written is best in europe for the $1 billion unicorn tech start—ups, those companies called unicornsbillion very early in their existence. this is right where you operate. is this music to your ears? it's music to my ears. as it a surprise, it's great that it's getting more coverage at more play and more recognition amongst the wider business community. the tech sector is the fastest—growing sector in the uk, it's been going at more than 10% the last four years. it also employs more than 2 million people in the country and is notjust a london thing either. that's the thing to emphasise was of this report was spearheaded by the digital economy council which i have the pleasure of being on but i think what is key to emphasise is that six cities outside of london also have two or more unicorns apiece. it's notjust a london story and it's something that is important to all the country. and what needs to be done to keep this going on to what extent is brexit hampering this? it's an interesting ta ke hampering this? it's an interesting take saying the tech industry is less exposed to brexi

haslinda: next, companies connecting asean: the next generation. ♪ haslinda: southeast asian unicornsree companies, connecting the country. the internet and mobile phones are giving tens of millions of sme's and millions of people access to markets and finance. indonesia has more than 75 million motorcycles. so the idea to rideshare them through the notorious traffic was good, good enough for it to now be valued at $10 million. go-jek's influence in asean is huge because it is not just ridesharing but also logistics, food, and it is expanding fast. >> we are already at about 30%, 35% in vietnam after two months to three months, so we were shocked to see the uptake so quickly, so we covered that but a lot of it will also be to expand new verticals and further increasing the penetration of our services in indonesia, which is the largest market where we are the market leader. you can see we have google, gic, and a variety of other heavy hitter financial institutions. you really see the world's best at all the key verticals we are trying to execute on in order to create this first in the

. >> people ask me all the time, are we going to see a unicorn?and doesn't even have good grants to incorporate a company here in thailand itself. all of us startups flock to singapore because of the grants. all the different initiatives they have. thailand does not really have too many of those. because of that, the first unicorn will be a singapore incorporated thai company. haslinda: the conversation today when it comes to startups is between silicon valley. do you envision a time that southeast asia could be a big part of it? it is happening right now. already you are seeing tech unicorns come up from the side of the world. haslinda: not to the extent as we are seeing in china, for instance. >> you will probably see that coming along ways in the next couple of years. you are seeing a lot more new tech startups come over on the this side of the world. myself, coming back from the valley to see what else we can do to invest over here. we are investing in companies over here, startups over here. so, you know i do see huge , amounts of opportunity

you about the unicorn horns. there are these shoes with unicorn horns on them and, unfortunately, a dozen people say the horn can fall off of the shoe. the company sold 29,000 pairs. they're made by cat and jack kids sizes 5 to 12, reggie. >> okay. >> kids can choke on it. if you have a pair return them to target for a refund. >> never trust a unicorn. >> never trust it. >> i have said that for how many years? >> forever. why don't you take the next story. >>> new details on uber's flying taxi service. melbourne, australia, will be the first to allow test flights starting next year. uber previously announced it will test fly taxis in l.a. and dallas. they may reduce road construction, commercial operations could begin as soon as 2023. i'll do it as soon as all of you do it first. i'll watch you from the ground. >> i mean, to beat the traffic, amazing. it's got me scared, mike. >> well, yeah, especially the way a helicopter flies and the issues we've had lately with those. i'm going to wait a while. let them shake

haslinda: next, companies connecting asean: the next generation. ♪ haslinda: southeast asian unicornsree companies, connecting the country. the internet and mobile phones are giving tens of millions of sme's and millions of people access to markets and finance. indonesia has more than 75 million motorcycles. so the idea to rideshare them through the notorious traffic was good, good enough for it to now be valued at $10 million. iset's influence in asean huge because it is not just ridesharing but also logistics, food, and it is expanding fast. >> we are already at about 30%, 35% in vietnam after two months to three months, choose we were shocked to see the update so quickly, so we covered that but a lot of it will also be to expand new verticals and further increasing the penetration of our services in indonesia, which is the largest market where we are the market leader. gic,an see we have google, and i a variety of other heavy hitter financial institutions. 's bestlly see the world at all the key verticals we are trying to execute on in order to create this first in the world are su

