emily: tell me about this. steve: when i was a little kid, if somebody's dad was at home, if i did not know the people, literally i would sit out in the car sometimes because i would be so nervous and shy. when i got to college, a friend of mine described it this way. hello, my name is steve, my hand as sweaty because i am so nervous to see you. over time, that has changed. emily: quite considerably, you brought life to software conferences that will never be seen again. where did that guy come from? steve: that is a very good question. there was a rate few -- breakthrough for me. that is when i was a football manager at harvard. it is not the loftiest position. you have to say hey, listen up a minute. you have to speak before a pretty unruly group. that is how i broke through. emily: your dad worked at fort, you excelled in math and science even early on. at harvard, some other kid named bill gates apparently lived down the hall. and you are better at math than him. steve: that is an extreme way to say it. on

how did emily die? there was much speculation within the family, and police had to confront alex with an odd question. here again is josh mankiewicz with more of "the quiet one." >> rumors were flying around the town of boone, iowa, right after emily fazzino's death. family and friends thought alex fazzino had killed his wife. >> they just kept saying over and over, they murdered her. he murdered her. >> the whisperings started almost immediately. >> yeah. within a day. >> you're a murderer. >> that's what they were saying. >> and not just a murderer. emily's sister amy told investigators alex was also a mobster. >> did you say that alex and his family are in the mafia, in organized crime, and that women who try to divorce their way out of the fazzino family wind up dead? >> that was information that emily had told me. >> amy doesn't realize that of my mom's six siblings and my dad's one siblings, there have been 11 divorces. >> those people all still alive? >> they're not all still alive, but none of t

emily: tell me about this. steve: when i was a little kid, if somebody's dad was at home, if i did not know the people, literally i would sit out in the car sometimes because i would be so nervous and shy. college, a friend of mine described it this way. my name is steve, my hand as sweaty because i am so nervous to see you. over time, that has changed. emily: quite considerably, you brought life to software conferences that will never be seen again. where did that guy come from? steve: that is a very good question. there was a rate few -- breakthrough for me. footballhen i was a manager at harvard. it is not the loftiest position. you have to say hey, listen up a minute. you have to speak before a pretty unruly group. that is how i broke through. your dad worked at fort, you excelled in math and science even early on. harvard, some other kid named bill gates apparently lived down the hall. and you are better at math than him. steve: that is an extreme way to say it. prize matham competition, i did beat him our

emily: i'm emily chang and this is "best of bloomberg technology," where we bring you all our top interviews from the week in tech. the controversy surrounding facebook and twitter rages on in the aftermath of donald trump's election. how the companies are changing their tune. trump doubles down on his promise to scrap a major trade deal. what that means for tech companies in china. the silver industry scrambles to figure out what the new administration means for renewables. the debate rages on, did fake news on facebook help sway the presidential race? mark zuckerberg told dave kirkpatrick this. >> personally, i think the idea that fake news on facebook, of which it is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way, i think is a pretty crazy idea. emily: but after a lot of backlash, zuckerberg seems to have slightly changed his tune. he wrote on facebook, the bottom line is, we take misinformation seriously. we believe in giving people a voice, which means erring on the side of letting people share what they want whenever possible. we asked dave kirkpatrick what he t

♪ emily: this is the best of bloomberg technology. coming up, markets saw a big lift after donald trump won the white house, though most in silicon valley lost the bet on the presidency. plus, what a trump presidency means for key issues in tech. chinese internet companies face a new reality after donald trump's surprise victory and we hear from the alibaba president. first, the lead in reaction, we saw one of the biggest single day reversals in stock market history and the dow jones industrial average ending just shy of a record close. amazon, microsoft, and facebook shares dropped with speculation of what a presidency would mean for them. we break it down with an analyst and the global head of tech coverage. >> i do not know that anyone knows with a degree of confidence. anybody close to him will admit that they do not know exactly what he believes. it will be an interesting for years. obviously republicans won in all levels of the government. we should see less taxation and less regulation and improvement and flexibility to protect

emily: a few outliars. eric, you wrote a story back in the day about how difficult it was to find a single trump supporter. >> before peter had come out as sort of the sole trump supporter in silicon valley, i had gone around to some of the companies, there were a lot of political consultants here who have set up, even some of the ones from the mccain campaign and elsewhere, you know, aren't really coming out for trump. i went to the local republican campaign -- committees to see if they had any tech people who were publicly supporting trump and i just literally could not find one. now peel has come out publicly and been the tech trump supporter. but he's sort of standing alone here. they're hard to find. emily: here's my question. if trump gets elected, silicon valley spent a lot of time over the last eight years building bridges with washington. we hear about it from both sites. you've got the president coming out here, the secretary of defense. what happens if trump is elected to silicon valley, does sil

