i say sell apple. and people used to hold on -- think about why you used to hold on to apple for the ecosystem. people so nervous about giving up their itunes library. so nervous about having all of their stuff on the phone. now you have streaming and competition. so when he was talking about google phone not being real competition, i do believe it's competition. i do believe that people don't want to pay premium prices for what they see as not a premium brand or the newest and hottest hardware out there any more. >> ten-year anniversary and a potentially curved screen this year. >> what? >> yeah. >> curved oled. organic light emitting. >> still have the flip phone. >> listen, i think -- i don't want to sell apple. you know, just trading wise, i would probably wait for it to sell off -- some real negative sentiment. last week we saw trouble with their supply chain, some names had sold off. so let that filter through. this is a 2017 story. so you'll get a chance to buy it. i just don't think today, righ

people should expect that a company as rich as apple and resource-filled as apple should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. they should be able to get a new iphone every year. they should be able to get new macs out the door. they are lagging and people are taking notice. >> not holding our breath r an update anytime soon? >> definitely not now at the end of this year. the new mac book pros in early november, but they're planning a few new mac upgrades in 2017, a new i-mac and faster versions of the mac book pro and the 12-inch mac book. >> now that does it for this edition of the "best of bloomberg technology." we'll bring you all of the latest in tech throughout the week. tuesday, theco founder will weigin on companies moving fr london to germany post-brexit. remember all episodes of broom technology are live streaming on twitter. check it out. that's all for now. this is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: good morning. these are our top stories. starting off with barack obama who says he could have beaten donald trump had he run. clinton played it to save during the election campaign.

apple declining comment on that report. apple stock ended the year firmly in the green, up some 10% though it did slip in today's trade as did apple suppliers like sky works solutions, analog devices, qualcomm and micron. of course, investors are paying close attention to the health of that iphone franchise which still accounts for some 60% of the company's revenue. right now analysts think apple will sell 55 million iphones in its march quarter versus 51 million a year ago. cnbc actually caught up with cook this week and the ceo gave us his take on the holidays as well as the new product the company is now selling. >> it's been a great holiday. airpods are a runaway success and we're making them as fast as we can. >> how many airpods are actually being produced? remember, apple will only say limited quantities. barclays had estimated initial production of some 15 million units. melissa, back to you. >> all right, josh. happy new year to you. >>> let's talk apple here a little bit. are you concerned, mike, about -- nikkei h

regime and the different pieces of apple and which pieces of apple should be considered irish, were considered irish, and are. there are two ways to look at the news of the day. one is the backwards-looking thing and how they paid taxes being different, as it relates to getting taxed in ireland. if you want to understand what is happening, the document is a fascinating read and gets into the us business of apple, claiming certain parts of their business, not really being in ireland and they shouldn't be taxed there because they would be taxed somewhere else. the question is what businesses are irish and deserve to be taxed in ireland. us a sense of apple claiming they were selectively targeted by the european union. do they have a case? >> something of a case. it is true that the state 80 investigation is focused, to some extent, on u.s. companies. on the other hand, it is probably also true that u.s. companies did the world in aggressive tax planning and i do not find it particularly surprising that the commission would begin by focusing on these companies. caroline: give us a sense of your r

it is apple international and apple operation europe. that is where the figures are in ,ome years 0.005% of tax rates which are accurate. , which are accurate. >> in a strongly worded message, ireland's finance minister rejected the e.u.'s findings. >> ireland did not give favorable tax treatment to apple pretty full amount of tax was paid, and no state aid was provided. ireland does not do deals with taxpayers. >> even if apple loses its appeal, the tax bill should not be a problem for the iphone maker, which saw a net profit of 50 billion euros in the last financial year. multinationalonly targeted for securing favorable tax deals in the european union. last year the commission told the netherlands to recover as much as 30 billion euros starbucks, while luxembourg was ordered to clawback a similar amount from fiat. genie: tour the markets showing up today? >> here in paris, trading is down .2%. ftse inains on the london, but the dax is completely flat at this hour. let's look at some of the other stories we are tracking next. iran has