also e-commerce and digital economy and unicorns.stic that the aspirations of the millennials, gen z, will come much more to fruition in the hands of the next generation leadership across asean. haslinda: china is asean's largest trading partner and has been for the past 10 years. how it launches across beijing and washington is just one of many foreign-policy challenges. pangestu: the south china trade issue is pulling us apart. tpp splitting us down the middle. somehow, asean has been able to be resilient and maintain its progress, even though, in some years, you could say it was slow. but i think there's always an effort to say, what's the next challenge that we have? mr. lembong: so we literally sit at a crossroads of global trade. 90% of the oil and gas from the middle east heading to the far east. passes through indonesia. the states of malacca. it has made us very open to international traffic, if you will. trade, tourism, investment. it has made us extremely tolerant of diversity, of cultures. ms. indrawait: if you talk about

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other unicorns, unprofitable unicorns. new york stock exchange covering all of this. gerri? reporter: slack, the email keller, we expected a valuation of 15 billion. we got 26 billion. the company did well with a direct listing. what does it mean? essentially no investment banker is standing in the background standing behind the stock. it went very well indeed. pictures of the open is right here. compare that to first-day performances by other companies in the category or just big-time ipos. cloud strike. doom video which is in the enterprise software arena up 72%. that bodes well for slack's performance. that can category does so well. uber, the ride-hailing app fell 7.6% in part because it was lousy day for stocks. it helped slack that the market was on fire. s&p was setting a record. the dow finishing up 284 point right here. the only other direct listing we really have experience with here is spotify. it is first day trading 12.89% higher. very good performance indeed. i got to tell you a lot of people happy down here

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their quick action after a 911 call from the family brought the boy and the unicorn safely back to shoreeers say the raft acted lying a sail making it move too fast for the boy to stop. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," google presses play on a new online video game service, and deals for national doughnut day. diane king hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, diane. >> good morning, anne-marie. all eyes on the job market with the delivery of the jobs report later this monday. stocks closed higher yesterday amid hopes u.s./mexico trade talks are making progress. the dow rallied 181 points, the the s&p 500 gained 17 points, and nasdaq added 30 points. >>> google will allow people to play games directly over wi-fi with any tv with chrome cast, a computer with a chrome browser and google pixel phones. there are no downloads as the games exist on cloud servers. staid ya can also sync game progress among devices. >>> today marks the first ever world food service safety day. the initiative was to shed light on the importance of safe food. there are an estimated 600

a little boy swept out to sea on a unicorn raft.s now telling his story only on "gma." >>> first, let's go back over to ginger. >> i have a stunning dust devil show you. that's in central iowa. i have to leave you right there because we have to get to your tuesday trivia sponsored by amazon echo. >>> good morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. poor air quality, dangerous heat once again today. it will start tapering tonight as you get better sleeping weather, especially in san francisco. it will be mild to warm through the weekend. temperatures in the 70s along the coast, oakland and san mateo in the east bay, 100s. my accuweather >>> so for all the folks on the west coast a little tip from millie. just do this. get a little popsicle. yes. millie loves it. that is how you stay cool. okay? >> yummy. thanks, ginger. we'll be right back. thanks, jiker. w we'll be right back. filing complaints ssatisfieds against the german auto make ♪ because a vision softly creeping ♪ ♪ left its seeds while i was sleeping ♪ ♪ and the vision

and china's unicorn capping global lenders but in the midst of a u.s.rade war, is it a risk to investors? first, to our top story, facebook shares took a hit earlier today after the wall street journal reported mark zuckerberg knew about the social network's problematic privacy practices. facebook uncovered emails in the process of responding to a federal privacy investigation, raising concerns that they would be harmful to the company if they became public. the journal says that is part of the reason why the company salt -- sought a quick settlement. here in me in san francisco, our bloomberg tech executive editor, so, tom, explained this to me here. the nuts and bolts here. what is the journal saying that facebook uncovered? tom: they are referring to an email exchange, which, by the way, they have not seen them. we certainly haven't. we don't know where they got them. apparently there was this exchange in 2012, around the time that the ftc was handing down this consent degree punishment about facebook and its privacy practices. at the time, there was

