Was good this week on the communicators a discussion about the guidelines and rules proposed for self driving cars. Our guest, Mark Rosekind who is the administrator of the national highway Transportation Safety administration. Doctors rosekind what should the public right now know about self driving cars . Guest they are here. The question not even a year ago , six months when are they going to right . They are here and they are on the roads. Really all of us need to focus on how do we make sure they are in the safest possible because they offer tremendous lifesaving potential. Host your agency just put out some guidelines for proposed rules for self driving cars. What is the focus . Guest the policy focuses on four areas and just to make a quick vehicle performance guidance was for people that will manufacture these. If youre going to design, test deploy heres a 15point Safety Assessment you have to go through to make sure its safe before goes on the road. He can talk about this more
Apple is facing more challenges in china as the companys off the have been left Chinese Governments procurement list. Apple failed to submit documents that included a pledge not to violate double interest, according to government officials. This coming after china said it would Vet Technology companies for potential National Security breaches. Of theto our lead story day. Security a major issue in the world. President obama has authorized airstrikes on extremist positions in northern iraq. We will have more on the Technology Behind the strikes coming up. I want to talk about another important form of security, keeping your data safe in cyberspace. There has been breach after breach in the last year or it that target impact impacting as many as 100 million customers this week. Russian hackers stole 1. 2 billion user names and passwords. It is not just data being swiped. At the 17th annual black hat security conference this week, hackers and showed how to break into everything from airpl
The president in a new fight over obamacare. Italy is gearing up towards a noconfidence vote on its government this is the latest attempt by Silvio Berlusconi to bring down the fragile coalition. The billionaire, a former, has called on his backers to vote against the government, but many of them have rebelled, saying they will vote in favor of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister warned lawmakers that if the government falls apart, it could be fatal. Italy is running a risk that would prove fatal and purity level. Avoiding that risk, seeing this chance or not, depends on us. To weigh in a bit more on the situation in italy i am joined by ed ward oh wait, international affairs. This is not just italian insider political news, it reaches across europe . It does and people are extremely concerned. Angela merkel actually called to say that she supported him and hoped the government would survive this unusual step. There are in fact many reasons for this. Italy is the thirdlargest econom
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And samsung and motorola getting a jump on apple created the company is expected to unveil two new iphones next week. What are the technical glitches and what will apple do in response . We will talk about the elite team of engineers dedicated to solving problems. And after weeks and delays of months alibaba released the latest ipo filing, getting close to the ecommerce company, hoping to raise 21. 1 billion. That would make it the largest ipo in the stock market history. Alibaba is going to sell 320 million shares. This would value the company as 162. 7 billion in market cap. Alibaba can begin its roadshow for september 18, or at least so they hope. Charles lee is the accounting professor and former google china executive. Also our Bloomberg Ipo reporter on the phone. Give me a sense of something we know from this business from these filings. I was just talking about this. You rarely see a company that has been around so long and has an established history, is enormously profitable, a