what is exciting about the tech jobs tour, we will be in san francisco this week, across the country,show up. it is like a career fair meets a revival. at night, you have companies recruiting. you have apprentice programs for a couple of months into a higher paying job. tech jobs pay 50% more than the average american salary. companies are starving for people. we're here to put together the companies, government leaders, and talent around this country to get them together in the evening. we will be in milwaukee, west virginia, kentucky. i was just in appalachia with a wonderful call minor graduating from boot camp. 1000 call minors tried for -- for these tech jobs. we can reshore a lot of jobs. great new startups all over. one of my favorites was people have taken a container and put stem work stuff in it and put it on a playground and young children were learning coding. it is fabulous. one guy had built his own portable sound studio. wonderful entrepreneurs around the country. whether it is enterprise technology that we saw in cleveland, it is great stuff. emily: megan smith, thanks

of course talking the tech sector. the number of interview requests from u.s. companies to foreign tech workers dropped by 60% between the second and fourth quarter 2016 amid the presidential campaign according to data released by hire, a job site that matches employers with candidates. the drop in interest indicates that u.s. companies are thinking twice about hiring foreign tech workers amid uncertainty about immigration policies from the trump administration. joining us now to discuss is my guest cohost for the hour, founder of a group which aims to support london tech stocks up, finding new investors, new talent --. >> thank you. >> what amazing statistics you seem to be having. not only 60% back in the second half of 2016 but even the second quarter of 2017 still seeing a fall off in u.s. companies willing to interview tech talent from abrood. >> i think we'll see that drop even further with the announcement that came out two weeks ago that further immigration restrictions are going to be p you the in place. i think the number is going to be reduced by half

and bio tech. the s&p tech bio sector. and bio tech breaking out, now up 22%, so do you stick with these groups of stocks how much higher can they go? guy? >> i think you do. you stick with them for sure, but if you're asking would you rather -- >> i wasn't. answer the question. >> ten seconds in the show, you're coming at me. felt like a would you rather to me i'm sor richl bio tech >> i think we've done a decent job. said it needs to 300 steve has been talking about bluebird i think it was up 10% today, but all these names we've talked about in the immune other pi space, you saw it happen with gilead and kite. it open it is the flood gates for m&a and a lot of these stocks valuation wise are still cheap not least of which amgen and celgene. >> it was a recent bid underneath the market. bluebird was the next one. juno as well so you see strength there. i think they both could. they both benefit from tax reform and they could have lack of inversions i would say tech if i'm forced to pick. look, general

ceong up, we speak to the of a leading cybersecurity company, man tech. the business is faring in the wake of the recent cyberattacks. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: let's begin with a check of first word news. during a visit to springfield, missouri to outline his tax reform plan, president trump began by commending the emergency responders dealing with the aftermath of hurricane harvey. to those who survived and have lost homes and loved ones, the president said we will be with you every single day after to restore, recover, and rebuild. texas governor greg abbott said the reins from harvey have moved east from the houston area to the region around beaumont, texas. he warned the worst is not yet over for the southeast. >> while we are dealing with what is now receding waters in harris county and the ongoing evacuations as well as safety rescue process in harris county, we are now also dealing with catastrophic conditions in southeast texas. a united nations disarmament forum in geneva, switzerland, a member of south korea's defense ministry said the internat

the details to come. until then, mark gurman, bloomberg tech reporter. thank so much. ng up, consumers of the new iphone are not the only ones excited. we talked to the ceo of one of apple's semiconductor suppliers. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: toyota is aiming to get a bigger slice of the ridesharing market. the japanese automaker is investing an undisclosed amount in southeast asia's leading ridesharing service, grab. toyota's investment in grab will be through the $55 billion next technology fund set up in april. that fund, created by toyota, is seeking opportunities in innovative technology products and services. last year, toyota bought a small stake in uber while grab hold in -- pulled in $2 million in investments from didi and softbank. we just discussed details about apple's eagerly awaited iphone, but it is not just consumers brimming with excitement. suppliers are equally giddy as they look for new business opportunities. caroline hyde spoke with the ceo of one of the key semiconductor suppliers. take it away. caroline: the dialog semiconductor ceo said new pho

