Of a u. S. Trade war, is it a risk to investors . First, to our top story, facebook shares took a hit earlier today after the wall street journal reported Mark Zuckerberg knew about the social networks problematic privacy practices. Facebook uncovered emails in the process of responding to a federal privacy investigation, raising concerns that they would be harmful to the company if they became public. The journal says that is part of the reason why the company salt sought a quick settlement. Here in me in san francisco, our bloomberg tech executive editor, so, tom, explained this to me here. The nuts and bolts here. What is the journal saying that facebook uncovered . Tom they are referring to an email exchange, which, by the way, they have not seen them. We certainly havent. We dont know where they got them. Apparently there was this exchange in 2012, around the time that the ftc was handing down this consent degree punishment about facebook and its privacy practices. At the time, th
The movement against the extradition bill. The chief executive in definitely postponed it, but not withdraw it. Many protesters say it was not enough. They wanted the chief executive to not only apologize, but withdraw the bill. But she says that they will not consider it until at least through the rest of this year. Protest organizers say they are angry and are calling for people to come out. Already, we are seeing families coming out the starting to fill up part of the square. Many of them are carrying white flowers, which some flower vendors are selling around the subway entrances in support of the one protester who did fall to his death late yesterday after climbing scaffolding. There was quite a press conference that we saw yesterday. Thane lam spoke for more one hour. When asked about if she was to resign, she was quite defined on that regard. Defined on that defiant on that regard. Ed absolute stephen absolutely. If she repeatedly asked would resign and she dodged the question a
Firms ceo. And congress probe into big tech kicks off the discussion on how facebook and google are challenging the news industry. We will hear from a top lawmaker who does not think big is necessarily bad. But first, to our top story. Apple has a backup plan if the u. S. China trade war continues to escalate. The companys manufacturing partner says it is able to make all iphones bound for the u. S. Outside of china if necessary. This group now makes most of apples smartphones at its chinese factory. Our bloomberg tech editor joined vonnie quinn with the details. Alistair this is an executive who was talking to investors and other people in taiwan, and our reporter in asia, debbie wu, was there to listen. This is more of a plan. They did not say apple asked foxconn to do this yet, but he was saying they are very capable of doing it. It has raised a lot of questions. We spoke to an analyst over here who looks at the smartphone industry, and he was saying that actualre talking about fina
Challenging the news industry. We will hear from a top lawmaker who does not think big is necessarily bad. But first, to our top story. Apple has a backup plan if the u. S. China trade war continues to escalate. Hon hai, the companys manufacturing partner, says it is able to make all iphones bound for the u. S. Outside of china if necessary. Hon hai now makes most of apples smartphones at its chinese factory. Our bloomberg tech editor joined vonnie quinn with the details. Alistair this is an executive who was talking to investors and other people in taiwan, and our reporter in asia, debbie wu, was there to listen. This is more of a plan. They did not say apple asked foxconn to do this yet, but he was saying they are very capable of doing it. It has raised a lot of questions. We spoke to an analyst over here who looks at the smartphone industry, and he was saying that if youre talking about actual final assembly, which is what foxconn does, putting together all the components in an ipho
Kicks off the discussion on how facebook and google are challenging the news industry. We will hear from a top lawmaker who does not think big is necessarily bad. But first, to our top story. Apple has a backup plan if the u. S. China trade war continues to escalate. The companys manufacturing partner says it is able to make all iphones bound for the u. S. Outside of china if necessary. Hon hai now makes most of apples smartphones at its chinese factory. Our bloomberg tech editor Alistair Barr joined vonnie quinn with the details. Alistair this is an executive who was talking to investors and other people in taiwan, and our reporter in asia, debbie wu, was there to listen. And this is more of a plan. The executive did not say apple asked foxconn to do this yet, but he was saying they are very capable of doing it. It has raised a lot of questions. We spoke to an analyst over here who looks at the smartphone industry, and he was saying that if youre talking about actual final assembly, w