all mps have their whatsapp groups.rivileged, speaking of which i was moved to the sun one of which i was moved to the sun one of the number of tabloids who continue to pour on the so buyer pays which is about a channel 4 documentary and the debate is about whether the document is ethically right or not. how is the position that journalists, right or not. how is the position thatjournalists, editors are often putting, is there a line you can cross with it comes to someone's pussy being invaded for a story? samak with were sold —— somebody‘s privacy being in invaded. diana chose to speak candidly, her brother tried to stop her from getting these tapes back and it is a question of is this in the national interest, four doing it make money to the public have a right to know or is it too hurtful to her sons? siolj public have a right to know or is it too hurtfulto her sons? sio i think a lot of broadcasts and journalists in these type of stories get awfully holier than thou but if they had been offering these tapes they wou

, none of us -- i think one person on the desk knew what whatsapp was. turns out, it was pretty ingenious by them. and look at what google and youtube. youtube seemed to be an afterthought i think people are now valuing youtube anywhere from 50 to $75 billion. so the guys and gals that are running these shops are doing a pretty good deal i'm not certain where facebook is going to go, but content's not a crazy thought. >> and one thing pushed by zuckerberg for a long time, video. every quarter you hear him talk about video, video, video, so to had ad on top of that, all of thaez streams. think about the ad generation they could get from that >> we got google, or alphabet's earnings, excuse me, and now we have facebook's earnings now that we have both results and we can see where these guys monetize and what they monetize, dan, would you rather? >> i think google on a valuation basis, and also, i think the sentiment is not nearly as rosy in google as it is in facebook right now. i like the fact that actually google has been pretty volatile, has been tradin

they made with whatsapp.and iimagine whatsapp. they kept that intact, and i imagine once they start monetising whatsapp there will be huge opportunities. in other news, the chairwoman of hewlett—packa rd opportunities. in other news, the chairwoman of hewlett—packard has stepped down from the board of directors. she has been named as a possible contender for the top job at uber. she is leaving the computer maker after a tumultuous time on the desktop pc market, which has hit the company hard. boeing's shares have climbed after reporting better—than—expected quarterly earnings. shares in the aerospace giant finished up nearly 10%. the result showed how cost—cutting has helped offset the effects of lower commercial plane deliveries in the first half of the year compared with a year ago. and amazonjoins first half of the year compared with a year ago. and amazon joins the $500 billion club. its market value climbed just a little past that yesterday. the us —based company has expanded its services beyond goods, t

and are growing quickly with 1 billion people using whatsapp daily.t's still early on the monetization side, though we started showing ads to a small number of people on messenger. i want to see us move faster here, but i'm confident we'll get this right over the long-term. >> zuckerberg says video will be a major driver to facebook's business over the next two, three years. they called themselves a video-first company. joining us is ivan feinseth. ivan, expectations were high going in the stock rallied more than 40% so far this year. facebook managing to surpass it. what were the highlights of the report for you >> the biggest thing is the introduction of communities, where mark zuckerberg talked about continuing to expand facebook's mission of connecting the world. they'll start to allow users to the create communities to group people with similar interests. the key driver of this will have more people join but increase user engagement. the more users are engaged, the higher the problability they wil start to click on advertising. this is another ex

messenger and whatsapp have not been touched.in this much run advertising is because of the numbers using it. if they started using adverts on platforms like whatsapp, if it annoys people and they switched to other apps, they risk undoing the good work. but we had the same concerns when they started putting ads in to facebook and it is still growing. i think consumers will get over it, understand it and adopted. when you look at the numbers, and one in four people is an very least once a month, it feels like they are maybe reaching saturation but they seem to be aware of that and they are pushing in developing markets with this lighter model, the two g version of the app. they are going new audiences and stretching the demographic. there is still some way to go with the numbers on facebook but they have other platforms. instagram is a third of the size and that could gross admit openly in those markets as well. a note of caution, they keep telling investors it cannot last forever. at some point it will plateau but we think there