the demand? we will discuss. techirms are stepping up the plus,tech firms are stepping up the policing of hate speech online. we will hear from the ceo of cloud where viewing their policies. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: it is another successful rocket landing for spacex, the 14th to be exact. and a six time the reusable portion of the falconer 9 return successfully since launch. monday's rocket carried a dragging capsule loaded with over 6400 pounds of cargo destined for the international space station. the dragon will spend the next couple of days in orbit before meeting up with the station on wednesday. bitcoin continues to show no signs of slowing down. the cryptocurrencies sword s --oared -- the cryptocurrencies soared passed $4000 for the first time this week. the rally comes after a split last week which threatened to jeopardize its growing mainstream interest. bloomberg's caroline hyde caught up with adam white, the president of the online platform, which allows you to buy and trade bitcoin by linking into you

i think the tech industry in the u.s.ust be pulling their hair out because there was already scarcity of really good talent. this is compounding the problem. caroline: what does that mean? hubs see potentially other benefit, maybe in europe even? russ: one of the immediate beneficiaries will be canada. canada has a very friendly immigration policy, especially toward entrepreneurs. i think we will see europe and particularly the u.k. benefit. a couple months ago, nearly 60% said trump's policies will be favorable to u.k. tech. this will have global ramifications. caroline: we are facing the brexit concerns, immigration issues of our own. are you hearing from entrepreneurs in london they are struggling to get workers into this country as well? russ: we are seeing something similar happen here. the message to the government is brexit is reducing the number of job applicants. international's do not feel welcome. we don't want to lose them. we are pushing hard to say we need an immigration re-think. a tear five tech visa. init

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at least, expanding the tech nation visa scheme. e in the community are looking at in conjunction with the british government. it's a positive time to review what works and what doesn't work, given the situation we are in. long may the continued negotiations go on. gerald grech, great to have him here. emily, back to you in san francisco. emily: all right, caroline hyde in london, thanks so much. the conflict between travis calendar and benchmark is only growing more heated as the two -- travis kalanick and benchmark is only growing more heated as the two parties prepare to face off in court. benchmark has asked a judge to block kalanick from filling two board seats. meantime, a judge will hear arguments on whether benchmark can proceed to trial with its claims that kalanick duped the board into giving him control of seats on august 30. coming up, amazon releases new details on what the integration with whole foods will look like. we will discuss the e-commerce giants impact on the grocery space. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: alibaba i

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hello, and welcome to the week in tech. the us military announced it might shoot down civilian drones if they fly in a american bases. near american bases. and, the telephone numbers and e—mail addresses of game of thrones stars were leaked by hackers demanding a ransom from tv network hbo. faceapp has pulled a new feature labelled as "racist", which allowed users to edit selfies into caucasian, asian, indian, or black. and social networking behemoth facebook is taking on tv and youtube by revamping its video offering. labelled "watch", it would feature specially commissioned shows, as well as cat videos and clips of people falling over. and disney is going to pull its content from netflix, after the house of mouse announced that in 2019 it's launching a rival video streaming service, dedicated to family friendly disney fare. don't you worry, pal. you had a good run! there's no word yet whether the service will show any marvel or lucas film content — like star wars, which disney also owns. and finally, the man who made pass

emily: welcome back to the best of bloomberg technology. tech from airbnb to facebook are going on the offensive against white supremacists and not seize in the wake of the violent rally in charlottesville, virginia that left a woman dead. the web security company decided to end its business with the daily stormer, a known neo-nazi website. clout flare was criticized for providing service to alleged terror groups in 2013. the ceo joined us to discuss. >> the daily storm or was a unique incident and it was the exception that we needed to rethink the rules. not just with clout flare but with the tech industry in general. this came on our watch list. a few months ago, we started to get reports that they were harassing people that were submitting abuse reports throughout platform. earlier this week they were bragging on their bulletin boards that the people of clouflare were supporters of theirs. we think the content on the site was important -- of torrent --abhorrent. who can regulate what content is online? i sit in a privileged position, i can ma

