Major averages are moving higher we have a panel of experts coming up here shortly. Dont forget about earnings we have a bunch coming our way after the bell, including disney well have an exclusive interview with ceo bob iger. Looking forward to that. First, though, theres also some news out of washington at this hour lets get down to aeamon javers with remarks from the president. Reporter it came about the dangers of the ms13 gang. The president talking about immigration saying he ultimately might want to shut the government down if he cant get a deal on immigration this week. Heres what he said. Id love to see a shutdown if we dont get this stuff taken care of. If we have to shut is it down because the democrats dont want safety and unrelated but still related, they dont want to take care of our military, then shut it down. Well go with another shutdown reporter the president there seeming to embrace the idea of another Government Shutdown on february 8th, later on this week thats th
Carl quintanilla joining us Spark Capital quinn and roger, good morning to you both pressure continues to mount on Silicon Valley as u. N. Today, leaders from the uk, france and italy will call on social Media Companies to remove terrorist conten from their sites within two hours or be held liable for content on their platforms facebook, microsoft and alphabet are attending todays summit roger, it is sort of a continuation of the political pressure they are getting from all sides. To me its legitimate pressure facebook and google in particular take the position that they are not responsible or accountable for anything that happens on their platform. Given the things that happened over the last year, i think there is a need for the conversation about exactly what the limits ought to be i would think terrorism is only a small peaiece of the problem. Megan, is it possible with todays technology to remove the content in one to two hours. Theres all kinds of nseemly comments on social netwo
A vote could be held next week. Global news 24 hours a day. I am Alisa Parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily i am emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. China fortifies its firewall in the latest move to tighten online censorship. We dig into the new crackdown. Teslas model 3 production goes into overdrive. Twotime nba champion and emerging investor i do iguodala making a iguodala is big play for Silicon Valley. Bloomberg scoop china is cracking down on what its citizens can find on the web. It has ordered the three major carriers to block individual access to Virtual Private Networks by february 1. It essentially shuts down a major window to the global internet. Thousands of websites are currently blocked in china including facebook, twitter, and some google sites including youtube. Is normally based in tokyo but joins us from new york today. What do we know . China has been playing this game of cat and mouse with Virtual Private Networks for years. Fo
Before the decision to pull the bill last week we are moving on and i dont see anything that would challenge that basic operating rule at this moment. Thank you, john. John harwood in washington this morning. And good morning. Good morning, its 8 00 a. M. At facebook headquarters in men low park, california. 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good morning, welcome to squawk alley, im john ford, and with me, kelly evans and mike santoli. Facebook rolling out new camera features on its flagship app. Its latest challenge to snapchat. They encourage users to use the in app messenger. This is the fourth Time Facebook has cloned key snapchat features in the past nine months, watching snap shares now, they are under pressure. How much are they down . Almost 5 . Lets bring in yousef scali, analyst with cantor fitzgerald. Guys, it might seem frivolous on the surface to some folks, this issue of features but engagement especially among this premium young customer going to be ke
Officers from a police station in the Pimpri Chinchwad jurisdiction said the murder took place around 11.30 pm on Monday in an open plot around 40 km from Pune city