. five and amazon says it has three times the power and performance of apple tv, roku, google's chromecast. peter larson, vice president of amazon kindle, spoke at the event. >> what can you watch on fire tv? it has a ton of content. from amazon instant video, primates and video, hulu plus, watch espn, showtime, major league baseball, nba, the disney channels, bloomberg tv, youtube. it is the easiest place to watch netflix. >> you can catch "bloomberg west" on there, of course. the move also escalates a rivalry with netflix and other streaming services that are developing exclusive content. now, the big question is, who will win the battle for your living room? cory johnson and i spoke with brad stone about what fire tv really means for amazon. >> amazon has actually been thinking about a set top boxes the end of 2011. it has been a long journey. the question was always, what are the big ideas going to be? how will it raise the bar on roku, on apple tv? watch james bond movie and by the watch. maybe that is coming, but version one amazon does not have it. >> apparently fire tv h

like google that are not based in san francisco? >> they have the same responsibility that bg&e has. the same that wells fargo or bank of america has -- every aspect that people who produce would have. they need to give back and participate and have their employees live here. they need to pay them a good wage so they can live here. that is what they need to do. brown,er mayor willie thank you for stopping by and sharing your point of view. we appreciate having you here. we will be back with more, talking about disney next. ♪ >> look back to "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. roll at the box office with films like "captain america" and "frozen." for one of the biggest drivers remained espn. they had investor day today and jon erlichman me now with more from l.a. give us a sense how important espn is to disney. it is like the crown jewel. >> it is. it is amazing. there's a lot to disney, with films, parks, products. when you look at the numbers, espn and the cable networks really blow everything else away. revenue in 2013, about one third came from the cable group. not just espn, b

." i'm emily chang. google made google glass for sale to the general public this eek, but for one day only. it cost $1,500 plus tax for access to the program. i sat down with rich wong, a partner and started by asking him if google glass could go mainstream. >> google glass is still in beta at this point of and we talk about a $1500 price point it is still very much intended toward developers to experiment on applications. the reality is if you try the product and read the reviews, it's probably going to be a while before becomes a mass-market hit. it is perhaps interesting to those of us who live here in the valley, we welcome new technology, but it will be a while before mainstream advice this in a broadscale way. >> i was told zero chance of having it going mainstream? is that too extreme? >> it is too early to predict that. i would not make that prediction myself. when google bought android in they would ght -- be putting the operating system and everything of and without they were not spread into that google has executed incredibly well, so i would not count google out at this po

the broadcasters. on the aereo side, lots of silicon valley players, facebook and google, support it. they say it is important for the future of cloud computing. dish network have the sling technology very similar to aereo. they wrote a brief in support of the company saying this is basically what we have which is we allow people to get broadcast content in whatever way they want. it is new technology doing the same old thing that a vcr used to do. >> you sat down for an exclusive interview with the aereo ceo chet kanojia. he talked a lot about what if the vcr never existed. what did he have to say about today? >> it is interesting he didn't want to say anything today. chet kenojia did sit down with us exclusively yesterday. he said he was optimistic that he will win. he said the law is on his side. >> this thing has been about making sure the consumers get the signal. it is not about making a couple of guys rich. in we come, a completely different technology. a technology based on the roots of broadcasting and antenna. none of them can dispute the facts because in this case they

, maybe google. check of your top headlines, charter is near a deal to acquire one .5 million subscribers from comcast. it will get a 40% stake in a new company with another two point 5 million customers according to people familiar with the situation. bestst is going to do describe her is to acquire time warner cable. customers to acquire time warner cable. disney already agreed to be part of the service last month and this has held talks with other networks. dish is trying to become the first company to sell a full package of streaming channels over the internet. e storage has had a foundation of $3 billion, triple what it was worth eight months ago. this new valuation comes as the company raised $225 million and is the fifth u.s. company to raise around above $200 million this year. the ceo says revenue grew 700% last year. he will be joining us later this hour. first, to the lead story, apple opened its books as it reports second-quarter earnings and for the first time in a decade, revenue is projected to be flat according to data compiled by bloomberg. apple is facing a s

