welcome facebook says have been rising and extended trading after it announced full cost beating 2nd quarter revenues of almost $17000000000.00 this just hours after the u.s. authorities hit the social network with a spectacular find the federal trade commission ordered facebook to pay $5000000000.00 u.s. dollars over its failure to protect user data it also told the network to set up an independent committee to oversee its privacy policy c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says facebook was making major changes that signaled quote a new chapter 3. 1000000000. financial correspondent just a dilemma is that they've been friends with chelsea seeing companies with big funds a lot recently and shows usually went on the news was different this time that's true for a lot of companies it's typically not sure for facebook so people call facebook the tough one company it can sort of shake off really all sorts of regulatory concerns really all these criticisms it hasn't had much of it and packed on its share price i think the other thing here is that you know facebook made 16000000000 years and dollars in

. >>> welcome back. facebook said it will add a new rule ban being misinformation.after president trump openly delayed the count after the controversial citizenship question back to a lower court. facebook criticized for suppression back in 2016. they will add a civil rights task force to actively monitoring. facebook promised to ban ads that discourage voting. the u.s. supreme court has wrapped up its 2019 term. joining us, our guest. as the supreme court closed out this term, what are the biggest decisions we saw so far this year? >> the biggest of the big was probably the census decision, which basically the supreme court held that the census -- excuse me. my biggest number one was the gerrymandering case because the supreme court essentially said it presented a nonjust tishable question. the supreme courts can't even touch them because they are not allowed to. if they did, they would interfere with the entire political process. for that reason, whatever you thought gerrymandering was before, we are entering a whole new universe. now that it has been sanctioned,

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. >>> welcome back. facebook slapped with a record fine, charged $5 billion bucks by the federal trade commission over the company privacy policy. that is a lot of money to just about everyone except facebook. for facebook, it's less than 1% of their $537 billion market kap. in fact, the punch of that fine was wiped out by a $6 billion gain in their stock yesterday. central to the most recent criticism of facebook privacy practices is the cambridge analytica scandal and its role in shaping the 2016 election. the company was a central player in the influence campaign targeting persuadable voters to lean toward president trump. the president's 2016 campaign spent a total of $5.9 million bucks for the company's services. cambridge analytica employees were even embedded with the campaign's digital team along with facebook and google employees. now a chilling netflix documentary called "the great hack" is digging into cambridge, facebook, data collection at large, and all the parts they played in the influence campaig

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welcome to the program. u.s. lawmakers have urged facebook to halt its cryptocurrency plans they want time to investigate the risks libera poses to the global financial system it comes as regulators in europe call for closer scrutiny a senior official of britain's financial watchdog says the issues raised require deep thought and detail. introducing lead for a new global currency designed for the digital world facebook has promised finance for the future with its new crypto currency and i'm saying its arrival mark zuckerberg said libra would empower billions of people even those without bank accounts will be able to send money around the world with these what's more facebook says libra will be what's called a stable coin meaning it will have none of the volatility associated with bitcoin and other quick 2 currencies it says it will ensure that by linking its value to other established global monetary systems. major corporate players are already backing libra even if some of the world's financial leaders are not. bank of england approaches lib

." ♪ charles: facebook welcomed with not so open arms in capitol hill.enators making their displeasure with the company on a grilling of libra cryptocurrency. ebb wardlaw recognize live in washington with more. edward? reporter: senators were very concerned about facebook's past problems, now their plans to lawn of the cryptocurrency called libra. >> i don't think for a minute that facebook created hate but we know that their competing missions of connecting people and turning a profit creating an algorithm and a business model that intensified it. >> the head of colibra david marcus defending what facebook has done with privacy breaches, selling customers data and slow to react to russian agents trying to affect the election. >> why in the world should facebook of all companies given the last couple of years do this? >> senator, because we have the ability and the means to innovate on behalf of the people we serve and we shouldn't, we shouldn't stand back and wait to do it if we can help the very people that we want to serve because we have the resource

. ♪ >> welcome back, some headlines, facebook headquarters evacuated over a chemical nerve agent scareuildings told to get after passage of possible sarah and in california. the poisonous gas could cause paralysis or death. hazmat crews removed the package and are working to identify the substance. no one was injured and the fbi is investigating. hundreds of agents deployed to help the border crisis but the head of the agency says it shouldn't slowdown your july 4th travel plans. the tsa chief says they can handle shortstaffed airports without sacrificing wait times. the agency plans to screen 12 million people between tomorrow and sunday and several presidential candidates want to give healthcare to illegal immigrants. you've heard about that but a new poll shows that's not what most americans want. >> raise your hand if you're government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. >> according to a cnn poll 59% of americans don't want government to enact healthcare for illegals. 38% say they support the idea. a strong showing at the democratic debate has kamala harris sk

