for every moment in tumblr's history. the way the team works has changed hugely over the last 10 years. the people on the team have changed as well. >> tell me about selling to yahoo! did you want to sell or did you feel like you had to? ♪ >> tell me about selling to yahoo! how did you make that decision, how did the process start? how did you start talking to marissa? >> the conversation with marissa was a fun one. we were looking for partners for strategic investment. we were in the process of raising money. more than just having an investor come in and cut us a check. actually show up with some technology we can lean on. resources, distribution, content that could make our network better. there were a ton of things to do with yahoo! but also, with marissa -- her vision for what she was trying to do with the company was really aligned with what we were doing with tumblr. where we were going next and what we would need. the other thing was, in marissa and in her team we were spending time with, we found an unstoppable po

>> we're different than tumblr where you follow people.'t create an account unless you follow people. imager you don't follow anyone. as a result there are no celebrities. you can post content tomorrow and you'll have just as good a chance of getting the homepage as i do. >> me getting undressed has really been made a gif. >> you can make anything a gif. >> that is just wrong. i do have shame, not that this show today would represent that. i wonder if you have a sense of what works. what works with a gif? what captures page views? >> the beautiful thing about imager is it is a platform. people create their own gifs. >> gifs or jifs? >> jifs. you can choose. >> what works? what is funny? what draws the most images? >> our job is to create the best tools for people who want to create gifs. they create gifs and things that are popular a copied and become memes. we don't spend that much time thinking about what is popular. we just figure out how to make those tools that allow people to tell their own stories. >> that was the imager director of

>> they are popular on tumblr and other formats. >> is your plan to be like a tumblr-like service?given that tumblr where you follow people. imager you don't follow anyone. as a result there are no celebrities. you can post comments tomorrow and you'll have just as good a chance of getting the homepage as i do. >> me getting undressed. >> you can make anything a gif. >> i do have shame. i wonder if you have a sense of what works. what works with a gif? what cap turs painl views? >> the beautiful thing about imager is it is a platform. people create their own gifs. what works? what is funny? what draws the most images? >> our job is to create the best tools for people who can't to create them. we don't spend that much time thinking about what is popular. we just figure out how to make those tools that allow people to tell their own stories. >> that was the imager director of products. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg west." we will see you on monday. ♪ >> the following is a paid program brought to you by generac power systems. >> when the power goes out, life is disrupted

we're having tumblr on. what is that? >> huge business. it's going to be a good interview. >> thank you for joining us today. when we come back the street reacts to home depot's better than expected results. the retailer prepping for its critical spring selling season but at least one thing has home depot worried. that's the dollar. right now as we head to a break, take a look at this date back in history. ♪ >>> some scary moments in dallas last night. an american airlines plane taxiing slid off the taxi way and got stuck in the grass. they snapped the pictures of the plane. the faa says the front nose gear slipped off as it turned the corner and became stuck in the grass. no injuries have been reported. no cause for the accident just yet but up to an inch of sleet fell overnight. monday covering much of the area in ice. >> do you watch nightly last night? >> i did. >> did you see it down in dallas? midday. downtown, midday. not a car. they have never seen this before. but you know why this is happening. thank god they changed it right? th

>> tumblr, you have to follow people. you can go to imgur without following people. post tomorrow. a>> what are we showing on television, me getting dressed? i wonder laso i -- also if you have a sense of what works. >> the beautiful thing is it is a platform. people create their own girfs. >> gifs or "jifs"? >> they create gifs and people create them and they become popular and become memes. >> you have to be positioned to see what is working best. >> cute animals never go badly. t>> thank you very much. the director of product for imgur. a plane crash. 25 of the 58 people were killed. 15 survived. the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder have been recovered for analysis. >> india's central bank governor warns that borrowing money is like playing russian roulette. the fed will have to start normalizing interest rates or others will not follow suit. >> the fed when it does that will have to accept some appreciation of the dollar because they are the first one out of the box. >> the central bank kept rates unchanged today. the former leader of the scottish nationa

david karp started tumblr before he was 20. he sold it to to yahoo!out $1 billion before he was 30. it is now one of the most creative and social blogging platforms, all from a guy who dropped out of high school, lives in a loft, and drives a vespa. joining me today on "studio 1.0," tumblr founder and ceo david karp. thank you for joining us. thank you for having this on the schedule. >> i do have a schedule now.