sticking with apple for a moment, chipmakers dropped the most in five months after reports that apple is reducing orders for iphone 7 parts. as you can see, among the worst hit today were broadcom, qualcomm, texas instruments and thursday trading. coming up, carlos slim, one of the richest men in the world, joins us for mexico city and takes on at&t's aggressive pricing strategies in mexico. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: billionaire carlos slim, mexico's richest person, joined us earlier for an exclusive interview from mexico city. at&t's aggressive pricing strategy in mexico are causing the companies to quote, lose a lot of money. he also chimed in on u.s. president-elect trump, saying mexico needs to return its focus inward after his presidential win. bloomberg's erik schatzker caught up with slim from the mexico year ahead summit. >> we are mainly in latin america. we have a big operation in u.s. always take care of our investments because we cannot get the technology capacity to offer to our customers the best service and we cannot stop this because of that reason. sometimes it ge

apple's going to be the big test case, because apple under steve jobs said listen, these jobs are never coming back. can these jobs come back? it's a big question. and you know -- >> right. >> -- i'm not sure tim cook is going to make the pilgrimage to trump tower and, you know, beg trump for validation. if he doesn't, you know, i'm not sure what that means for shareholders of apple, which feels like a little bit of a troubled company right now. so, that's probably the most at-risk company i can think of in technology right now. >> yeah, henry, there is a question of whether skilled labor existed to staff a factory like that that apple would potentially build here, but i'm just thinking back to a couple years ago. this high-profile fight between the states, all of these rival states trying to outbid each other for that gigafactory that ended up landing in nevada. if you liked that fight, you're probably going to love whatever happens between the states to get an even bigger factory. what sort of incentives would a state have to think about putting forward for something like that to land

apple should look at that is a very apple-like thing. they are known to be hiring the best people in artificial intelligence. you have amazon out here with this product. it is a runaway success. well over a multibillion dollar business already. -- already oneut of the top-selling much wanted devices. so we see this real growth on the platform. there is an iphone like approach here which is an open platform with a giveaway -- there are thousands of developers who created skill sets for this. all of that computing happens on amazon. amazon knows about customer in about purchasing other things that they are doing and amazon is driving marginal sales on top of this platform and i think that because of what amazon has in the background that they can really drive up with these devices things that google hasn't things that apple doesn't really have an apple has missed the boat here. courtney: -- >> they are taking a little bit of a different approach. communal-- versus the kind of in-home device for everybody. it is a different strategy and we

if apple maps bad. has notpple maps exactly been loved bites users since it launched in 2012, it has been riddled with errors, leaving it with a lackluster reputation as google maps has dominated the place. apple is making serious moves to change all of that. mark gurman wrote about it. he joins me now. they are using drones. how will this work? >> apple maps obviously, the launch was mumbled. one of the reasons it was so terrible at launch was because they had so much data they were pulling together from different providers, some including tom-tom and other smaller companies, and they did not force their own data. emily: similar to what google has done? mark: they are collecting their own did a using camera sensors. that can only take you so far. they are expensive and require manpower, but drones, they are smaller, under 50 pounds, can fly around and get into areas that stands cannot -- that vans cannot. faaier this year, they got approval. in august, faa stopped requiring exemptions and approval. the

>> bought some apple. people are very short term looking for a break out this week and see if it happens before the end of the year and i last week added to shachip name. i like the stock, i think it's in play and i think there is is upside left. >> coming up, tesla shares are revving up but could it be thanks to president elect donald trump? we got those details. >>> plus the former chairman of sacks steve sadove is here and you won't believe which winner he says is the winner this christmas and spoiler alert, amazon. >>> pete has a stock so good, will the other traders buy it in the fast pitch later this hour. >>> welcome back to "fast money." energy is on track to be the best performing sector up 25%. check this out, it's also on top to report the largest year over year decline in earnings of any of the 11 sectors. down nearly 75% in case you don't have 2020 vision, that's the bar going down despite the contradiction -- >> the earnings return where crude prices were actually fourth quarter you have a ni

