on topics of critical importance. i am never going to rule anything out. nejra: it is all straight ahead best. mberg never kill hello and welcome. i am there at k rich. this is bloomberg best. in retrospect, this week has been dominated by tuesday s tragic terror attacks in brussels. monday, attention was focused on silicon valley with a major product announcement from apple. a apple unveiling the sc at event in cupertino with a smaller screen and a smaller price tag, starting at 390 nine dollars per the cheapest new iphone ever. what are your big takeaways? i was making an analogy with the golden state warriors. they found the small ball works well for them and they want a world championship. they got to 30 million people lester and that was a shocking number. 30 million people bought an iphone five last year per they have dedicated users who want to use smaller phones and pay less. they are being slightly more aggressive, maybe appropriately aggressive, that should be
radio cohost carol massar. the co-owner of the hotel reporting losses. lazar has sent marketing documents for potential buyers. the team is not for sale. the ceo of deutsche telekom said he sees the sale of the t-mobile unit is less likely. the executive appointed pointed to hurdles as to why the sale is less likely. very constructive, that is how john kerry described talks today in paris in order to resolve the crisis and ukrainian crimea. russian forces showed no signs of leaving crimea and congress is preparing to authorize sanctions. peter cook has the latest. john kerry says progress was made that but risks remain. he was upbeat as he spoke in paris late this afternoon. the comments followed separate talks with not only russia plus foreign minister but ukraine s foreign minister. he is talking as well with several of his european counterparts. all part of this effort to resolve the ukraine crisis. he suggested progress was made. we agreed today, both sides an
at then eric schmidt oasis montgomery summit in santa monica. he and his partner are authors of this book. started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written? it is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. we talked about the dangers and issues. maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. at the time he wrote the book, we re reasonably sure that the in the tahrir square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. now it seems we re back to square zero. if you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. we have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. but if you empower people, the gun still speaks. i m not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. one of the things we had written about in the book is that governments in the midst of conflict will be
he and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. i started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written? it is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. we talked about the dangers and issues. maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. at the time he wrote the book, we re reasonably sure that the revolution in the tahrir square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. now it seems we re back to square zero. if you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. we have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. but if you empower people, ultimately, the gun still speaks. i m not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. one of the things we had written about in the book is that governments in the midst of conflict will become so concerned about e
balloons and more. i sat down with google executive chairman eric schmidt at the oasis montgomery summit in santa monica. he and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. i started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written? it is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. we talked about the dangers and issues. maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. at the time he wrote the book, we re reasonably sure that the revolution in the tahrir square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. a pseudo-democratic outcome. now it seems we re back to square zero. if you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. if you look at ukraine today, it is not at all clear what is going to happen, and no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. we have learned there is some kind of