why write about silicon valley and computer geeks now?laughter] emily: like, where does silicon valley fit in this arc of entertainment history? mike: you don't think these guys are hot? emily: maybe if they are worth a billion dollars. alec: we kind of ask ourselves that on a daily basis. like, why did we decide to do a show that is about people who sit and type all day? and what they do literally 16 hours a day is inherently unfilmable. it is a challenge. emily: i said it was unsexy. alec: mistakes were made. emily: unglamorous. unfunny. alec: it could not be more relevant. you look at the speed at which tech is moving and the role that it plays in our life. mike: yeah, i think hollywood has always been very puzzled about -- like when the internet first just exploded and was everywhere, they tried a movie called "the net." they tried to make it all sexy and intriguing. and it just was kind of ridiculous. this was an interesting challenge just because, as alec says, it is unfilmable. but it is also, that challenge can lead you to do more

of silicon valley. >> probably both. lot of analysis we did as a result of over 600 comments coming from across the country for vying for the pto to open in the backyard weighed in favor in opening in one of the most innovative regions not just the country but the world. >> what's the benefit of opening an office here? they can send it to washington? do they have people specialized inbiotech? >> that's a good point. with the electronic age and our emphasis on electronic filing, we don't want you to bring your papers and filings to the regional office. we want you to take advantage of our electronic processing. the regional office instead provides customizes services for the innovative community, not just here in the silicon valley and san francisco bay area but for the broader state of california and actually a seven-state -- >> you can't just say customized services and we don't want your patent. what do you do? are we going to surprise you? an inventor just walked in the door? >> we use our satellite offices for three

i was in silicon valley covering technology.t is the center of the tech hub, with new york in second. where is boston? >> number two in the percentage of tech workers in america. there is a lot of great things happening with the great ecosystem, innovative economy. we areoften wonder where right now. downtown boston, 35 percent of office space is tech companies. greate a lot of innovation and startup companies. we have 25 universities in the city and 75 in the greater boston area. we have a lot of brainpower. million in incentive packages, how will you know if it was worth it? >> is already worth it. when you think of ge moving their global headquarters to the city of boston, we are seeing the benefits and results. it is incredible. the chatter in our city of the companies here and wanting to stay here when they are grounded here. we have a lot of startups, and people say why do we want to leave the city when we have companies like general electric coming in every day? general electric is such a big win for the city. when we hav

i think we will be the bio silicon valley. silicon valley will be good at internet software.software and artificial intelligence is required for bio. bio is not really easy to do online. you can do some of it, but it is about walking over and looking at samples. it is very physical. you need to be near m.i.t. and harvard. emily: you are working with a company called pure tech on some of these models. mr. ito: i had to go to capital market and got back a couple of hours ago. it is an example. a lot of companies still require basic science. you need to bring the academics, do fda trials. a lot of the times the technology is not ready to be companies so sometimes the model does not work. tech is a new model for connecting academic research to companies. it is experimenting with and testing new ways to translate academic research into companies and is really important. that is what i am really interested in. emily: one thing in the spoken out about is bitcoin. what do you think the future is? mr. ito: it reminds me a lot of the internet. one of my first companies that i was the c

but many inside the building and industry took that in a literal sense saying silicon valley or that is the only place of interest to the secretary. not his intent but messaging is difficult. we have seen a couple of that.nges from when we have spoken to folks in ilicon valley it is technology tourism written senior general officers and flag aofrofficers of department of defense will go out it and take meetings with from large organizations like google and facebook. and do without funding without the ability to get a oftract and you run the risk burning a bridge before you have built it which technically is impossible. there have been challenges in terms of how the defense industry has viewed this. i want to follow up on that. one thing we heard defense still y saying we are here doing innovation stuff s. that a real concern? i spoke to have that concern. i think it is legitimate. organization that has built a flying robot that can land on an aircraft carrier way there's a r certain amount of innovation required for that. at the same time i don't the tly believe that defense industry

