you spotified, too?. >> i think itunes is great for videos, and they are different. here's my beef. when you plug in a phone or ipad, used to pop up on the left-hand side. brian's ipad, you sort of sync what you want. now it's lost in some menu somewhere that i can't find fin. >> every day with technology. >> sort of like icloud. you do it on your device so i return to the ipad mini and bought it again, and everything, including the websites that i had loaded on the last one that i returned came right back, and so itubes is great for that, too, because it brings all your music and you don't have to connect to your computer anymore. >> should apple buy spotify? >> would i love to see it happen because i feel like itunes is going down this cliff. just this old, even though they revamped the ui. spotify lets you share a play list with friends. >> i share mine on twitter. >> you can share with one another. >> i must say. it's interesting because yesterday i was talking to one of my guys out in silicon valley

spotify me, spotify me. you know what i wa a groupon for? a moment's peace. >> in conclusion it is always a god idea to trust your instincts a little bit more and your gadgets a little less or else you might take a wrong turn on to the ridiculist. pier piers morgan starts right now. >>> this is the piers morgan tonight special, guns in america. you're looking live at white house where tomorrow president obama will unveil his gun control plan for the nation, believed to be the most sweeping and controversial since the crowation of the second amendment. press secretary jay carney says the president's proposals will be significant. >> the president has made clear that he intends to take a comprehensive approach, including the assault weapons ban, including a measure to ban hi high-capacity magazine clips, including an effort to close the very big loopholes in the background check system in our country. >> is the white house plan enough? we'll talk to experts on both sides of the gun battle. victims' families and big city mayors. >>> adam lanza

. >> with awful these new technologies, pandora, spotify, i guess i wouldn't call them new.th that app. do you think it will have an impact or is it having an impact? >> is iheart specifically having an impact on radio? >> right. now you have access to all of the different radio stations. >> scott pointed out there's very different measurements over the years versus online. the estimates produced over the air and precise measurement online is difficult to combine those two sets of data and come out with any clear conclusions. i would say that terrestrial radio is still enjoying a, you know, 90-plus percent listenership on a weekly basis from the population. it's just that over time, the amount of time each individual has available to devote to over the air radio has been fraction allized as really the internet has come of age. >> that's changing too. you buy a car, you're getting cars that have devices in them. pandora has done deals where they are built into vehicles. >> and your pai pod, and -- >> and iheart, and many others. but it's going take, i think the average auto,

spotify me, spotify me. you know what i want a groupon for? a moment's peace. >> in conclusion it is always a god idea to trust your instincts a little bit more and your gadgets a little less or else you might take a wrong turn on to the ridiculist. >>> an "outfront" investigation in to a booming business birth tourism. four women giving birth in the united states so their kids will be citizens and it's not from where you would expect. let's go ""outfront."" >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the battle over super storm sandy. >> if you listen to the republican critics, they say the pork is everywhere in this $34 billion amendment that the democrats tacked on to this emergency spending measure for superstorm sandy. take a look. it includes $194 million for the national oceanic atmospheric organization. it will give $2 billion for repairing roads virtually anywhere after a natural disaster including, yes, guam which is ,000 miles from where sandy struck, more than $100 million for amtrak to end to its trains and tracks in t

. >> reporter: scott budman mentioned it could be expanding instagram or with spotify and music. we'll find out tomorrow morning at 10:00. live at facebook in menlo park. george kiriyama. >> thank you, george. our morning team will have complete coverage tomorrow morning for you. don't worry. coverage begins at 4:30 in the morning. >>> apple stock has been gradually falling for months. especially today, after new signs the iphone 5 isn't selling as well as expected. an early-morning report in "the wall street journal" said apple has cut orders for iphone parts because of slower sales. investors started selling. apple stock took a dip below $500 a share for the first time since last february. apple was above $700 per share just last september. companies who make parts for the iphone 5, also lost ground. >>> lawsuits brought by the victims of the san bruno pipeline explosion against pg&e may not be going to trial. lawyers say they've come up with a plan to settle remaining lawsuits in the next three months. more than 320 san bruno residents still have active suits against pg&e, for

