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Unlike alibaba. Twitter has elected all of its directors, including the first woman to join twitters board. The announcement came at twitters first shareholder meeting. They hit a high in december. And lenovo has a strong quarter. Their laptop and desktop shipments rose in the quarter despite in overall industry decline. They are making a dent in the smartphone business with its smart phone chip. 60 in the quarter. Welcome to bloomberg west. I want to welcome our special guest host for the hour....

Period after 2008, the city also worked closely with our labor partners to overhaul the citys pension system, and the citys retiree, health investing and benefit system. Both measures resulted in employees, in the vast majority of employees contributing something towards additionally towards the pension obligations and also start to paying into the Retiree Trust Fund and so as we entered into these negotiations, we certainly had some pent up demand and we tried to reconcile what the expectations...

Good morning, regarding the audits, we go through annual audits with the Controllers Office. And the emphasis of the audits have been taken a little bit of a interdepartmental emphasis and we would like to work with them to change the dynamics and so we are working with the csa unit. So you are saying that the audits did not happen . Yes, they have been happening every year. Okay, and what have you found through those audits. Different recommendations for one of the recommendations that happened...

Childrens. And we are going to conduct another one this summer with the puc at the Contractor Assistance Center and so i have been working with their team and also at public works we are going to conduct additional Public Management and other trainings targeting to bridge that gap between being sub, to becoming a prime and we are hoping to do that in the fall of this year and i wanted to point out one other metric on the last slide there, is out of 7 possible micro, lbe contract ordered during 2...

Buyers, and it also actually it generates a little income for us to cover the cost of facilitating the program. And a small grant to our nonprofit partners who provide the Home Ownership education and counseling to our bmr buyers. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. We will open this item up to Public Comment, is there any member of the public that would like to make comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, could we take the item without objection . Without objection, this item passe...

Surprise that you reached an agreement in such a timely manner, before we were. So thank you and your team for your hard work on this and we really appreciate it. Colleagues . Are there any questions . No. Any motions on the table . To make a motion to on ford. You need to take the Public Comment. I apologize, are there any members of the public who would like to make the Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, are there a motion to move these items forwa...

And then if you look to the right on that, and is the monetary awards and the total amount was 51. 3 million or 2122 and of that 40 percent went to the lbe primes for 20. 4 million and nonlbes got 8. 5 and i broke it out to the right to give you an idea over all and then i went down and i specifically did lbe subs of 11. 6 million and so of the subof those prime contracts or nonprime or nonlbe contracts the subcontractors, the bles were 11. 6 million and nonlbe subs were 9. 1 and you will see th...

Subof those prime contracts or nonprime or nonlbe contracts the subcontractors, the bles were 11. 6 million and nonlbe subs were 9. 1 and you will see the break out below again of the specific mbe and wbe categories. Now, that was awards, and so the distinction is awards verses payments. So me the money, so the next slide is the total payments of about 5. 4 Million Dollars. Of that, 4. 1 million was paid to prime and i mean, lbe primes and subs and so they combined those numbers and 1. , approxi...

Calling apples next generation. Ur guests include keith rabois to talk about the look and feel of these new products. Joe brown, who always gets into a straight. Paul kedrosky, earlystage venture investor. And much more. I want to head to cory johnson, who was outside the event at the flint center in cupertino. Corey, what is going on there . Let me give you a visual here. We are here the anza college, on the outer edges of Silicon Valley in cupertino. They have taken the center of the courtyard...

Is when steve jobs announces one tim cook, in recent oneuct announcements, says more thing is indeed the apple watch. Have had at least 150 people at cupertino headquarters working on this wearable device, details of which are being announced now. Back with us, our bloomberg contributing editor and the wired deputy editor. We are watching apple play luxurious music as it unveils this watch with a rectangular face, a watch that doesnt look like a watch. I really wanted to not want that thing, but...