is boston the next silicon valley? shenzhen is the hardware of silicon valley now.nk we will be the bio of silicon valley. and more software and artificial intelligence and robotics is all required for bio and bio is not easy to do online. it's about walking over and looking at samples. it is very physical, so you'd need to be m.i.t. and harvard. emily: you are working with a company called or tech? -- pure tech? joi: yes. i had to go to capital markets and got back just a few hours ago. they are setting some examples. a lot of companies require basic science and need to do fda trials and a lot of times, these technologies are not ready to be companies yet. pure tech is a new model for connecting academic research for companies. this experimenting and testing with new ways to translate academic research into companies is really important. one of the things you have spoken out about is bitcoin. what do you think the future of bitcoin is? companiesf my first was an internet service provider in japan and i worked on a lot of early internet protocol. the thing about the

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silicon valley has learned the same thing by scaleup.e one was -- we won't do any phone customer service, we'll do it all by e-mail. that's the equivalent, we'll leave the supply chain behind us and we'll run very far and very fast out and establish the -- capture the market share and establish our businesses. the techniques are in hiring, the techniques are in management. the techniques are in customer support and we have kind of a living network of knowledge about what the new current techniques for that, and that's why silicon valley continues to create these massive technology companies, even though there's talent and capital everywhere. there's an appreciation of entrepreneur ship and risk everywhere. and yet the vast majority of the companies happen here. >> what you're not saying is because the venture capital firms are close by and stanford is close by. you're talking about a unique set of ideas almost. >> in particular, venture capital, capital is global. there's a lot of capital there. stanford, i'm a grau, awesome influence, h

it was known as the toast of silicon valley.nefits is trying to chart a comeback after legal and ethical challenges. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets. safe to say not all unicorns have fairytales. zenefits on this everything from health entrance to payroll, and members of the sales team allegedly sold insurance without a license. the company is trying to survive a pr nightmare. claire suddath joins us now. what does zenefits do? claire: online software. a small business can put in employee data, and it helps select health insurance plans, keep track of payroll, all sorts of stuff. id: the insurance part is right for destruction. the company had bold ambitions. claire: everyone said this was a genius idea. brokers felt like zenefits was taking interns benefits away from them. if you are a small business, 10 employees, you do not have combne designated to through the hundreds of different insurance plans and pick what you need. zenefits will do that. they grew like gangbusters in silicon valley. he made $1 million the first year

is that a strong vein in silicon valley?were excited about rand paul i'm a but donald trump is not rand paul. he has been flexible in terms of who he will support. it is fun to go to the convention if you have never been before. it is not clear whether people will follow him. we talked to a big fund dealer in silicon valley. she was a big democratic dealer, and when she sent you a big names coming out, the truth is, all of the people rather down the chain want to go to the buses and give $2600 to show up at the boston house for the party and the pool and the summer. there is a lot of that going on. in california, the money matters more than the vote because the state is so blue. david: president obama has honed in on that. he has picked up on the fact there is money to be reaped. when you look at silicon valley as a place for money, where are we in that evolution? >> [indiscernible] that is the question. a lot of these people came up in the industry long after bill clinton was out of office. it is not exist during his presid

obviously silicon valley is much more than silicon valley proper. san francisco has a geographic advantage through what he you doing to improve harvard's brought a relationship with the tech community? so you have those bridges as well? guest: we do that and you don't waste. we have great networks on the west coast. we are recruiting students. we have great conduits. we have great connections out west. here in boston, we do amazing things. we have wonderful opportunities arising for us. there is a startup community. it is really uniquely boston. and we need to find the opportunity. emily: all right, frank doyle, dean of harvard's department of engineering. thank you. and l.a. judge has thrown that a lawsuit challenging media mogul sumner redstone as mentally incompetent. this comes after he testified by video that he wanted his daughter to make medical decisions for him if he becomes incapacitated. he said he wanted his ex-girlfriend out of his life. she is suing them for $70 million. the drama goes on. they are best known for companies like twitter

