We have the chief executive of the rock n roll hall of fame. Hes going to explain what case, kiss and what nirvana have in common. Microsoft saying it anticipates completing the thech for its next ceo in early part of 2014. Lead independent director john compton wrote in a blog post that the company has identified 100 candidates, talk to several dozen, and has focused on 20 individuals. The senate has moved nearer to passing a bipartisan budget deal that would ease 63 billion in spending cuts. With 12te voted today republicans joining all the chambers democrats. President obama said he will sign the plan into law. This set the stage for a final vote by tomorrow. Back over to you. Executives from 15 Technology Companies went to the white house today to meet president obama. One issue at the top of their list, the u. S. Intelligence activity. White house correspondent Phil Mattingly joins us now. What did Silicon Valley have to say to the president in the white house . A statementased shortly thereafter, and the key point was this the white house needs to move reformingely on those intelligence collection activities as soon as possible. Industry officials tell us the key points that were made are largely in line with the statement of principles eight Tech Companies, including google and facebook and apple, put out last week. They want more transparency. They want the administration to work with them. Since the disclosures by Edward Snowden earlier this year, these companies are facing a major hit the business, business billions of dollars. They need some help, and they need it now. Big development yesterday, a federal judge calling the nsas collection programs likely unconstitutional. Google, microsoft, facebook, how do they fit into what is going on with the legal apparatus . It is interesting. First, they have their own suits that are moving through right now. Where they are focused on is this secret court, the fisc, that is basically compelling them to comply with the governments requests for this for these data points for their customers. What they want is to be able to disclose more information about that. Theyve got their own separate legal track. As far as the case itself, it puts new pressure on the white house. Their task force on the intelligence collection delivered a report, some recommendations. The president is going to speak on those sometime in january. The Tech Companies made their points today. The hope is that the case that is going to right now may actually bolster the case that the white house needs to be more transparent about what they are doing. While that meeting was going on, the white house was actually announcing that they were taking someone from the Technology Sector in order to help them with their health care rollout. Who did they bring in . Thats right. The funny part about this entire meeting is when the Obama Administration set it up, they wanted it to be all about healthcare. Gov. People tell being that Tech Companies would not meet with them unless intelligence issues were brought up. Thats said, a microsoft executive, former microsoft executive, was named over to take over for jeff zients, the overlord of this program, kind of a big mess after the october 1 rollout. He has been overseeing it, trying to stamp out the problems over the last month and half were two months. Ene will take a doubt will take over for jeff zients sometime in february. Thanks very much, Phil Mattingly from washington, d. C. The National Security agency remains under scrutiny because of the Way Technology has been used to gather data. Lets use that to jump off and talk about how technology can be legally used in order to provide some Safe Solutions to some global issues relating to terror. Within the same week, the one year remembrance of sandy hook, the Elementary School massacre in newtown, connecticut, and there was another school shooting, this time in suburban denver, colorado. School administrators are eager for an effective way to protect their students and their faculty. Guest, saysmy next he has a potential solution. Companye ceo of a geared towards streamlining the Emergency Response process. Tell us about the Technology Behind the company that you have. It didnt start off just being about School Safety response. Good evening. Thank you for having me. I have an absolutely incredible job. My company saves lives. We have saved more than 4000 people in the past seven years. Our base business, which we have been doing globally by partnering with the majority of the satellite providers in the world, and through their devices with emergency sos buttons, they can alert us from anywhere. The signals go to our International Emergency coordination center, which is in a nuclear bomb blastproof underground bunker outside of texas staffed by femacertified and incredibly trained technicians. They coordinate rescues on a global basis. For example, if you happen to be a sailor going across the atlantic or you are hiking in the Rocky Mountains and something goes wrong, you push a button, and you are immediately connected with this Response Center in texas . Absolutely. We do that everyday. We save people all over the globe, out in the ocean and mountains, like you said. The third leg of our stool is we provide the coverage to our memberships in order to pay for those rescues. Now you have decided that there is another market, a response to school shootings, to potential violence in the nations schools. Tell us about School Safety response. We were greatly moved and influenced by what happened in newtown, as you mentioned. We realize we could take our technology in our core strengths and apply them not just to individuals, but to an overall School Safety solution. Again, we look at three Different Things, our three core strengths. The first is, almost everyone has a smartphone. Have a button. School bus driver, or administrator can push the button. It sends an alert to my Response Center. The beauty and the secret sauce of this is we create a conference with First Responders and law enforcement, and that gives them Situational Awareness is they are responding. What is going on inside the school, the location of the person who pushed the button, and they are able to hear and listen, discreetly if necessary, or to chat back and forth, in order to provide the right response. Is the frequency on which this operates any different from what a regular mobile telephone call would operate . That is the beauty of it. There is no infrastructure to install. We use what everybody has, their existing cell phones, any smart phone. We can install a solution in an hour or two at any school. We are not tied to the school. There are field trips, off campus, the football field. The solution travels everywhere. Youre