the xlk, etf, tracks the tech sector officially recovering all its losses from the june 9th selloff, closing at its highest level since 2000 now over that time, health care, financials and industrials have taken off. with tech seemingly back to the saddle, is it time to put fresh money to work? so basically the question is, do you go with the sector rotation or do you stick with tech which seems to be getting its mojo back >> i think you stay with tech for now. you mentioned the xlk, so beginning i think june 8 thth, xlk topped up around 58 or so. saw a precipitous drop not only on june 9th but the weeks that to followed what the tech is setting up for is a push back to the all-time highs we saw in '99, somewhere around 65. you've seen selloffs of this magnitude before on technology what we talked about on that day, i remember, it wasn't a devastating day because the rest of the market traded okay and financials had a tremendous day. we talked about the rotation on that day i think tech is now just in the next leg to the move higher to the 65 level. >> i think a big takeaway from that

the tech firm made a loss of $4411 million, which was quite a bit bigger than the last quarter.as had a rough ride on the markets since it went public in march with blockbuster valuation of $28 billion. these results came out after the closing bell in the us but in after—hours trading shares were down by 14%. with me is mike weston, founder of marketing agency radiate b2b. hello. thank you for coming in. these are some disappointing results. particularly its active daily users number. yes. it is clear that the growth in daily active users has slowed down from where i was 12 months ago. what is disappointing is that here is a category that snap invented, and they are being outplayed by, as you say, instagram and facebook with whatsapp. it does show that a very successful company, which are undoubtedly snap is in terms of its attraction to millennials, those younger users that the tech firms are desperate to attack. they are still faced with the might of facebook and it is difficult to grain down, is that? —— difficult to gain ground, isn't it? yes, the advertising market is not t

not just the big tech companies. we work with many different -- microsoft has a lot of partners. it's a big ecosystem. we work with the big tech companies and work with them on a.i., privacy, cyber security, from autonomous vehicles, drones, whatever it may be, the different public policy issues. we're constantly working with them, and still the protection of intellectual property, trade, and those type of issues. so, there is a -- what you find is there are lot of public policy agreements when it comes to the tech industry. then on the business side we all do what we need to do to be competitive and to advance and expose people to our technology. there's really a lot of harmony mook the companies when it -- among the companies when it comes to public policy. >> host: how big i microsoft? how many employee snooze i think globally it's 118,000 employees. >> host: fred humphries is vice president of government affairs at microsoft. thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you. >> the communicators is at the washington, dc office of microsoft for their annual tech fair and now we're

the tech giant will start offering some u.s. users content from partners including a&e. major league baseball and national geographic. it's called watch. facebook says it's meant to increase the amount of time users spend watching video by giving them a place to follow and discuss original shows. it will organize shows by what's most talked about and what friends are watching. facebook eventually plans to roll out "watch" to more users but no date has been set. >>> good news for people hoping to upgrade to apple's iphone 8. it's expected to launch on time. a new report claims it should roll out in september but it will be in short supply because of low production. some reported flaws have people speculating it wouldn't be ready until november. two new versions of the iphone 7 will be available in the same launch. >>> tesla is reportedly working on a self-driving electric semi truck. according to reuters, the company plans to test the vehicles in california and nevada. only one person would need to be in the truck which could save labor costs in the future. >>> i'm dennis

poor, even in the tech giants.anies like google, facebook, amazon, and the techjobs, google, facebook, amazon, and the tech jobs, you google, facebook, amazon, and the techjobs, you are google, facebook, amazon, and the tech jobs, you are looking at ten or 20% women, it is very unbalanced and has been for a long time. lots of companies are throwing a lot of money at this with a lot of initiatives and outreach programmes but it doesn't seem to shift things as dramatically as people hoped. the fact that he has been sacked, and perhaps it was inevitable given how viral the memo went, has that become a political debate in itself because his whole issue was that we are not allowed to have a healthy debate about diversity and this shows that. exactly that, a lot of people stood up exactly that, a lot of people stood up to him and said how can google promised to promote free speech when one of its own employees as a contented one of its own employees as a co nte nted to one of its own employees as a contented to ignite th