>> you grew up in wales and you somehow made it to silicon valley. what kind of kid were you and how did you get here? >> through no grand plan. i went to college in britain and this was the britain of the mid-1970's, not a particularly enticing place if you were a young graduate looking for opportunities. so i was very lucky to get a scholarship here. after that, i was lucky to get a topic -- get a job at time magazine who sent me out to silicon valley. eventually, through a stroke of great luck, the fellow who had started sequoia, don valentine, took a risk on me. >> what are the qualities you think you had is a good and -- a good journalist made you a good investor? >> i don't think i am a good investor. it is a very humbling pursuit. as soon as you think you are good, you get chopped off at the knees. journalism, though, was pretty helpful because you are often parachuted into a story that you know absolutely nothing about. you have to get your bearings extremely quickly, you've got to deal with imperfect information and then you have to have a p

silicon valley gives takes place for 24 hours online tuesday, may 3rd. go to svgives.org, again, to help numerous groups like aaqi and siren. >>> coming up onlok is celebrating with a big gala event. we'll catch up on its work in the community and its celebration next. >>> there are not many groups that have done so much for the chinese and chinese american communities than on lok. on lok was founded by a group of vision aries committed to solving the plight of vulnerable, low-income seniors with dedicated long-term care. soon the group will secelebrate their ongoing success with its 45th anniversary gala in san francisco on may 20th hosted by actress amy hill. with us right now are two workers for on lok life waves, a program serving frail seniors which enables them to stay home for their care. with us is letty long, a social worker who hoos been with the organization for 17 years, and also here is a registered nurse at on lok livways. both guests have been honored with the on lok above and beyond award before. congratulations on that. welcome to the sh

you've got the boys and girls club in silicon valley, team success. how's the month ninth going help your organization? >> it's going to help us for scholarships and for teen moms and i'm one of the winners to get the scholarship this year. >> reporter: oh, congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's going to help me with my education at the college i'm attending. >> reporter: congratulations. raising a reader. nice to see you here. we've got michelle. what -- how will the money help? >> right now, here in san zoe we provide over 35,000 meals a month for low-income seen krors and homeless. this will help reach further into the community and provide more feemeals to those in need. >> reporter: a sampling over 1,000 local nonprofits from a the communities. go online, svgives.org. 24-hour marathon effort. this is the third year. recalling over the past couple of years, they've raised $16 million. to at least keep that momentum going, you want to hit the $7 million to $8 million mark. you can see we're a third of the way there. here we are be just before noon.

on behalf of one of the hundreds of charities benefitting from today's marathon fund-raiser, silicon valley gives. >> event raised close to $16 million over the past two years. let's check back in with nbc bay area's bob redell in san jose to see how we're doing today. good morning. >> of course, being put on by the silicon valley community foundation, started midnight last night, 24-hour marathon. go to the website, svgives.org. they are $2.87 million, increase of a couple thousands sense you saw us two minutes ago. it's going to help hundreds of local nonprofits. we have austin here. pack-a-back. >> our mission to provide backpacks and school plies for children in need to get a good education and follow their dreams. fulfill a back back, fulfill a

and it is the 7th annual silicon valley latino leadership summit. the inaugural interview with you and it just seemed like yesterday. so, the silicon valley latino leadership summit is at stanford and the goal this year is, of course, diversity and inclusion, but what's unique about this leadership summit is i'm going to focus on having a panel that's on start-up nation. i'm calling it es tiempo start-up nation. there's five start-ups and i have five distinguished judges that are venture capitalists or angel investors. and today, i brought manny fernandez, ceo of dreamfunded, and he can tell you a little bit about dreamfunded. damian: that's great. well, manny, what does it take first of all to be--i mean it takes guts, i would imagine, to become a vc if you will. manny fernandez: well, as angel investor you're investing your own money and you have to have certain income or net worth standards. but that will change come may 16th where every day people can invest, you know, first time in 83 years. so, that's why i suggest people, if they want to supp

