Alphabet. We will have details. Wework went from one of the most anticipated ipos to a floundering Coworking Company just trying to survive. We will look at what it faces in the new year. But first, our top story. Bloomberg was the first to report the iphone maker has a secret team working on a satellite technology, striving to find new ways to beam data directly to its devices. This is all according to people familiar with the matter. The company has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace satellite, and antenna Design Industries working on the project with the goal of deploying their results within five years. For more, i want to bring in bloomberg technologys mark gurman. What do we know so far . It is topsecret. It is operating like a startup in apple. It has the right funding. It has the ear of tim cook. It has a bunch of Aerospace Engineers and executives working on a plan to let iphones and other apple devices receive their data directly from apple developed antenna towers, s
Like Companies Like facebook and apple. Regulation, legal and legislative hurdles continue for technology, especially for overseas apps like tictoc, we will hear from Marsha Blackburn on how much more needs to be done. We begin this hour with tesla, its stock has been on a runaway rally for the latter part of the year, last year we saw shares reaching 420. Analysts recently raised his price target by 100 to 370. We are going to discuss whether tesla turnaround is working. You look backif at the last six months, it has been massively impressive, what musk has been able to do in terms of turning this around, have a base case of 370, at bulky its to 600. If they are able to execute over the next quarter to this china thesis, and theres an upward to trajectory, you could see it go higher. This gets us to a base case, i think both cases have 600, and a lot that rests on china. I have spoken to a few theral bearish analysts in last few weeks, they are concerned about demand in china. Do we h
The twitter ceo is set to spend half the year in africa. Plus, we speak to the u. S. Deputy assistant secretary of state for cyber munications and communication policy for an insiders view of the u. S. Versus huawei. First, major changes happening at alphabet. N are page and sergey bri both said to be stepping down with Google Ceo Sundar Pichai set to take over that position. The ceo ofai will be google and alphabet. Page and brin will remain on the board. How big of a surprise was this . Aickly pretty bigs up pretty big surprise. There were questions of how much longer sundar might want to be ceo of google. Google is under a massive amount of scrutiny. He has a lot of things to juggle. There have been internal protests. This really was a surprise where basically he is able he has had to deal with all these things and he will be back dealing with all of the other things happening under the alphabet umbrella which includes self driving cars and other things. Sergey asth larry and asiona
Flat that really does obscure a lot of drama up at least 2 s that has been pretty dramatic. Also why the nasdaq has been down so a lot of those profits are coming out of there. The hang seng up by 1 3 4 mentioning those tariffs that china will be taking off those goods. We have more on that front in a moment also an American Chamber of commercesaut u. S. Chamber services have been getting hurt and many of them are moving away more quickly than anticipated redirecting businesses there in the meantime, lets look at what has been happening. For the most part, green arrows. The ftse is up the dax up about. 75 . And cac is up. The trezy market and yields, they have firmed up. The 30year trading almost 2. 2 . 10year at 1. 714 . Twoyear note at 1. 67 breaking deal news, Hong Kong Exchange proposing a 36. 6 billion cash and stock offer for the London Stock Exchange saying it approached the lse with a bid last year, they agreed to buy refinative in a deal peloton says it plans to price shares b
Welcome to the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. I am Francine Lacqua. Guy johnson is off today. Thats get straight to my big interview with philip green, the owner of top shop which has hundreds of stores around the world. Now he wants to expand the brand even further. The Biggest International Flagship Store in new york city. When we put our flag down in the middle of 5th avenue, there is no leaving. It is a commitment. We have to get it right. Our flag store bills Flagship Stores, we try to do something unique. It will probably be slightly more difficult. There are certain things we are not allowed to do. You move a light bulb and they want to come and see you. And we have more and more i am on shoppers. And yet the brickandmortar flagship is where you wanted the. I believe you need flagships. It will build our Online Business as well. Here, look at this store probably half our business is tourists, half local. Fifth avenue i assume will be pretty similar i