the suspect used whatsapp to set up the shipment. >> that's a new way to what whatsapp. >> another snake in southern california found himself in a tight place. his owner took coco. >> coco's kind of cute. >> for a ride in the truck. but the truck climbed into the back paneling and then he couldn't or wouldn't come out. so the truck had to go to the body shop. a technician there, very carefully disassembled the back of the truck, got coco out, and guess what, the body shop didn't even charge for it. i guess coco is pretty cute. >> they didn't charge for it. >> would you hang out with coco? a snake that's going to bring you over to the other side? >> no, there's no way i would do that. coco's fine. >>> and the bills may want to contact the police department. >> officer mcdonald responded to a complaint about too much noise in the street. at one point during the game he hauled in a touchdown pass. after getting back in his car, mcdonald talked some smack, though. >> you want me to do a police report? [ laughter ] >> you want me to do a police report? you didn't do the job. >> man. >> throwi

the monetisation in whatsapp is great to be interesting, and indeed messenger.ment... at a facebook developer conference, they eat so interesting products that are said to be coming online with whatsapp and messenger that will allow marketers to market their brands to conversations taking place.“ marketers to market their brands to conversations taking place. if we we re conversations taking place. if we were talking on facebook messenger, at this development... what would it do? it is an ai digital assistants. if we are having a conversation about going out, the tool will recognise that and serve relevant option. for consumer brands, there would be appetite for that to happen. the user growth is another topic. can they sustain this growth rate? 2 billion around the world, is it reaching saturation point?“ rate? 2 billion around the world, is it reaching saturation point? if you look at a gruff from ten years ago. there is a pretty consistent line gruff on growth. the western world is slowing, no doubt about that but facebook is about to explode in developing co

on whatsapp, it is much more insidious.pp, it seems the monetization strategy is to capture the ideas that those types of people are using and use the data in other apps. julia: i want to interrupt and say the senate has rejected the straight obamacare appeal with the two-year delay, and the rand paul amendment. that was what they were voting on, it has been rejected. this was expected, no one believed this vote would pass. they will continue to send new amendments. this leads to what is being called the votearama. joe: this story is a long ways from ending. david, i want to go back to facebook. i was thinking about comparing and contrasting it with alphabet, we got their earnings earlier in the week. alphabet has all these new bets they are making. alphabet making possible bets for a possible future in another field. facebook, not as much. what are the frontier things facebook is doing, whether it is vr or other subjects? notd: facebook has structured itself the way alphabet has. vr, the oculus, and other parts, they have

we have a story, censorship over whatsapp disruption in china.cerns after disruptions in china. the chinese government hasn't said if it is trying to sensor the service, but neither has whatsapp suggested that there is a technical problem. hong kong airline cathay pacific has seen shares fall after releasing what the chief executive called disappointing figures leisha santorelli is in singapore. there you are, hello! why was he so disappointed by the results? ben, today cathay pacific revealed the trfk numbers and the ceo had comments that got investors attention. rupert hogg took over the topjob in may. he said that attention. rupert hogg took over the top job in may. he said that cathay pacific's performance in the first—half of the year was disappointing and its bottom line is under intense and increasing pressure. he is giving heads up to investors that the numbers won't be that pretty. this is largely drew to strong competition it's facing from middle eastern airlines such as emirates and etihad. they are eating into the business sector. cat

casi tanto como los whatsapps de la abuela, que cuando empieza a hablar de la familia, no para.nalmente. conocimos las diferentes facetas. >>despuÉs de haber producido y dirigido varios proyectos se ha convertido en uno de los mÁs influyentes actores mexicanos dentro y fuera de hollywood. >>fÍjate que para mi significa hoy tengo la libertad reportera: hizo uno de sus primeros papeles en la controversial pelÍcula. >>tenÍa 19 aÑos, vivía sÓlo como estaba acostumbrado a vivir con una maleta viajando. reportera: mÁs recientemente fue incluido en la saga star wars. >>ahora mi trabajo llega a todos lados yo antes hice 10 o 15 pelÍculas que no vio nadie. reportera: lo mÁs importante es hacer una con los que se identifica, aunque el Éxito comercial no le viene mal. el fin de semana generÓ $155,000,000 y terminÓ en segundo lugar en la lista de pelÍculas en hollywood con mÁs ganancias de el aÑo 2016. >>¿fue algo difÍcil? >>no fue difÍcil porque nunca me lo propuse como empecÉ a hacer trabajo, televisiÓn y cine en mÉxico. precisamente fue aquÍ, donde diego comenzÓ a enamorarse de la actuac