. ♪ >>> welcome balk to "fast money" check out shares of facebook jumping in after hours, up as muchs 4% at one point. now it is up 2%. beating on the top and bottom lines, revenue rose 28% compared to last year this results come of course after the company struck a $5 billion settlement with the ftc. what should we make of this, pete >> think when we look when it comes up to the 5 billion number, yes, it is a record number and all of the rest, but look at the cash flow of the company. they have 46 billion in cash the cash flow somewhere around 10.5, $11 billion, you know. so there's a lot of different reasons why, yes, it is a penalty on anybody yes, it is a penalty on facebook but they digested that, mel, before we came into the earnings when you look at the earnings numbers and you see they still are putting out growth had is a company everybody said, oh, we're all leaving. we want to leave this platform i'm going to zbreinstagram. facebook happens to own instagram. >> sounds like you are laying the case for the government here for antitrust. >> if they choose to and that will mak

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welcome pressure. pressure actually gives us more motivation to do things better. i certainly hope the whole technology, notjust facebookosystem brings together, all teams up and makes it better and more secure, make it better and more secure, make it better for everybody. the whole problem is about connectivity, better access and easier commerce across borders. i think those problems when solved can help humankind and make society better. christine lagarde has announced she will be stepping down as managing director of the international monetary fund this september. the move comes ahead of her nomination to be the first female resident of the european central bank. as head of these national monetary fund, christine lagarde was pretty unique. the former french finance minister was the first female to lead the globalfinancial was the first female to lead the global financial institution, which a cts global financial institution, which acts as a lender of last resort and provides economic guidance to governments around the world. under her leadership, the fund successfully helped its members navigate a complex set of chal

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back to my smartphone my ip address my emails my bookmarks my twitter account my facebook timeline. welcome to the mattress. the. how do the east coast heat wave from the us is being brushed out of the way and it's this frontal system is doing you see the progress going towards the atlantic as it does so it knocks temps back about 10 degrees in sunder storms so new york turned out on wednesday to be 26 degrees in clearer skies blue above you wet pavement admittedly but fine weather once again it's still going to sticky as a good southern georgia florida not green could produce some pretty heavy rain fresh from it seems quite likely that the rest of us is remarkably quiet we've got to fog coming across the bridge into san francisco bay but that's not so unusual this time the a 90 degrees at best and we got to it 29 but not humid in washington on thursday move over to new york but again is unsure florida's the place to watch probably and the bahamas i suspect we've got some pretty well it's coming in the bahamas next 2 days south of this the breeze brings on frequent light showers to lesser a

co-founder of samhill strategy who's been following the ftc 16-month probe into facebook from the very start. guys, welcome to you both. and, tony, first to you on the facebook issue there's a lot of complaints today that it doesn't go far enough, the ftc says, look, it's a record fine, unprecedented and so forth what more do people want to see done here? >> right so it's sort of a tale of two settlements. there are the folks who agree with what the commission has done because it puts facebook under another 20 years of oversight by the federal trade commission it is the largest financial penalty we have ever seen for a privacy violation in the u.s. but there are a lot of folks largely democrats at the ftc and lawmakers on capitol hill who feel that the commission really should have gone farther here in the kinds of things that it did to hold facebook ceo mark zuckerberg accountable or in the kinds of things that it extracted out of facebook in the form of requiring them to change the way that they collect data in the first place that aside, if there's one point of agreement among everybody here, it's that

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. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to the best of bloomberg technology. facebookter results out wednesday proving yet again, the company can grow while still sailing the heat from regulators worldwide. just hours after facebook the social media giant confirmed it is now also being investigated by the fcc on antitrust over its social media ads and mobile apps. this, as daily active users eat estimates but with his reputation continually under assault, just how? i asked marketers. >> we have multiple parts of the government investigating facebook for multiple things. i think what of the most salient things about the settlement and the $5 billion fine is that facebook did not really admit they did anything wrong. we really haven't seen them really show a lot of introspection about why all this happened. and i think that is really telling. unfortunately, the reason it happened is because they have had the report governance and it has blood out into all areas of their business and it is causing them long-term, ongoing harm. >> we are going to talk to one of the commiss

