Second largest in california history. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti, this is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology with emily chang is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, well take a look at a big year in consumer tech. What worked, what did not and what is worth your money . Plus, we discussed facebooks role on the platform for clinical propaganda. Is the social network overstepping by helping controversy all World Leaders used the platform . Ham says the firm is a tech company at heart. Our exclusive interview. Advanceddeveloping an hard ponder. Is part of a broader push to turn what is a Luxury Fashion device into a serious medical device. 20 of the population will be using a wearable device by next year. That growth rate is slowing. Joining us from chicago, along with a bloomberg tech reporter who broke the story about apple. What exactly are they working on
Aside at googles parent alphabet. Period of17 year long his Senior Leadership. Betty it seems like everybody is trying to ram and all the news before the christmas holidays. Catalonia, google, and of course the spending bill passing the house. All of that and stocks today rose, breaking the today losing streak. We will quickly pull up the boards and show you how the u. S. Markets ended today. The s p 500 slightly higher, and nasdaq also trading a little bit to the upside, but fairly unchanged. Investors trying to absorb what the impact is going to be from the tax reform package. Yvonne yes, just a moderate bounceback. We see some positives as we get closer to the christmas holiday. Lets look at asia, said to track the gains set to track the gains we saw on wall street. New zealand up. And we are Holding Steady. Australia, getting underway in sydney. 6100, it could be a big we will see if it reaches that level. 7702 for the aussie. Treasuries mixed overnight, the curve sharply flatter.
Want to use momentum from their tax bill victory to take on welfare. Paul ryan says 2018 is a chance as a chance to reshape the safety net for the poor and disabled. He also wants to change food stamps and medicaid programs. In Southern California firefighters doused hotspots. ,winds increased that could whip up embers and flareups. A huge fire still smoldering northwest of los angeles. Officials say the blazes 60 contained and now the second largest in california history. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti, this is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology with emily chang is next. Emily i am emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, we take a look at a big year in consumer tech, from google to amazon to apple. What worked, what did not and what is worth your money . Plus, we discussed facebooks role on the platform for political propaganda. Is the social network overstepping by helping usero
Downturn because we could not stand an economic downturn. We would be at each others throats. Scarlet apple ceo to tim cook says we ought to play a wrote role in civic leadership. The corealways been at of changing the world and you cant change the world if you are ignoring the world. Scarlet suddenly everyone has an opinion on bitcoin. It ought to be outlawed. It doesnt serve any useful we are in the and of this resolution. Scarlet its all straight ahead on this special edition of bloomberg best. Scarlet hello and welcome, im scarlet fu on this special edition of louvered best. With a tech at 2017 in the americas by revisiting interviews with newsmakers, policymakers, and leading business makers and finance. Start with the eggnog ration of donald trump, the first president to reach and operation of donald trump, the first president to reach without any logical background. It certainly resonated with many financial industry as well as his cabinet selections, many coming from business a
Emily but first to our lead and a bloomberg scoop. Uber has a new number two. The worlds most valuable startup has named Barney Harford its chief operating officer. Hartford is the former ceo of the Online Travel site orbitz. He is the secondprofile hire by the uber ceo. He has worked for and competed with khosrowshahi in the Online Travel sector. And it is an interesting move considering the other uber news out wednesday, the european top court has officially rolled the service should be regulated as a Transportation Company rather than a digital company. The ruling is aimed at uberpop which allows people to pick up passengers, the equivalent of uberx. We spoke with the capital managing partner from london along with Bloomberg Technology partner eric newcomer. Eric he has a long history with khosrowshahi. I think that is definitely helpful. This is sort of a loyalist you can bring in, a trusted hand. So i think that is part of it. Barney did a really good job at orbitz. It was a debt