i used tumblr pate choux on as well. how i am contributing to your bottom line. >> david from tumblr has been a spectacular leader over there. he has carried a consumer vision that has helped that company grow. they have grown to 460 million, desktop and mobile. which is a really huge growth for them. the fastest growing social network in the 25 and below set. they have been on this huge growth curve. they also will do over 100 million in revenue. from a business that did not exist, they have created a couple formats that have been really successful with the largest global brands. having cost per engagement model. an ad that shows up in your stream and you can re-blog and engage with it. that's how we get paid by our advertisers. that business model we would describe as native as well. >> there had been rumors you could merge you are flurry and gemini business. would it give you an edge over google or facebook? >> i love the yahoo! dirty. -- nerdy. absolutely we are doing that and bring that the other. flurry is our deve

they are all growing together. >> is your plan to be like a tumblr service?ck being gifts and images. >> we are different than them. you have to create an account. you follow someone. as a result, there are no celebrities. you can post content tomorrow in just as good of a chance on getting on the home page as i do. >> what are we showing on the television of me getting undressed? i do have shame. i wonder also if you have a sense of what works? what worked with a gif? >> the beautiful thing about this is it is a platform. we do not have to decide that. i think you can choose. >> really quick, what works for what is funny? >> our job is to create the best ones for people that want to create gifs. works for what isonce that are popular they become memes. we figure out how to make the tools that allow people to share their own story. >> you have to be in a position to see it. what is working the best? >> cute animals never go badly. >> i know>> i knew it. a turboprop plane crashing into a river in taiwan moment after takeoff. the footage shows the trans-asia pl

it started off as one woman's tumblr post and erupted into a polar ides lgt debate. what colors do you w seehen kwloi look at this dress. blue and black or white and gold. the fabric of this dress nearly caused the fabric of the internet to unravel overnight with people even fwanl ed. >> it's more fundamental than their religion. >> reporter: the conflict began on this tumblr plate where a user asked o's to help her decide the true color of the dress. >> it's blue. >> it's white. >> reporter: the debate dominated overnight discussion. it racked up more than 29,000 views on buzzfeed became the number one tread on twitter and among sites. >> celebrities joined in. taylor swift, the cease on team blue and black. anna kendrick with white and blue. it has to do with the color on your computer module and the lights in your room as well as the phone. >> it means there is too much light. if you see the dress as white and gold as underexposed meaning there is too little light. >> and even now the morning after the question was first posed, it is still a top trending topic on

that guy from tumblr -- >> from tumblr -- >> they made it work for them. >> tumblr, did you have it to- >> google on the netflix side but not sure where they want to be. >> you say the guy from tumblr won because i think he -- did he get a note from his mom to be out of middle school when he was on? it's amazing. >> he's a grown man. >> is he? >> not to mention he could buy and sell you. >> ten times over. most of these people there are youngsters and don't augment themselves, they're not going with the brione. they're going with the russell, the champion hanes brand. >> like the greek finance minister ticked everybody off wearing tight jeans. >> that guy -- i told you, everyone says he's got pants by germany. they agree to absolutely nothing. the germans say fine europe wants growth. >> i don't know. >> when we come back salesforce surging in reaction to company's guidance. hear what mark told cramer last night. premarket. we've not gotten to kohl's sears, l brands this brutal downgrade of abercrombie & fitch. more "squawk on the street." my name is tony sartorio. i'm a lineman for pg

