emily: how is twitter affecting things? biz: not just twitter.e: it is positive and allows us to better understand the underrepresented voters. so i am all for the social media conversation continuing to amplify. if you took a step back to look at yesterday's debate where were , the millennials in the audience? where were the millennials asking questions? the questions related to what millennials care about. just surprising to me. biz: they are on twitter. i agree with caroline. what is great about twitter during the debate is that people get to argue with each other who would not normally argument each other, and minds can get changed and points can be brought up that are not being brought up in the debates. and that is what is great about it. and other social media. whatever you can use whatever , tools you can use to get in with others is great. emily: silicon valley. a lot of people in silicon valley have come out and if you simply -- effusively supported clinton and been against trump. which candidate is better for innovation? caroline: it i

use twitter.ly: some people claim that twitter and silicon valley gave donald trump a platform he would not have had. he has always been manipulative with gossip columnists and getting his name out there, getting people to write things that he wants and push the right buttons. he is a guy who i would tweet while you are drunk. some people just shouldn't tweet. uh, yeah, it is woven into the fabric and his tweets are a big deal. one tweak to make a new cycle. -- one tweet can make a whole new cycle. emily: how is this affecting things? >> it is positive and allows us to better understand the underrepresented voters. i am in favor of the conversation amplifying. where were the millennials in questions,e, asking to whattions related millennials care about. >> they are on twitter. what is great about twitter during the debates is that people get to argue with each other who would normally not. and pointset changed can be brought up that are not being brought up in the debates. that is what is great ab

we're all addicted to twitter.t is a much smaller niche of people than twitter originally thought it was going after. they said we're going to be another facebook, this huge mass market colossal thing when in fact they are a news and live events network, but they're already good at that, and with small evolutionary tweaks, not revolutionary, they can be great at it. that is worth a fair bit of money. i think the sentiment has gotten too negative. >> do they want to be valued like a news network? i'm not saying news networks are a bad business but they're not often seen as a growth business technology-wise. the words you choose, i think, are important. if they're going to call themselves a news network, if they're saying that's a category that they're disrupting, don't they have to do something really revolutionary and grow? >>> i think they already have done something revolutionary. the big opportunity for them to grow is video. they've just started to roll it out. i will suggest to you that in a year or two twitte

we begin with twitter. the first day for shares on that report eliminating several prospective buyers. jim cramer joining us now from one market in san francisco. so, jim, we said the other day when you were with us and i think it was when you were sitting on the set with us, maybe your best bet was to sell it when all those rumors were hot and they haheavy and now i' wondering what you do. >> okay, i think two days ago google dropped out. three days ago disney expressed that it had no interest to do it. i think what really killed the stock was a meeting with the sales force, investors, getting an airful saying we hate twitter, we hate what it could do to your stock. walk away or we'll walk away. i don't think it had anything to do with google because they dropped out before the conversations got hot. >> jimmy, you tried six ways to sunday to get benny off both in the afternoon and then in your evening program to talk about this. let's listen to what he said, and we can talk about it on the other side. >> i

is twitter dead in the water? dan. >> the stock is obviously dead in the water right now, especially if somebody doesn't pick themselves up and buy these guys. the stock was trading for months, most of the year in the teens here. and obviously, a lot of that reporting was all over the place on who was going to buy them. so to me, i don't think there is any huge rush right here. i think there's probably a floor in the mid teens and apprised value for this property. it is a very unique property and someone is going to get it right. i think at the end of the day, people are really discounting the ability of this current management who is, you know, for all intents and purposes, they do know what they're doing. it's going to take some time and initiatives in place. i like what they are doing with live and ultimately, someone will figure it out. >> management may get it right. and i think it's a case where if you think about the fourth quarter, the nfl streaming has worked amplified ads is working. guidance -- and i re

, not use twitter and he's been twitter's biggest cheerleader for the longest time. take a listen to what he had to say about snapchat. >> snapchat is less about the product and more about the product team. it's a company that's been willing and able to reinvent itself a few times. they're bold and take chances. when they walked up to me after a talk i gave, they said, we loved what you stand for, we want you in our deal. i said, -- they walked away and i told my younger business partner and he said, what? and by the time we got back to them, they did a deal with somebody else, probably cost us a few billion dollars. emily: he didn't get in on that deal but others did. he's using the product innovation, the willingness to change as a positive, perhaps in comparison to twitter which has not changed. how are -- what do we know about the actual numbers here in terms of users and user growth? and the actual market that snapchat has been able to bite off? max: i think we're talking about 150 million daily actives which is a big number. i'm not sure -- twitter has been sor