promise impossible is yet another fantasyland unicorn promise around rex and which keeps us stuck inty, we talk about what sounds literally appealing to those 100,000 conservative party members who will choose our prime minister. the problem is that the position of borisjohnson or anybody problem is that the position of boris johnson or anybody else has been weakened over the last three years where theresa may said no deal is better than a bad deal and improved she did not believe that. where we stared at the eu and said we will leave without a deal and then said no, we are too scared. we don't have the stomach nor the numbers because two—thirds of parliament want a deal. it will be difficult for a new part i minister convince the eu that they are ready to take britain outwith no deal and that they mean business. if they can do that, they may strike a better deal. finally, none of the things that have made theresa may's life hell for the past year will change with the new prime minister. will be still no majority for the conservative party in parliament, no deal will still be risky f

to startups the country doesn't appear to have reached its potential yet it has only 14 so-called unicorn's tech startups valued at a $1000000000.00 or more compare that to china which has 84 and the united states which has a 150 but it does look like things are changing a small number of startups in the country have already it may have already made it mega big earning their founders a fortune let's take a look at some of the major players here there is 1000000000 bansal who founded e-commerce platform flip card there is a bottle of online selling portal snapdeal and bobbish are all who co-founded ride sharing service caps and it's the promise of this kind of success that has got investors increasingly interested in the country's sort of. bungalow is the center in india understands a hot spot irresistible for a company like x.l. sex isn't venture fun we have 3 offices one in san francisco so.

is slack a unicorn in that record, we will explore. >>> and deep discount darlings, goldman hits the brakes on tesla. we'll get to all of that in rapid fire we begin with today's record breaking rally we're starting to head back up there. dom chu with the

it has only 14 so-called unicorns tech startups valued at a $1000000000.00 or more compare that to china which has $84.00 and the united states which has a $150.00 but it does look like things are changing a small number of startups in the country have already it may have already made it mega big earning their founders a fortune let's take a look at some of the major players here there is billy bansal who founded e-commerce platform flip card there is a ball of online selling portal snapdeal and bobbish are all who co-founded ride sharing service caps and it's the promise of this kind of success that has got investors increasingly interested in the country's sort of. bungalow is the center in india and the stars of hot spots irresistible for a company like x.l. sex it isn't venture fun we have 3 offices one in san francisco 2nd is in london 3rd of them india the india fund where work is about a $1000000000.00 in assets x.l. offers new startups office space and capital in return for a stake it aims to get in at the beginning just as the business takes off until recently online business mo

i'm pleased to say we are joined by one of new york's rare unicor unicorns you are the co-founder ofyour valuation is $2.8 million do you expect more from soft bank >> the question is do we need more we're probably way over capitalized for our plan already so whether we need more capital is the question. if we needed more, i think we've got some pretty strong investors around us. the 440 million is good and we have gic, et cetera, we have deep pockets. >> what do you plan to do with that money specifically? is it more specifically focused on using it and allocating it? you're taking a step back? >> the focus is very much executing the business rather than raising capital and the focus within that is really the u.s. market for us within the u.s. we've been operational for just under a year now we have a team of 20 and we're scaling that team continually. we have set up our own origination and a platform of loans if they so wish. >> one of the challenges with the u.s. market is not just the banks, it's also tech monies that are making big payments into the banking industry. how do you

in europe and we have seen roughly one unicorn a month since the last london tech week.ning to borisjohnson launches tony leadership there, calling for a clea n b rea k tony leadership there, calling for a clean break with europe and we wonder what impact that has on business? particularly on technology thatis business? particularly on technology that is doing so well. the most significant impact on business as uncertainties of the quicker we can bring a to an end the better business will like it. you hear that as much as i do. the tech sector pots greatest concern is access to talent and it is partly about skills and emigration. as we leave the eu we have the chance to control our own immigration policy and to design it and own immigration policy and to design itandi own immigration policy and to design it and i want to make sure that the interests of the tech sector and helped load and clear and with us deciding that systems within these can be met. thank you. the boom in techjobs. more later. we'll see what is happening in the commons because prime ministers questions

in particular, unicorns, the name for those worth more than $1 billion.pe. and celebrations too for spain's abc — its front page dedicated to rafael nadal whose won the french open for the 12th time. with me is eileen burbidge, co—founder and partner at passion capital. you cannot avoid anywhere in the world, it would seem in france, they are discussing the possible tenders for the leader of the conservative party and of course prime minister. they're looking at borisjohnson and the french prime minister ‘s