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. >> started as one woman's tumblr post asking that simple question and erupted into a polarizing debate that took over the interin net. what color doss you see when you look at this dress? blue and black, or is it white and gold? >> here's the deal this is a -- >> reporter: the fabric of this dress nearly caused the fabric of the internet to unravel overnight. with people engaged in spirited debate over the dress's color. >> it's blue and black. >> what? >> everybody went to deaf com five immediately when somebody disagreed. like were you questioning something even more fundamental than their religion. >> reporter: the controversy over dressgate began on a tumblr page a user asked others to help her decide the true color of the dress. >> light blue. >> and just like white, in the shade. it's like -- bizarre. only see white. >> reporter: the debate dominated overnight online discussion. it racked up more than 20 million views on buzzfeed became the flub one trend on twitter and drew a deep divide in some relationships. >> gold and white. >> not for me. >> i've heard, first of all, it was

the picture 307ed up on tumblr and blazed on social media triggering nearly 4 million tweets. # #thess. >> james franco anna kendrick. your vote was what? >> white and gold. >> mine was -- it looked baby blue and gold to me. >> everybodies that their own interpretation interpretation. >> it's gold and white. >> it's baby blue clearly. >> he's going to get his glasses checked. for some of you local news is next. we both like to save money on car insurance. and we're both really good at teaching people a lesson. um, let's go. cool. sit down! alright. sorta you, isn't you. only esurance has coveragemyway. it helps make sure you only pay for what's right for you not someone sorta like you. i think i blacked out from fear... did we ask him where mr. craig was? we did. esurance. backed by allstate. click or call. campbell's® fiesta chicken lime tortilla. sausage and pepper rigatoni. southwest style bean & barley. tuscany style chicken and pasta. if you think campbell's® 33 new soups sound good... imagine how they taste! m'm m'm good!® ♪ at philadelphia, there's an art to making cream chees

it became a sensation of tumblr and buzzfeed's most popular single-day post ever with close to 30 million views. >> people just really wanted to get others' opinions to make sure they weren't crazy. >> reporter: so why do some of us see white and gold while others see black and blue? experts say the way we see color is like a delicate dance between cells in our eyes. >> white and gold. >> blue and black. >> i see white and gold, too. >> reporter: here's what the dress really looks like, yes, blue and black. but because this photo is shot at a certain exposure, it magnifies the differences in how our eyes interpret color. >> if you're seeing the dress to be white and gold, you might be seeing too much light on the dress itself and you're compensating for the dress to be bright. >> reporter: it's an optical illusion, like which yellow line is longer. they're actually the same. and when you look around this grid, do you see black dots at any intersection? if you do, look again. all the dots are white. back to that dress. >> i told her she could be wrong all she wants as long as we don't have

this photo was posted on tumblr yesterday.shows a gold and white dress or is it a blue and black dress? >> i see green and red. >> well, you're weird. apparently some people see gold and white while others see black and blue. what do you see? >> i think i see blue. >> you see blue? >> black and blue. >> people all over social media are weighing in on what they see. the dress even had our newsroom talking. >> but i've seen a blue and black version, too much it's on my phone. >> blue and black. i mean i think that's more black and that's definitely black to me. >> there is some science behind this argument. neuroscientists say it's based on the way human eyes and brains have evolved to see color. in this picture the original image is in the middle. on the left it's white balanced as if it's white and gold and on the right it's white balanced to be gold and black. >> i think edward murrow would be very proud of that segment. >>> he wants real journalism like a 280-pound catfish. break out the raging we live in a pick and choose w

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here is what we're referring to, a dress posted on tumblr by a scottish musician asking fans is it whiteand gold or blue and black? she and her friends couldn't agree. millions of people chimed in on the internet. that photo is posted when a friend's mother wore the dress to her daughter's wedding. how you see it depends on how your eyes filter light. supposedly it's really blue and black in real life. what did you see there? >> initially i saw it on a feed and i saw black and blue, but now if you look at a different picture i see white and gold on that particular picture but i think it depends on the angle. we've taken pictures with our phones and they can all be different. >> you're right it looks different depending on where it's coming from. maybe there's something to that. anyway. >>> anyway, a guess a lot of people are talking about, rob, what do you see here, plum? >> plum and blue today for us, but that dress black and blue, i don't see how it's white and gold. >> i did in a different picture. >> it's a great marketing campaign. get everybody to click on that. right now we're see