emily: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. is a donald trump presidency good for u.s. market? that is the question investors are waiting. market calm or volatility will have an impact on whether text unicorns take the plunge and decide to go public. >> i think a lot of the bigger check companies are multinational in scale, and i think, you know, the policy, trump's policies, generally anti-trade, you know, those kinds of things are really affecting people's viewpoints, the amazons, the ibm's, the largest cap companies affecting the whole industry. down: facebook, google, since the election. do you think that will keep up, or once we see more certainty around trump's policies, that could change? >> i think that could change. i think the tech sector will probably join this rally at some point. i think we are going to talk a little bit about ipo's. i think the backdrop for ipo's is very good. people are looking for and thewth companies market and we see a lot of growth in technology, especially in cloud-based platforms, especiall

emily: wife? -- why? steve: they have taken the friction out of the process and encouraging technology. all of the factors are in place for this being a great holiday. is taking an even larger share. talk to us what we are seeing with regards to amazon versus traditional retailers. interestingly, clothing and apparel. steve: it is fascinating. amazon takes about 90% of the share. nine out of 10 consumers told us they shop at amazon. 40% of those say that as of their relationship with amazon, they are shopping at fewer retailers, and 20% say that because of the relationship with amazon, their shopping if you are websites -- shopping at fewer websites. emily: david, amazon is making its own clothing. do you think there is any way any other company can tip the scales versus amazon zero this time? no.d: tipped the scales, thierk there lead -- lead is so formidable that not even walmart can top that. one of the interesting statistics i saw in the pwc report was that 56% of consumers seek out independent retail

emily? emily: thank you. attorneys for trump say they'll enter settlement talks in the president-elect's upcoming trial involving his now-defunct trump university. the class-action fraud lawsuit filed in 2010 alleges the university failed to keep its promise to teach real estate success. former students say they spent false impression that the school was accredited. trump's attorneys ask that the november 28th trial be delayed until after inauguration day in january, and the judge suggested that both sides try to settle. randy: right now a criminal investigation is underway after the death of an infant. this morning there are several unanswered questions surrounding the death of a 5-week-old baby. at this time, no charges have been filed. sources tell 5 investigates that a drug overdose might have been contributed t unconscious inside a home on harrison place. investigators were called to the home at around noon yesterday. they stayed on the scene well into the night. video shot last night shows them leaving

emily: that was carter mack. staying with tech, this week's semantech agreed to buy the identity protection company lifelock for more than $2 billion. bloomberg's intelligence analyst and david kirkpatrick joined us for more insight on the deal. >> right now symantec is addressing the problems it has with its flagship norton product, which has been bleeding sales. growth has been hard to come by. what they are trying to fix is a revenue stream from a compan lifelock, and it hardly addresses the problem they have in the consumer segment. the bluecoat acquisition was targeted at the enterprise segment. emily: let's talk about the challenges they face. symantec has struggled because it security software was loaded onto pcs, then the world went mobile. how well-positioned is symantec to compete in a world where there are a lot of mobile threats? >> absolutely right. the security landscape has changed completely. you have seen the rise of a lot of smaller point solution endors who have done well. they have scaled them

. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." a busy tuesday of technology earnings. electronic arts boosting its outlook for the holiday quarter and square with an upbeat revenue forecast. details on how jack dorsey's other company performed in q3. and a stronger yen and earthquake sink sony. we will break down the electronic giant's nosedived. shares of electronic arts are higher in after-hours trading after beating analyst estimates. it's the first of a handful of videogame publishers reporting this week. adjusted earnings fell on revenue that also fell 4%. investors are watching guidance for the holiday quarter. ea raising its forecast lower than some analysts estimated. joining us now to discuss are my guests in new york and l.a. what would you say are the high points here, moving into the biggest quarter of the year for all game makers? guest: the key point is ea continues to deliver a very strong results. the core franchises, the sports games are performing very well with fifa engagement up year after year. all in all, the

emily: why not twitter? kevin: i think there were a lot of companies google, others so are interested in instagram. facebook was the one that took it seriously and i think mark acted very quickly and decisively. at the same time, you look at the parenting now and it feels native emily:. emily:google was interested? company think every was. i do not think it was google specifically but that companies were interested in what instagram was up to. we were a bit of an anomaly because people would see 13 people but at the same time we had all of this growth and people were kind of like, they did not get why those things could be true at the same time. i think a lot of people wrote off photos. no one knew how important photos would be for the future of social media and expression. if you look at the way people express themselves, it is not through just chat but through photos and sending them to each other. no one quite understood that was the revolution instagram was about to embark on. you foracebook but about $1