. >>> apple appealing. the tech giant in ireland going on the offensive over the eu's $14 billion tax bill. >>> and the trump transition. the electoral college is said to make the president-elect's win official in what is expected to be a drama-filled political event. it's monday, december 19, 2016. and "worldwide exchange" begins right now. >>> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm sara eisen. >> and i'm wilfred frost. >> friday we saw little action for the entire week for the s&p. but importantly, holding its gains near record highs. the dow for its part rose for the sixth week in a row. and futures are indicating a positive start for u.s. stocks. dow futures are up 40. the s&p up 5. the nasdaq futures are up just about 5 points. this is the final full trading day of the year. as for the ten-year treasury note yield, we are off the highs where the ten-year yield went back to the high since 2014, but still, 2.58, you are seeing the money move off into the stocks. >> the final full trading week

apple is formally appealing. we also had a release of a statement today. the eu thing was interesting, it explained the history of this tax regime and the pieces of apple which should be considered irish and which are. there are two ways to look at the news of the day. one is the backwards-looking paid taxes.w apple if you want to understand what is happening, the document is a fascinating read and gets into wasn't reallyss

has apple been making any? corey: the success amazon has had with it axis -- with its echo devices and platform apple should look at this as a threat. they are known to be hiring the best people and you have amazon with this product that is a runaway success. multibillion-dollar business, sales going back a few months. it was only one of the top for selling electronics devices on amazon. there is an apple-like approach, there is an iphone-like approach. an open that form way they could get developers to develop, there are thousands who have created skill sets for this but all that computing happens at amazon. amazon knows about customer decisions about -- and about purchasing and amazon is driving marginal sales and top of this platform. because of what amazon has got in the background they can drive a lot with these devices things that google does not have and that apple does not have. apple has missed the boat. then: they're taking a little bit of a different approach. theire trying to let assistant drive the

carol: apple's mac division is -- >> so the mac brought apple back. they were close to bankruptcy in the 1990's, and the first imac introduced by steve jobs brought apple back on the scene. over the next decade and a half for so, the ipod, the iphone, and the ipad, and that has led them to forget the mac a little bit. the upgrade cycles have become linked here. the macbook pro was the first update in over 500 days. the mac pro, their fastest desktop for professionals, has not been updated in over 1000 days. the macbook air design is the same design that was introduced in 2010. to be fair, they came out with the retina display they want to replace the air with, but that design has not changed in a very long time. carol: why isn't it getting any love at apple? >> right, the first and most important thing to know is that apple has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees, and everyone really to come out with new products that feed their profits and revenues, and the iphone and ipad are two of apple's highest margin, revenue driving products. 75% o

, is around 10% of apple's overall revenues, but still an important product to apple's bottom line. the problem is that if apple c lessgiving the ma attention, they all sing. if you don't use a mac, maybe you will look at other products from competitors like microsoft or google. apple guy, not an but everybody else in new york uses macs and loves them. >> from a design perspective, there's something to be said if don'ts not broke, fix it, but the question is does continue to change design and innovate to spur sales into the future? these are higher-priced products. ,he average prices are higher so it is important from a revenue and earnings perspective, but the biggest question are the processors, the chips, the speed. the pace of technology becomes faster and faster every year, and we are talking about computers for professionals that have not been updated in years, which means their processors, technologies, ports, some are years behind from competitors. carol: where is the lack of push in terms of maybe creating a macbook that has more battery life, faster, a lot more bells and w

make it a redd's apple ale! redd's apple ale. also for a limited time in ginger apple. can i get anyone a beer? make it a redd's apple ale! redd's apple ale. also for a limited time in ginger apple. kimberly: the u.s. defense airstrikes targeting children basis later. leader withan isis deep ties to french and indonesian jihadist groups. he is suspected in being involved in the terror attacks on the tunisian leaders. another 200 u.s. troops will be deployed in syria. secretary of defense ashton carter median and smit during a security summit in bahrain. they will train with u.s.-backed local forces. 300 troops are already on the ground in syria, fighting to stamp out isis. troops include special ops forces, trainers, and advisers. at least two dozen people are dead, more than 150 injured in two explosions after a soccer match in turkey. just a few hours ago the interior minister announced 10 arrests in connection with the attacks. elizabeth kerr has the latest on this developing story. [si

numbers could, from apple -- come up from apple. this contact list buying mode, but it is still a few years away. there is the apple core, but bloomberg ourselves has been reporting that we put the bosch on that -- the kabosh. o on that. they are looking for the next best thing. a lot of people are saying that is not it. $1 billion would be the front. we did see apple putting in more investments earlier this year. softbank, are we likely to see more? ramy: if they wanted to, they e more moneyould dol out. look at how much they have here. that is $237 billion, so they could make their own technology fund if they wanted to. $1 billion, clearly a drop in the bucket. in may, they did invest and throughout $1 billion. in 2013, the last time they did something even more than that, was $3 billion for the hedge fund maker. uple, if it decides to ante could get some of its money back because the ceo said $50 billion of that 100 billion would go into u.s. investment. ramy.nk you so much, so much more ahead. hong kong's money market squeeze is