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france's parliament is set to approve a levy on the likes of google and facebook — risking new trade tensions with the us. a warm welcomeprogramme — briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. also in the programme, the latest research says an extra 100ml of sugary drinks a day — about two cans a week — would increase the risk of cancer by 18%. so we'd like to know to what extent do you chose foods or drinks based on health? get in touch — just use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. armed iranian boats are reported to have tried to intercept a british oil tanker near the strait of hormuz before being driven off by a british warship. media reports quoting us officials said the iranian vessel asked the tanker to stop in iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a warning from a royal navy frigate. it's a strategically very important stretch of water between the persian gulf and the gulf of oman, bordered by iran and the united arab emirates. peter bowes reports. this tanker, the british heritage tanker was passing through the area. it was about to cross the strait of hormuz when there was an attem

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® ♪ done >>> welcome back executives from facebook, apple, goi google and amazon are currently testifying tech giants face probes. let's bring in dan ives and also david gregory. good morning to you both damag dan, i'll start but. real risk or politics? >> i think it is more noise at least in the near term but the drum roll is getting louder for big tech and i think it speaks to some of the antitrust worries. if i you viewed most at risk, probably amazon, baba, facebook. least would be apple >> why amazon? >> because two distinct businesses and i think that is really where i think investors went from background noise a little more of a focus to see what comes out of hearings. >> and what is your take, david, so which is most at risk >> i think the companies most at risk, facebook clearly in the crosshairs of regulatoregulator obviously if you look at amazon and their ability to control the access of thousands of businesses to their customers across the aws platform, i would see amazon as being more at risk perhaps than facebook. facebook already has enough issues of their own to begin wit

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on facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch followers. welcome to news from the world of arts and culture and we will be looking at the future of music robots ai and hopefully the human touch as well also coming up an exclusive wine festival in switzerland only takes place 5 times every century. and a german island that has more coastline per square kilometer than any other. we start with music and a landmark ruling by the european union's top colt the case involving iconic german band craft back and hip hop producer moses pelham who used to craft sample on a 99 head of his european court of justice ruled that if the song but is recognizable music producers have to oss the office of mission a case that could affect the future of music. and the future of music is actually what we're going to concentrate all now call fact we're only pretending to be robots in the 19th seventy's today robots or some form of ai creating music composing it and our access to music has changed.

facebook nominated chief privacy officer with a million dollar fine hello, and welcome to kqed. we begin our show wi special council robert mueller's testimony to the house judicialal and intelligence committees on wednesday. he spent hours in front of the congressional committees sounding the alarm of russian interference in our ctelns and pushing back president trump's insistence the two-year victims in the 2016 was a witch hunt but he didn't give democrats the game changing moment they were look for. it remains unclear whanther republwill do anything to combat what mueller warned was an active threat from russia. . >>> >>> joing me is thepositions of partners on siboth s. there were key moments in which she indicated that he bewould n able to charge the president sitting president under the department of justice policy and president could be charged after he leaves office. for republicans, they found e modence that in their framing of it, the mueller report not producing any damming evidence against the president and it was a last, last gasp hail mary attempt for democrats to

neither facebook nor twitter was welcomed. ould answer those conservative complaints amid a growing drumbeat for regulation. >> there are a lot of people that want us to take action against facebook and against twitter and frankly against amazon. >> reporter: the outrage is ironic for this president, who has used social media far more than any other, with more than 25 million facebook followers, almost 62 million on twitter, and tens of thousands of posts and tweets to his name, he has met every call for him to rein it in with an unshakable belief in the power it gives him. >> i put one out this morning and as soon as i pressed the button, they said, we have breaking news. every network, everybody station. >> reporter: in addition, trump supporters have pumped the internet full of their content. some of it inflammatory, false, or otherwise in violation of platform policies. yet trump and other conservatives insist the social media giants are blocking their followers, stifling their free speech, and pushing a liberal agenda. tru

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hello, and welcome to the weekend tech. it was a week that facebookus senate over its plans for cryptic currency. the us air force have one people not to go near area 51 after more than a million people rsvp to an event created on facebook. an computer paneer and codebreaker alan turing was revealed as a new face on the british £50 note. elon musk announced more details of work carried out on his newer technology company. it plans to insert threads into people's brains. the technology has enabled a monkey to use a computer. the new migs including wheelchair and guide dog uses work showed off. galileo, europe's gps satellite has been off—line for almost a week, with no word as yet of whent it might be switched on again. an mit developed a way to make drains seem even more minister. researchers have created a new type of craft with the benefits of hovering and glide and travel vertically. this is how the apollo astronauts got about on the moon. it seems pretty racy, even by today's standards but the next time you go to the moon and mars, our vehicles wi

