Up our first guest. Please welcome david marcus from Facebook Messenger and our moderator. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Messenger is always strived to be different from sms. First Group Texting and embraced stickers, animated gifts, what you see as the next big differentiator . We really, really like a realtime communications. As you have seen recently, we Just Announced and opened up to everyone this new thing we call instant video that enables you to have video. It is like you unmute your video for the other press to see while you type in you can start streaming while the other person had the honor a bus or a meeting and type and see you or see what you want to show them. Were going to continue investing in realtime communications. One of the things we have not talked about is we have over 300 million active users of video. That makes message or one of the biggest realtime apps in the world. Jason your not had video calling for very long, about a year ago. Te
Good friday morning. John forte is out today but kayla and myself are holding down the fort so to speak. Joining us from washington re codes executive editor kara swisher. Does she have politics in her future . But first up the spt calling on the sec to open up the market for cable boxes. Heres his explanation in an interview with yahoo finance. Its been tied to the provider and you rent it and consumers spend billions of dollars on this every single year and there hasnt been much innovation. Its a great issue. Its a great consumer issue and there hahn been look at those, theyre ugly and second of all theyre expensive. Third of all you don have a choice. I have a lot of boxes i plug into the boxes like an apple tv but it just makes sense. Its like when we used to have to buy the telephone the Telephone Company wanted and it came in white or then it came in white or black or Something Like that. So its a similar situation and a great topic for him. Its perfect for him actually. The blog
All of that ahead. First to the lead in washington tonight, the chinese president sits down for a private dinner with president obama. There will be more than food on the menu. The two men will attend a formal state dinner tomorrow, but observers say tonights get together will allow president obama to have a much more frank discussion about the issues confronting both nations. One of the talking points will be cyber security. President obama is expected to bring up cyber attacks. How do you expect the dinner to proceed tonight . Are these dinners constructive . Guest that is what the white house said. The president gets to talk with out many people in the room and discuss the issues that face both countries. Cyber security is an issue both countries are facing and president obama says he will be frank in his discussions over the concerns he has that china is backing and supporting the hacking of u. S. Companies. Emily what is going to happen when it comes to cyber . Are we going to see
Disrupt. All of that ahead. First to the lead in chineseon tonight, the president sits down for a private dinner with president obama. There will be more than food on the menu. A formalen will attend state dinner tomorrow but observers say tonights get together will allow president obama to have a much more frank discussion about the issues confronting both nations. One of the talking points will be cyber security. President obama is expected to bring up cyber attacks. To do you expect the dinner proceed tonight . Are these dinners constructive . Guest that is what the white house said. The president gets to talk with out many people in the room and discuss wrinkly the issues that face both countries. Issue bothity is an countries are facing and president obama says he will be frank in his discussions over the concerns he has that china is backing and supporting the hacking of u. S. Companies. Emily what is going to happen when it comes to cyber . Are we going to see a deal and how eff
Interview from tech crunch disrupt. An extremely rare interview about where he is investing now. All of that ahead. First to the lead in washington tonight, the chinese president sits down for a private dinner with president obama. There will be more than food on the menu. The two men will attend a formal state dinner tomorrow, but observers say tonights get together will allow president obama to have a much more frank discussion about the issues confronting both nations. One of the talking points will be cyber security. President obama is expected to bring up a recent cyber attacks. Coming out of washington, how do you expect the dinner to proceed tonight . Are these dinners constructive . Reporter that is what the white house said. The president gets to talk with out many people in the room and discuss the issues that face both countries. Cyber security is an issue both countries are facing and president obama says he will be frank in his discussions over concerns he has that china i