are using it for leisure and sending whatsapp messages and so on?is point we are very much targeting consumers. we work within the entertainment industry. we tend to target people in public locations like supermarkets or coffee shops and cinemas for example. your success rate is 13% for the click through rate. so for every 100 m essa 9 es through rate. so for every 100 messages that are sent, 13 people will, well, so let me count, 87 people will delete. 13 people will click on it and will go through. how does that compare with the success rates of other types of advertising? it is very, very high actually. if you look at the industry average for in app geotargeted advertising. this is when you open up an app that's releva nt to is when you open up an app that's relevant to your general locality, we are 18 times higher than the industry average which shows that consumers like this format and this form of advertising. i suppose the danger is that for example 4g and 5g coverage gets so good that we stop using wi—fi hotspots as much. what's your insulat

zuckerberg, the ceo, offered encouragement on growth in some of the chat businesses -- messenger and whatsapp. that is creating optimism. verizon is having a blockbuster month. earnings ands sales match estimates. the stock of 5.5%. there are some laggards that are holding back the gains in the s&p 500. bristol-myers squibb, that company's blockbuster cancer treatment facing challenges, facing the competition. the company's second-quarter sales coming in slightly higher than analysts dissipated, so there is concern of that drug. stockn controls, that down 9% after its forecast fell short of estimates. and finally, southwest airlines, the company predicting its unit revenue will climb only 1% in the current quarter, although the ceo said that the goal to grow annual unit revenue does remain intact. we will be hearing more from him throughout the day. though shares down by 5%. then there are the companies with not reported yet today after the close of trading. amazon top that list. as we have been talking about, jeff bezos, with the recent price of the stock is now the richest man in the world,

i am talking about whatsapp and messenger. said he wanted to move faster to make money off of them, the market loved it. the rest of the call was investors with questions about what that would look like. >> what would that look like? they have not disclosed much when it comes to instagram and video ads. big continue to be two drivers of the company. sarah: for these other apps, it will not be like we are used to from facebook. it will not be the in-feed advertising. it will be a different kind of peoples --uilt upon business, built upon people's relationships with chat businesses. whatsapp is building out its business team. the company was very optimistic. zuckerberg said he potentially sees these chat apps doing better than apps in china and asia that are very popular. then he reframed his remarks later. he saw people got a little too excited. he said we are thinking about this over the very long-term, we are more excited in terms of the benefit for our business with our investments in video. kathleen: what are the analysts s

. —— whatsapp., given there are alexa device they launched which has been extremely successful which allows you to order things by voice. you know, choose to play music by voice. briefly, amazon is part of this text table of facebook, amazon, netflix, google, alphabet, with the result this week from facebook and alphabet, how do is amazon's compared to their tech partners? very different, facebook and google are very much still advertising companies. whereas amazon throughout it all is really still an e—commerce, and this tradition business, that is what they do, ——a distribution business. that is their core business. but how they view the world. thank you forjoining us. let's stay in the us where in a few hours' time, we get economic growth figures for the three months tojune. it's an important set of numbers for president trump. he has been promising an annual growth rate of 3% or more. but gdp growth in the first quarter — the three months to march — was barely half that at i.4%. samira hussain r

whatsapp sigue introduciendo cambios. ya se puede utilizar el nuevo buscador de emoticones.der arrepentirse si manda un mensaje a travÉs de esta aplicaciÓn. javier: de repente, pasa que uno con el calor de una conversaciÓn, cuando estÁ muy molesto, escribe algo que nunca ha tenido que escribir. carolina: te ha pasado. javier: sÍ. y contigo. [risas] carolina: cambiemos de tema. colgado de un autobÚs en marcha quedÓ un joven. el conductor se negÓ a abrir la puerta. javier: seguimos con ustedes con esta revisiÓn de noticias por parte de las pantallas de univisiÓn. ♪ ♪ carolina: una pelea entre cuando le fue captada en cÁmara entre uno de los autobuses rojos de dos plantas de la ciudad de londres. el episodio concluyÓ -- incluyo piÑas. ellos mismos dejaron la pelea y se marcharon al final. tambiÉn, llegÓ un hombre que se veÍan la parte detrÁs de la bicicleta y puso su bicicleta en medio de los dos y pudo detener la pelea. javier: hablando de violencia en las calles, tenemos una historia que ocurriÓ en argentina. adelante. >> asÍ es. la rabia de un conductor puso en una situaciÓn