twitter, i mean, come on.twitter's data, they could buy it, just like at&t could buy time warner's. >> i've got to disagree totally. when you look at zuckerberg and page, they own huge chunks of stock. huge. they're in a control position. they can do that. i think benioff showed some good discipline. i think he should be -- i think he should be applauded for that. you just heard -- >> guy, do you guess agree also? >> jumping on -- >> no, i'm in your grill. everybody makes an excellent point about the subject. >> who's point is the most excellent? >> they're all slept points. there is no most. >> come on. >> i understand what dan is saying. i think the fact he took shareholder -- i think it was more an ego thing. he saw his stock, which is, by the way -- has had a pretty difficult year. remember the move earlier in the year down to 60 bucks, subsequent rally. this moved down to 68. and i think, yes, he heard shareholders' concerns. but just on an ego thing, this is the first time his stock has sort of wavered n

why is twitter so difficult? is it just because management has been ambivalent about doing some kind of deal? is it the history of volatility in managements, do you think? ta is it b grade compared to the others? >> a lot has been written about that volatility piece. why we are where we are right now. asset like this is even in play. but it's also why the company has had such a tough time getting to the vision that they've put out there, for what twitter is supposed to be. getting to the financial numbers for what twitter is supposed to be. until you get some sort of stability with this management team or another owner, that's probably still going to be a problem. >> is that code for saying you need a full-time ceo or is there something beyond that? >> honestly, i don't know that that's necessarily the issue. you need a product person that's been in the job for more than 12 months, a ceo that's been in the job for more than 12 months. you need this constant carousel of heads of engineering, product and marketing

reports of more job cuts sends twitter lower. we will talk about the company as they prepared to go it alone. apple shares lower after hours, the company posting with quarter sales until 9% from year ago and brought the company's first annual sales decline since 2001. the other big number we are watching -- iphone unit sales, since that is were the company makes most of its money. it sold 44.5 million handsets. that includes two weeks of sales for the iphone 7, which rings is to the all-important report -- apple says it sees revenue between -- signed the sales for the new phone may be off to a good start. joining us now is the program director for mobile services and are bloomberg tech reporter. you have an blogging live on the bloomberg terminal. what do you see? guest: the highlight is apple is going to return to growth, they believe. they are usually pretty good about those estimates. other than that, things are pretty much in line in terms of estimates for iphone numbers and q4 revenue numbers. emily: i spoke with the cfo abo

." >> and an ugly day for twitter. shares plummeting on reports that alphabet, disney, apple, none of them interested in buying the company. we will talk to a shareholder. >>> more on hurricane matthew as it barrels towards the southeastsoutheas southeast. morgan bren has the baitest. >> the winds are certainly starting to pick up. we have president obama signing that emergency declaration for the state of florida a short while ago and florida's governor rick scott just really stressing the gravity of this situation. million and a half people are expected or being urged to evacuate along coastal areas in florida. more than 2 million people throughout the region. i want to show you this. this is daytona beach. as you can see this is really turning into a ghost town very quickly along the beach. we have all of these businesses here boarded up. we have sand bags. if you go back blocks off the beach you see a similar situation. there is a big restaurant on the peer. this is going to be these types of pier businesses someth

what is going to happen to twitter if they take trump's twitter feed away.s -- >> a new company. >> a new company. >> look at the traffic. >> on a serious note, twitter can't just, you know, kill it in this political season. >> they had nfl, they had this, the debates. >> it is tough. here is the good news. >> it is almost over. >> almost over. not yet. there is cabinet appointments, and it goes on and on and on and on. >> don't you feel like everybody could make their decision today? >> yeah. >> everybody knows. we know enough. >> if there is undecided voter out there, tweet us, let us know. hey, bob from illinois, first time -- i have not yet decided. the candidates are so die metically opposed, i don't know how you can't have a lean. >> unless there is some other blockbuster revelation, but at any rate -- >> it is not just stress -- >> let's take a walk. >> it is not just stressing you out, it is not just stressing us out, but apparently the election may femake us feel less confide to spend money. if you thought about cave diving around great white sharks