facebook and google demand way more of the advertising market than twitter, which is still miniscule compared to facebook and google. do you see twitter commanding a greater share of that market? >> this is not a two-horse race now. you have linkedin and others. it is justifiable. i think they need to realize they have got a lot more competition out there, and their dollars are being spread around right now. it is coming. >> to my guests, thank you both comments, and don't forget, i will be having an interview tomorrow with dick costolo, the ceo of twitter. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. samsung is out with first-quarter earnings, sales gaining 2.3%, but profit fell 3%, $8.2 billion, and samsung posted its lowest sale in its mobile phone business in five quarters. cory johnson is with us in the studio, and brian blair is with us on the phone. so, brian, is this saturation, or is this competition? >> i think it is a little bit of both. we saw some of this last year, and i think things are slowing down in the smartphone market, but there definitely is a

samsung phones. an update from google on its self-driving cars. the company says that cars have logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles. google has been testing the cars around their hometown of mountainview, to improve their ability of driving in urban areas, but they say there are more problems to solve before the car starts driving in other cities. microsoft will begin rolling out its first original xbox tv shows in june, including a reality series called "every street united" which will cover local soccer teams, as well as coverage of the binary music festival. to our lead story. after the disclosure of the heartbleed glitch, there is another glitch affecting the internet explorer browser. this affects about 25% of browsers out there, looking at versions 6 through 11, although the most recent ones are mainly being hurt. the way it works, it gives the hacker the same level of access as the official user. people that still have microsoft xp, windows xp, are particularly troubled in this case. cory johnson, microsoft stopped providing security patches for xp, so those 3 million machine

live coverage and instant analysis. i sit down with dick costolo while facebook and google are buying robot companies, he shares his vision and addresses why there is a disconnect between what twitter thinks its future is an wall street. this as shares plunged. first, a check of your top headlines. diller signs off on broadcasters trying to shut down the company a week after the supreme court heard arguments in the case hitting aereo against broadcasters. diller accused broadcasters of trying to stifle innovation for their own gain, saying if you stop aereo, you stop technology. diller made these comments on the iac earnings call. cox communications getting involved in the high-speed internet battle, offering internet speeds 100 times faster than standard access. cox did not give a timetable for when the service will start. google fiber and at&t are offering similar services in select cities. onrosoft's xbox one will go sale in china in september. this comes after china lifted a 13 year ban on video game consoles. microsoft did not provide details on -- nintendo and sony are planning

google's operating system and that apple is using samsung to get a court order blocking android phones. isle's lawyer argues it samsung that makes the samp -- the smartphones. grubhub is raising the price of its upcoming ipo. by threee the price dollars and now expects the price anywhere from $23 to $25 a share. it would be valued at just under $2 billion at the top of the range. cbs as abe a blow for looks to cash in on the upcoming masters tournament. tiger woods has redrawn -- withd rawn. having tiger in contention has routinely boosted ratings. inyears he was a nonfactor 2012, final-round ratings dropped 22%. amazon making a huge push into the streaming tv world. big announcement in new york tomorrow. we know it will be something about video, we don't know for sure if it will be a box. they denied it was a free streaming service. >> it is interesting how hardware has become an impediment. a lot of interesting players -- netflix is the biggest. >> they don't have a hardware play. >> they have done a lot of partnerships with the set-top box makers and the apple tvs of the world. you

>> in san francisco? >> the tax break and the protesting against google buses. protesting twitter in a week. yes. exactly. in the united states. again, i have left day to day operations so i do not have authority to speak on what twitter's responsibility is, that i am starting to look into this now. just personally. get involved with various tech industries. in a boom time when so many jobs are created, there is so much and if it is not, what can we do to fix that? solution.a weekend a lot of people have to get together and think long-term about how to make it work. it seems to me there has to be a way to solve the puzzle. questions from the jelly verse. -- responsess within seconds. argan asks when will you merge jelly with twitter? >> it is our it he working with twitter. we work with twitter and facebook. we blend the networks together and that is one way we can your answers. will youe is asking ever sell? >> jelly is the company we are trying to build and work on for the next several decades. this is what i am doing now. there is no sell date. >> what our current use cases, an