on facebook and twitter up to date in touch from the us. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture we'll be looking at the unusual history of drones in an exhibition in southern germany also. kung fu meets in a production of the chinese tour adopts. and in our continuing series 100 german must reads a novel cold why we took the call. drones have become really popular in the last 10 years due to technological advances which meant they were easier to control and at the same time federal aviation authorities began to give out commercial licenses soon you could be getting your post and certainly your possibles delivered by drone however an exhibition zeppelin museum in friedrich solving in southern germany shows that drones in some form or a been around for centuries. the 1st drone in history launched a frenchman into the sky in 1783 after landing in paris the hot air balloon was attacked by angry farmers the wood is different in but they had no information whatsoever about this experimental voyage they thought the hot air balloon was some sor

welcome back. $5 billion, that's how much facebook is being forced to pay up over privacy breaches.iant reached a settlement after a sweeping investigation revealed how the company lost control over massive troves of personal data and mishandled its communications with users. cnn tech reporter joining me right now. good to see you. this is the largest fine in ftc history, but it's not exactly hurting facebook, is it? >> that's right, fred. facebook really got off the hook here. it sounds strange to say that when it is a historic $5 billion fine, but -- when you put that in perspective, that's only about one month of the company's revenue. when word of this fine came down a few weeks ago, facebook's stock price went up. so i think, you know, they really did get away with quite a lot here. and it was quite a serious breach of trust. there was the camera bridge analytica scandal, but they were asking users for their phone numbers to help them as a security feature, but they were targeting users with advertising using their phone numbers as a result of that. >> how does this deal with f

facebook has ambitious plans to improve diversity. are they realistic? the global chief diversity officer tells us how they are planning to boost numbers, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcometo "best of bloomberg technology," i'm emily chang. facebook set to boost diversity. the company announced plans to double the number of female employees globally over the next five years, as well as the number of black and hispanic employees in the u.s. the company wants half of the u.s. workforce to be from underrepresented groups by 2024. we sat down with their global chief diversity officer, maxine williams. maxine: there has been research done by credible institutions that having goals is one of the ways you have change. goals makes a difference. it is one of the five things you should be doing. we want to do what is best practice. we have been building for the last six years, the muscle, strategies. some things have worked, some have not. we are in a place now where we have that muscle to release these goals on top of it and boost further. emily: you are looking to change numbers. 50-50. do you have secret innovative plans that we do not know about? maxine: i wish. i wish. i woul

. >>> welcome back to "the exchange." as facebook'sarnings showed last night, tech giants continue to dominate the advertising market, despite the looming threat of regulation from washington but there are some signs that their growth could be starting to slow. for more, i'm joined by sarah fisher, media reporter at axios and julia boorstin we're going to hear from amazon and google after the bell tonight. are you still seeing overall a picture of these guys gobbling up major advertising market share? >> they're expected to continue to grow their ad businesses. google's expects to have slowed growth which means it's not going to be growing as fast as it used to be. but at the end of the day analysts predict google will end the year taking 30% of the digital ad market for the entire world. amazon a little smaller of a business but it's expected to grow faster because it's not as mature >> julia, what jumped out to you about facebook last night which, again, put up -- just showed the business continues to execute despite all the headwind

hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that facebookover its plans for cryptocurrency, libra. the us air force have warned people not to go near nevada military base, area 51, after more than a million people rsvped to a storm area 51 event created on facebook. and computer pioneer and celebrated codebreaker, alan turing, was revealed as the new face on the british £50 note. elsewhere, elon musk announced more detail of the work being carried out by his neurotechnology company, neuralink. the company plans to insert threads into paralysed people's brains. and said that the technology has already enabled a monkey to operate a computer. new emojis featuring disabled people wit ha range of impairments have been announced for apple and android. smiley face thumbs up. the new emojis, which include wheelchair and guide dog users among others, were shown off on world emoji day. if your satnav got you more lost than usual this week it might have been the satellite‘s fault, not your device's. galileo, europe's gps network of satellites, has had

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facebook's global chief diversity officer tells us how they are planning to boost numbers, next. ♪ emily: welcome "best of bloomberg technology," i'm emily chang. facebook has set big goals to boost workforce diversity. in its annual diversity report, the social company announced plans to double the number of female employees globally over the next five years as well as a -- the number of black and hispanic employees in the united states. the company also said it wants half of the u.s. workforce to be from underrepresented groups by 2024. we sat down with their global chief diversity officer, maxine williams, on wednesday and asked why they are setting these goals now. maxine: there has been research done by very credible institutions to say that having goals is one of the ways in which you drive change. ford foundation has done a lot of work, a big study on why people believe technology and they have seen that having goals makes a difference. it is one of the five things you should be doing, and we want to do what is best practice. we have been building for the last six years, the machinery, str