. >>> bay area apple stores are a target for thieves. in the last month there have been 11 thefts at different stores and as ktvu's maureen naylor says the thieves are starting to get bol. >>> a security guard was hosted on the corner of the downtown apple store where there was a robbery 7:00 as the store was closing. >> that surprises me. i mean you wouldn't expect that to happen here. >> police say between 6 and 10 young men wearing hooded sweat shirts rushed in and stole $20,000 worth of ipads and iphones. it is the 3rd time the store has been hit in a month. only this time the robbers pushed two security guards to the ground and unsuccessfully tried to take one of the guard's guns. >> demonstrates the brazenness of the individuals. the frequency indicates that it is an organized group. >>> at least 11 known similar crimes have happened at bay area apple stores since late october. three in san francisco, berkeley and one in los gatos. >> it seems brazen to do the exact same thing. >>> after thieves rushed the store on black friday, on

apple's help. >> it looks like the fbi is dropping its request to have apple write additional codes to circumvent security features. >> folks on the apple side will present this as a win but it is not a win to find out it is so insecure that people are lining up to say, i could provide you with access. i am not sure this works in anyone's favor. iphones are not particularly secure. david: still ahead, how some of the world's most respected investors coped with market volatility. >> we have amped up our caution. david: a roundup of the biggest mergers. >> you are truly out from the left field. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public wifi for your customers. private wifi for your business. strong and secure. good for a door. and a network. comcast business. built for security. built for busine

apple's help. the fbi is like dropping its request to have apple write additional codes to circumvent security features. >> folks on the apple side will present this as a win but it is so a win to find out it is insecure that people are lining up to say, i could provide you with access. i am not sure this works in anyone's favor. iphones are not particularly secure. david: still ahead, how some of the world's most respected investors coped with market volatility. >> we have apt up our caution. david: a roundup of the biggest mergers. >> you are truly out from the left field. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ . generosity is its own form of power. you can handle being a mom for half an hour. i'm in all the way. is that understood? i don't know what she's up to, but it's not good. can't the world be my noodles and butter? get your mind out of the gutter. mornings are for coffee and contemplation. that was a really profound observation. you got a mean case of the detox blues. don't start a war you know yo

. >>> the seeds are planted for a new apple store. we're talking about downtown. >> downtown d.c., news 4 mark seagrave shows us what the building will look like as a new and hasn't been used as a library since the '70s and is now used for private parties and is home to the historical society of washington. there has been a propose in had approved to lease the building to apple. the chair says it's a win for the building and district because apple will be making a big investment. >> updating it, renovating, and we're going to create jobs. >> reporter: this won't be the first time apple has transformed a historic building into a modern store. apple has hired the same store that designed its stores in san francisco and london. one concern for some in the neighborhood is a retail store wanting to put parking spaces on what is now a park. >> the green space will remain >> reporter: while colby stewart uses apple products the building has a special place in her memories. it was home to her promise. >> it shouldn't be an apple store. it's a

the iphone without apple's help. >> it looks like the fbi is dropping its request to have apple write additional codes to circumvent security features. >> folks on the apple side will present this as a win but it is not a win to find out it is so insecure that people are lining up to say, i could provide you with access. i am not sure this works in anyone's favor. that puts off the legal day of reckoning and demonstrates iphones are not particularly secure. david: still ahead, how some of the world's most respected investors coped with market volatility. >> we have amped up our caution. david: a roundup of the biggest mergers, from deals that seemed to take forever to those that took the market by surprise. >> you are truly out from the left field. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> is it time for yahoo! and ceo marissa mayer to face the music? shareholders urging the company to make changes, specifically in its leadership. >> the entire board comes up for reelection this summer. this is the first shot on the way to a proxy fight. >> new leadership is a proxy for selling the core as

