your ad to everyone who lists their home state in pennsylvania, posted a gun, analysts behavior about gun ownership. you can do it by race, education level, anything. facebook and target specific demographic groups since it has so much information on its users. the articles they click on, the pages they follow, the things they like. all that is recorded for later targeting by advertisers. there is also the information the users provide themselves,

joining us now is bloomberg tech's's selina wang and bob o'donnell. e motivation and how does it fit into alibaba's overall bet on offline? selina: this gives alibaba access to about 400 of these hypermarkets along china. this is just a string of deals they have done in off-line. they are now in grocery and department stores and electronic stores, and this helps them access consumers in lower, smaller cities that were not familiar with regular shopping on alibaba before. amount of data, e-commerce, -- the big long-term strategy is they want to use their colossal amount of data, e-commerce, combined it with the virtual world with the offline world to make shopping better. make the consumer experience better as well as streamline the inventory supply management. this also gives alibaba a lead with what walmart has been doing with jd in china. they have been trying to turn around the business there, and now alibaba also has a significant stake in this hypermarket world. emily: taking a look at the bloomberg, another chart. g #4955, you can see just how re

emily: that was bloomberg technology selina wang, mark bergen, and keith rab ois., facebook says russian groups spent $100,000 on ads to influence the election. how did they do it? it was actually more simple than you might think. bloomberg's sarah frier filed this report. ♪ sarah: facebook tells us russian groups spent $100,000 to influence the 2016 presidential election. how did they do it? it is actually very simple. there are only three things you need to run a very sophisticated advertising campaign. facebook accounts, the ad itself, and a credit card. facebook's website holds your hand through the rest of the self-service advertising. let's it you have an ad you want to show to gun owners in pennsylvania. simple. facebook can route your ad to everyone who lists their home pennsylvania, has purchased a gun, and likes pages about gun ownership. you can do it by race, education level, anything. facebook can target specific demographic groups since it has so much specific information on its users. the articles they click on, the pages they follow, the things they

vonnie: that was selina wang with alibaba president michael higgins.eez downward spiral can come to a head next week. the new ceo set to look for investors favor with a turnaround plan. that plan could include cutting the dividend for the first time since the recession. we will have a listen at a look. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets, i'm vonnie quinn. shery: i'm shery ahn. -- g presents a new ceo. they suffered a $100 billion wideout of its market value just this year after a series of missteps and a major earnings miss in the third quarter. if you put it against the broader market, take a look at chart 6462, you can see the divergence against the s&p 500. set ton flannery is update investors on his turnaround plans on monday. bloomberg's rycroft joins us -- rycroft -- rick joins us with more. what do they need to say to bring back investor confidence? rick: there are couple of things they are going to address on monday. the expectations for next year. there's a decent chance they make up their earnings forecast, which would nor

me,y: selina wang joins along with mark bergen and kiefer boy. talk about the events in washington.scussing why the ceo's for these companies did not attend. >> i used to work in the senate. if they wanted the ceo's, they would've scheduled it when he was in china. this was a done deal. angus king was just speaking for himself. he probably violated an agreement. this happens all the time of public company ceo's. they find a convenient date the schedule the hearings. this was totally fraudulent. emily: they could still be asking for these folks to becoming the capitol hill. >> i guess google's defense, ken walker, could speak to him issues more clearly more than larry. much more involved in the day-to-day in these legal and security issues they talk about. >> jack dorsey was just that he square event. he is definitely not going to be in d.c. he is running two companies and only has so much time. emily: another point senator warner made an effort to point out is these investigations are not over. listen to something else from senator warner today. senator warner: do you believe any of

selina wang has been covering this for us.did you learn about faraday future and what does this mean for the future of the company? beenter: faraday has struggling to raise a new round of funding for several months now. we reported in may they were seeking to raise $1 billion, and now they are struggling to raise even half of that amount. this line of funding is critical for several reasons. one of them is that if they don't raise this by december, at least $400 million lost in income immediately payable.that puts them in a precarious position .they already have about $100 million in unpaid bills. in addition to that cash crunch, they have also yet to produce anything more than just a couple of concept cars and prototypes. this is all that came from a company that claimed to leapfrog tesla. they also claimed they would build a $1 billion game plan in nevada, which also has not come to fruition. betty: how does this fit into the context of his dwindling empire? reporter: faraday is the latest peace to start falling apart in thi

emily: that was selina wang with mike evans.wist that pits jack dorsey against himself, square has surpassed twitter in market value for the first time. does he is ceo and -- jack at square and twitter both. twitter shares have lost about a quarter of their value over the last two years. in listingalibaba is high-tech solutions and old-school brick and mortar stores. how moving the online experience into the off-line world will be the future of retail. and bloomberg technology's live streaming on twitter. check us out. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the two biggest apps for uber-like truck services in china are preparing to emerge. they have had a frosty relationship the past with the company's trading accusations about harassment that have even prompted police investigations. a merger would be the latest example of chinese tech startups getting together. alibaba's singles' day is already under way, but there's growing concern consumers could be facing fatigue from the annual 24-hour online flash sale. alibaba is building on the id

joining us now to discuss this is selina wang. this is a great story. ecurity against growth and free speech. selina: i spoke to more than 10 former employees and they told me throughout twitter's history there is a struggle between growth and security. for much of the time security to the backseat. twitter unlike facebook and google has been under lots of turmoil over the past several years. they have rotated through more than six head of product over the last several years. all this turnover and financial difficulty has caused them to focus on losing monthly users. congress grilled some of the executives and general counsel from the tech companies. does this make any sense that there might be some kind of regulations coming down the pike? when i speak to sources at twitter, the sentiment is that they want to be able to self police the problem. they don't want regulators putting in more costly measures for them, but they met implement in the u.s. and other parts of the country. twitter has already taken efforts to have a new ad transparency policy and b

joining us now is selina wang and bob o'donnell. the motivation and how does it fit into alibaba's overall bet on offline? selina: this gives alibaba access to 400 of these hypermarkets along china. this is just a string of deals they have done in off-line. they are in grocery and department stores. them access consumers in lower, smaller cities that were not familiar with regular shopping on alibaba before. the big long-term them access cs in lower strategy is they want to use their colossal amount of data, e-commerce, combined it with the virtual world with the offline world to make shopping better. this gives them a lead with what walmart has been doing with jd in china. alibaba also has a significant stake in this hypermarket world. emily: taking a look at the bloomberg, another chart. you can see how revenue growth at sun art is slowing down. the hope is this would reverse that trend. bob, any coincidence, you think about them announcing it during the big week for u.s. retailers and amazon especially? bob: obviously not, but we