. ♪ emily: i am emily chang and this is the best of "bloomberg technology." we bring you our top interviews from the week. coming up facebook is projecting , a slowdown in ad growth. have expectations for the social network been too high? alibaba shrugs off the chinese economy with double-digit growth. how long can the world's biggest e-commerce company continue to defy estimates? steve ballmer weighs in on the u.s. election. why the former microsoft chief is advising ceo's to keep their political opinions to themselves. first to our lead, facebook had had a quarter that blew past expectations. that's up 50% from the same quarter last year. that is a profit of $2.4 billion. up more than 160% to year-over-year. it is the sixth straight quarterly beat for facebook. it has increased sales by 50% in the last four quarters. yet, executives suggest they won't be able to repeat the performance and investors are taking note. james joined us along with cory johnson. take a listen. beate expectations for a were quite high. by any reasonable measure, this is a fantastic

♪ emily: i'm emily chang in this is the best of "bloomberg technology" where we bring you the top interviews. market saw a big lefty after donald trump one the white house. we will map out how the industry is planning for the next four years. what a trump residency means for issues and tech from global privacy to u.s. immigration policy? chinese internet companies facing the reality after donald trump's surprise victory and alibaba has the most to lose? we will hear from alibaba's president? market reaction following the presidential election? we have seen the biggest reversals in market histories? dow ending just try of a record close? a handful of stocks missed out on a rally? facebook shares dropped? . we broke it down with an analyst and a global head of tech coverage. knowson't think anybody with confidence. him who admitto they don't know what he believes. it will be an interesting four years. the republicans won at all levels in the government. we should see less taxation and less regulation. improving flexibility for tech startups is the highlight. there should be a degree of freedom

emily: i am emily chang and this is the best of "bloomberg technology." we bring you all of our top interviews from the week in tech. coming up, facebook is projecting a slowdown in ad growth. have expectations been too high? alibaba shrugs off the chinese economy with double-digit rowth. how long can they continue to defy estimates? steve ballmer weighs in on the u.s. election. first to our lead, facebook had a quarter the past xpectations. just over delb 7 billion. that's up 50% from the same quarter last year. that is a profit of $2.4 billion. it is the sixth straight quarterly beat for facebook. executives suggest they won't be able to repeat the performance and investors are taking note. james joined us along with cory johnson. take a listen. cory: the expectations were quite high. by any reasonable measure, this is a fantastic order for his company. there was not an acceleration of mobile revenues. it was hard to find it did emily: it was 04 years ago. zero four years ago. cory: any number of statistics is look at, this is a antastic report. >> jame

emily: thank you. security in new york city is being stepped up ahead of the annual thanksgiving day parade there. millions are set to line the route to see the giant balloons and floats. traffic will be blocked off, barricades, including sanitation trucks full of sands in place. some 3,000 police officers will all of this to thwart any terror threat similar to what was carried out in nice, france, earlier this year. donald trump has a thanksgiving day message. a video calling for unity. erika is tracking that, as well as the trump transition. reporter: president-elect trump is working through the holiday from florida, delivering a new message to americans as sp appointments. >> this morning president-elect donald trump and his family are hunkered down at the luxury mar-a-lago resort in florida. wednesday he released this thanksgiving message. >> it's my prayer that on this thanksgiving we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country. reporter: while white men dominated his staff picks,

. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." silicon valley's most divisive voice stands his ground. peter thiel defends his support of donald trump. he says he's not the only one. plus another blockbuster week of , tech earnings. everything you need to know before facebook and alibaba report results. my exclusive interview with vinod khosla and his thoughts on the impact of machines and more. peter thiel opens up about his support for donald trump. at a national press club event in washington, he said the presidential nominee represents a new republican party. peter: no matter what happens in this election, it is not crazy and it is not going away. trump points to a new republican party beyond the dogmas of reaganism. he points beyond the remaking of one party to a new american politics that overcomes denial, rejects bubble thinking and reckons with reality. emily: thiel has been a political lightning rod this election season. being scorned from silicon valley that almost uniformly oppose the republican nominee. thiel recently

emily: what should they study? vinod: logic and philosophy should be an absolute part of any liberal arts curriculum. otherwise you do not learn how to think. linguistics, economics. learning about how computers work. we live in the computer age. why require a second language when the most important language is computing? not that most people ever need to code. but because it is a style of painting, the critique is all from people who fail to understand what i was saying, which was exactly the point i was making. the comments like the one you mentioned reinforce the notion that they did not get a good education. emily: do you think college is important at all? should kids go to college? peter thiel is paying them not to. vinod: i disagree with him. i think college and high school is very important. there will be people who will do well without an education and people who do well no matter what subject they take. leaving aside those people, the top 10%-20%, i think college gives you the grounding to be able to do th

emily? emily: thanks. right now the mbta is asking questions after commuter rail accint that went unreported. randy: and the eye's nicole estaphan now at south station with the punishment handed down as this investigation unfolds. nicole: the accident happening earlier this month. the big question this morning, why was it not reported. the commuter train was approaching south station on november 4 when it hit a train bumper. a rail tie. the train was traveling at just 6 miles per hour. the t's fiscal and management control board compared it to this september crash in hoboken, new jersey. one person was killed. more than 100 others hurt when a transit train was going at a high speed of 21 miles per hour and crashed into the terminal. now, the crew members on the commuter train have been placed on leave pending the outcome of this investigation. there were no passengers onboard this train at the time of the crash. we are live at south station is randy: all right, nicole. thank you. you can soon see this subw