our dan simon reports. >> apple, apple, apple. boycott apple. >> reporter: one of candidate trump's target on the campaign trail. >> boycott apple until they do it. boycott them. who cares? >> reporter: first, blasting the company for refusing to unlock an iphone belonging to one of the san bernardino shooters. >> give me a break. why wouldn't they want to do it? >> reporter: trump then turned his sights s to apple's overse manufacturing. saying this at campaign rallies. >> we'll have apple building their product in the united states. not in china, vietnam and all over. believe me, if i'm president, it's going to happen. >> reporter: analysts call that highly unlikely. for starters, consumers would probably pay a lot more for their next iphone. estimates vary but perhaps double the amount. an iphone 7 starting at $650 could go for $1300 or more. apple's top manufacturer is a taiwanese manufacturer, foxconn. workers are paid $700 a month to assemble iphones. in the u.s., workers would make a minimum of nearly $1,000 a month, double

. >> at state is fining yam fining apple for hazardous waste right near their headquarters. >> while chase in los angeles and how it ended, but, first, the techbytes. >> samsung wins a round against apple. the supreme court has ruled an appeals court incorrectly calculated how much samsung owes apple for infringe on the smartphone patent which was $399 million. apple sued them over hardware and software demands. >> changes to instagram, they are going to look more like their patient company, facebook. users can "like," individual comments. drake is the king of streaming music topping the itunes mus list. >> rihanna was two and then adele and then frank ocean and justin bieber. ♪ is it too late ♪ is it too late ♪ to say sorry hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey! [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman: hey! [bicycle bell rings] turn here. there. excuse me. uh. uh. [indistinct announcement on p.a. system] so, same time next week? well, of course. announcer: put away a few bucks. feel like a million bucks. for free tips to help you save, go to ♪ feed the pig did you know that peopl

not an official capacity with apple. our bob pasani, though, did catch up with him a moment ago, and let's take a listen for what they discussed. is. >> i'm just here with my nephew and enjoying a couple of days in new york. >> do you enjoy the floor of the nyse? >> i love it. i wanted to see what you do. they're showing us what they do. >> how is business? how are you feeling? >> i can't talk about that, but it's been a great holiday. >> how about the earpods? can't get any of them in new york. >> earpods are a run-away success, and we're making them just as fast as we can. >>ive auto been wandering around like a homeless person trying to get one for the last week and a half, and they tell me february 19th. can you speed up production for us? >> i'm trying the best i can. >> a run-away success, those airpods. for the $159 price tag, you can get a fit bit, you can get an amazon echo and a lot of stuff for athat. >> it is the time of year to buy a fit bit as well. jo that was the big thing people didn't like about the new

there are a series of thefts from apple stores around the bay. this is surveillance video from san francisco last month as thieves robbed an apple store. there was a similar burglary last week. >>ing overnight burglars like this, especially this time of year, they're not necessarily that uncommon, unfortunately. >> reporter: police have not tied the palo alto suspects to any of the other robberies. these prevent this sort of thing from happening and cars from slamming into the front of the apple store here. it seems the suspect went around and crashed right into this wall. several suspects are now still at large. >> okay, damian, reporting from the downtown palo alto apple store. >> let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. and things are changing in the sky right now. >> we do have the return of rainfall coming back into the bay area, of course. we have your full time line right now. that's what i want to start with. kind of an overview of this big change in our weather this week. and that's this storm system we'll find just offshore

apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual and could see right away the visual graphic interface was different and more communicative than anything he had seen before. he knew it was effective because it was affecting him. >> jobs realizes this is the future of computing. this is a whole different kind of computer to be built. famously, a computer for the rest of us. >> 1984, the ridley scott commercial for the macintosh. >> it depicted a very thinly disguised representation of ibm's scary 1984's leader on a big screen saying that this tiny little company, apple, is going to destroy the reigning power. >> whom shall prevail? >> on january 24th, apple computer will introduce macintosh. >> the personal computer war heated up today. apple computer officially unveiled its new macintosh. >> i would like to let macintosh speak for itself. >> hello. i'm macintosh. >> the introduction to the mac was an event. steve jobs really did think of the mac as a thing that would change the world. >> apple is spending $100