we see out of the election, tech underperforms with the nasdaq underperforming. 500 and this&p year the tech is in the hot trade. the nasdaq has been outperforming both the s&p 500 and the dow. ever since the mini tech pullback in june, it is underperforming the s&p 500 to a small degree. dow,y be dow -- the investors look less at tech and biotech, and a component of the nasdaq. let's look at earnings movers. we have lots of winners and retail. tiffany up about 1%. william sonoma of 4%. guess surging 16%. lady gaga gave a boost to tiffany. we have william sonoma and the pottery barn. some of that could be a short squeeze. upgraded over isi too long on these results. they return to profitability and investors seem to like that. let's take a look at some of the stocks related to brexit -- breakfast. hormel did cut the forecast for the full year so shares are down. smokers missed estimates -- smuckers missed estimates. coffee down 1%, down for the night day in a row. as a fan, i will take it. you might help of the pocketbook. mark: we are up for the second day in three, led by personal hou

what you find is there's a lot of public policy agreement when it comes to the tech industry. en on the business side we all do what we need to do to be competitive and to advance and expose people to our technologies. i would say there's really a lot of harmony among the companies when it comes to public policy. >> host: have biggest microsoft today, do you know how many employees? >> guest: about globally 118,000 employees. >> host: fred humphries is a vice president of government affairs at microsoft. they keep for your time. >> guest: thank you. >> host: "the communicators" is at the washington, d.c., office of microsoft for their annual tech fair, now we are the farm beach booth with ranveer chandra. what are we looking at? >> guest: here we are presenting a project called farm beat. the goal is to solve the world's food problem. we need to feed the growing population. how to do that? given the that of land is the same, how do you recommend private conscious why? in order to do that we look at the solution. previously people have been looking at this problem. for example,

as for the tech, chile has the big stuff down. the most out of it. if the startups in santiago can tap into that same spirit, then chile has a bright future ahead. either that, or the poison really got to me. [laughs] ♪ so we need tablets installed... with the menu app ready to roll. in 12 weeks. yeah. ♪ ♪ the world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. ♪ ♪ data, applications, customer experience. ♪ ♪ which is why comcast business delivers consistent network performance and speed across all your locations. fast connections everywhere. that's how you outmaneuver. ♪ david: at one point, your father left your mother. ginni: it was sudden, and my mother found herself with four kids and no money. david: lets talk about ibm. ginni: we are the champions for business. david: when you meet with a president, are they willing to say, mr. president, that is not a good idea? ginni: people are respectfully on a singular opinions. david: do you feel a certain possibility? ginni: women do need role models. david: in the stay fit categ

the tech analyst is with us. e is whether snapchat can compete here not in terms of what the kids like on a day-to-day basis but the economics of it. facebook is dominating this space, why? >> you look at facebook has grown over the past 10, 15 years at this point, and built this network of ways to promote whatever they're buying, whatever they're focusing on. instagram perfectly tied into that. snapchat is like an island, have you all the kids and user interaction but haven't found out a way to get people to spend money, make money, translate that. connell: kind of like twitter in that way. >> very similar. >> the young kids love snapchat and all the journalists love twitter because they can watch what each other is saying and compliment each other, that's how we roll, and twitter doesn't make the money that facebook does. what is it facebook is doing so right? simply being able to scale it because they are so large and dominant that way? >> facebook is so broad. you have the wide age grapp, snapchat is younger,

what's in store for the tech industry as the quarter earnings season winds down?ning us, an analyst with rbc capital markets. you don't cover apple, but you cover all the rest. what is the big highlight from earnings season? obviously we saw a strong quarter from all these companies. >> demand trends remain consistent. i think this was our 30th quarter in a row for year-over-year revenue growth for google, our 17th for facebook, and about 20% year-over-year growth for almost 10 years now for amazon. we have seen consistent demand trends. the investments were heavy and they were heavy last year and a year before that, and probably next year too. these companies make they have a lot of new opportunities to go after, whether it is amazon talking about advertising revenue, or netflix sending money to build out its international library. these companies all remain in growth. there is no scenario under which these margins will not materially expand. emily: is there room for other players at this point? >> like snap or twitter? it's unknown. whether they can get to a cou