javier: les contaremos a la vuelta olÉ solos emoji que se tu lisa mÁs whatsapp. -- cuÁles son los emojiss camasucios & para ti. ¡no les temas! dawn ultra tiene 3 veces más poder limpiador de grasa. una gota de dawn y adiós a la grasa. carolina: seguimos conectados contigo a travÉs de redes sociales. javier: la poderosa lluvia de las Últimas horas han causado una tragedia en una familia hispana que disfrutaba de sus vacaciones en arizona. una inundaciÓn repentina -- repentina se llevaron a nueve integrantes de la familia. la redes sociales han estado primero. le han permitido al mundo dar las trÁgicas imagenes de inundaciones que han azotado arizona. ella fue una de las primeras en compartir los momentos en su redes sociales. ♪ [habla en inglÉs] las inundaciones terminaron con la vida de nueve personas de una familia hispana de 14 miembros. luego que una corriente los llevara mientras vacacionar. entre los fallecidos, todos residentes de phoenix, hay niÑos entre 2,3,5,7, y 14 aÑos. el servicio meteorolÓgico dijo que cuatro centÍmetros la acumulaciÓn de lluvia cayeron en la zona durante un

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can they do it on the messenger chat app and also whatsapp. can they make money? we'll see. right now down 2%. melissa: nicole, thank you nar. david: our panel is back with us along with rene richie, why weren't these beats good enough for investors? we see the stock is down about 2% right now? >> they could be taking money out of it. in general, it was great and optimistic for the future and showing strategy of either buying competition or just picking over competitions features is working for them. david: rene, it's extraordinary, when you look at numbers. facebook's revenue growth is twice that of google, now called alphabet. it's 43% increase from last year. how long can they continue almost doubling every year? >> almost like they're going to run out of population at some point. they're showing the power, they make value off of data but good at holding attention, and a lot of the products they've bought or created when they bring on instagram or whatsapp or use the news feed, that holds our attention, and doesn't mean they can put ads in it but repeated ads in it, that

porque en whatsapp cuando se lee son dos palomitas de color azul. >> eso se puede quitar. >> cuando la estÉ curada la noticia trae esperanza a los infantes diagnosticados con vih atendidos a temprana edad. recomiendan no consumir papayas de una variedad hasta tener datos de un nuevo brote de salmonella asociado a esta papaya, se reportaron 47 casos en 12 estados del paÍs entre el 17 de mayo y el 28 de junio, una de las personas hospitalizadas muriÓ, estÁn trabajando en identificar en qÉe momento de la cadena de suministro se produjo la contaminaciÓn. >> falleciÓ kiara, la orca de tres meses de edad que permanecÍa en el parque acuÁtico de san antonio, hace tres semanas que era atendida por los veterinario de este lugar por una infecciÓn que se hizo mÁs aguda los Últimos tres dÍas, el equipo mÉdico dijo que realizaÁa una autopsia para determinar las causas exactos de su muerte. y estas imÁgenes de una aurora boreal fueron captadas desde la estaciÓn espacial, el astronauta de la nasa que las grabÓ las publicÓ en twitter y recibio elogios de sus seguidores por la belleza de estas imÁgenes.

attempts to use video, photo and voice functions on whatsapp failed across much of china wednesday. the chinese government bans thousands of websites and operates the world's most extensive system of online censorship, in what critics call great firewall of china. back in the u.s., in baltimore, maryland, one police officer has been suspended and two others placed on desk duty after newly surfaced body camera video appeared to show one of the officers planting drugs during an arrest last january. in the video, the officer -- identified by public defenders as richard pinheiro -- is seen stashing a soup container in a lot strewn with garbage as two of his colleagues look on. the officer then returns to the site and removes a plastic bag full of white capsules from the container. the officer was apparently unaware of a feature of his camera that stored 30 seconds of extra footage ahead of the moment he activated the device. after the video's release, prosecutors dropped heroin possession charges against a man who'd been held in jail since january. in minneapolis, minnesota, newly relea

group so and they have set up a whatsapp group so that they can message each other when they see thesed, some of snatching mobiles from people in the street in broad daylight. there is a big debate about the sale of acid, something that mps were already scheduled to discuss mixed week when the new laws were needed to restrict the new laws were needed to restrict the sale of certain types of acid, but the reality is that will be a challenge because many of these products are freely available as cleaning items. that was dan johnson cleaning items. that was danjohnson reporting. let's speak now to professor kayvan shokrollahi is a consultant plastic surgeon at the merseyside centre for burns and is editor in chief of the medicaljournal scars, burns and healing. thank you very much indeed for being with us. in the medical profession, how common is it to see the sort of victims of acid attacks? well, thank you for that introduction. my heart goes out to those victims, for sure. in terms of the incidents of this, they are relatively low and as the police commissioner mentioned, in terms of e

