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we caught up with a major twitter investor steve ballmer.sten to his take on twitter staying independent. steve: i think twitter is an -- asset. donald trump tweaking doubt late at night and everybody wants to talk about it. there is no vehicle that lot -- lets you speak out broadly to an audience. could the product be easier to use? of course, the product could be easier to use. could it benefit from additional innovation that takes a in surrounding areas? yes. the cost structure, there is rumor that are working on it. i see a lot of potential. emily: do you see twitter having a future as an independent company? steve: i think that twitter would be great as an independent company and acquisitions that makes sense. emily: anything you heard about? steve: i read what everybody else read in the paper. emily: what about going private? steve: it is a distraction. it would be better to put energy into innovation. emily: interesting. with rumors about you being and to buying the company and heavyweights getting together to buy the company. any tru

and a conversation with steve ballmer. he weighs in on twitter's future. he is a big twitter investor. tesla shares take off after the company posts a rare profitable quarter, et seq. second its second as tesla as a company. adjusted revenue also beat but beyond the financials, investors are listening closely to the call. with more plans on combining with solar city. shareholders get to vote on a plan in just a couple of weeks. anding us ed niedermayer dan johnson. earlier this year, we got our hands on an e-mail from elon musk to employees saying "it would be awesome to throw a high in the face of all the naysayers on wall street who keep insisting tesla will always be a money loser." is this a pie in the face of wall street and is it just one pie or will there be more pie? guest: it is clearly a pie in the face of wall street but how many more pies he has left is unclear. one of the things that was important in pushing them over the line where these credits from california. those are essentially going away. it not clear how they are going to repeat this

magazine in the magazine and our daily hive on my phone. >> so we got to go to commercial break, but steve ballmer same question to you. and i take steve jobs out of it. who's the next bill gates then? >> some young person that we don't know their name. >> there's not anyone out there you go, wow, that's the guy. >> no. there's plenty of smart guys. but in the time in the tech industry, by the time you hit about 35 if you haven't had your next great idea, you're kind of cooked. so it is some guy whose name we don't know. it's not some guy whose name we do know. >> can we get on the record. there were reports that you wanted to buy twitter. >> i have never ever ever wanted to buy twitter myself. come on. i got a good life right now. i don't need to do that. >> i mean, it wouldn't be fun? >> no. no. i'm having a lot of fun with the clips. i'm having a lot of fun with my wife doing stuff at the ballmer group. and i'm having fun studying the government. i've got to convince joe that i actually had really fiscally conservative ideas. >> you don't need to convince me. i was asking questions. you seem to

of course we had steve ballmer on "squawk box" earlier, former ceo of microsoft.get enough credit for what he did some positive things getting microsoft in position. listen to what he had to say about satya nadella's leadership thus far. >> we grew our revenue and we grew our profit. we made the transition from a pc company to an enterprise company. and now satya's got the company doing the right stuff. he's going down this cloud path. >> and satya was going down this cloud path all along. he was running that division. but it was at that stage where investors really didn't believe in the cloud. they didn't really understand to the same extent this isn't just like another division of the company and we need to just value it on how much cash it's throwing off. so it was hidden underneath a bunch of other stuff. nokia probably not the best idea, but they made a last-ditch effort in devices. you know, skype is a nice bolt on but didn't light the world on fire as some might have hoped. but once you strip some of those things away and once the cloud grows up, you got to

i brought in steve ballmer who was very good at that and helping us out.had a sense of urgency leading the way. the graphic center with windows that we want to do, so i was super busy, and the idea that i could hire so quickly and invest and build this world was fascinating to me, but i was really busy. if some friend had tried to call me, you know, i would not have too much time for that. i was really into building this company. i was going out and telling people about the magical software which was good for my company but also helped me understand the opportunities, the huge change agent that software individually software plus the internet would become. i was having fun, it was amazing, but i always thought, hey, we are one step away from not leading. we have to keep doing better. david: when you had the famous ibm contract, you wanted the contract to produce the operating system. why did they let you own it and they had to license it? was that a mistake on their part? mr. gates: this is before graphic interface, when you just have text on the screen, s

do not miss our interview with steve ballmer.roadcom is believed of the potential buyers. in acquisition could be announced as soon as this week. to growhas struggled its networking business, which has competed with much bigger rival, cisco. speaking of deals, the two biggest daily fantasy sports sites are close to joining. is expected to serve as ceo of the combined company, still unnamed. investors have been encouraging a tie up for months after the companies spend millions competing against one another. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." tomorrow, 10 in foursquare's latest earnings report -- square's tune in for latest earnings report, another test for jack dorsey after twitter reported earnings last week. this is bloomberg. ♪ narrator: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie ose." rose: ted koppel is here. he served as anchor of "nightline" from 1980 32 thousand 5, 25 years and earlier this year became a special contributor to cbs sunday morning. recent book, lights out, a cyber attack, a nat

studio returns this week for season five with a lineup of the greatest influencers, including steve ballmerthe founder of coastal adventures. remember, four years ago, facebook but instagram for $1 billion. mark zuckerberg pledged to let the team work independently. i started by asking him what sort of kid was he and what sparked his interest in technology? >> i remember when my dad got our first computer, i just played video games. as i played, i learned you could create your own levels. than programming was a thing. i took classes in school and wanted to make my own games. it was something that inspired me and i loved it. emily: photography. you also got involved in that at a young age. >> it was hard to find me at a young age without a camera in my hand. i used to get in trouble, there would be 10 packs of polaroid film. i would go through them. they were not cheap. i loved taking photos. i studied in florence in college. i sat in the dark room developing photos. that is where i learned about filtering. chemicals to these the developing bath. i profit along to instagram. emily: isn't tha