the u.s. it ends up expanding tech production. tnology something you and i consume in terms of software, but technology is also something used by other sectors of the economy in the production process. car manufacturers use technology. the banking sector uses technology. innovation and expansion in technology production essentially benefits other sectors of the economy as well. this expansion in productivity is what raises incomes in the u.s. india benefited a lot from the program. they are the major suppliers of computer scientists. in 2012, 87% of h-1b visas were -- of computer science h-1b visas were awarded to india. indian workers and students started acquiring skills valued in the u.s. in the hopes of winning this visa and coming to the u.s. at the same time, h-1b visas expire and return migrants go back to india and bring with them knowledge and connections to help develop the indian tech sector, which then grew rapidly. there was an increase in tech production and economic growth in india as well. the h-1b visa ended up ben

we will break down the tech industry in china and the u.s.omberg. ♪ manus: it has gone 8:20 a.m., futures down by .2 of 1%. equities are set for a slightly lower opening. 10 year government bonds are up and running. just finishing off for the day. dubai markets 3588, flat on the day, bunds and equities little bit softer. indicated a slip lower. let's take that down. your stocks futures -- euro lower.futures anna: let's get to juliette saly. juliette: companies behind the most popular u.s. credit cards have said they are severing ties with extremist organizations that incite violence. it is ending merchant agreements with hate groups while visa and mastercard said they were cutting ties with a number of places. they came under pressure to stop providing ways for white supremacist groups to raise funds in the wake of the violent protests in charlottesville, virginia. tencent shares have jumped in hong kong, the most in a year after it posted record profits on its fastest sale growth in seven years after the chinese internet giant announced a 70

a google employee's arguments about diversity in the tech industry. causing widespread concern. the news here just a few minutes before 5:00 starts right now. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm peggy bunker. terry mcsweeney is off tonight. the world's attention on silicon valley with more outrage over gender inequalities. a memo written n released publicly by a google engineer has ignited another firestorm across social media this weekend. nbc bay area's tom jensen joining us from the newsroom. pretty shocking memo. >> reporter: it is. he argued that men are biologically better fit to work in tech and be leaders in the workplace. and he added that google is missing the boat when it comes to diversity programs because of that reason and others. the memo went public after it was sent out friday to google employees. when employees started talking about it on twitter saturday, it really started to attract attention. in may, google went public saying it had to improve the company's diversity program and close pay gaps between men and women. 70% of

atyou see the same concern tech company headquarters as we do it bank headquarters and the u.k. ely. you could tech industry was very clear in the run up to the referendum that the best solution was staying in the european union. accepthe referendum, we that. we have been clear we need to be very close to the single market and we need to concentrate on three areas. the first is skills and talent. we are already seeing it is difficult to get the talent we need to be a global leader in tech. secondly, the regulatory and regime and equivalents -- equivalents regime. it covers services and other things. we need to have that is close to europe. the last is data. it will be impossible for tech companies to operate without the data. that is a big deal. that is a cliff edge. the data is here. cool won approval to build a london headquarters. are you surprised they are building that? julian: no, because the u.k. is a big tech opportunity, tech center. we are globally up there. it, thesenk about kind of things are set against an industry that is growing. u.k.g an investment in the probably

on the tech side it remains a struggle. 16% of computer science graduates today that are women, compared to 35% in the 1980's when the field was smaller. blacks and hispanics are not represented. in order to higher computer scientists we have to persuade more women and minorities to go into computer science or we have a large internship program and we hire people of all backgrounds. earlier in the program we created facebook university, trying to find women and underrepresented minorities who we thought could be great in computer science, but were not in the field so we could invest in them. we have a large computer science and engineering lean in program. we do it with linkedin and bespoke trying to get women to feel like they have peers right from the beginning. if you go to computer science circlef you can be an 11 where you are seeing more women, and we need to do more, because we are not moving the numbers enough. emily: much more of our conversation, coming up. we discover mark zuckerberg's latest mission across the u.