apple closed up 10995. the bid is higher and that's overlooked in the premarket action. >> the company that makes the apple may be expanding into the united states. the technology groups is the size and scope of u.s. investment has yet to be determined. the company confirmed talks to the expanded u.s. operations. the tablet is electronic makers some of iphone from apple's biggest customer. nicole: cost on the list of the top stocks to watch. the warehouse club retailer report higher first-quarter earnings. cost on the defense fails first 3%. the key holiday quarter. starbucks holds this semester day today. the plans for the upmarket reserve which will include stores exclusively tout exotic coffee. starbucks recently announced the chief operating officer kevin johnson will succeed longtime chief executive officer howard schultz in april. we will also be getting earnings from google that meant logic of this morning. results are expected to rise. the guilty gear maker has benefited from the trend. the company

apple's dispute with the fbi over data privacy. up next, the federal reserve was under a microscope through the year. still, it was often hard to tell the hawks from the doves. >> there is hawks and doves and perhaps a few chickens. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg best." the 2016 america's year in review. i'm david weston. ofl it the great rate debate 2016. throughout the year, economists and investors argued whether the u.s. economy is strong enough to justify federal reserve rate hike. as the year progressed, the fomc itself came to mind on the issue. let's take -- divided on the issue. let's take a look at monetary policy. rate remains unchanged, the fed would like you to know that they are watching things. they see what you see, everybody can take a deep breath and stop freaking out. here's the key language to address everybody's concerns. we are closely monitoring global economic conditions and financial development, assessing arab locations for the labor market and inflation, and for the balanc

spotify has more than 40 million paying customers, apple music has 20 million. you multiply that by $9.99 a month and you get close to $7 billion. we reported earlier this year that the music business is on track to grow this year, and grow more than it has in a long time, and almost all of that is due to growth and newspaper -- in these paid services. emily: a story we will continue to follow. lucas shaw and l.a., caroline hyde in the studio. thank you so much. coming up, andrew mason earned his fame as groupon's founder. now he is founder of the tour. his interview coming up. and by reminder, all episodes of bloomberg technology are now streaming on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: airbnb is turning down the volume around the world. earlier this week, the company released a report agreeing to enforce limits on rentals in london and amsterdam. it also dropped a lawsuit against new york city and praised new rules in new orleans as a potential nationwide model. these moves mark a shift in airbnb's priorities. the company needs to start getting along with re

apple versus the united states government. in the dispute over privacy, did anybody win? >> i'm not sure this really works in anyone's favor. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: uber is taking a big step forward in self driving cars. starting later this month, the ride-sharing company will allow riders from pittsburgh to hail self driving vehicles from their smartphones. >> they have embarked on this crazy research that they thought would take decades, and it i veryxciting and leaps them ahead of google and tesla, even though google is seen as the leader in terms of technology. ♪ david: you are watching the "bloomberg best 2016: america's year in review." i am david westin. apple remains the world's most profitable technology company, but, for a few weeks in 2016, it was the most controversial after it refused to comply with a court order to give the goment access to data from an iphone linked to a terrorist attack. emily: apple and the fbi have been testifying on capitol hill. >> we see it in isil's efforts to reach into this country and using mobile applications

organized crime in action with apple as its target. surveillance video of a san francisco apple store, crooks running in, crabbing ipods and ipads. but customers say this isn't the first time apple has been a target. he says he was in the middle of a smash and grab similar to the ones happening now. what happened at this location? >> one guy snatched a phone and ran away. >> reporter: apple stores are increasing security with guards inside and out front. but at the latest heist, not even the guards are safe. witnesses say the crooks pushed a guard to the ground. it's not going to shop you from holiday shopping? you're not going to shop online now? >> no. i want my kids to see the lights. >> reporter: police feel with the holidays about to hit their peak, scenes like this may not be stopping any time soon. yeah, that video was amazing. yeah, that is the big concern to a lot of police departments out there. that's why they're going to be meeting with the apple folks, if they're willing to listen to give them more advice to secure their s

didn'tecently, apple our requests. they had some of the strongest security out there. >> there has to be some our requests. discussion about how to solve this problem if there is but you cannot conscript a private company such as apple to do that changes-- products. we have civil rights that prevent this sort of thing. >> the u.s. has that it may not need apple's health in a mocking the iphone of the terrorist in the san bernardino attack. just before the or are you today. the government said fuchs we may have to weigh in. we don't need you after all. if that is true, if that does work, that is substantially undermining apple's position this as that these phones are not as protective as we thought they were. wax i think it probably did not need to do it and apple probably can do things and probably has done them in places like china. we might not have to really talk about publicly. with the department of justice is drying legal action against apple. this is after they successfully passed the san bernardino shooter. as