emily: this is number technology. i am emily chang. this according to people familiar with the matter. if a deal happens, it would follow a slew of transactions in the rapidly consolidating semiconductor industry. joining us now with the latest on the industry are bloomberg tech reporter ian king, who has been very busy the last several days, weeks, months. tell us what this means for the .hip landscape ian: it is unique, a bit of an outlier and make the chip that going to aircrafts, and they are called hardened chips, so they are radiation safety. the good thingut the business is long-term margin and bad thing, no big ups and downs. emily: there is a history of potential takeovers here, but were kind of companies do you think will be interested? ian: we have named this guy works as being one of interested parties and they, as you remember, actually got into bidding with micro semi for another chipmaker. what we are looking at is they are the one that is going to be .rimarily interested emily: emily: is the thinking that these guys nee

emily: the u.s. relationship with russia has been incredibly tense. what do you make of a potentially friendlier future? what does that mean? >> i'm not sure being friends under the current leadership is a good idea. i think russia has some bad ideas. somebody needs to stand up to them. i do not know if that will be donald trump hopefully the republican congress. emily: what about encryption and privacy issues that companies like apple have a lot of our data and have been fighting to keep it private and trump has been public he does not like how apple handed the encrypted iphone situation. the white house in general wanted apple to break open the phone but apple did not. companies toorce hand over more personal data? >> i think that is the interesting question. it appears he is going to be much more pro-law-enforcement so he could be a lot more aggressive going forward. we need to remember there are still other branches of government that need to be engaged to enable them to become more aggressive. h

emily: that was sam zade. still ahead, electronic arts is boosting its outlook or the holiday quarter. we will break down the latest in gaming next. remember that all episodes of bloomberg tech are live streaming on twitter. check us out weekdays at 6:00 ♪ p.m.. emily: there could be a merger of multiple fantasy sports sites. this is according to people from the with the merger. he will serve as the ceo of the combined company. investors have been encouraging this for months as the two companies have spent millions impeding against one another and fighting legal battles. electronic arts beat estimates for the second quarter, earnings fell 18% on revenue that well 4%. investors closely watching guidance for the holiday quarter. they are still lower than some analysts estimated. we discussed. matthew: ea delivers on very -- to deliver on very strong results. the core franchise, the madden business, the other sports games are performing very well with fifa engagement up significantly versus the prior launch. th

emily: it's interesting. currently when hp split, not a lot of people saw the election of donald trump coming, and a discussion about m&a yesterday with david kirkpatrick, he suggested that safer in today's it could be unpredictable environment. do you think two hp's are better off than one hp with donald trump running our country? >> i really can't comment on that. what i can focus on is what you are seeing emerge in these companies. i spent a lot of time with hewlett-packard. if i could sum it up in one word, it is focus. this company, through their focus, really has a lot more options. the sales team is more focused on what they are selling. the products, the time they can spend on crafting the portfolio, that kind of stuff is stronger. you really saw that in the hewlett-packard, the hp inc, the pc and printer companies. you saw the personal systems group growing 4%. that is faster than the market. that is on better execution and better product. as far as what person is in charge meg did mention, she , did

emily: we need an outsider to fix a problem. lizette: interestingly enough, it would seem that donald trump was not peter thiel's first pick. he actually first donated to carly fiorina. also, he said that he wished this election would have been between sanders and trump. clearly, his vote is for an outsider. what that outsider looks like is the issue. emily: lizette chapman and bob o'donnell. coming up, staying with peter thiel. the company he cofounded is getting a second chance with a u.s. army contract. a federal judge ruled the army violated bidding rules by failing to consider commercially available options, effectively shutting down the firm. the court has ordered the army to reevaluate all tech sectors. another jampacked week of tech company earnings. we will break down everything you need to know ahead of square and facebook's results. all episodes of "bloomberg technology" are live on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: one story we are watching, alibaba is doubling down with a new media group and a fund of nearl

emily: what should they study? vinod: logic and philosophy should be an absolute part of any liberal arts curriculum. otherwise you do not learn how to think. linguistics, economics. learning about how computers work. we live in the computer age. require a second language when the most important language is computing? not said most people ever need to code. but because it is a style of painting, the critique is all from people who fail to understand what i was saying, which was exactly the point i was making. the comments like the one you mentioned reinforce the notion that they did not get a good education. emily: do you think college is important at all? should kids go to college? peter thiel is paying them not to. vinod: i disagree with him. i think college and high school is very important. there will be people who will do well without an education and people who do well no matter what subject they take. leaving aside those people, the top 10%-20%, i think college gives you the grounding to be able to do things

