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Massive drop in users and revenue. Lift is trying to provoke car pooling with a new feature called lift line and matches riders who are going to the same area and offers them a discount of up to 60 to share a ride. The cofounder john zimmer joins us to share all about it. Our lead story, google and barnes noble are worried about competition from amazon so the companies are teaming up with the aim of swiping some customers away from the e commerce giant. Starting today, barnes noble will offer sameday deliveries from local stores through google shopping express. Right now the service is only available here in the bay area, west l. A. , and manhattan. The news coming a day after amazon expanded its own Sameday Service to a total of 10 cities. Our editor at large joins us along with a partner from s. K. Ventures, a former equities analyst and contributing bloomberg editor, with us from san diego. Paul, could this really get customers from amazon or is it a hail mary . I think its wacky. I
Regulation of Net Neutrality. So Net Neutrality is an a very hot topic in washington for the past several years. A previous role at the federal trade commission. I was head of the office of thecy planning and head of Internet Access task force. And we looked at this issues in connectivity competition policy that we issued. And some of the issues that that at was whether the antitrust laws which we enforce as well as Consumer Protection could promote some of the values that the Net Neutrality trying to safeguard. So, for example, making sure that consumers get the type of Broadband Service theyve been promised by their providers. Also, that the market remains and that there arent any anticompetitive prohibitions put in place. So that is a question, i think, out. Continues to play how is the best way to safeguard consumer interests here . And one of the things that ive talking about is the importance of making sure that innovation can thrive. Changed models have substantially, even since
Commissioner ohlhausen, thanks for joining us. First of all, the commission is turning 100 years old this month. Guest yes. Host whats the mission of the federal trade commission . Guest well, thank you for having me here. Im delighted to talk about the mission of the federal trade commission. Our birthdays actually this friday, the 26th, and ill be hosting a celebration at the commission. But our mission is twofold. Its to prevent unfair acts or practices and unfair methods of competition, but to do that in a way that doesnt hurt legitimate business, and we try to keep those two goals in mind as we do our work. Host well, this is the communicators, so we want to talk about some of the Communications Issues that we off talk about, and how do you fit that mission into potential regulation of Net Neutrality . Guest so Net Neutrality is an issue, obviously, thats been a very hot topic in washington for the past several years. And back so i had a previous role at the federal trade commissi
And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . Guest the size and parts of different markets. They have 30 of cable between them and 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband, that is just too big. I had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal but this gives you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so to be public because they feared retrobution. Host did comcast come to you and try to influence your opinion guest they did not. I have been against