Reasons. E werechurches inchil attacked today. No one was hurt. Capswn attackers through with messages for the pontiff. California, crews searching through rock and rubble hoping to find more survivors from tuesdays deadly mudslides. Dead. Ple are confirmed 100 homes were completely destroyed and another 300 badly damaged. Global news 24 hours a day powered by our 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Emily this is bloomberg technology, facebook shares fall after announcing a change after announcing big changes to the social network. Mark zuckerberg says it did increase User Engagement. Tackling online extremism, Congress Wants to hear what facebook, google and twitter are doing to fight it. All three tech titans are set to testify on the hill once again. And screen time, is of a Public Health crisis when it comes to children . We look at why some apple shareholders seem to think so. But to our lead, shares of first, facebook falling more than 4 o
Lets welcome back lianna brinded, who is the europe editorfor the us news publication, quartz. She has been reading through the stories while we have been chatting. Lets look at the story from the Associated Press where they said they had seen as part of their investigation into whether social media was manipulated prior to the us election. The biggest thing that has been happening over the last few months, and especially with this investigation, is how russia has been allegedly trying to, or did allegedly tried to swing the us election. This story is interesting because they go over 36,000 tweets, and within that, they show how en masse, these people all baz or whoever it is had actively tried to sway a conversation away from another one, in favour of donald trump. Bots. Indeed. And it talks about how russian agents basically disguised on twitter and move people to was negative news about Hillary Clinton, and move away the debate from negative news about donald trump. It was that abou
Their working week. We will talk you through the Market Movers and shakers. And well be getting the inside track on all the big stories of the week, including President Trumps tour of asia and the slow progress of brexit negotiations. That is all coming up with our economics editor, kamal ahmed. And as one of the Founding Fathers of facebook, sean parker, sounds the alarm over social media, describing it as a time sink, we want to know how the social media phenomenon has changed your behaviour and that of your children. Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. A warm welcome to business live, we have the friday feeling today and we have the friday feeling today and we have a lot to pack in so lets get cracking. Starting with us President Donald Trump who had a clear message for the leaders gathered at the Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit in vietnam, if you want to trade with the worlds big economy you will have to reach a bilateral deal. This as delegates from the other 11
Other areas. I sat down with eric schmidt in new york at the new York Economic Club for a wideranging conversation. Here is that dialogue. Let me begin with a couple of questions. When you went to google, they said to you, we need an adult in the room. [laughter] because it was a good day for you. Eric it was a good day for me. It is an honor to be here. Thank you very much for inviting me, and charlie, thank you for doing this as well. Larry and sergey decided they needed someone to sort of run things, and they had spent 16 months interviewing people, and they make them do things. To become ceo, you have to go skiing with them, or you have to go to burning man with them. And very few people met the test, apparently. But i was fortunate enough. I told them i would not spend the weekend with them, but we made a list of things to do. Charlie 10 years as ceo. What was the most wonderful thing . For you, for the company as you see it . Eric my world is full of beautiful ideas that are not
Another Islamic State recruiter a u. S. Drivers license was surrendered to a military unit today. President obama says he is confident he can make significant progress on Foreign Policy in the next 10 months. He says the u. S. Will keep fighting isil on all fronts and will work to close the u. S. Military prison at one time of a, cuba after guantanamo bay, cuba. A University Poll has donald trump ahead of marco rubio in florida a day before the winner take all republican president ial primary. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2400 journalists in 150 news bureaus around the world. Im mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Analysts bumping heads on conflicting outlooks with apple. We will bring you the details. Tesla gets a vote of confidence from robert w baird. We will look at what this new dose of optimism is about. Reading the tea leaf of president ial primaries. How do pollsters stay relevant in the age of Realtime Data . First