emily: you were google's 16th employee. you built the ad business, google blogs, how many hats have you worn in 18 years? susan: when you join a startup, you have to be willing to do whatever the start up needs you to do. part of it, because i did not have a fixed role is always looking for the opportunity, and so, look, there is an opportunity. nobody else is working on image search. there are all these other people working on the text search but images were really cool. today that is a very popular search. i thindoing a lot of things and having the freedom to move around the company, being able to see a lot of opportunities and grow them. emily: it has been 10 years since google bought youtube and you wrote the original justification plan that convince them to buy the company. what did you see back then? susan: i did a spreadsheet, but i also believed in youtube. there was one video we had and that video convinced me and showed me that people all over the world can create content and be entertaining. the video was of thes

emily: they are looking for a new cfo. cory: i am saying here. emily: great responsibility. cory johnson not going through the revolving door. thank you. still to come, the election sent record tracking through social media sites like twitter and facebook. they have also been blamed for the rise of political divisiveness. whose responsibility is it? more on that story later this hour. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: one of the biggest losers of the 2016 presidential election, polling. almost all of the polls of political insiders had hillary clinton strolling into the white house. popular polling sites like nate silver's showed clinton with a 538 72% of taking it all. it was more of the conservative assessment. how did big data get it so wrong? joining to discuss, read it may dit cofounder red and a former policy director of prime minister david cameron. steve, we will start with you. how did they get it so wrong? >> i think there were two big data failures. let's take them one at a time. first of all, polling. emily: by the way, you were on the show saying you've felt the re

emily: that was carter mack. staying with tech, this week's summit tech agreed to buy the identity protection company lifelock for more than $2 billion. bloomberg's intelligence analyst and david kirkpatrick joined us for more insight on the deal. >> right now symantec is addressing the problems it has with its flagship norton product, which has been bleeding sales. growth has been hard to come by. what they are trying to fix is a revenue stream from a company, lifelock, and it hardly addresses the problem they have in the consumer segment. the bluecoat acquisition was targeted at the enterprise segment. emily: let's talk about the challenges they face. symantec has struggled because it security software was loaded onto pcs, then the world went mobile. how well-positioned is symantec to compete in a world where there are a lot of mobile threats? >> absolutely right. the security landscape has changed completely. you have seen the rise of a lot of smaller point solution vendors who have done well. they are not int

emily: good morning. it is friday, november 25th. i'm emily riemer. randy: i'm randy price. black friday madness is under way. long lines and a rush to get those door buster deals. emily: a suspect in court today accused in a wild with four boston police officers. the charges he's facing. randy: raw emotion during a high school football game. the local hero this thanksgiving day game honored. emily: first checking in with cindy for a look at your black friday forecast. a lot of folks already out there, cindy. cindy: i would think so. and they're dealing with some fog, especially as you get away from the coastline. take a look at the visibility in the worcester area. visibility is a little bit lower. so a little bit of fog out there this morning. the concern is the temperatures, because you can see as you get outside of 495, we're running near the freezing mark, jaffrey, worcester, 35, orange 36. out that way, there could be some slippery spots. keep that in mind. closer to the coastline, we're 40 in boston, mid 40's on the cape this morning. not a lot on radar, fortunately.

emily: good morning. it is monday, november 28. i'm emily riemer. the eyeopener tracking several stories. a recount controversy. the social media attack by the president-elect and the crucial meeting today. also, a new clue in a hit-and-run caught on camera. how investigators think a car may have led them t who took off. and the patriots win the game but lose gronk. the new injury and the injuries the tight-end suffered. first a check of the forecast. cindy: good morning. a nice start to the week. temperatures are chilly but we recover nicely. patchy clouds around the boston area. it's 35 degrees in town, but much colder in the suburbs. below freezing in nashua at 31. south of town as well from plymouth to taunton we're in the 20's right now. even on the cape and falmouth. a cold start while mainly clear skies. we're in great shape. there's a storm in the middle of the country we are watching for tomorrow. it will bring in rainfall. today is all about sunshine. sunrise 6:51. temperatures out of the 20's and 30's. should be in the low 40's at lunchti