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the original picture shown here was posted on tumblr, but almost immediately spread virally across facebook twitter before being picked up by buzzfeed and "new york times," taylor swift weighed in on the debate. experts say the dress is blue and black but the differences can be explained by differences in our eye balls. cones perceive the colors in a slightly different way depending on genes and in this case, the lighting of the dress. >>> all the talk means big profits for the dress maker roman originals, sales have soared 350%! >>> up next markets close out a frigid february, and bid farewell to one of america's favorite past aliens. spock was half human and half vulcan, don't you know that? such a sad day leonard nimoy. we are coming ri hey, girl. is it crazy that your soccer trophy is talking to you right now? it kinda is. it's as crazy as you not rolling over your old 401k. cue the horns... just harness the confidence it took you to win me and call td ameritrade's rollover consultants. they'll help with the hassle by guiding you through the whole process step by step. and they'll even

a tumblr user asked is it white and gold or is it black and blue? this question ignited a fire storm online. buzz feed posted the dress controversy had drawn more visitors that their site than ever before. 10 million people read the dress post and over 900,000 took the poll. about 75% see white and gold. the rest see black and blue and then of course like the mystery dress, market perception is rarely black and white. so the question we're asking you today, how do you perceive fresh highs for global market? is it time to buy, sell or hold? join the conversation here at worldwide exchange. worldwide at cnbc.com or on twitter at cnbcwx. let's take a look at some of today's other top stories. jcpenney shares fell 10% in after hours trading after the clothing retailer failed to meet analyst expectations for the holiday period. they broke even missing estimates for profits of 11 cents a share. on the bright side sales came in at 3.9 billion up from 3.78 billion from the sail period in 2013. let's have a look at the share prices. you can see down signific

there's a tumblr dedicated to her, complete with notorious rbg t-shirts and notorious r.b.g. at the toos that have popped up here ai and there across the country. erin asked ruth bader ginsburg about people getting ruth bader ginsburg at the toos. watch this. >> i wanted to -- i wondered -- >> i saw that and i thought it was a joke. i thought it was something you pasted on to your arm. i'm disgusted people are really doing that. >> distressed why? >> why would you make something that can't be removed on yourself? it is one thing to make holes that you can -- my grand daughter for a while was wearing a nose ring. now she is not anymore. but a tattoo you can't remove. >> i think it is because they admire you. this is why. this is the second tattoo i'm aware of. the other has a picture of you and it says "respect the bench." >> a nice sentiment sglmt my face, very distressing. respect the bench, nice sentiment. >> huge congratulations to erin for getting this interview and letting us debut it here. she will be on the last word in the next hour with more on the interview and we w

the original picture shown here was posted on tumblr, but almost immediately spread virally across facebookpicked up by buzzfeed and "new york times," taylor swift weighed in on the debate. experts say the dress is blue and black but the differences can be explained by differences in our eye balls. cones perceive the colors in a slightly different way depending on genes and in this case, the lighting of the dress. >>> all the talk means big profits for the dress maker roman originals, sales have soared 350%! >>> up next markets close out a frigid february, and bid farewell to one of america's favorite past aliens. spock was half human and half vulcan, don't you know that? such a sad day leonard nimoy. we are coming ri . lori: on wall street, stocks closing lower, posting strong monthly gains, the dow falling 82, the s&p down 6. the nasdaq dropping 24 points. >>> stocks closing out february with strong gains. the dow and s&p up 5.5% the nasdaq with monthly gains of more than 7%. >>> the economy expanding at a slower pace than previously estimated growing 2.2% in the fourth quarter. >>> here

everyone is debating on a tumblr user asked the simpg question is it white and gold or is it blue and black. this question ignited a firestorm online. buzzfeed posted the controversy had drawn more visitors to the site than ever before. 10 million people read the post and over 900,000 took the poll and currently about 75 respect see% see white and gold. >> at first i saw white and gold but now i'm seeing a little blue. >> now you're chaining ingchaining changing your tune? >> it's definitely black and blue about that. >> a lot of people feel that way. i think they will have the dress on the "today" show coming you. so hopefully we can see. >> so we'll stay tuned. >> on twitter people have posted explanations and some say white and gold and some say it's black and blue. so there is a debate over the actual explanation of the debate. >> moving forward -- >> yeah it's friday. what else do we have to do? >> i'm seeing gray. a lot of gray. >> that's no good. >> a live view behind us looking through the window at the capitol. a dove gray sky, but clouds should be breaking up. ought to get s