what is twitter through a party -- what if twitter threw a party and nobody came?market. where does it go next? this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: this is bloomberg. i am jonathan ferro. one stock to watch in the premarket, twitter getting hammered this morning after potential bidders lost interest in making an offer for the company. stop down over 12%. jeff mccracken joins us now from london for more. what happened? >> how are you doing? in some ways, twitter has come full circle. if you go back to early september before the news was out that they were exploring a sale, they were down 30% from their highs. people were concerned about what was going to happen with the company. the news came out they were exploring a process because salesforce expressed interest. we broke that disney was around and that google hired a banker to look at it. each time, shares went up. then stories cannot and said google is not going to make a bid and disney probably will not make a bed. over the weekend, we reported this is on life support in the market is concerned. frankly, they should

twitter shares popping after dick costolo said m&a is not twitter's only option for growth. brad stone, our senior executive editor asked about this latest project and about potential sales rumors at his former company, twitter. dick: they are trying to deliver programming that's very specific and personalize what you need to do today. delivering not just to you but to a small team of friends, family or coworkers connected to you. so you have some positive reinforcement from your team to keep you motivated. it helps connect you together to make sure i'm supposed to do something today and we are supposed to connect and do that together. that's the kind of social accountability we are trying to bring online networks off line in the real world. >> how do you anticipate making money from it? dick: it will be a subscription model. personal trainers cost up to $100 an hour. the boutique fitness classes are sometimes $30 or $35 an hour. for less than $10 month, you'll have personalized programming. >> what got you interested in this? dick: i have been wondering why these platforms

a twitter deal could be $20 billion. this is going to be one of its biggest, if not the biggest acquisition chm makes. >> crm makes. >> quip was less than -- a $750 million deal. if they move, it's not going to move the needle necessarily. the company is not going to get lamb basted if they're wrong. if salesforce buys twitter and get it wrong, that's not catastrophic, but it's certainly not good. so -- i don't even know how this company lines up to buy twitter, frankly. benioff said, he would have paid more for linkedin. it's not like he's -- he's not adverse to making deals. but this -- i don't understand why this deal would make sense for them at all. >> i don't understand why he would be as open as he was. he's driving up the price himself. seems he's not making the best call here. we've all read the quotes. he now says the data is the new currency of the software world. what i find interesting, why is twitter's data suddenly so valuable when, in fact -- >> stand-alone, it wasn't valuable. why is it so valuable as a

could become, and where twitter would go.ou have a really strong plan ahead of us and it is something we are focused on executing. >> twitter can be a successful, independent company. >> think the world of the team over there. think jack thinks brilliantly about product and direction. the rest of the team are tremendous. i do think that is the only outcome -- i do not think that is the only possible outcome. >> i hope for an acquisition. there are a lot of great teams where they fit naturally. it is a natural complement to four or five companies. emily: the many faces and voices of twitter. former ceos, cofounders, chris sacca long-time investor. modus crispy and james chackmak. sarah, you have new reporting that jack dorsey may be losing control of the company. that there are dissenting voices about what to do, whether to sell or not to sell. about what to do, whether to >> as you mentioned, there is disagreement between cofounders jack dorsey and williams about whether a sale is the best thing for twitter. jack wishes he ha

twitter cofounder gives us his take, ahead.irst, sam sent officially ended the production of the galaxy note 7 smartphone after reports that replacement phones have the same overheating battery problems of the original devices recalled. they cut their third-quarter operating profit by $2.3 billion. the fallout continues for sam son financially. a report from credits we say halting the note 7 could translate into almost $17 billion in lost sales. we caught up with bloomberg intelligence analyst john butler and greylock partner john. >> we have gone through many of the iterations of the samsung note series and it is interesting because it is a new category that was introduced many years ago that focuses on larger devices, larger screens and more capability. what we found in the iterations of the note 3, 4, 5, skip six, so seven, we have seen the evolution toward higher and higher energy density within the battery pack. the changes from the seven -- two the 7 from the 5 is almost a 22% increase in density, here energy stuffed into

chris, i follow you on twitter.ting to think that even though you've made these multibillion dollar fortunes in lots of different situations that worked out, you seem more interested in the smaller ones that are in shark tank. >> shark tank brings me back to what made be passionate in the first place. as the dollars got bigger, there's a lot of politics, a lot of back stabbing, blood all over the walls. that's not what got me into investing in the first place. >> the people on the show are every bit as real as travis and uber? >> there's no doubt about it. the show is very real in itself. we don't know anything about those companies when they come in. nobody tells us what to say. if you see a shark tank fight break out, that's real. what you're seeing is actual hustle. these are people who beat out tens of thousands of other -- i think last year they had 40,000 applications to be on that show, to get up there and get a few minutes in front of the panel and they got to make the most of it. >> i wanted to ask you, you