. ♪ ♪ emily: i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. tesla gets the green light on the merger with solarcity putting elon musk closer to a one-stop shop. big tech sends donald trump it's wishlist. we speak with representatives from facebook and google. and a tech ipo rebound may be on hold until president-elect trump's policies become more clear. tesla and solarcity shareholders approved a merger between the companies. the man who runs it all, elon musk, shared his gratitude. >> i would like to thank the shareholders that voted in favor of the transaction. by an overwhelming margin. i think your faith will be rewarded. i think there will be some amazing stuff that comes out. emily: joining me now is david the senior research analyst at robert baird. david, what does this say about elon musk's ability to sell a a controversial deal through? reporter: it was controversial. over the course of the summer, some of those who opposed the deal, some of the shareholders who were not in love with it, started to settle down. theyrock, bailey giffo

emily: good shope. randy: indeed. emily: still ahead, we follow several breaking stories. randy: rescue mission after a plane crash in colombia. emily: new at 5:00, stay healthy this season. three super foods to keep you emily: we are following breaking news from lynn. randy: police are on the scene of a shooting. this is happening on the lynn way in lynn. on the scene there. parts of the lynn way are shut down right now. the shooting happened just a short time ago. we'll be bringing you updates for this story throughout the morning. emily: also breaking, a deadly crash in east boston. boston e.m.s. confirming one person was killed in the single-car crash along the mcclellan highway. it happened just before 11:00 last night. that car landing on its roof. no word yet on how this happened or whether there were any other victims. colombia. a charter plane crashed there. 81 people onboard including members of a brazilian soccer team. investigators say prior to the crash in rio negro, the plane declared an emergency due to an electrical failure. there are reports this morning o

. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." president-elect trump is picking his team but his choices won't please those looking for postelection moderation. plus, social media under fire. facebook and twitter have very different ways of handling the postelection backlash. and, the backlog of companies ready to go public is growing but trump's uncertain policies could be bad news for tech ipo's. what happened to u.s. cyber and national security policies with trumpet in the white house? it is a key question after the president-elect named alabama senator jeff sessions as attorney general and kansas representative mike pompeo as head of the cia. michael flynn will be national security advisor. what do they stand for? what happens to the strong bridge the white house built between washington and silicon valley? obama appointed the first cdo, chief data scientist. obama attended the tech heavy sxsw interactive festival, hosted a q&a, held twitter town halls, and seemed to have a direct line to bill gates, mark zuckerberg, and tim c

emily: good morning. it is tuesday, november 8. election day. i'm emily riemer. randy: i'm randy price. it is decision time. the critical votes for each candidate today. emily: the first election day votes are already in. the candidate hampshire town chose overnight. randy: there's the u.s. senate race to keep an eye on today. emily: a lot to get to. we want to get you to cindy first for a look at your election day forecast. cindy: it is going to be a mild day. however, it is chilly right now, and the temperature in boston is deceiving. 40 degrees in the city right now with clear skies, light winds. look at the suburbs. nashua, 28 degrees. orange just 24. south of town, we are in the 20's with a lot of 30's on cape cod. it is a cold, frosty start. but the skies above are clear. we have high pressure nosing in. as the winds turn around to the south and the west, it is going to bring in milder air. the sun is up at 6:27. by 8:00 a.m., we're in the low 40's. by lunchtime, we're degrees early this afternoon. we're looking for highs this afternoon a good 10 degrees ab

emily: welcome back to "best of bloomberg technology." i am emily chang. is a donald trump presidency good for the u.s. stock market? that is the question investors are weighing in the weeks following the election. a big impact on whether the tech unicorns decide to go public. jmp group president carter mac shared with us his outlook for tech ipo's to come. carter: i think a lot of the bigger companies are multinational in scale and the policy, trump's policies, generally anti-trade, those kinds of things are really effecting people's viewpoints of the bigger companies. the amazons, microsoft, ibm. since those are the largest market cap companies, affecting the whole industry. emily: facebook, google, netflix, for example, all down since the election. do you think that will keep up or that once we start to see more certainty around his policies, that could change? carter: i think it can change. i think the tech sector will probably join this rally at some point. i think, you know we're going to , talk a little about ipo's. i think the backdrop for ipo's is

. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." coming up, a shipping disaster for amazon. a pilot strike threatens delivery for the e-commerce giant's biggest weekend of the year. plus, hp's quarter will disappoint. output fromslumping its servers and storage divisions. from the ceo of the new york times. coming up, president-elect donald trump makes peace with the new york times, a target of his frequent tweet storms. but first to our lead, a pilot strike could hit amazon where it hurts and disrupt deliveries during the most important shopping weekend of the year. 250 pilots employed by abx air are protesting alleged staffing shortages. abx is asking a judge to force its employees back to work. all of this as the we tell industry gears up for an 11% increase in online spending over the next two months of last year. amazon will benefit from much of that. joining us to discuss is sj consulting group's president. also our bloomberg news reporter who covers the airlines. bx pilots -- captain is joining us on the phone. michael, i wan

emily: you redesigned your logo which some people did not like. ♪ emily: there was a lot of drama when you hired former putter head kevin we'll -- wheel. especially given the struggles they are going through. you're a product focused ceo. how much impact can a head of product have when you are the decider? kevin: product management is different from product strategy. building products that were operational, more the guts of the machine. once you have an idea, how do you get it to become a reality. that's the thing kevin brings an amazing expertise to instagram. he has done that before. he has seen that at scale. i don't like to say i'm a good product manager. i think the team will attest. but i love thinking strategically. when you combine kevin's personality and expertise and mine, you get a great pair that i think is like a yin and a yang. ; i noticed you haven't used your twitter handle much recently. you have a very simple twitter handle. do you think twitter can turn itself around? kevin: i probably should use my twitter account. it is an amazing platform and i think that every co

