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Have the axon brand. thats why its officially changing its name, hoping by giving these cameras away to police officers, theyll receive a full network effect. thats what the ceo told cnbc just yesterday. and finally, jeff bezos at amazon has big ambitions for space. he made an announcement yesterday in colorado talking about his investment in his company, blue origin. in fact, he has a crucial business plan here. he is going to be selling shares of amazon for about $1 billion a year in order t...

In the country, in the world. you can see whats happening in a short period of time across the u.s. if you go back just one year taxis had about a 74% of all ground transportation service travel, at 43. uber at 26% one year ago is now 55%. >> steve, this just happened in a years time? >> thats insane. >> joe f you go back to the beginning of 2014 uber had about 15% and taxis had 85%. >> whats happened over the past year? was there just a tipping point where old idiots like me go, "uber? ill try ...

And iraq its the network effect. >> the president is preparing to leave for the united states to request a slow withdrawal for american troops from afghanistan. isis has torn apart communities and families in northeast and africa including iraqs christian minorityies. 50 families left mosul last year. they live in an aban donned school in baghdad. >> this 27-year-old says she is surviving but she is hardly call this a life. remembering the life she once had, she breaks down. it was beautiful she...

>> the daesh characteristic is that its a man-eater. it swallows its competitors. the national army is one example. it swallowed the police. so here its not the physical presence of people from syria and iraq. its the network effect. >> the president is planning to leave for united states. isis has torn apart communities and families, including a christian minority. some live in an abandoned school. well get to that in just a minute but we are learning that isis has destroyed buildings at a ch...

Again, when you have technology, whether at home or out in the workplace, you have abilities to make things happen that you couldnt even five years ago. >> the other advantage the arab world has, a network effect. i think about one of the things people dont think about is despite the fact these are many countries, 29 countries, its one language. >> yes. >> which in the world of computers and apps, it provides you with a much bigger market than you would normally be able to have if you were, say,...

Watchman, go out there, take the law in their own hands and say i dont think you should have this gun. you shouldnt do this around your kids. you could end up with horrible situations. >> that could happen if the app took off. but the thing is whenever you have any social media product of this kind, it relies on what we call a network effect. for it to be actually good and useful, you got to have a lot of people using it -- >> not a lot of people right now. >> exactly. you have to have a lot of ...

Social movements, this happened in the 19th century with the industrial revolution. we still have the products, but workers -- >> you can be big and unionized. >> you said whats the problem with bigness? well, ultimately bigness is the network effect, it is monopolies. th thats why you had trust busting, and publishers getting together. >> i wanted to hear your thoughts on this as the operator of one of these dead-end boutique operators. >> theres no more independent bookstores, and in the last ...

to answer any question you could possibly ask. but facebook represents something different. the idea that the internet and technology can bring people together and together the community you choose cure rates your entire journey through life. but is this a real shift in the motion important tool in the world or a fad thats peaked? can facebook live up to the hype? and if it really is a paradigm shift, can facebook dominate it? >> as no other network can, weve brought together cnns best...

investors have just begun. welcome to "your $$$$$." im ali velshi, christine romans with me. weve been following this company with one thing in mind, after a troubling day for stock, can facebook live up to the hype? facebook, the most anticipated tech talk in history. from a startup in a dorm room to a global community approaching a billion people. facebook is the next paradigm shift on the web. first, the internet was defined by the portal, a one-stop shop for everything you needed. ...

Facebook anymore than the house of cards collapses the very network effect the built them up could see them end up like my space what are the risks of that right now facebook. at this point i dont see a huge risk of that because facebook has been so entrenched in our daily lives that everything that we do that probably the users that will leave facebook they will probably miss it more than the users that still stay with facebook will actually miss those who have left because you will not be able...