now, cut to twitter. this company's stock has traveled a long way down from $74 where it traded in its growth heyday at the end of 2013 all the way down to $14 back in may. benioff and others were intrigued by that decline, not to mention twitter's treasure trove of data, data about its users. all individuals who could be potential customers for salesforce's enterprise clients without either growth or strategy to mine its own data. rumors about any pending sale were dismissed because the company's part-time ceo jack dorsey was given a one year grace period to reignite growth. however, the decline in the stock created too much opportunity for those who viewer twitter not as it is, which is a trash-talking, rotten tomato throwing pseudo-institution that's driven away as many follower as it currently has, but as it could be, which is a business with unscaled mountains will be cleaned up so we wouldn't have to do national blockers day like i'm doing today. we learned recently, thanks to our own david faber, t

emily: twitter, what is going to happen to twitter?orted that disney is interested, salesforce, alphabet. >> i do not have any inside information as to what twitter is doing but i would say it is a , fantastic asset with its reach. it would be additive to a lot of folks. disney would make sense. if the football example is going to stick, that is a great example because disney does not bode distribution -- own distribution in so much as they can have their own and operated distribution through a twitter platform. that would be very positive for them. it has been rumored salesforce will be in it for the data, and i think it makes a lot of sense. it is an interesting story playing along the lines of what david was saying, although twitter under scrutiny, flat subscriber growth, and really trying to find themselves. now they are probably going to be defined by somebody else so i think it is clear by the signals, they are having conversations. we will see how that plays out. emily: you guys are investors in spotify. we just reported they ar

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 history as a company. butsted revenue also beat beyond the financials, investors are listening closely to the call. plans on combining with solar city. shareholders get to vote on a plan in just a couple of weeks. 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? 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 in the fourth quarter, though he is saying they will repeat it. emily: they did boost production. i

>> yes. >> well, twitter -- it could have been a huge night, right, for twitter. twitter might have been the only true winner in last night's debate. the social media company said 17 million tweets were sent out during the town hall and on friday people blocked to twitter after the leaking of the donald trump tape. but none of that hype seemed to help the stock. obviously, it's got other woes, like all the bidders running away from twitter. but this could have been a good thing for twitter. >> let's hope he's not tweeting from the locker room. let's be clear about that. you get down to a place where you think about the stock. what i've always felt as a shareholder who didn't dump it in the face of takeover rumors that there is intrinsic value, this is a media company that has an unbelievable brand and something that has to be monetized. even if their customer base isn't growing as fast, maybe it's shrinking. so i think you get at a place where these guys need to work on the earnings profile, but where should the stock be trading? i think it's getting to a place wh

one stock we continue to watch his twitter.s rose after news sale of the company may not be on the table at all. the stock was upgraded to hold from cell, citing a forecast that might be on the conservative side. seagate -- shares of the hard disk drive maker after they expect higher operating costs. despite this, analysts from j.p. morgan and needham upgraded the stock to a buy on improving demand. coming up, the road ahead for samsung. how much damage could the recall due to the branded china? if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. now, streaming on twitter, this is bloomberg. ♪ angie: the pbo see as been low for a sixth straight day. is strongerg kong the first day in nine days. the market wants a new cap to the offshore trade. the bank separated its assets and wealth management firm in january as a contends with challenges, including plunging share prices and a loss of market share across europe. juliette: we are seeing widespread selling across the board. samsung woes weighing on the overall kospi. china go

i look at twitter as this. bobby kennedy once said there are those that look at things the way they are and ask why, meaning how come twitter is so bad. and other people say i dream things that never were and ask why not, how i can fix twitter. come on, if we look at twitter right now, it is so bad. but if we look at it the way bobby kennedy would look at it, it's huge. >> you know it's a great product. it's an exciting product. but obviously the business has a lot of challenges, very severe challenges. >> it could take the stock down huge if guys would just dump your stock because it's going to have a disaster quarter. 18, 19, maybe it's a price issue. i don't know. but here's the deal. the reality is, look, all i can do is one thing, which is wish my good friend jack dorsey well. that's the most -- he is the ceo of that company. >> right. >> it's his job to make that a great company. it's my job to make salesforce a great company. >> can we wish sacha will because this leaked in. it seems like a tussle. he's