emily: zero? airbnb is still trying, though they have not hired that china ceo, olivia. >> they haven't. i don't know if i really think their chances are that low. i first want to say, china is growing, the middle class is growing at an incredible rate. there are 400 million more millennials in china than in the u.s. these are people who, many of them are passport holders, they speak more than one language, and they are eager to travel. what airbnb is more focused on is the outbound traveler. to answer about the ceo, i think this is consistent with the company. they tend to really take their time in hiring. the ceo, many people have called him a perfectionist. i met with one of their investors yesterday and he explained to me that he is being advised to actually wait, and he feels it's better to hire the right person rather than put somebody in that role that may be could also bring in other people that aren't right for the job. i don't know if it necessarily means that something is wrong there. i

emily: what did you learn from them? kevin: number one would be sometime sure first idea doesn't work out. the place became twitter, but i remember odeo not quite working. and then keeping in touch with jack as they made that transition and realizing that often when you are a company, you need to pivot into something else. instagram had a similar history where we were working on a game and it turned into instagram. emily: the first instagram photo was of your girlfriend's foot, with a stray dog. but it is maybe the first filter that was even more consequential. kevin: had i known that would be the first photo on instagram and that instagram would get the place where there's 500 million people using it around the world monthly, i would've tried a little harder. my girlfriend at the time is now my wife. she said i'm not going to post photos unless i can make them look great so you should probably add filters. i said ok i will try making a filter. i made the first one we ever created. i added it to the build and it took a p

. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." coming up, cisco shares sliding after the company forecasts a text in a slowdown on the horizon. the full earnings report ahead. plus, twitter suspends the accounts of prominent white supremacists as it attempts to curb abuse and harassment. and a short seller says tesla shareholders should quote, have their heads examined if they approve the pending deal. his full comments ahead. first, to our lead. fallout from the election of donald trump continues to ripple through the tech world, especially when it comes to social media companies. twitter says it suspended the accounts of prominent white supremacists, among them, richard spencer, often credited for spearheading the so-called alt right movement that supported president-elect trump. twitter also added tools this week to help users better filter out of use. in a statement, the company says, because twitter happens in public and in real time, we've had challenges keeping up with and curbing abusive conduct. we took a step back to res

emily: u.s. forces may have committed war crimes in afghanistan according to the international criminal court. the chief prosecutor says american armed forces and the cia may have tortured and raped dozens of detainees between 2003 and 2014, most in the first year. americans could be indicted although washington has not a state department spokesperson says the u.s. does not believe investigation is warranted. randy: veteran tv journalist gwen ifill has lost her battle with cancer. the cohost of the "pbs newshour" was 61 years old. ifill was an alum of simmons college and started writing for "the boston herald-american "which later became the boston herald." she'd been year while covering the presidential election a. new charity campaign will benefit first responders, medical teams and survivors of the boston marathon bombing. the charity is connected to mark wahlberg's upcoming film "patriots day." it's open to nonprofits in and around boston that are services affected by the bombing. emily: one

emily: you redesigned your logo which some people did not like. ♪ emily: there was a lot of drama when you hired former twitter head kevin wheel. especially given the struggles they are going through. you're a product focused ceo. how much impact can a head of product have when you are the decider? kevin: product management is different from product strategy. building products that were operational, more the guts of the machine. once you have an idea, how do you get it to become a reality? that's the thing kevin brings an amazing expertise to instagram. he has done that before. he has seen that at scale. i don't like to say i'm a good product manager. i think the team will attest. but i love thinking strategically. when you combine kevin's personality and expertise and mine, you get a great pair that i think is like a yin and a yang. emily: i noticed you haven't used your twitter handle much recently. you have a very simple twitter handle. do you think twitter can turn itself around? kevin: i probably should use my twitter account. it is an amazing platform and i think that every compa

emily: good morning. it is friday, november 18. i'm emily riemer. randy: i'm randy price. at 4:30, shots fired at police in norwood. emily: a serial bank robber dubbed the spelling bee bandit. his distinctive notes and the concerne violent. randy: another surprise as president-elect donald trump fills his cabinet. the bay state politician that's part of all the buzz this morning. emily: we'll get to that. first, we'll check in with cindy for this friday. tgif. we made it. cindy: it's going to be fantastic. a nice day shaping up. clear skies in boston. it is 43 degrees. colder in the suburbs north and west of towns. worcester at 39. it's about 50 on the cape where we have a blanket of clouds but also some stronger winds. there's a storm out in the ocean that's going to stay there, and as high pressure noses in from the west, most of us will have light winds and sunshine. on the cape, the winds are gusting over 30 miles an hour and throughout the day, we're going to hang on to wind on the cape. elsewhere, wind should be under 10 or 15 miles an hour. but it is a breezy day on