we are seeing other big unicorns such as alibaba's financial affiliate.y have been private for the longest time. these are the big leading tech companies in china. they are really taking their time instead of rushing to the public market, unlike their other peers in china. emily: coming up, and lawmakers thoughts on big tech. our conversation with congressman a doug collins of georgia is next. and we are live streaming on twitter, check us out and follow our global breaking news network tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcome back to "best of bloomberg technology." i am emily chang. house judiciary committee held hearings to find out if tech has gotten too big. it looked at the detrimental effect the internet has had on journalism. more american adults get their news from social media than print newspapers. a top republican on the judiciary committee attended the hearings and spoke with bloomberg. >> it is something that is on how tech can work together to provide a better platform so everyone can be enriched. we do not want to lose that. b

the unicorns do it i hate it. why?f something goes wrong, you and your fellow shareholders don't have any other recourse other than to dump the stock you can't throw them out nine day ace go when slack announced guidance for the full 2020 fiscal year, it had hair on it the quarter revenue growth slowed from the high 60s to the low 50s. for the full year they are forecasting revenue growth and includes high visibility revenue so maybe they are being conservative and doing a little sand bagging with that in mind, how much would slack be worth under work, easy enough. wrk. what should you be willing to pay? the highest price paid was $31.50 a share we found slack's reference price is around $26. given that we have the company's own full-year forecast and analysts that rolled out coverage, we can get a decent sense of the valuation 3 $31.50 they will trade at 19 times sales the peer group comes close and much cheaper than ipos with the rapid growth rates like crowd street and beyond meat and video. this is much cheaper at

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yesterday was good timing for another tech unicorn debut. and slack surging, up more than 50% at one point. this is not an ipo because it didn't need to raise money. but a direct lifting. so early investors can cash out and grocery outlets. they call themselves the t.j. maxx of groceries. advance of 30%. so when you have the winds and the back behind you, it's a good day for their debut. back to you. >> neil: thank you, susan. slack was 50% today? >> again, they didn't need to raise cash. but a tech unicorn that is still not profitable. >> neil: thanks very much. i apologize for the bad graphic there. meantime, we're still hearing about the meeting going on in the situation room at the white house. the senate foreign relations chairman is among them. the president is outlining what we're told is proof that this was over international airspace, that it was something that we have to respond to but we don't know exactly how those in that room plan to do so after this. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps y

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emphasis on public/private partnerships our next guest, the ceo of the robotic at the time and ai unicorng the companies advising the white house their current companies include uber, pandora, and mcdonald's and is coming off a massive $560 billion funding round. is an ipo the next step? joining us is the company's founder, daniel dines. $560 million funding round is that right? right >> yeah, yeah. but we raised more than a billion in total. >> talk to me about training, what, more than three-quarters of a million workers on this how do they learn? >> we have quite a simple to learn platform it's a software platform they have to learn to train the robots using our platform. it's really easy it's more like using microsoft excel. if you can use microsoft excel, can you use our platform. >> you can graduate in a few weeks? couple days? >> i would say a couple months you'll be proficient with it >> how are you going to decide who gets that kind of training do they have to apply? are they chosen? >> i think that everybody can get the training, really it's -- and then it's about graduation, ac

get ready to make a public debut torr moowwe will tell you what is atk for this unicorn live from times square in new york city, much more "fast money" right after this. >>> welcome back to "fast money" we have a new goes alert on slack ahead of its direct listing tomorrow let's get to leslie pick art on the detals. >> reporter: hey, melissa. the new york stock exchange revealing a reference price it where slack will begin trading of $26 it does not raise capital for the company, so that $26 per share price is not the price by which they will be offering shares to investors. it is rather a psychological benchmark so when the market making begins tomorrow, when buyers and sellers are matched right here on the floor of the new york stock exchange by the designated market maker, then they have a psychological benchmark by which to start that process. so $26 a share represents about double where they last raised private fundraising in august 2018 at about $11.91 per share. so quite a big jump up for those investors who participated in their series h round melissa. >> what are the comps sinc