whatsapps what's -- messaging service has been partially blocked in china, after the government begante networks, which allow users to routes data overseas. authorities have ramped up social media censorship in china. switchingstors are out of hedge funds and a 30's -- equities, the record 33% of portfolios were invested in real estate at the end of the second quarter. driven by poor returns in geopolitical risk. allocations fell to an all-time low for hedge funds of 4%. that's your business flash update. coming up, what you knew to know for tomorrow's trading day. this is bloomberg. ♪ "what'd you miss?" >> s&p 500 and nasdaq at record highs. up, the girl u.s. -- economic by log. this kicks off in washington. >> don't miss this. support -- american express. going to be a did busy day. >> that does it for "what'd you miss?" joe: technology is next. >> have a wonderful evening. this is bloomberg. ♪ alisa: i'm alisa parenti in washington. you are watching "bloomberg technology." your start with a check on first word news. president trump says the republican party shed light obamacare fai

things like whatsapp, facebook and twitter, they are all talking to each other and talking to us.nk that is something to be commended rather than complained of by the mainstream opposition. what is necessary is how we can put together linkages with the young people who are active on the ground, to ensure that we harness that energy and that anger towards the elections in 2018, so that the young people can actually vote and express themselves through the only thing which will deliver change, which is speaking out. it's more than just the means that young people are using. it is actually the personalities who have emerged on the scene as better leaders than you, perhaps. there is a young pastor who started a social media campaign against president mugabe. he is calling on zimbabweans to be the agent that change the government, he says their generation must realise that we cannot subcontract our struggle through the previous one, and we cannot mortgage it to their selfish desires. he is critical of your generation for failing to deliver. that is very understandable. we encourage new

when he spoke to you on the telephone or texted on whatsapp, what was he like?ill like your son or somebody you had lost? that was the incredible thing, he still was. because i prepared myself when he started communicating with me and throughout that time, especially within being under isis, i thought the ideology would be more entrenched in him and he would get more desensitised towards his family, but it didn't happen and that's what surprised even people who. .. ..some researchers i know. they were completely shocked about that, but i still managed to keep that bond and that was absolutely paramount to kind of keep that bond between him and me. which must have made the loss, his death, all the more difficult. did you believe you would see him again, once he was there and with is? no, i knew i was never going to see him again, to the point where i talked about his death to him. throughout those months we talked about his death and how that was going to get communicated to me, because i knew from other experiences of other mothers who have gone through this tha

according to a person familiar, whatsapp is not responsible for the outage. the company declined to comment. global news 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries around the world. i'm taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. francine? francine: thank you. we also get policy decisions from two of the world's most crucial central banks tomorrow, but they are heading in opposite directions. the bank of japan is battling weak inflation. that will eventually forced policymakers to acknowledge that the program will be needed for several more years. in europe, tapering is on everybody's minds. the ecb is said to be working on policy. policymakers have not yet held formal discussions on the end of bond purchases. ,et's bring in kamal sharma joining us from the london office. thanks for coming on. there is a lot of focus on the ecb, but what would be the upside for mario draghi to give us a plan on how they start tapering? >> i think it is the break of 1.15 in the euro-dollar. obviously, there has not been a significant move sense th

stars that should truly make you second guessed who reconsider who your provider is see amazon and whatsapp came in with only two stars amazon while convenient c. doesn't tell years about government data requests it doesn't promise not to sell you out and they don't stand up to n.f.l. gag orders which isn't a huge surprise considering how many hundreds of millions of dollars in business amazon does with the fleet but most importantly are those coming in at just one tiny itty bitty star they are eighty comcast t. mobile and varieties that that's the very people handling most of our data services so you can avoid that amazon app or switch to a new messenger but if the data provider doesn't have your back does that matter look this this shouldn't be a surprise comcast and derive an actively lobby against pretty much all net neutrality rules and t. mobile has been pretty public in its fighting with the electronic frontier foundation over privacy rights so as a consumer we now can't just decide make it for our choices by the quality of the service itself but by how seriously they take their resp

double sessions, holiday winning, spin classes and whatsapp messages. competitor, he is a leader he back. good evening. we've a special report tonight on the devastating human cost of a war that has been raging in a remote corner of the middle east for two years. the un is calling it the world's worst humanitarian crisis with the country on the brink offamine. yemen is split by a fierce civil war between the internationally recognised government — backed by a saudi led coalition and houthi rebels, allied with iran. yemen is now on the brink of famine and has become a breeding ground for disease. cholera has swept the country — with nearly 2000 deaths since the outbreak began in april. the situation there now is described as the world's greatest humanitarian crisis. access for international journalists is very rare — but our middle east correspondent, 0rla guerin — with her producer nicola careem and cameraman nico hameon — have got in. they've sent this report from aden — and a warning — there are distressing images throughout. we crossed the red sea to