emily? emily: thank you. your health. a new amputation technique is being called the greatest development in limb research since world war ii. it's a partnership between doctors at brigham and women's and researchers at m.i.t.'s media lab. surgeons say it allows them to preserve nerves that patients like jim ewing here might otherwise lose with a traditional saw. and that would give them more control over a morean prosthetic, being able to wiggle toes and turn out the ankles. jim ewing is the first patient to undergo the procedure and he's excited for the future. >> the fact that i'm going to get to be the first to try out this new foot and try out this new technology, i don't know. who wouldn't want to do it? emily: ewing should be walking on that new prosthetic in about six months. randy: it's now 20 minutes before the top of the hour. in news to go, how a driver may and a patriots player getting suspended. the accusations alan branch is appealing right now. we're looking at the mass pike in boston. traffic moving along

emily? emily: thank you. trump saying in that same "60 minutes" interview he's not decided if he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton and her private email server. he said he would do that during the second presidential debate. he said his plan is to focus on jobs, health care, and president obama will take questions today for the first time since trump's election. he'll hold an afternoon news conference at the white house before heading out on a six-day trip to greece, germany and peru. the white house says the president is expected to face questions from world leaders about donald trump's election. abc news will have a special report at 3:15. you can watch that right here on channel 5 or on our wcvb mobile app. randy: tito jackson tellin it's critical we remain steadfast in ensuring immigrants who are undocumented actually have a path to citizenship. he wants boston to be a sanctuary city and not assist with mass deportation and doesn't think those who may have simply been curren

emily: i'm emily riemer. a lot of lines in today's election, and we will get to all of it but first we want to check in with cindy. a great forecast for voters. cindy: the weather looks fantastic. clear skies as we approach

emily: no new offers? interestingly, president elect trump has nominated elaine chao to run the department of transportation. do you have any inkling of what she might mean for this industry? >> i looked into her policy positions a little bit. i could not find that much. the woman who he chose to do, to the lead transition committee on transportation, she came from a libertarian think tank who criticized california's steering wheel and pedal policy. for being overly restrictive, which i agree with. there has not been a single death in autonomous vehicles to date. you can talk about the all a pilot -- the autopilot one but that is a lot more of a cruise control system. to try to regulate something that has not only never caused a public safety problem but also could potentially solve a huge public safety problem, to me, seems premature. emily: let's talk about the tesla autopilot death you just referred to. there's a debate about semi-autonomous versus fully autonomous, what is safer? what do you think is s

emily: i'm emily riemer. following breaking news on the eyeopener right now, a pedestrian killed while walking along the highway in waltham. the new details in overnight. an investigation underway this morning. randy: a big undertaking along route beginning tonight. what you need to know about this project, shutting down part of the highway. emily: it's your last chance to cast those early ballots in one new england state. the impacts so far on this election. randy: pleasant start to this friday and the weekend, cindy. good morning. cindy: we look at the temperature and think not bad, 50 degrees. skies clear to partly cloudy. notice the wind out of the northwest at 10. that northwesterly wind will bring down cooler air. it's only in the 30's to our north. we have a cold front to our north that's going to drop through this morning with a period of clouds and high pressure builds in for your weekend. so it's a quiet pattern overall but a quit of cloudiness moving through this morning. notice the temperatures by

emily: i'm emily chang and coming up, the tech community chooses sides with less than 24 hours to go. we will tell you who is voting who, and analyze the impact of a bitter u.s. election on silicon valley. plus, lighting up the markets for a second trading day. we are joined with inside on the cyber threats from russia on u.s. politics. and steve ballmer drops the mic with the richest sports team owner. everything from how we drifted from bill gates to the $50 billion a shot that salesforce. priceline shares after-hours trading after third-quarter earnings beat estimates, despite the company announcing an, $1 billion write-down. we will tell you what to expect from the top tech stories of the week, including the biggest story of the year. that is the presidential election. joining us now from new york, paul sweeney a bloomberg intelligence. bloomberg tech starter reporter eric newcomer, in a cory johnson. we will start with priceline, announcing this big write-down of opentable. what do you make of this? >> this could have been a train wreck for them. they spent nearly $2 billion on i

emily: yeah. randy: a lot of us have snow on randy: breaking overnight, police officers ambushed, one of them killed. new information in on the southern states. >> a mother beaten to death in front of her disabled son. the party at the from of the randy: a sinking ship rescued by the coast guard. moments before a crash on the eye monday morning. >> also donald trump meeting with rick perry today. randy: other names are getting attention as the inner circle tightens. brace yourself for this as you head out. in many commuties, drivers in south boston and other areas