as steve ballmer said earlier, they have to watch the cost.arnings just came out a little while ago. what we did see was a sightly larger job cut than expected. twitter sliced the workforce. that's about 350 people. they said it's mostly in sales and marketing. it's going to cost them in the short term, though. it's going to cost them $15 million to $30 million in the fourth quarter for some of the restructuring charges. twitter lost more than 100 million u.s. this quarter, and they're on track to lose more than 400 million this year. david: those job cuts, do they fix the place up for a possible sale? there have been talks about possible sales that didn't go anywhere. are they fixing the company up to sell it? >> there's talks off and on for many weeks about a twitter sale. we got this very well publicized, probably for some, too well publicized in september and october. salesforce.com took a look until their c.e.o. publicly said he was not going after twitter. disney had a hard look. alphabet was reportedly looking at it too. that fizzled. b

clippers owner steve ballmer. he'll join "squawk box" for an hour starting at 7:00 eastern time.s woman owns this house, with new cabinets from this shop, with handles designed here, made here, shipped from here, on this plane flown by this pilot, who owns stock in this company, that builds big things and provides benefits to this woman, with new cabinets. they all have insurance crafted personally for them. not just coverage, craftsmanship. not just insured. chubb insured. >>> welcome back. the washington street journal has what if there was a sane donald trump. oh, my god, sane donald trump would look normal and happy, not grim and glaring. he would be able to act on good advice, explain his positions with clarity and depth, not the impatient half grasping of a notion that marks real donald trump's public persona. she's noting his big win was getting the republican party to wake up and see that at least half the base, perhaps more, supports the sort of position they didn't espouse in the past. since then has he galvanized and expanded that base? no. it's an interesting take. go

by the way, we should note that julie's best friend steve ballmer will be on squawk box tomorrow morning country trip sounds like a high concept movie. this is the real life plan of elon musk for tesla next year. we will ask if the plans are a distraction for real problems. >>> luxury real estate in miami and south beach taking a beating as of late and doesn't bode well for upcoming winter sales season. we will look at what happened to the heat of miami real estate just ahead. ahead. the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. comcast business. hey, jesse. who are you? i'm vern, the orange money retirement rabbit from voya. orange money represents the money you put away for retirem

i was really pleased to see that steve ballmer does the same thing. thanks for watching power lunch. "closing bell" starts right now. > >>> hello and welcome to "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffith. producer said we are at session highs. we are up 0.96 points. major averages near the highs of the session. strong earnings by microsoft. we have mcdonald's. we have a lot to talk about. >> how about dell component at&t maybe nearing a deal to acquire time warner. the two sides are in advanced talks and the deal can happen within days. at&t is down about 3.5. >> he is literally working the phones as we speak. internet companies you probably know this suffering two waves of cyber attacks. the so-called denial of service tax affecting sites like amazon, twitter, spotify and several others. feel like the internet was going through molass s. today we will talk to security expert on who may be behind the attacks. >>> sales force backing away from buying twitter. does it have its eye on any other company? marc beni

i was really pleased to see that steve ballmer does the same thing.ng power lunch. "closing bell" starts right now. > >>> hello and welcome to "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffith. producer said we are at session highs. we are up 0.96 points. major averages near the highs of the session. strong earnings by microsoft. we have mcdonald's. we have a lot to talk about. >> how about

not unlike when steve ballmer to my reunion harvard, he brought a microsoft phone.at the heck is that. he said, well, this is a microsoft phone. i said well i found someone who uses it. >> i love that story. what's on mad tonight? you got schultz. >> yes. that's going to be with kelly. now, kelly -- we have another kelly, kelly king. now, corbus is a guy any time we have a lightning round we have corbus on. but kelly king, we have to ask about whether it's the regionals time. the regionals are doing much better than the big banks. i think one of that is a lot start doing acquiring again. but i got to ask about politics. and i hate politics, but you got to ask. i mean, because banking, we keep waiting for banking to be turned into the greyhound bus business by a couple of those people in congress. >> 20 more days, jim. >> holy cow, we're going live. i heard "mad money" going live and i hear we're going to have domino's pizza. my executive producer has ruled that out, which is insane. >> we will see you tonight, jim. "mad money" 6:00 p.m. eastern. when we come back, f

season five and the greatest influencers shaping media technology, including former microsoft ceo steve ballmerpisode, emily chang sits down with instagram ceo kevin systrom for next visit interview at facebook headquarters in california. four years ago, facebook bought app four $1haring billion and mark zuckerberg pledge to let the team work independently. we start with whether he lived up to his promise. kevin: mark has been true to his word and then some. still to this day marks interaction with the company basically is through meetings with me. i have learned a tremendous amount from him about our transition to advertising, and transition to a more global community, strategy. he is one of the most interesting strategic long-term thinkers i've ever met. think of it like having the best board member in the world. imagine how many companies would love to have mark zuckerberg on their board. that is what we get. is independent, but also you get amazing guidance and amazing counsel from someone who has been able to build a tremendous company. emily: how open has he been to your ideas? kevin: i w