to silicon valley and elsewhere. they're fighting to get the 85,000 cap raised. google is licensing hotel booking software from room 77 as it looks to improve its presence in the online travel business. it is an expedia backed startup. many of the employees will join google and its brands and apps will remain. hbo says the premiere of game of thrones got 6.6 million viewers in its first airing. up 52%. i was one of them. it was so popular on hbo go that the service crash for some viewers and wasn't completely restored until four hours later. meanwhile, silicon valley, a show about a tech startup received 2.5 ilya and viewers. -- million viewers. cory johnson here to talk about yahoo! and their ability to dominate. >> we have the same infrastructure whether it is google or amazon or netflix or yahoo! or microsoft or aol all looking at original content. looking at 10 episode shows that might cost anywhere from 700,000 to a few million dollars per episode. >> they go toward search. now going to this original content business and what it might mean. >> can you only watch online? >> the

the future of technology. google blast one-day sale. they make high-tech available today only to the general public. will they be a hit? >> jerry bruckheimer joins us to talk about sequels he has in the works to hits like top gun and beverly hills cops. first, check of the top 10 headlines. twitter by yang a longtime social data partner for an undisclosed amount. they collect and analyze data in order to provide most relevant tweets to clients. this will give twitter a bigger share of revenue from reselling data and will give them more control over information learned. barcode printing company zebra technology is buying motor relative enterprise unit for more than three toy $4 billion. the brett is funding the deal with over 2.2 billion in debt. the deal will give them access to a number of motorola product lines, including enterprise mobile computing. dale sohn on the stand at the apple samsung patent trial. something it did not do in the 2012 case. testifying about how it developed bounds and marketing practices. they also put engineers from google on the stand. first to the lead s

$450 million in funding, giving it a valuation of $10 billion. airbnb takes aim at google fiber. the phone giant lands to expand its high-speed internet to 100 communities, including 21 major cities. at&t wants to deliver the internet at speeds 100 times faster than standard web access. first, to our lead story of the day. it will soon cost more than $7.99 a month for netflix subscribers to watch originals like "house of cards." they will start charging new users one dollar or two dollars a month as netflix reported a big first quarter revenue, revenue of $1.72 million. profit soared to more than $53 million. netflix added 4 million subscribers, including 1.70 5 million international members. we have a roundtable to discuss all stop jon erlichman is here as well as chris edwards, who covers netflix for bloomberg news. the price raises the biggest deal. one or two dollars, what is it going to be? >> like they say it depends on the territory. they say they are raising it across the world for new subscribers. it will really depend on the market. they have not said what's going to happen

floor? >> i think that is part of it. i think there is a side story were apple and google -- google change things up with the different share classes. apple is intensely competitive with google. in some ways, they are trying to juice up some of the returns. i could understand why someone would say this is un-apple like. i like the fact that tim cook is being aggressive in doing something like this. >> we do know that tim cook had a meeting with carl icahn. icahn backed down. he said that he agreed with apple's increased buyback and extremely pleased with the results. many analysts failed to understand the company. cory, i know you'll agree with the last part of the statement. do you think icahn knows more about the products that are coming than the rest of us? >> to back down or stop rattling his saber, his holding in the company. i think that is the point. is it un-apple like to not be a growth company? yeah. it is un-apple like to split the stock, going through a buyback. the increase in the buyback is the size of 3m. it is an incredible amount of it is a different kind of company

talk to about mobile computing. i just got my own google glass. think of google glass? this is the version with the glass frames. to -- i saw a robert brenner. he would google these headphones to get beyonce. like the position in technology matters. it would be much cooler than it is now. >> someone told me i was not allowed to wear them in public because i would be a social pariah. you are saying that it doesn't have to do with how it looks. >> it is how it is introduced. if beyonce was wearing it, you would be wearing. how do we and culture technology. >> what about this? >> that is another example of you can't tell time with it. it doesn't display anything. it is a trend. >> that was john maeda. coming up, can you stop hackers from looking through the devices in your home. this will be our next installment of security 101. ♪ >> welcome back to the best of "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. new technology means nude security threats -- new security threats. smart coffeemakers and washing machines are constantly collecting data about our habits. how can you be secure? brian whi