but not in silicon valley. fresh money, fresh faces, so that is why the obama team was able to get in there. campaign the startup because theyrfect were speaking to start-up companies. hillary clinton has always had a hard time selling to them. those are people who worked with hillary clinton when she was at the state department. i think those people will naturally bring some of their new friends over. david: up next, how tesla is threatening german's crown jewel. carmakers. plus, why you might want to start letting google do the typing for you. that is straight ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm david gura. you can also listen to us on the sirius radio channel 19. in this week's companies and industry section, white tesla -- >> when you are looking at what the big companies have always done, they have always made hatchback, electric cars meant to meet fuel economy. had you get a long battery range out of something? one way is to make it light. they have

that has basically pissed off silicon valley.'s one of semi-things that have pissed off silicon valley. he spoke specifically against amazon, apple, facebook. he is considered an anti-tech person by the head of the consumer electronics association, gary shapiro. this is a guy who is fundamentally irrational on many of his views, especially about oddly, business, since he is a business guy. ramy: what are you hearing on the ground as far as the politics side of things, in terms of the san francisco, santa clara republican party? tim: 18 months ago, they thought maybe this was the cycle where they could crack silicon valley and tap into the money being generated there. there was some hope that candidates like jeb bush or marco rubio would really connect with the upcoming leaders. but comments by trump, especially around building a wall, other issues regarding global trade, really have not been playing well within the valley and the tech community. ramy: keith, you have taken a stance on twitter all about this. i will quote you. "ni

gosh. >> the folks here at silicon valley are laughing this off, ha, ha, ha. he might have struck the course. >> under the bed, ha, ha, ha ha. >> right. i do think people are talking about it. >> yes. scott mcgrew, thank you very much. >> everybody is talking about the warriors, live at oracle arena. the warriors looking to bounce back tonight after dropping game one of the western conference finals. the ducks say they're embracing the unfamiliar position of trailing in a playoff series. >> he smiled and said, we have been here before. but, no, i liked it. so, this will be fun. because when you go balance that with something like this, it makes it automatic more sweeter. you know, so, i'm relishing this opportunity. >> there you go. well, the odds in the warriors's favor as they have yet to lose, game two is tonight in oakland. tip-off is set for 6:00. >>> here's something draymond can like on the ice the series is tied up between the sharks and st. louis blues. brent burn, scoring two goals in this one t. sharks' goaltender martin jones did the rest, shukt ou

today defense secretary ash carter paid a visit to silicon valley hoping to ease those tensions. josh lipton has more from mountain view, california. >> this was secretary ash carter's fourth official trip to the bay area where he acknowledged the tensions between uncle sam and silicon valley. >> there are also tensions, obviously, about how to handle technology in the context of security, privacy, a free internet, but also one that is secure and that is -- contributes to protecting people rather than harming people. that's a difficult thing to engineer. >> perhaps even more difficult now after the recent conflict over encryption, where virtually every major u.s. tech company came out in favor of apple and against the government. twitter has now reportedly barred intelligence agencies from accessing dataminr. secretary carter has a plan in place to win back consumer and enterprise tech companies. he created the defense innovation unit. its mission is to help the d.o.d. discover new, emerging technologies in silicon valley that could strengthen national security. >> this is an exp

jeb bush and marco rubio did very well against -- with some of the silicon valley elite. to my analysis, bernie sanders is outpacing hillary givers, and atech lot of that has to do with small donations. these are probably programmers and that sort of thing. hillary clinton is doing well getting the big, bold names like elon musk and sheryl sandberg, and those are people who help her tap into the social network of movers and shakers in the valley. emily: this is increasingly important as companies are lobbying more than ever in washington and we were speaking moreer about facebook powerful than ever in shaping what we see and hear. david: that's one reason why they do not want to be too strongly for either party because they want both parties to do their bidding to some significant degree, but i do think there is a lot of rationality. one thing i keep thinking about, though, and that it have to believe is a actor is none of the candidates in either party have been talking about tech transforming the economy, which is a holy grail in silicon valley, and you would never know