16 quarters and 1.2 billion users, notjust of facebook, but of their messenger app, and they own whatsappt a lot of people are talking about is they own instagram and instagram is starting to become the tip of the sphere for facebook in taking on people like snapchat, the instant stories and the use of filters and stickers on, i don't do this, but some people, some do! rumbles. but it is all about how that advertising revenue is coming through from that. facebook live is very interesting. whether we start to see adverts as pa rt whether we start to see adverts as part of facebook live moving forward. google reported, alphabet reported at the beginning of the week. ad revenues hit lower, hit by the eu fine. jeremy cooke, you will be joining the eu fine. jeremy cooke, you will bejoining us at the eu fine. jeremy cooke, you will be joining us at the end the eu fine. jeremy cooke, you will bejoining us at the end of the eu fine. jeremy cooke, you will be joining us at the end of the programme to go through the papers. i will. still to come, full steam ahead. we'll be talking to one of europe'

whatsapp has been blocked in china has part of a censorship drive. began using other platforms report outages from monday night. some people have turned to vpns. china has been ramping up control of social media ahead of the 19th, his party congress later this year. bid in a dealised that could bring an agreement. offer is worth $950 pkart to create a stronger domestic competitor to amazon. unitever's indian reported profits that beat estimates. is the first consumer goods maker to report in india. rishaad: chinese banking regulators told some members to lower the rates on wealth management products. our next guest believes the move should lower systemic risks. in a nutshell, what are you arguing here? productse known these have added risk to the financial system. the regulators have been trying to get on top of this. to say we can't guarantee these returns anymore going forward. let's limit these returns. the monetary policy has tightened as well, so essentially investors should not be subsidized by the banks anymore and essentially lowered the risk

i can draw parallels to whatsapp and facebook messenger but it is really so much more.the u.s., we tend to have one app where everything we do online to buy movie tickets, we chat is the dominant way that people in china spend their time online, it is the internet bundled into a messaging service, you can get your news, you can search the web, you can talk to friends and contacts. you can orders up online, themmerce, it has become largest planet in the chinese internet solar system. , think 900 million daily users two thirds of -- they are spending about two hours a day each on it. it is a tremendous asset for the company. >> you talk about two individuals specifically were tied. you talk about the founder and then you also talk about the company, the president, these are two individuals who are not out there that much but they are crucial to this company. >> one of the five original founders, one of the wealthiest people in china, very quiet, does not do a lot of interviews, we jokingly referred to this photo with the chinese president of all the was technology execs l

facebook's whatsapp messaging service has been partially blocked in china.it comes after the governmentan private -- cracking down on virtual private networks which allow users to read data overseas. authorities have been ramping up social media censorship in china as it prepares for its 19th communist party congress. russiand between intelligence and president trump's 2016 campaign continued to be scrutinized, we speak with the former nsa director general peter alexander. the advice he is giving to the commander-in-chief, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: now the 14 brainstorm tech conference is well underway in aspen, colorado. the event brings together global leaders in the digital world to discuss ways companies are preparing for the future. we will send it out to emily chang, at the event was mark. emily, take it away. we are having a few technical difficulties. it happens on a tech showed sometimes. i know she has been getting some great sound from key topics. a big key topic has been the , has of cybersecurity major hacking attacks continue to happen around the world, not to m

media. , andook beating estimates the company's during optimism about its chat apps, messenger and whatsapp trade "the new york it addedso doing well, -- digitaltional only subscribers, 69% gain year-over-year. then you have a different side of the economy that's not doing well in terms of its earnings reports. the dow jones transportation average down 2% today. kirby corporation, which is an operator of inland tank barges, that company's numbers missing estimates. the company's numbers also missing, southwest airlines as we talked about, the company's ait revenue predictions, quick look at the bloomberg. the transports have been doing really well until recently. you have the so-called confirmation happening back in early march and having once again in early july, with the move in the transport so-called confirmed the move in the industrials. samereached highs at the time. since then the industrials have continued to go up, the transports have pulled the back. if you are a dow theorist, that raises questions about the ability of the dow jones to continue to rally in the same fashion. vonnie