court in washington has revived a lawsuit that apple filed against google's motorola mobility. that court rejected the interpretation of a patent that is also at issue in the current trial. the judge in san jose says more witnesses may need to be called. a law professor joins us via skype from palo alto. robin, first of all, how big a wrench in the case is this appeals court decision? >> it certainly is a surprise that i doubt either side was expecting. now, the judge does not have to listen to the decision that was made in another case. it's not binding, even though they're talking about the meaning of the same patent. however, the judge's decision would go to the same court of appeals that the other decision went to as well and if one is a trial judge, one does not thumb one's nose as an appellate court easily. >> now, as i understand it, the appeals court adopted a narrow interpretation of the patent that accounts for the biggest portion of the damages that apple is seeking and this is a data tapping patent, tapping data to turn it into a link. does it account for the greatest of

-hours. drivingays the self cars logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles. google has been testing the cars around the hometown of mountain view, to improve their ability weeks after the disclosure of the heartbleed glitch, there is another major glitch. this affects about 25% of browsers out there, looking at versions six through 11, although the most recent ones are mainly being hurt. the way it works, it gives the hacker the same level of access as the official user. people that still have microsoft xp, windows xp, are particularly troubled in this case. cory johnson, microsoft stopped providing security patches for xp, so those 3 million machines have nothing to do. >> we know the mitigation it takes to take the system to the new operating system. for an individual, it may take a few hours, but corporations, it takes nine months to make the switch on average. the change away from xp does not happen quickly. it is likely that we will be hearing more things like this because the hackers are evolving and this operating system is not. >> it feels like there is a new one of these every

up the competition with google and netflix and more. first, a check on your top headlines. blackberry will no longer allowed t-mobile to sell its phones with its current contract expires on april 25. in a statement, t-mobile says blackberry business strategies are not complementary. urgedn february, the ceo users to switch over to the iphone. has hold up more than half of her stake in the social networking company. she sold 26 million of her 41 million shares since facebook went public in may 2012. some of the sales were to settle tax bills. china forooking to business opportunities. the chipmaker just announced a one hundred million dollar fund in china to try to get intel chips into more chinese made computers and mobile devices. they are also setting up an innovation center near many of the factories where the devices are made. first to our lead story of the day, a special show on amazon, a big unveiling in new york city of fire tv. they had to get the word fire in there. significant. i hate covering product announcements, but i think this an interesting position for am

happened here? exposed by was google researchers. what did they find and why did it take so long? googleas found by researchers and guys from another company. this is an enormous find. they found an important. the flip side is they coordinated a fix for it, as software patch. while the bug is tremendous, there is also a fix. most large website at this point have pushed out that fix. as you guys were discussing, this is a flaw in the anchorage and software. this is two thirds of the internet's websites. it is open source software. it is community developed. that the bug has been around for two years raises interesting questions about who knew about it before. >> is this a victory for open source? because for many people were ?ooking for the problem or is this a failure of open source because people were using this essentially for free? >> i would not say either one of those. one of the things you need to technologies like these are out there all the time. it does not make you better or worse if it takes you to do years to find it. they are exploitables have not found fixes for. on

bug. >> the first point we should make is that it was found by google researchers and some researchers from a company called codenomicon. while the bug is tremendously powerful and important, there's also a fix available to it. most large websites at this point have pushed out that fix. as you guys were discussing, this is a flaw in the encryption software used by two thirds of the world's internet sites. it is open-source software, so that means it is community-created and community-developed. the fact that this flaw has been around for two years raises some interesting questions about who knew about it before. >> let me bring you in on this. is this a victory for open source? is it a failure of open source because so many people were using it because it was free? >> you know, i wouldn't even look at either one of those. one of the things we really have to understand is that the problem with these is that they're out there all the time. it doesn't make you better or worse if it takes two years to find it. there are a lot of exploitable sets they haven't found fixes for. ho