which way will silicon valley's conservatives lean?host for the hour, david kirkpatrick, is still with me. what do people in silicon valley think about this race? we know that peter thiel is officially a delegate for donald trump. i know that surprised a lot of people. week ago, as we watched the results coming out of indiana and ted cruz dropped out, making donald trump the presumptive nominee, we are looking to twitter and seeing mark andreessen tweet out saying that he will support hillary clinton. that was a tweet heard around the valley. a real indication that political partisanship in the valley is not as strong as it is elsewhere in the valley. here is a guy who donated to a super pac that supported mitt romney for years ago and would now between out his support for clinton. it was not that direct. it said #imwithher. that is it. david: this moving back and forth between the parties is not unusual. i think that kind of thing is -- you know, these are very rational people who think of themselves as engineering-oriented, very inno

moderator: what you think is going on right now in silicon valley? >> deca-corn. know the culture of secrecy we had in silicon valley. you don't tell people anything. is the dangers? >> yes. investors doing super well. all starting and attract more attention and more poses. with that attention comes sloppy discipline and a ton of money. days.about the early 12 companies. everyone ran live code. there were 15 of us in the room investing. we could ask questions and walk up and try it. the deal didn't get done that day. today, 80 companies in the class. 450 investors. no live code. three minutes. deals are done before that date. it is desperation on a lot of investors to be part of the game. there probably not a good company. you taking away money from companies that should be using that money. they are taking talent away from companies they could use that talent. that taking investors and advisors away. there's a lot of waste happening in the valley right now. some of these evaluations are bananas. y rigged game.ngl i don't think the global economy it will support t

it was silicon valley. and in cincinnati, nashville, kansas city, kansas city, new orleans, they're just fighting their way back in there showing momentum around startup, if we get complacent it's always can be of pioneering in a world that is globalizing and that is risk. not just a playbook for people's lives but we have to change our tune. >> it's an important point because people while on capitol hill and again as an entrepreneur what you just said is so true, they categories companies it's big companies and small companies, and in truth, if you look at the data big companies as a group largely don't create groups and even though two thirds of the jobs are in small businesses which is why they're important and why they're not overregulated. as a group they don't actually create a lot of jobs. it's a small company from -- aol is an extreme example was 70 billion or 70 million and a decade later where the hundred 60 billion. but in my home state you have under armour a relatively small company selling a n

and, does donald trump have any friends in silicon valley?find out whether the gop front-runner has built a wall between himself and potential bay area supporters. the biggest competitor to cooper in china is close to raising $2 billion in its recent round of funding. they close the round in the next few weeks, with a valuation of about $25 billion. that would make it the fourth most valuable start up in the xiaomi, anduber, airbnb. here to discuss this is david kirkpatrick. guys, welcome. first off, i want to ask you, david. worth $25tually billion? david: if uber is worth $60 billion, i think ultimately it is their biggest global competitor. those companies might ultimately consolidate. the chinese market is so important. i think if you do it right, you can lift off from there and go global, and i'm sure that's what they want to do. ramy: when we talk about didi, we have to talk about uber, with both of them brawling in the world's most popular -- populous country. we talked to didi's ceo about whether they could both coexist. >> i would li

meeting with several silicon valley execs. they had private meetings. as far as the flight, their journey should end at the end of the summer. maria medina, kpix 5. >>> shooting investigation in san francisco at golden gate avenue in front of the courthouse. a half hour ago two men got into an argument. one shot the other. the victim is in stable condition. and they are looking for the gunman. he got away on a green motorcycle. >>> and a 14-year-old boy drowned at lake bear yesa today -- bear yesa today -- berryessa today. >>> people across the country hit the streets on this may day. some places the protests erupted into chaos. >> another one. >> police in seattle used blast balls and pep were spray. dem-- pepper spray. two officers were injured. 7 pem are under arrest. >>> in the bay area, peaceful protests. hundreds toic to the -- took to the streets. calling for an end to unjust deportation. police watched from the sidelines. remembering last year's looting. >> action has never been anything but peaceful. [ indiscernible ] >> and in san jose hundred