take a listen to his take on twitter staying independent. an -- i think twitter is asset.aking 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. twitter havingee a future as an independent company? i think that twitter would be great as an independent country and -- company and zara acquisitions that makes sense. emily: anything you heard about? steve: i read what everybody else reason the paper. emily: what about going private? steve: it is a distraction. it would be better to put energy into innovation. emily: amateur -- interesting. rumors about you being and to buying the company and heavyweights getting together to buy the company. interest inteve: no me buying the company. emily: anybody is buying the country -- company? steve: nobody has

tough times for twitter now if you're twitter user don't worry twitter is now shutting down anytime soon if you're a vine user it's a sad day for you now the layoffs. this is around 250 to 300 jobs that will be cut. they are consolidating they are cutting their fat. they are trying to become more appealing to buyers here's why sot - marco della cava - usa tech writer marco della cava covers tech economy for usa today. he also said they have user growth problem. twitter is not gaining users snapchat instagram and other social media apps have really chipped away at them. and as cnet tech editor shara tibken points out competition killed vine. vine was a stand alone app created by twitter that let users post 6 second video loops sot - shara tibken - cnet tech writer in a statement ceo jack dorsey said "we have a clear plan, and we're making the necessary changes to ensure twitter is positioned for long-term growth," now the city of san fransisco faught hard for twitter to be based here off market street near city hall. they offered tax breaks and incesntives for now i don't think the city s

so i think people have been saying, oh, twitter is in bad shape. what can twitter do to grow?hing that's deeply influential. >> we know you have a conference call to get on, alex. it's not even 5:00 a.m. there. we appreciate you joining us. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up, senator david perdue, member of the senate antitrust subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the at&t and time warner deal will join us. check out the futures. up 44 on the dow. 6.5 almost 7 on the s&p. ite! ooh! elmo likes songs! puzzles! me love puzzles. well..puzzles are a great memorization too- dinosaurs! yess!!!! puppies! ooh! i love puppies! so do, i. actually...pets can teach important lessons abou- dancing! elmo loves to dance. okay then, let's dance. (everybody cheers) yeah baby! ♪balance transferot to othat's my game♪ bank you never heard of, that's my name♪ haa! thank you. uh, next. watch me make your interest rate... disappear. there's gotta be a better way to find the right card. whatever kind you're searching for, creditcards.com lets you compare hundreds of cards to find the one that's right f

what's twitter's best option? >> well, twitter's best option is to sell itself at some point.he question of course, will that be at a lower price point, which is my guess. you know, i continue to believe, and i must be the only person on the planet who believes that facebook would be the acquirer of this. it's a niche product and facebook has won that war, to see that stream going up and down the side next to the facebook -- >> why does facebook need twitter? >> incremental value. because it adds incrementally a different group of viewers who look at things differently. people forget, facebook and twitter, just like linkedin and other social media, they're all a little different. so what i use facebook for is very different than what i would use, say, twitter for. i would never put on facebook half the -- i would say garbage, half the stuff i put -- >> not your stuff, herb, come on. >> the twitter feed of gold, yours is, herb. >> what about google? you talk about facebook is a pew play social media company. google has failed miserably at social. this would give them a mobile m

of thewhat do you make twitter?n time onspend a lot of twitter for work and it is where my friends hang out. salesforce as a buyer make sense? john: it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. trying to help him and all the customers make sense of what is happening in the world, he is a smart guy. i take it at face value. salesforce buying clip and then salesforce is obviously on the hunt. john: they are a special company. toy set out four years ago office and they realize microsoft did not have a distribution advantage like they had for the past 30 years and are suddenly a new opening. they built a beautiful product. i think they looked at who's got the channel and he's got the distribution power to take advantage of that? i know you have some thoughts on how google may use this to their advantage. what do you think google can get out of it? john: number one, the phones look like phones. the magic is in the software. you can see what google is lou --to do is say google intelligence is going to be in everything. google ho

i think he would tell you it's twitter and the twitter feed.ut remember, mark does not look at the company and say, wow, all these guys are kurting each other and fighting; i don't know. there could be billions of people who feel like facebook is taking away all the equity. facebook, amazon, alphabet. that's all you hear about here. the only one in the game would be twitter. if you buy twitter, it's like buying an nfl franchise that's a new franchise with no players, except you're going to lose a couple years and then be able to make the plaufyoffs. mark is not a loser, but it's the only game left that's social, that's mobile, that's artificial intelligence and be the. >> good stuff. good to see you, jim. thanks. appreciate it. >> with a football remps and everything. be sure to catch. mark beioff. >> the dow up 112 points? >> do you think the run in utilities is over. our next guest says think again. he makes the case for owning them, on next with "closing bell." >>> the dow coming back up, 147, and we were at 156 at the peak there. joining us