more on apple. the company has ordered to pay $14 billion in back taxes by the european union following an investigation that found ireland provided apple illegal aid. through illegal tax regulation, violating eu policies. the team that rattled the irish government and spurred changes in tax law has been dubbed the maxforce. i spoke with alex webb and london, who has written about the task force and its name. >> it's a great name. it is a slightly more mundane task force on tax planning practices. max force gives more clout and makes it sounds like it is there to exercise maximum power. the reality is that the head of that was a guy called max. he was given the task to investigate companies of that tax practice in europe. caroline: the investigation went around the world. the eu, ireland america was , involved. what was the scope of it? >> the way it kicked off and gained pace was when the u.s. senate subcommittee started looking at where u.s. companies were paying tax. their approach was very much

our quotation of the evening from former apple ceo john skully. he said this. the future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. the future is becoming more obvious very quickly. we're coming right back. stay with us. >>> the president-elect chooses a man he calls a world-class player as his secretary on of state. >> we just couldn't be more grateful than someone on of rex tillerson's proven leadership and accomplishments is willing to step forward and serve our nomination. >>> not everyone is thrilled. kellyanne conway joins me next to sort it all out. >>> the cia claimed that russian cyber attacks were aimed at handing donald trump a victory now rejected outright by the top intelligence office, the office of the director of national intelligence that sees the cia and 16 other agencies taking exception with the somewhat random assessment. despite? 19 additional electors from the democratic party today stepped forward. a total of 29 now, including nancy pelosi's very own daughter, asking for an intelligence briefing on the matter befo

scott opened the show comparing you to apple and, you know, apple has backed off cars. how do you -- why do you have the conviction you guys, with a history in hand sets and tvs, can do cars? >> well, first of all, the real history is in content and building that user experience system. so the success has been how did they even transfer that, because i've only been at the company for three months, but how did yt and other folks transfer into tvs, highly successful. going to be the number one tv brand in china next year and into hand sets. yt fields this ecosystem to him is more than just the associated sets of companies. he actually wants to have an affect on the real ecosystem of the planet. looking out his window in beijing, saw the pollution, said i want to solve this problem by bringing electric cars. he's been tackling the problem where trying to think about what do electric cars mean in the new kind of economy, where it's ride sharing, might not be in the car that is yours, right, and it's autonomous, so the designs that we're doing, i think, are being done with,

it's a very important market for apple. it's projected to be the second largest smartphone market in the world next year surpassing the u.s. just behind china, and apple only has about a 5% footprint in india right now. so it's kind of critical for apple to make this deal work in order to get their stores in india. but it's a very different environment right now from china. >> finally, snap, inc., has an early message for ipo investors. we're the next facebook, not the next twitter. according to "the wall street journal," sources close to the company's road show are pitching the snapchat product as something that could evolve into a content powerhouse led by founder evan spiegel. they're portraying as millennial and product advertising and visionary. interestingly, kate, when you think about twitter versus facebook ipos, at the time of the ipo, facebook was viewed as a flop and twitter was viewed as this runaway success. so how should any company who's going public even try to compare themselves to those two situations whic

in september, nintendo stole the spotlight with an apple product event this cash from an apple product event with this announcement from tim cook. eventm an apple product with this announcement from tim cook. >> please welcome sugar of miyamoto. that: nintendo announced super mario run will be launched exclusively on ios. 20 million people have already been signed up to be notified as soon as it is available next thursday. the nintendo of america president joined us earlier from new york to talk about the upcoming launch. >> we are working very hard with the folks at apple to make sure that from a server capacity standpoint we are prepared, but the numbers are going to be more significant than just the 20 million plus that have done the notify me. emily: there are three versions of the game, all free to play, $9.99 to unlock, that is a risky strategy. you think ofle do the 20 million will actually pay for that? just to be clear, there are three different modes within the game itself. there is over 24 different levels. from our standpoint, we believe that i high percent of people who be