is an old tech company as silicon valley goes. it has a ton of problems and a lot of its value lies in its stake in alibaba which will probably spun off in one way or another and there are tax problems associated with doing a full-fledged spinoff. and so the question is, could she have fixed this company? she has been focused on products, but it has not really made a dent on it problems. david: max chafin talked about that story. >> yahoo! with nine thousand employees and services, it the way that you and me and our parents get on the internet. that is one part of the company and then there is another part of the company that has a stock portfolio and that stock folio by its they'll is worth more than the entire market value of yahoo! because it's a camp located tech situation but it has to do with the fact that investors have lost confidence in marissa mayer. carol: take us back because at one point it was a successful company. was fifteen years ago it unstoppable. it went into decline starting in the early oughts. more recently,

silicon valley was in its infancy. i was still in my 20's when i went to work for my first silicon valley startup. we developed the world's fastest mainframe computer, faster than anything ibm had. at the next stop, we built the world's largest digital data storage system. then on to precision instruments where we built an even larger storage system, this time using lasers. i was the vice president in charge of software development. it was all very cutting edge and challenging and cool. i liked my work most of the time but i did not love it. i searched and i searched but i just could not find a software engineering job that i loved as much as i loved sailing. so i tried to create one. i put together a plan to start my own company. that way, i could completely control my work environment. i would hire the most talented programmers i knew and we would all work together. on the most interesting and challenging software projects. my goal was to create the perfect job for me, a job i truly loved. i never expected the compan

all of the road sensors are showing up green, not much red or yellow, and even to the silicon valleywe take a look at san jose and sunnyvale. everything is off to a nice start, a little bit of window before it gets crowded.>>> let's go to steve.>> thank you, and a lot of cloud cover and into friday and saturday. the upper low west southwest is moving ever so slowly, and sending in multiple cloud bands, so cloudy to mostly cloudy. there's some return on the radar, and we could see some brief light rain. we are waiting for the system to get closer and a stir in the thunderstorm activity. but we could have light rain. it's on its way to central california around the monterey peninsula, and then it will send in what looks to be a dynamic pattern for this year, nevada. a lot of rain up there. 50s on the temperatures, and a little bit of a breeze from the south-southwest. cloud cover temperatures holding 53 at morgan hill and gilroy in there. most locations within a few degrees of each other. south-southwest at 18, north northwest, south all over the place. cloudy to mostly cloudy with rai

in silicon valley. so.so it's a reminder that these things rise and fall, and many other, pittsburgh, madison, kansas city, new orleans which is fighting its way back are showing moment him, that's what gives me hope for the future. if we get complacent, and we think america's just always going to be this pioneering innovation, in a a world that entrepreneurs are globalizing, there is risk. >> .. it's a small company and it takes off. that's an extreme example where it 70 million a decade later worth 160 million. that's. that's an off the chart extreme example. a small company is selling an athletic shirt that people thought was a niche product that they thought would be in the corner somewhere. the founder and ceo kevin planck and you and i visited headquarters when we did your tour, which i want to come back to, you, you know it takes off. thousands of employees. that was in baltimore. >> all across the country, under armour stores. >> what you're doing, you mention the job at, urine instrumental force in

now, meg whitman faces what may be her most ambitious challenge yet, turning around struggling silicon valley icon hewlett-packard. her solution, to split the company in two. perhaps the biggest seperation in the history of american business. joining me today on "studio 1.0", hp ceo and chairman, meg whitman. thank you so much for joining us. it is really an honor to be here with you. so thank you so much. meg: you are welcome. i am glad to be here. i am an admirer of your show. emily: thank you. we are at "hp discover." this is your annual tech conference and this is your last "discover" as one hp. is it a little bittersweet for you? meg: it is a little bittersweet because this company has been together for so many years. but i have confidence that this is the right thing to do because our markets are changing at lightning speed. frankly, these are two different businesses. it will allow us to be more agile, more focused, more responsive to customers. it is a landmark, it is a moment in history, but i am really optimistic about the future. emily: what do you think the biggest challenge is go