artificial intelligence companies. now google is buying a drum company. it is the latest in a string of big moves for the search giant this year. today, google reports earnings after the bell. or more than what it expects, we have a former google legg joining us from new york. mark, i will start with you, what is going on here? drones now? how do you feel about that ? >> uncertain. and i think investors feel uncertain about it too. google has done a series of acquisitions, most of them relatively small in size. has, this is a company that so far successfully invested five years down the road, whether it was mobile or youtube, acquisitions and organic growth. >> all right, but if it of the doubt. ben, what do you think? from having worked within google, what do they think about these big, big bets. do they think oh, no, what if it does not turn out? >> if you start with larry and controlwho is still in of the company in terms of shares, so opportunities that might generate less than 100 billion dollars, they cannot find very interesting. they like the world biggest engineering challen

jordan -- google security users. >> it was found by google researchers and researchers from a company elsewhere. it is a tremendous find. they found a serious bug. they also coordinated the release of a fix for it. a software patch. the bug is tremendously powerful, but there's also a fix available. most large websites have pushed out that fix. were discussing, this is a flaw in the encryption software used by two thirds of the world. it is open source software. it is community-created. the fact that this law has been around for two years raises some interesting questions about who knew about it. >> is is a victory for open source? so many people are looking at it so they could find the problem. where is a failure, because so many people were using this? >> i would not even look at either one of those. one of the things we really have to understand is that the problem with these is that they are out there all the time. it does not make you better or worse it takes two years to find it. can waita lot they that they have not found fixes for. however, i would say that one of the nice thi

the future of business. i am emily chang. google is adding solar powered drones to their arsenal of self driving cars. we will play what they plan to do with titan aerospace. tech, a check of the top headlines. it is taking longer than expected for many websites infected with the heart the -- ch to fixd glit them. ae nsa once again denied bloomberg news report that it knew about the heart -- heartbleed bug for two years. bloomberg is standing by its reporting. mozilla has named chris beard as as interim ceo. yes been involved sincerely days of firefox and also is an executive resident at greylock partners. who resignedhe ceo this month after being criticized for donating money to an anti-gay marriage group. off a launchlled of the falcon nine rocket lesson two hours before launch. it was blamed on a helium leak. the capsule is tearing supplies for the international space station. first, to our lead story of the day. google's latest moonshot -- buying the drone maker titan aerospace. this is a company that makes high altitude solar powered rome satellites. -- drone satellites. it cou

new ceo puts his mark on the company. a check of the top headlines. google, apple, intel and adobe have agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit over hiring practices. terms were not disclosed. more than 61,000 contractors -- the settlement comes weeks before a trial was set to begin. fcc chairman tom wheeler says proposed rules tweaking net neutrality will not in the internet fairness policy as we know it. able tos would be charge companies like netflix and google more for access to internet fast lanes. in a blog post, wheeler said that would be measures in place to protect consumers like for bidding isps from blocking content. the executive in charge of google plus, he is leaving the company after nearly eight years. he helped build google plus from the ground up. in a post, he said he is looking forward to the journey to come without saying what he will be doing next. first, tour lead story. as theshelling out money largest e-commerce company tries to have a major presence from everything from cloud computing to content to grocery sprayed revenue was just under $20 billion. a 23% g

many people say this is a fight between apple and google. a lot of the things they have a problem with our with the google android operating system. >> the fundamental question is what was google's alone, what was the cap from samsung, or is samsung the actual violator in the case? the pretrial has focused on that . it looks like samsung, with a list of people they intend to call, will lean on the fact that google did the bad thing and they did not. >> apple got a huge award the last time they took this to court. the judge has encouraged them to work this out through mediation but that has not worked. why go back this time? >> there was a lot learned in the first trial. apple has a better understanding of how samsung deals with these issues. the evidence last time was fairly amazing, meetings where google said, samsung, you cannot do this, but they did so anyways. that was fairly damning evidence the first time around. it would be hard to imagine if that was still happening, but we will find out right now. >> joining us now from mountain view is the managing director of 3lp adviso