a color war over the pigment of this dress that a scottish woman posted a picture of on tumblr after debated its color. >> i thought the dress was going to talk. >> first i saw gold and white. now i see blue. it's changing and can go back and forth. >> there are three colors there. >> i love this. >> i think it came straight from nigeria, this scam. >> i was saying i see blue. i see black. i don't get it. look at the screen. they have all different in the shadows, not in the shadows. >> you see blue and black? >> i see three different. the white and gold. i see the blue and black. >> the one on the left do you see gold and white? >> i absolutely see only gold and white on the one on the left. >> me too. >> just look at the one on the left. that is the only valid one. >> the very far left is gold and white. >> i see -- they are all blue to me. >> you have to understand all of those are blue to my eye. >> are you lying? >> and all of them were gold? >> what color is that right now? >> blue and black. >> it's not. i'm sorry. >> and it's blue and black. >> this is it. this shows you why

i've met boys on tumblr and twitter.here's an app i'm using called selfie and kind of met a boy that i guess is like my ex-non-boyfriend. and i tried from dating with friends, find on facebook you'd be down to do stuff with. oh, facebook. >> meet beeian is a. early adopter of every dating technology out there. although on the cutting edge, she's just as mystified like everyone else on how to make it work for her. >> i want to talk to you, hear more about your dating life. >> it's so stressful. >> why? >> if i have to talk about like, what i do, how old i am, how many siblings i am, how long have i been in new york, i hate all the questions. like the same questions every single time. >> dating shouldn't feel like an interview. >> exactly. but most people see dating as that. >> yeah. which i think that's the mistake. what are you looking for? >> tall, smart. >> how tall? >> 6 foot. >> you want a tall guy. >> i want a tall guy. >> tell me about your experience with the dating sites. >> the dating sites, ok cupid i was prett

it all started last night when a scottish musician posted this photo on her tumblr with the caption, can't decide on the color. the entire internet obliged. taylor swift said she feels like it was trick somehow. there was katy perry's left shark wearing the dress. there was kim kardashian wearing the dress, and there were the escaped lamas from yesterday wearing blue and black and white and gold respectively. i know three things the aca works, two, climate change is real, three, that dress is gold and white. california representative mark drafted a house resolution about the dress being black and blue. facts, the dress is blue and black. for the record the actual dress is blue and black. it is also red and black and white and black and pink and black. just not white and gold. sorry. joining me now is digital voice's editor with fusion and john morrison. guys, the internet exploded and continues to explode over this dress. let me just ask you as we start what color did you see it as. >> blue and black. >> white and gold. >> when you saw it as blue and black, did you feel very firm and

>> one thing is for sure that isis seems to be successful in using online sites like twitter and tumblr. >> ash carter spoke about fighting isis and he warned that social media has become a key tool for terrorists. >> the first of the most recent eras of terrorism was kind of internet-fueled. this isil thing is social media-fueled. it's different. it's got a different technological enabling to it. >> and there have been several successful attempts to keep foreigners from traveling abroad to join terror groups. france say it is has just confiscated the passports of six people who were allegedly going to syria. 40 more people will be banned from leaving the country as well. about 400 french citizens already believed to be fighting with militant groups in iraq and syria. >>> france isn't the only european country which now has the authority to seize passports of alleged joeihadis. officials in the u.k. have confiscated 25 passports as well. that strategy seems to be unlikely to prohibit stopping three teenage girls now believed to be on their way to syria to join isis. peter berger joins u