want to trade this, twitter. >> twitter, whoever the bankers are -- >> do you think somebody makes a bid? >> definitely. if i'm one of their bankers, i'm looking at my next deal because these guys have managed to private auction in such a phenomenal way. for all we know there's only one true bidder, but they've got this stock up from $17 to $24, and it's going to be higher in all likelihood. kudos to them, whoever they are. sales force clearly wants it. i do think it's a bet the ranch. we don't see the synergies. beniof has been great. i think he has put his own company in peril because the stock price -- >> it's a huge mistake. >> somebody may come after them. in terms of twitter, makes more sense for google. >> do you think that's why sales force is down today? >> absolutely. you look at the chart. you look at when all of a sudden this twitter is on the bidding block, and you see a stocks that's $81 that goes down to $70 you and now today it's getting beat up again. the bounce up was because people started saying, well, probably not going to happen. $20 billion for a $50 billion co

> i come on here after twitter.ntaneous. liz: charlie, thank you. we're 17 minutes away when this news broke at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, the political media was in shock. donald trump held the news conference with former accusers of president bill clinton. it unfolded almost as if it were scripted moment by moment by a hollywood producer. coming up, the conservative hollywood producer who predicted nearly word for word exactly what unfolded right before america's eye, just hours before the debate. there is just one problem. that hollywood producer joins us next in a fox business exclusive to tell you what the problem is. "countdown" coming right back. >> take you live to pennsylvania. these are pictures where donald trump is about to take the stage. we are awaiting his first comments since the second presidential debate last night. and unless you live under a rock you know that mr. trump kicked off the debate coverage by holding a press conference with a group of president clinton's accusers who said that bill clinton h

we begin with twitter.irst day for shares on that report eliminating several prospective buyers. jim cramer joining us now from one market in san francisco. so, jim, we said the other day when you were w

emily: that was twitter cofounder biz stone.ad, sony is banking on virtual reality, hoping to bring the new headset to the mass market. we will head from sean -- we will hear from shawn layden next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: sony is officially competing with oculus and htc in virtual market for gamers. the vr headset is available worldwide with many calling it an inflection point for the industry. this is because it is a high-end device competing with the risk but aimed at the mass market. tens and millions of console gamers. we cut up with shawn layden -- we caught up with shawn layden to discuss. shawn: we will have about 20 or 30 and tracking about 50 front end of 2016. >> there are industrial uses, i am curious, what are the potential market you are looking at? gaming is a big one, but is your horizon bigger? shawn: it has to be. our entree into vr is into gaming. is our real house, if you will, and that is where we are attacking the market from. we have had interest from places as far as hollywood studios, music and recor

it involves one specific department, charlie. >> we'll get to that, the twitter supports unit of twitterthat is one of the big pluses to the stock right now. a lot of people say, that twitter sports is the future. it is, it is something that will take the company forward in ways it has not been taken before. we'll get to that. there are issues we hear from people inside of twitter. talk about the bidding war. we should point out we were first to report on fox business that twitter was essentially shopping itself over a year ago. put that in context. shopping for a year. if you can't find a buyer after a year, people are having second thoughts. liz: maybe they were waiting for a better price. >> other newspapers have been reporting recently there is another round of bids going out. one name that comes up in those bids that is interested in it is salesforce.com. here is what we know from wall street executives, that they are sales force, investors are telling wall street executives they're really unhappy with the possible bid. they are telling wall street executives that there may be, what

request to acquire twitter.h, some previous strong opinions on any potential bid from salesforce.com to buy twitter. rishaad: thanks a lot. we are having a look at a fate worse than that. -- death. heidi has that. reporter: that's right. rising debt levels are worrying officials that the international monetary fund area growth in the nonfinancial sector has more than doubled in nominal terms since the term of the century. since the turn-of-the-century. the irs says current debt levels of worldrecord 225% gdp, about two thirds held at a private sector with the rest being public debt, which also increased to 85% from below 70%. slow growth is making it difficult to pay off obligations, and the irs warns a cycle of low growth and leveraging. japan's economy minister says the government will eventually have to raise the sales tax again. 10% fromn increase to the current 8% will still not be enough to cut the social security costs as japan's population ages. they will have to gradually raise it to 12%, 13%, and than