This week on the communicators we want to introduce you to the Senior Vice President for Public Policy for a site called yelp. What exactly is yelp and what you do . Thank you for having me on today, peter. Populara website and consumer application that allows people to connect with rate local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover rate local tos, at a way for consumers warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. Host how many visitors a month to have . Guest depending on how you break it out, there are folks who access it via mobile web, the website, the app, it is north of 100 Million People then we have 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how to make money . Guest yelp is a vertical search engine, not unlike google if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are handful of totists who are paying basically have a sponsored, clearly labeled as such, link, that lives above your organic search results. T
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Continue on funding for u. S. Coronavirus response in house and Senate Negotiators are working on a total Funding Amount and the house is exciting to see a bill early this week with the Senate Taking it up after the house. Gary shapiros president and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Esther shapiro, what is the cpa and what do you represent . Guest is great to be back here. Thank you. The Consumer Technology association represents over 2000 American Technology companies and we produce the greatest, honest, coolest most amazing event in the world and that is the ces in las vegas. Host and will we will get to ces in a moment but who are some of the Member Companies . Guest everyone you check to see when you walk into your local best buy, walmart, but we also have sony and apple and you name it. 80 of our companies are Small Businesses but the 20 of the big ones we have everywhere from google to air b b to lift and the disruptor
And Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. My goal is to make sure that we are leaving on energy and climate and healthcare and technology 5g, Driverless Cars 14 forcing the digital abide major americas leading and the rest of the world is following our leadership. At the Top Republican on the Consumer Protection committee some of the issues is privacy. Yes. Where is your marker . What do you want to have done . The racket is very Important Congress act and that we set a National Standard for privacy in the United States of america. Right now what is happening is we are starting to see a patchwork of laws across the country and california has led with c cpa that what was going into effect right now and other states are introducing their own laws. Washington state, my home state, has introduced legislation and there is nearly 80 separate bills being introduced at the state level that are addressing privacy because congress isnt acting. We need to pas
Given the heights and cool and facebook and others recently. You normally have a pretty broad stroke to your coverage. Why this book and right now . Thank you for having me, by the by. I started this book in 2017 i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times, trying to figure out the worlds biggest business and economic stories and an opinion form, and for the final, i started looking through corporate figures. I saw amazing numbers in the Financial Sector to the technology sector. Run the numbers that really stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure, looking at 80 corporate wealth was in just 10 . Because of the firms richest in personal data and intellectual property. Basically, if your trafficking in these things, were holding the majority of the world corporate wealth. The biggest were the ones like facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and googled most about. Theres some overlap, facebook and google, apple mostly shunned advertising and third devices