there's a tumblr dededicated to her with notorious r.b.g. themed internet means.here are even ruth bader ginsburg i kid you not, tattoos that have cropped up across the country. erin, god bless her, asked ruth bader ginsburg about people getting ruth bader ginsburg tattoos. watch this. >> i wanted to -- i wondered, have you -- >> i saw that and i thought it was -- i thought it was a joke. i thought it was something you pasted on to your arm. but i'm a little distressed that people are really doing that. >> distressed why? >> because why would you make something that can't be removed on yourself? it's one thing to make holes. and that you can use or not. my granddaughter, for a while, was wearing a nose ring. now she's not any more. but a tattoo you can't remove. >> well i think it's because they admire you. that's why. this is the second tattoo i'm aware of. the other one has a picture of you and it says respect the bench. >> oh that's a nice sentiment. >> so my face that's very distressing. respect the bench? yeah, that's a nice sentiment. amazing. a huge thanks

the original picture shown here was posted on tumblr, but almost immediately spread virally across facebooktter before being picked up by buzzfeed and "new york times," taylor swift weighed in on the debate. experts say the dress is blue and black but the differences can be explained by differences in our eye balls. cones perceive the colors in a slightly different way depending on genes and in this case, the lighting of the dress. >>> all the talk means big profits for the dress maker roman originals, sales have soared 350%! >>> up next markets close out a frigid february, and bid farewell to one of america's favorite past aliens. spock was half human and half vulcan, don't you know that? such a sad day leonard nimoy. we are coming right back with more. that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. ♪ ♪ ♪ tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how

it all started when a singer posted a picture on tumblr and asked her celebrity friends what colors they saw. just about everyone is weighing in on the dress debate. some of us see gold and white while others see black-and-blue. >> we're on that gold and white team right? >> i see gold and white. >> who is right? tam ron tamron hall tries to set it will debate. >> reporter: it started with a simple plea for help. caitlin mcneil posted to her site guys please help me is this dress white and gold or blue and black? with that the twitter hashtag #thedress was born quickly becoming the number-one trending topic worldwide. everyone weighed in from actors to restaurants, even u.s. senator chris murphy who says that dress is gold and white. kim kardashian tweeting i see white and gold. kanye sees black-and-blue. who is color blind? taylor swift, i don't understand this odd dress debate. p.s. it's obviously blue and black. the dispute over the dress went viral after buzz feed shared the photo on its website garnering more than 21 million views and counting and spawning eight of its top trending

as well as amazing artists from instagram and tumblr, they'll all be covering the oscars.this year's oscars, it's highly likely that neither neil patrick harris nor any of us will have time for the onion dip. does anybody watch the oscars while also tweeting, facebooking? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah? >> #oscars. >> i mean, i do it a little bit. i actually like to discourage multitasking. i think you should watch the show. >> certainly the first ten minutes. because that's the best part of the oscars. >> for sure. the first ten minutes. and maybe the last ten as well. >> you when they do best picture. >> you can change a diaper at the same time. >> absolutely. triple-tasking. >>> coming up on "good morning america," is it really as easy as doing the math? adding up the numbers to give you some bold oscar predictions. that's ahead in "pop news." ♪ i know now ♪ ♪ i know now ♪ the new way to help make temptations shrink away on the go. a deliciously fresh and satisfying taste with 12 grams of protein 5 grams of fiber and 0% fat. new light & fit protein shakes. taste the power of

it all began with this picture posted on tumblr by a 21-year-old in scotland.by the mother of the bride at a friend's wedding. but when mcneil and their friends saw the picture they disagreed about the color. then she asked the online world to weigh-in and good gravy did they ever. kim kardashian saying what color is that dress i see white and gold, kanye sees black and blue. who's color blind? it made its way into the white house briefing. >> has the president seen the dress, does he have an opinion as to whether it's white -- >> i haven't had an opportunity to talk to him about that specifically. but i did compliment my colleague jen friedman on her white and gold outfit today. >> by the way, experts say the conflicting opinions come from a combination of how your brain processes colors and how in changing light your eyes essentially see the color differently. so there's really a chance when you first see the picture the dress looks white and gold and later in the day it looks blue and black. for the record the dress is in fact blue and black. it was designed