a set-top box, they will compete with google comcast. talk to us about the competitive landscape and where they might fit in. >> you have to befriend amazed -- frenemies. they have to maintain the relationship. a lot of people have wondered if you see a box of the will netflix be available on it? it is one of the most strained services out there. i think amazon has to realize you can have a box in business tied to that and can build out your streaming service am a which i think they have been doing for a few reasons. i think it helps the prime offering, which people like because you get free shipping. video is a big part of that. dvdse are buying fewer these days. if you can get a robust service like the video service they have been building, maybe that is the thato save the business arguably has been in decline because people do not necessarily go to amazon to buy as many dvds as they once did. they're more likely to get digital. >> talking about higher-quality or cable like contact, is that about production value and more money spent in production and more likely to have an economi

category between google glass and the watch, for example. i don't know of other wearables that are growing. i can tell you the watch space is growing very quickly. >> they have not gone mainstream yet. ?ill they ac >> i hope they do. >> has the introduction of android -- setting up their own ,.s. like up, like fitbit like pebble? >> android is the only one i have taken seriously as a watch competitor. android requires 64 megabytes of memory to operate. the double os runs at 128 k of memory. to be the most high-volume smart watch supplier . we can't do it with android. >> ettore opportunities and you can last for a longer time. -- we wantt want to compet $50.ovmove to >> what about apple not coming out with a watch? >> i have heard that engineers they are trying to recruit, it is difficult to get a new project accepted that apple. in have the resources, and the tim cook era, you have to put together a spreadsheet that shows how much this business is going to be worth. and how it will add to apple's revenue. those are the thoughts that come out of someone with a supply chain backgrou

many of the employees will join google and its brands and apps will remain. hbo says the premiere of game of thrones got 6.6 million viewers in its first airing. up 52%. it was so popular on hbo go that the service crash for some viewers and wasn't completely restored until four hours later. meanwhile, silicon valley, a show about a tech startup received 2.5 ilya and viewers. -- alien viewers. viewers. cory johnson here to talk about yahoo! and their ability to dominate. we have the same infrastructure whether it is google or amazon or netflix or yahoo! or microsoft or aol all looking at original content. looking at 10 episode shows that might cost anywhere from 700,000 to a few million dollars per episode. search.go toward now going to this original content business and what it might mean. >> can you only watch online? >> the success that netflix has had drawing customers, we want some of those same people and we have the cash to spend. >> netflix has produced a number of hits. single we can't name a one. let's bring in jon erlichman that got a look inside of microsoft xbox entertai

, that is how much priceline fetched an online marketing last year, most of it going to google. the priceline google ceo is with us, next. ♪ >> 26 minutes after the hour, bloomberg tv is on the markets. u.s. stocks are rising, rebounding after last week's by three quarters of one percent, the nasdaq at 30 points after selling off 3.1%. also want to point out to stocks we are watching for you. the first is 3-d systems. they are teaming up with staples, the company will offer consumers and small businesses services in new york city and los angeles. also watching apple. jefferies says the tech company may be negotiating a $100 price increase. shares are little changed on that news. on the markets again in 30 minutes. ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west." technology and the future of business. online travel is a private, competitive space. just days ago, google pushed consumers to push their travel on mobile. meanwhile, sabr, the parent company of travelocity, scheduled to go public this week. it is the revenue from priceline that makes it the largest online travel agency in the w

most often like ogle and yahoo! >> they have had significant drops. google is dramatic because it is such a cheap stock. look across the hot sectors like 3-d printing and electric cars, both are down significantly. netflix has fallen in the last month. n is down 21%. really dramatic drop-offs in the last month exacerbated by yesterday's selloff. been, as the markets have three percent yesterday might not seem like the biggest the client. when you talk about 30% for the most exciting names and technology, it's staggering. >> we've got a special roundtable to discuss this. leslie packer is with us as well as max wolf. both of them are in new york. how worried are you about this? is this the beginning of something worse? >> we are paying attention as everyone else is. we are seeing a big correction and some of these names are in technical bear territory. the growth story does not look like it has rapidly -- it has radically altered. these selloffs are against market record territory where people were breaking records. we think there is a macro structural element. risk money ran out of t