and that is what made silicon valley possible. where did google come from? 700,000-dollar national science foundation grant. how did we get by an earlier form of collaboration. it's darpa, why do we have a self-driving car, because darba did a competition that allowed stanford to participate. the often collaboration is by buying and stealing and then collaborating. [laughter] but places like darpa and intel are important and this is act absolutely critical importance. >> i want to come back to that. i want to bring rebecca and bob into this conversation because if you listened to anto, ine and fred and the words they're using , connectors, recollecting, brain sharing, in many respects the institutions you work on now are almost this. we are trying to carve out. [laughter] >> the university of pittsburgh and upmc, there's an old academic tradition that antoine described but discipline staying within the discipline. in this shift to open innovation and collaborative, is it happening in your institution. >> so, yes, i'm short answer, i think it's interesting th

that is why people move from silicon valley to other places. so and finally, of course, you need access to capitol. these are the key characteristics. we have albany, new york. just outside, the nanotechnology complex and leadership, a former christian militia fighter from lebanon, by the way, who became a great physicist. they are at the forefront of semi conductor research. global foundries with thousands of employees. here you see a machine. i was in that clean room with the white hat on. that machine costs a billion dollars. it is the most modern machine to make semi conductors in albany, new york. the research triangle. let me tell you a story on the sidelines, the old factory, no more cigarettes being made. now it is an incubator, and a very lively place. portland, oregon, the old waterfront, brought together the university with intel i was already there and together they could do things they could not do alone. and now you have basically the university brought back from the mountain to the city with tramways and to make my dutch heart wa

with us on "comunidad del valle" is carlos velazquez with the silicon valley bicycle coalition. welcome to the show, carlos. now, you just scolded me a little while ago off camera because i don't bike to work. what's the big deal? talk about why it is a big deal, carlos. carlos velazquez: well, silicon valley bicycle coalition, our main goal is to work with city leaders to make our streets and trails safer. and, also, to do more to--host programs and activities to encourage more people to get on their bike. damian: now, it's not just about the environment, right? i mean, there's some health aspects here that i could certainly benefit from if i did bike to work and bike more often maybe. carlos: well, you know, there--everyone always talks about the health aspects of it, environmental. it takes more people off the roads. it gets--it's a very healthy form of exercise but for me, it's fun. i get to explore the city. i get to the see--have the wind flying against my--on my face. it's just a really great activity and that's what we're really trying to do on may 12th for bike to work

you have silicon valley, we have shawarma valley.ashlee: that is fadi swidan has opened israel's first arab technology accelerator and he knows everybody in town. arabs do not have to serve in the military and back the connectionsthe tech supplied by the idf. he is working to try to fix this and to help arab engineers benefit from israel's tech boom. in a controversial move, he is linking them up with tech moguls who have come out from a spooky tech firm known for security and espionage. fadi: anyone is going out of 8200, they are thinking about this. they want to graduate to a special ngo to help them. our community is not so popular to have a start up because it is a new industry. it is fairly risky. -- it is very risky. ashlee: he is a rebel, he was the only arab in the tech field in his class at an elite, technical university. inside of this building, he shepherded dozens of like-minded engineers. they are building software, consumer services, and hardware in an effort to make sure that , the arab-speaking world has the latest an

is an old tech company as silicon valley goes. it has a ton of problems and a lot of its value lies in its stake in alibaba which will probably spun off in one way or another, and there are tax problems associated with doing a full-fledged spinoff. the question is, could she have fixed this company? she has been focused on creating new products, but it has not really made a dent on its problems. yahoo!, atom line is, company with 9000 employees, all of these services, it weighs you and me end our parents get on the internet. company,ne part of the and then there is another part of the company that is a stock portfolio. that stock portfolio, all by itself is actually worth more than the entire market value of yahoo! because there is complicated tax situations and the fact that investors have lost confidence in the ceo, marissa mayer. carol: take us back because at one point it was a successful company. max: fifteen years ago it was the bees knees, unstoppable. it kind of went into decline that starting in the early years during the