the sale of fake merchandise. ai wave is cresting with startups and tech giants wanting in on the action. virtual -- venture capital firm baiting -- betting big is data collective. it applies deep tech to transform giant industries. joining us, the comanaging partner, zack bogue. great to have you on the show. i want to start with big tech, because everyone has a dog in this fight, facebook, google, apple, amazon. who is winning when it comes to big tech and ai? zack: in terms of computer internet and consumer tech, the big companies kind of have a lock on it. for ai, you need massive data sets. they have the consumer data and the ai to crunch it and to really make use of it, but the good news is that consumer internet and consumer products -- those aren't the whole world. there is a whole rest of the world out there where there is plenty of opportunity for startups applying ai in smart ways to start companies. emily: let's talk about what's out there. you had a company that was bought by intel. but you have mentioned that all potential -- almost all potential ai opportunities have been sc

the company behind disney, pfizer a major player in the tech industry just think this is extremely strong were you bothering to pay attention? i think i might have been the only person. i'll investigate rapid fire in tonight's edition of "lightning round" stick with cramer! >>> tomorrow, kick off the trading day with "squawk on the street." live from post 9 at the nyse. >> this is so outrageous i'm actually using my low tone when i'm at home >> i feel like i'm about to be disciplined here did i do something wrong >> it all starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern. for your heart...

the tech firm lost close to half a billion dollars in the quarter, and investors will be very aware thatot sustainable. today's results came out after the closing bell but the company has had a rough ride on the markets since it went public in march, with blockbuster valuation of $28 billion. it's not shown on this graph but in after—hours, trading shares were down by close to 17%. simon collister specialises in digital communications at the marketing firm blackbook london. which of those numbers should we be paying attention to, the user numbers, profits, revenues? paying attention to, the user numbers, profits, revenue57m numbers, profits, revenues7m depends who you asked, a lot of the focus has been on daily active users, the number of people interacting with the platform on a daily basis and whilst there has been growth, it's clearly not good enough. but if you asked the founder and ceo of the platform he is keen to point investors away from that, saying there is too much focus on that and we should look at the engagement rates. and what are they doing? they are looking quite impress

the tech jobs tour is described as a career fare meets a revival. ill half a million openings posted by u.s. tech firms. the tour's going to hit 50 cities this year. earlier in the week when i tried to get you to talk about these jobs councils falling apart, you texted me from west virginia. >> yes, i was in west virginia. then kentucky. it's called #americaishiring. i think the idea is a thing called peer sourcing. there's all this outsourcing. we discussed it and jobs are going. they're going to all these cities across the country, including to san francisco, by the way, lots of places, and trying to find more people to fill these jobs. these are high-paying jobs. one job represents five jobs. ? maybe because somebody gets a good salary so they need other support services. >> i wanted to go -- my family's from west virginia. part of my family. to see because this has been sort of the flash point of the trump administration, talking about coal miners. here we have a perfect example. this was a region that relied on one industry that is not going to

it has been one of the most recognizable names in the tech industry for decades. bring you our exclusive conversation with michael dell. first to our lead. a major international story we are monitoring for you. the united nations security council is meeting tuesday to discuss how to handle north korea's latest provocation. on monday, north korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over japan before breaking up. today, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley called the the launch "unacceptable and irresponsible," adding that something serious has to happen. as for how the markets responded to the launch, stocks fell back across the globe. europe posting the worst losses, while u.s. stocks have just about rebounded. there was an initial rush to safe haven assets like gold, u.s. treasuries. for more, we are joined by lindsay ford. wonderful to have you with us. i want to get the so-called unprecedented, grade, and serious threat that prime minister abe sees. how unprecedented worthies of strikes? lindsay: the latest missile test was definitely an escalation in terms

about there has been talk sexual harassment in the tech agency and the lack of women in tech.are your thoughts on that? >> it is something where -- it is a situation where we have to bring a lot more attention to it. on and hass really always been on making inclusion first. we are building an organization where people feel like they belong and feel like they can contribute and feel a part of. we also need to make sure that it is not just an environment where people belong, that they can actually help contribute to decision-making. that they can help make sure that they -- that they help own our outcome. between silicon valley and president trump still seems quite large. roles doou -- what ceos of tech companies play in closing that gap? >> i think we really need to speak up. if we cannot speak up and be transparent about how we feel hen we arecy shifts, t going to move backward as a country and in the world. e, it is myone's rol ro --nd every citizens' every citizen's role as well. emily: how concerned are you about economics and political uncertainty right now? >> every decis

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