. >> the boy drifted a half mile off the coast of north carolina on a unicorn raft.his morning, his parents have a message for anyone headed to the beach. >> i was really scared and thinking like i might die. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a fun family day at the beach for this ohio family but it turned into a terrifyingrdfor io young son drifted tout see. >> my son is floating out in the middle of the ocean on a floatty thing. he doesn't have a life jacket on and he doesn't really know how to swim. >> 8-year-old declan drifted farther and farther away. his father jumping into action right away but no avail. >> as soon as we saw him drifting off shore, we went after him and myself and his uncle nick found quickly we were not making ground. he was moving out faster than we were. >> with authorities on the way, a team of rescue volunteers headed out to sea eventually bringing the young boy back to the beach. >> it was a lot of tears, exhalation. fses reki all tmo two 5-year-old girls were rescued in their raft. and this boy. >> i started to freak out, we will never

target is recalling these kids' rain boots because the unicorn horn poses a choking hazard. there you go. nearly a dozen people said the horn has fallen off. the company sold 29,000 pairs of these cat and jack boots in kids' sizes. you can return it for a refund. >> and delivering food in san diego this summer. let me explain what uberup orde drone. that would fly to it a staging area. there you go. there, a human courier takes over, taking the food, i should say, right to the customer's door. uber says it is in the final stages of getting faa approval. >> it is all changing so fast. >> amazing! will that really work? >>> time to talk about a cooldown. >> we've been desperate for this for a couple days. drew? >> yeah. i'm excited to show you the forecast. we've finally broken the heat wave. widespread cooling. there is the fog. it is moving from the south and will overtake much of the bay area and bring us a night night of sleeping finally. sutro tower. you should be able to see the golden gate bridge from this camera. it is just socked in. as that marine layer continues on

there really was a unicorn.cal to see the smiles. >> those kids have gone through so much. >> thanks for joining us. nightly news starts in 60 seconds from london? we hope we'll see you for news 4 we hope we'll see you for news 4 at 11:00 on ti tonight.me we hope we'll see you for news 4 at 11:00 on ti tonight.me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> breaking news tonight. stunning developments after the high school massacre in parkland. the florida deputy and school resource officer who stayed outside and hid while udents were being slaughtered inside has tonight been arrested on a slew of charges, including child neglect for failing to act and confront the gunman. >> the school resource edofficer that cower behind a wall and let my peers die has finally been held accountable. >> prosecutors say he refused to investigate and directed other officers to stay away from the blding while 17 students and staff were executed inside.> >>so tonight, from pageantry to politics and protests in london, as president trump dines with a

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they've been involved in quite a number of high-profile hacks and discovering who was behind those a unicornto this a strong start in the first moments of trade let's send it to sue herera for a news update. >> here's what's happening at this hour. japan's prime minister shinzo abe arriving in tehran today, with the hope of easing the rising tensions between iran and the u.s. he is the first japanese prime minister to visit iran since the 1979 islamic revolution. >>> saudi arabia is reporting yemen's iranian-backed houthi rebels is responsible for attacking one of the wingdom's airport. injuring 23 people saudi arabia has been at work against those rebels since 2015. >>> florida lowering flags to half-staff and asking residents to pause to remember the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting. it's the three-year anniversary of that rampage which left 49 people dead at a gay nightclub in orlando the gunman, who had pledged allegiance to the islamic state, was killed after a stand-off by s.w.a.t. team members. >>> and take a lookat this video, a driver blaming an allergy attack for crashing hi

we are seeing other big unicorns such as alibaba's financial affiliate.y have been private for the longest time. so these are the really big leading tech companies in china. they are really taking their time instead of rushing to the public market, like their other peers in china. emily: bloomberg's crystal tse there. coming up, we head to capitol hill to hear one lawmaker's thoughts on big tech. our conversation with congressman doug collins of georgia is next. and bloomberg tech is live streaming on twitter, check us out @technology. and follow our global breaking news network @tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ hey! i'm bill slowsky jr., i live on my own now! i've got xfinity, because i like to live life in the fast lane. unlike my parents. you rambling about xfinity again? you're so cute when you get excited... anyways... i've got their app right here, i can troubleshoot. i can schedule a time for them to call me back, it's great! you have our number programmed in? ya i don't even know your phone anymore... excuse me?! what? i don't know your pho