today british airways launching direct service between silicon valley and london.mayor sam liccardo is joining members of the bay area's british consulate to celebrate that new route connecting san jose and leith row. the airline will offer one daily nonstop flight each way aboard a 787 as sjc last had direct service to europe in 2001, the first flight takes off at 8:05 this evening. >>> well, the donald stands alone. many republicans were reeling about ted cruz suspending his presidential campaign. john kasich decided to quit, too. at least that's what we're hearing. we will tell you what this means for the presidential race going forward. =reopen omni!!= ==kris//2 shot== we are following breaking news on the campaign trail. =omni= republican preside >>> we are following breaking news on the campaign trail this morning. republican presidential candidate john kasich dropping out of the presidential race. >> he plans to make an official announcement this afternoon in his home state of ohio. kasich's decision will come one day after he finished a very distant third i

folks here with the silicon valley pet project. and willow.shop with a cop and a-learn. >> it's an educational nonprofit serving 1,500 kids a year from redwood down to san jose. we are expanding in palo alto this year. we would love your support. >> this is a 24-hour marathon started midnight last night. go to our website and get more information. they are going to have tables out front to get more information. this is the third year. the past two years they raised about $16 million. trying to up that this year. >> still plenty of time to done why it. >>> you are a threat to adopt willow by the end of this show. >>> flames tear through homes but it's where this fire started that has crews even more concerned. >>> stephanie chuang in oakland. it will be an exciting sports fans night. why a's fans might have more reasons to avoid parking here. i want to show you some cutting edge technology. this is a vhs tape. push that tape in and hit play. this is a flip phone. have you seen these before? it's called a compact disc. oh. looks like we're getti

if you have a company in silicon valley, silicon valley is overwhelmingly left-wing, i get it.o a nonreligious place. but people who look at facebook and are relying on trending topics, they are not all like that. maybe this is an opportunity to build a community where people can understand each other's points of view. in so doing, maybe these bumps in the road would be naturally avoided. emily: in terms of users on facebook, mark zuckerberg pointed out donald trump has any other than candidate, and foxnews gets more interaction than any other news outlet. i heard the accusation, i would not have thought there was any bias. facebook is in a position to show that. provean algorithmically there is a systematic bias one way or the other. i am curious. did they talk about deploying improvegy to be able to the status quo or rebut allegations made against them? guest: for sure. the trending topics algorithm is a pretty new thing and small compared to the newsfeed at facebook. it is something they are trying to get right. they are extremely interested in how they can improve it. they

needs to watch out, and they need to watch out in silicon valley, because they have more moneyhan god and some of them want to actually be gods. >> and kara you got embroiled in a discussion on twitter yesterday with nick we don't need to be taught lessons or. far less ethics and more click chasing in press today. and then khosla said we don't need to be taught lessons. and then it was also if he was so proud of his efforts why skulk around. >> and so it is a troublesome situation where somebody could do this in secret, and that is the secret part of what is it to get to me. if he is proud of what he is doing, and doing the philanthropy or god's work or whatever, why not say it and say what you are doing, and probably, because it would have opened him up to criticism in the process, and now that he has won, he can take the criticism and say, see what i have done for you shgs, you other potentates, i have knocked down someone unpopular, and gawker is unpopular and no two ways about it. >> and just because he has the backing, it does not necessarily change the facts of the case,

google has outside of silicon valley, located in pittsburgh. their autonomous vehicle work is there. an explosion of companies moving in, of neighborhoods pushing out so places you could not go into ten years ago, you know, have a dynamic technology hub. and talk puget sound what it used to be like and what is it, i think we are in this accelerated transformation stain of the networks -- universities play a critical row. there's $1.2 billion in research. we can't keep that inside the institution. it really needs to benefit not only pittsburgh but i think the other revolution is -- evolution is we are globally connected. we have global influence, global connections, and we really need to take advantage of that for the region and share the knowledge with the globe. >> like rebecca said about her region, it was a very deliberate decision in north carolina in the 1950s. a very deliberate public policy decision to develop a research park, and it was described at the time as very audacious because not only were 49th out of the 50 states well-can't ha