headache when it comes to encryption for our own use of communication when it comes to the like of whatsapp going to be able to access the encrypted data if need be? >> the keys are in the hands of the customer. in those cases, they would need to go to the individual that owns the system and get access to those keys. remember, we are talking about backend transaction systems. we are not talking about a phone or consumer device that has g.p.s. information, things like that. i think we can all agree if we are talking about our travel records, banking records, health care data, think these are things as a society we can all agree are best kept locked up. caroline: i agree. the ibm vice president of threat intelligence, caleb barlow, great to have you live from boston, massachusetts. thank you for joining us. coming up, a hack into the latest initial coin offering raises more questions about cryptocurrencies. we will discuss what is behind the digital currency selloff. a quick programming note, erik schatzker interviews barry diller. catch that conversation this tuesday at 1:00 eastern. this is

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but the two big acquisitions, instragram and whatsapp. and key is instragram, 700 million users strong and it focuses on video and pictures and brands really like it because it's hitting a different demographic. >> this is why you put instragram here. and this is why i asked you earlier off camera, cannibalizati cannibalization. has instragram not cannibalized it or only old people use facebook these days? >> not necessarily still younger people on the core facebook app but instragram does appeal to that younger crowd when snapchat came to market, everyone was saying snapchat is all about the millennials. >> you and i were moaning. >> absolutely. and now you're seeing instragram is able to take the product, that has already surpassed the users for snapchat and that shows you actually -- >> could they cohabitate because we talk about the cloud and we say they can all seem to do quite well at the moment. so is it only going to be two or three winners? >> i think it's difficult with a product to have loads of different players. you m of cour

facebook's whatsapp messaging service has been partially blocked in china. the government began breaking down on the virtual private networks, which allow data to be routed overseas. social media censorship has been ramped up in china. withg up, our interview penny pritzker on the approach to trade in the white house. this is bloomberg. ♪ oury: let's return to coverage of aspen. i set down with penny pritzker. she spoke about the trump administration's up poach to trade in the future -- approach to trade. penny: we tried to give our successors the benefit of what we had learned over our tenure. i think what is challenging is as it relates to the issue we are working on here at the fortunate conference, i think the future of work requires a focus by now only the private sector but also government to work on training and dealing with the skills mismatch in the short run and making sure we are training people for jobs of the 21st century. the second role of government is one if you are talking about an economic land, and economic competitiveness plan, it is opp

facebook is also studying ways to impremeditate this to whatsapp, its other chat app.ork for advertisers? tracee: advertisers can have a link in the chat app, the other way they can also communicate directly with users, start a conversation with them. so, you know -- lauren: how much money would they bring with advertisements, they are putting ads every. where it's a lot of money. tracee: they say they're not going to add more ads to the news feed. cheryl: actually they said that they don't want people to turn off of facebook, if you see too many ads, forget it, i'm going to go somewhere else. even messenger. it's a slow roll. blockbuster's numbers for amazon are about to come, record sales, amazon says customers ordered three times as many echo family speakers compared to last year. record for the device. third-party sellers sold 50% more items than a year ago, amazon has not disclosed figures but analysts expected to be $500 million during last year's events, we will see what this share brings us. shares of amazon closing a quarter of a percent as you can see but sti

that said, growth is slowing, facebook is copying features across all its platforms, messenger, whatsappstagram, and potentially blocking future growth in international markets. you had to contend with facebook at twitter. can snap overcome that? >> it is a challenge. there's no question. the advantage evan has is he is a remarkable consumer product thinker. the fact that he launched spectacle when he did, in the waving google glass aside -- emily: spectacle took off momentarily. >> as a consumer product in the digital space, as an innovator, he has launched a number of tech -- a number of successful products. he had had a number of insights that have been wildly different than anything else. if he has the ability to continue to do that quickly and monetize on the heels of those innovations, that's great, and probably their best bet. you mentioned a big important challenge. it is an extraordinary challenges facebook and continue to present opportunities as, we have the same thing, but with a bigger audience, to advertisers, that is tough to compete against. emily: silicon valley has been