, technology, and the future of business. i'm emily chang. we have the latest numbers from google. and one of the hippest offices in new york city. the high the scenes of yahoo!'s recent acquisition, tumbler. we have some breaking news, yahoo! has just nominated three new board members, and one of them is the yahoo! co founder. another is the chairman and director of the charles schwab corporation. shareholders will be voting on the nominees at the company's annual meeting june 25. we will have more on this later this hour. first, the top technology headlines -- ibm has posted an eighth straight quarter of declining sales. sales fell almost four percent in the first quarter while profit tumbled 21%. the hardware and consulting spots, butits were cloud revenue was up more than 63%. new york attorney general eric snyderman has sent subpoenas to six high-frequency trading firms. he is seeking information on their trading strategies and the arrangements firms have with the exchanges. he says he is concerned some trading platforms may sell services that are giving high for traders an edge i

stepping up competition with apple, google, netflix and more. first, a check of your top headlines. microsoft ceo says that developers will want to build for microsoft because they will be innovating in every dimension. speaking at the microsoft build conference, they now have a challenger mindset. we will have more on that later on in the show. alibaba is investing in lyft intruding to this round of funding. this comes to the weeks after they invested in and another u.s. company. they're trying to build up their u.s. profile ahead of an ipo in the united states. blackberry will stop selling its phones in t-mobile stores when the contract ends. the ceo says, "our strategies are not complementary." he criticized t-mobile for encouraging customers to switch to the iphone. first to our lead story, a special show about amazon's big unveiling of the fire tv. they had to get the word fire and there. >> this is significant. i hate covering product announcements but i really feel like this is an interesting position for amazon to be in because they are using hardware to get with their soft

guy who famously turned down steve jobs. how do you feel about that now that google is trying to do this and microsoft is trying to do this. that must be scary. >> we have been used to it. we have competitors in the early days. we have always had competition. that is nothing new for us. if you're going to solve a big problem, there are going to be a lot of people who want to do it too. how do we build great products? we want to make sure that what we are doing is different. >> dropbox ceo drew houston. venture capitalist get hundreds of pitches from startups every year. how do they decide which ones to bonds? we will take you inside a border to find out when "bloomberg west" returns. ♪ >> i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." it is time for our office hours segment. it features maynard webb. we asked startups to send in pictures. we will tell you how we vetted those pitches. >> i am maynard webb. in addition to my responsibilities, i have created a network investment effort. we are going to get your presentations. we see anywhere from 15-30 companies per week. the first th

slide in tech stocks? time is running out if you want to buy google glass. here's a check of your top headlines. there are more signs of hope for the pc business. intel reported a 1% rise in sales. more corporate orders helped offset the overall decline in the consumer market. that will be coming up later in the hour. i will speak with the cfo. the microsoft ceo has announced new data analysis tools at an event in san francisco. it includes a limited preview of the service. it measures data from sensors and connect it in the internet of things. microsoft is taking on oracle and ibm. a federal judge has ruled against apple and is refusing to throw out an antitrust case. the move allows state officials and consumer attorneys to pursue damages against apple at a trial in july. plaintiffs are seeking $840 million. to our lead story of the day, the sellout in tech stocks takes a bit of a breather. the nasdaq is down 3.4% for the year. individual tech stocks were also on a crazy ride. facebook did some more rebounding. yahoo! was surging in after-hours after reporting its first sales gain s

down in support of the broadcasters. on the aereo side lots of silicon valley. facebook, google. dish networks. they have sling technology. they wrote a brief in support of the company saying this is basically what we have, which is we allow people to get broadcast content in whatever way they want. they can record it. it is essentially new technology doing the same old thing that a vcr used to do, emily. >> you sat down for an exclusive interview ahead of today's arguments. what if the vcr never existed? what did he have to say about today in particular yak go >> it is interesting that chet did not want to say anything. he did not take questions after the court let out. he did sit down with us yesterday. as expected, he was optimistic that he will win. the law is on his side. >> this whole thing has been about making sure the consumer gets the signal. it's not about making a coule of guys rich. in we come with a completely different technology based in the roots of technology -- the roots of broadcasting. no one can dispute the facts. unfortunately, they can't dispute the facts. this