there is spot if i -- spotify. everybody is in line. it is an overwhelmingly broadcasted radio.ke the other parts of i heart radio and we use it, you can find us anywhere you want to find us. liz: the business itself, there is quite a bit of that. agencies are concerned that this dead comes due in 2016. >> we, obviously, think we are in pretty good shape. i saw the equity behind all of the data. i put 5 million of my own money in. i obviously think that it is good. i would not do it if i did not. i think having the leverage has been was super charges equity returns. it is called a leveraged buyout for many reasons. what we really feel good about is the success of the business. we are reinventing how advertisers can use this medium. more people using radio today percentagewise. liz: layoffs coming up. i know you have quietly laid off some people. >> we are continuing with balancing. we have added a lot of people. at the same time, we went back and looked at what it was like for these positions that are not necessary anymore. we need to repurpose them. liz: all of that and he has

spotify me. barf. you know what i want a groupon for? a moment's peace. >> in conclusion it is always a good idea to trust your instincts more and gadgets less or else you might take a wrong turn on to the ridiculist. erin burnett "outfront" starts next. >>> an "outfront" investigation in to a booming business birth tourism. four women giving birth in the united states so their kids will be citizens and it's not from where you would expect. let's go ""outfront."" >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the battle over super storm sandy. so the house of representatives is going to vote tonight, really just imminently, on a 49 house republicans voted against the final bill and we will speak to one in a moment this may sound like an easy vote to you because disaster relief always gets approved but when it comes to spending this country's money every dollar counts. as we saw with the fiscal cliff battle not everyone in washington thinks this kind of money is worth it. >> $16 billion is to quintuple the size of the community o

>> that was part of the question i was going to ask, how have things like itunes and pandora and spotifys the artist? >> the artists receive pennies, the record companies receive pennies compared to the revenue streams that were there before. the wholesale price of a record was somewhere around $4, compared to now, what you might receive from itunes, which could be half of that or less, on an album. >> on an album. >> on an album. and this is a time when albums are not selling nearly what they used to sell. so the whole picture has changed dramatically and everyone is scrambling to figure out how to monetize and harness this, because the one thing that the internet has done, though, it's created a more insatiable appetite for music than ever. so the consumer wants music more than ever, has music more than ever, more is available, because anyone can upload a clip and a song. >> i used to spend $500 a year on cds, then $300 a year on itunes, now about $100 a year on spotify or mog, which is a spot any clo fy clone and a good one at that. how can a singer make money now? can they? >> it's v

spotify me. barf. you know what i want a groupon for? a moment's peace. >> in conclusion it is always a good idea to trust your instincts more and gadgets less or else you might take a wrong turn on to the ridiculist. thanks for watching. "early start" begins now. >>> breaking news this morning. a helicopter crashes in the heart of london during rush show hour. we'll go live to london. >>> and the company's much hyped dream liners grounded in japan. >>> and a streftch of rain, sno and ice could put a damper on travel plans. welcome to "early start." >> it is wednesday, january 16th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. >>> we begin with breaking news this morning. that breaking news, a help copter has crashed into a crane at a construction site in central london. this is a very busy part of the city. happened during rush hour. emergency personnel have raced to the scene. you can see it right therener the vauxhall train station. >> and zain verjee because just live on cnn international, telling us exactly what's going on there. she said that two fatali

between consumers and businesses away from buying products and more toward subscribing services, like spotifyaditional metrics don't really bring out the value of these companies. >> you like some others that probably investors are not as familiar with, annual reoccurring revenue, right? >> right. >> something you call the growth efficiency index. what are these? >> if you have two friends, one that will give you $100 one time, joe, and bob says i'll give you $100 over eight years, you know the deal from bob is a much, much better deal. but traditional accounting systems are built on 500-year-old double entry book keeping models that don't differentiate between reoccurring revenues and one-time revenues. and so in traditional revenue metrics are the same, we propose a new one called an annual recurring revenue that brings out what part of your revenue is on a reoccurring basis year over year. >> you were employee number 11 before you started zora, how much of that time spent there informs the things you're trying to get across to people now? >> it has been public now for almost a decade, but

then after that, sean parker, of course, of facebook, spotify and just about everything else. been some news made this morning and it is moving the markets. mario draghi making upbeat assessments of the economy and a recovery in six months. >> the level of economic activity is in the process of stabilizing at very low levels. and we foresee a recovery for in the second part of the year. we can have a positive development if national governments would persevere in their actions. both in fiscal consolidation, but especially now on the front of structural reforms. >> christine lagarde, however, making some comments about a potential reverse, and worries that we could actually fall backwards. take a listen to this. >> we have the central banks on the one hand, which have done quite a lot, which have been the fireman in the way and you have the policymakers on the other hand, particularly in the eurozone who have made some significant progress and need to keep the momentum. >> finally, marissa mayer from yahoo! making some public comments for the first time. take a listen to this.