the picture popped up on tumblr raise and trigger ed 4 million tweets in a number of hours. the dress is trending worldwide. >> some people have seen it both ways saying the colors have switched. i see blue and gold. >> i see white and gold. >> that simple. >> what do you see, deb? >> white and gold. >> what do you see. >> black and blue. >> black and blue. >> what do you see. >> white and gold. >> jack. >> white and blue. >> nobody can agree on what color the dress is. >> you know what that this means? >> what does it mean. >> we need our tv monitors fixed. >> maybe we need to get back to something more important. >> buy more expensive tv monitors. that's what it means. >>> coming up "insomniac theater" julianne moore looks for laughs. >>> and a new approach for school children with autism, how about yoga. it is leading to remarkable results. >>> leading republicans have their eyes on the white house. the meeting underway today and what they are saying about hillary clinton. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by swiffer

olivia: a color count set up by -- a tumblr account set up by a law student called the notorious rbg.dan: at the end of which she would be 91. olivia: she said it takes her no longer to former opinions than it did when she joined. tom: she will be 91 in eight years? and some others behind her as well as the court ages. stephen king will join us in the next hour from hsbc. the ever younger stephen king. stay with us. "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." a thursday morning from new york city. we welcome all of you. we need to get to our top headlines. olivia: after passing through the house, the keystone pipeline construction bill is now headed to president obama's desk. proponents are not getting too excited yet. the president has promised to the to it. the 2/3 majority not likely to overturn the veto. and an unmanned falcon 9 rocket carrying the $340 million you climate observatory mission has taken off after being delayed several times after bad weather and a greater issue. liftoff came after clear skies yesterday in cape canaveral. russo

started yesterday when a scottish musician posted a picture of the 77 dollar off the rack dress on tumblrnd then it went viral. it broke the traffic records viewed 21 million times and counting. celebrities sports stars and many others weighing in on social media as well. kim kardashian tweeting what color is that dress, i see white and gold. kanye sees black and blue. who is color blind. >> we'll tell you what taylor swift and others have to say later. >> that's our lead. that's interesting. whaen when are we doing the llama story? both of these stories make me think -- it scares me. >> that we're talking about this too. >> yeah. but first here's much lesser stories we're watching this morning. the big test for the markets today is a growth read. and that is on second the second read on the 4th quarter gdp number. remember when we were down toward the end? due at 8:30 eastern. also on the docket chicago pmi spending home sales and consumer sentiment and in europe germany's parliament approved the greek bailout extension that came after germany's finance minister urged approve that athens

you can do the same thing with facebook or tumblr posts.s anyone out here still have their myspace profiles? >> i do. >> and you are still friends with what's his name? >> exactly. >> over time, your digital profile get so big that it has a set of consequences we have not begun to consider. we are extending the platform. to shrink the digital footprint. >> switching gears. cyber dust is company number one for you? >> i have no idea. in terms of the companies i have started and run 30 plus. >> what drives you to keep founding new companies? >> business is the ultimate sport to me. dealing with the mavericks, i talked to our guys and about the length of a game and practice. there is no sport as competitive as business. there are all these young kids trying to kick your ass. i love to kick your ass. i'm so competitive. fuck you all. i just want to win. >> why are you not based in the valley? >> there is a certain culture in the valley and a mini version of that in l.a. and a mini are version of that in new york and everywhere else. to me, as s

but when isis specific material is posted on facebook, twitter tumblr, you tube, what are the existing line of communication between law enforcement and those entities to provide notice or to facilitate the removal of that material? >> so the companies themselves have service agreements that in many cases violence, criminal acts, if they violate the terms of service, once they are violated, they can take that down. we are looking at it from a different threat. so when we see the radical pieces being used, we look to exploit that and do that through a lawful means, whether it is collecting the information to see what they are communicating about or to look at ongoing communication. so we have an overlapping, i guess, mission, when compared to some of the companies, but at the end of the day, the result is the same, we want to stop the communication through social media platforms. >> my time is expired. again, i appreciate you being here. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> we thank the witnesses for being here today. this is a very important topic to our national security. and i want to than