able to provide safety for schools. As far as making the connection between your Response Center and First Responders who might be in the community, do those individuals in the Fire Departments and various law enforcement, do they have to sign up for this, as well . Absolutely not. We conference them in immediately. We are able to give them detailed information about the school and patch them in if necessary, so that if they recommend either actuation or locked down they are able to communicate. Is this an expensive solution . How do you end up making money with this . It is quite inexpensive because it doesnt require any infrastructure. Your own device. To be honest with you, the way we like to say it, it is the equivalent of two big macs and to coax two cokes per year. What about the security of the communications that would exist . It is absolutely secure. It comes either through your cell phone connection or over the data connection. We protect all the integrity of that, and no one can listen in, except for the First Responders or Police Department who are coordinating any kind of rescue. Are there any kind of specific numerical goals you would like to see for adoption, lets say in the next 612 months . We are the guys behind the buggy. We think we have a powerful, eloquent solution that can be deployed easily,apidly, at low cost. In fact, anyone who would like to have has it been diploid yet . It has. We have trials going on at the Steiner School in manhattan. Long island, the Middletown School district. We would like to invoice invite any concerned parent to come to our website where they can nominate their school and request a free trial. Thank you very much for joining me, david ruby, the chief executive of geos. What does it to you like to actually win around a racetrack at the speeds of 200 Miles Per Hour . Later on, i will ask the 2013 nascar nationwide rookie of the year, kyle larson. Coming up next, to stay on the racetrack, but it is digital. A look ahead to the top videogame player in the world and why in a racing game a ford is his topic of the holiday season. While slaying bosses in my next guest simultaneously amassed fans in the hundreds of thousands in youtube and on twitter. He holds eight gaming world records, and he has also parlayed his Gaming Experience into a very nice sixfigure income. He joins me now to discuss his favorite games, and also who is going to win the console wars and how became the worlds top gamer. Athene, good to have you with us. Do you just call yourself athene because it is easier in the world of online game playing . It is actually my name in the gaming world, my interactive name. How did you get start and this started in this world of gaming . You have a lot of world titles. You have probably played every videogame i can imagine. I have been playing video games since i was eight years old. Up, i started playing more and more games. Here i am. Were your parents ever concerned about your game playing habits and saying, stop playing video games, go to school . I actually had a really good grades at school. Even though i couldnt play during the week, during the weekends, i could play. I grew up playing responsibly. There were some rules in the house print every parent needs to know this. Tell us about the games right now. Lets start out with some of your titles. How did you get into this world . The way i got into the world was actually really random. I started playing world of warcraft back in the days. I broke several records when i started playing. Uploading videos on youtube, that is when i really blew up. When you talk about breaking records, what do you mean . You are able to reach certain , and as athis game result, you end up being the head of the class . You also play against other players. When you top the rankings, that is how you are like, yeah, im one of the best. What are some of your favorites right now . League of legends right now is one of my favorite games. It is actually has actually it is amazing what they are doing. It is pretty crazy. There are tournaments where you can make more than 1 million. It is pretty crazy what is going on with the gaming scene. We also have microft. I am working with making mincrafts next server. Gone home is another top game this year. What about racing games . There is one on the xbox one. It is a very popular racing game. It is really cool. Xboxox 360 or the new versus playstation . Do you have a choice right now . Reviews, thehe playstation 4 has superior tech, but the xbox one has a better launch. You recommend if someone is trying to get better at this game or any game and they have parents that they want to deal with, what would be the best solutions to get better . I think having the right gear really helps. I myself am sponsored by razor. They have amazing gear that can give you an advantage in the gaming scene. It is almost like you can compare it with sports. You also have special gear for the gaming industry. Special gear for the gaming industry . Indeed. Do you have a particular thing . Just tell me one thing you think everybody ought to have. Crack and pro. Who knew . Athene, thinks therein much, the worlds top videogame. Coming up, it is time to strap him with the rising star in nascar. Kyle larson is going to be here to tell us how hes going for the checkered flag, next on taking stock. The Talent Agency landscape ofld be on the verge significant change. Silver Lake Partners is said to be poised to buy img worldwide for more than 2 billion. We got Cristina Alesci a Bloomberg News for some insight into these stories. Why would silver lake want to acquire ing . Not forget silver lake owns a stock and William Morris endeavor, another huge agency made are that has really name for itself, partially runss to ari emanuel who that agency. Here we could see a potential wme, williamf morris endeavor, with eventually img. Again, this is a deal that is very unusual. The seller is being acquired by a buyer who is much smaller. Has to swallow a much bigger fish. And you look at its business, when you look at imgs business, it has 3500 employees. Has muchorris endeavor fewer. This is definitely going to reshape the game. Have ant really licensing business in the sense that img does a lot of College Sport licensing. That has been the main driver of a lot of growth, both on the topline and bottomline. This brings William Morris into a much different game now. Assumptions,ot of a lot of cap locations with this deal. One of the things that was complicated the deal was the fact that they had to go out and raise money. William morris endeavor had to go out and raise money. A lot of that is indexed. There are some concerns about whether or not this new company will be able to shoulder the new debt that is going to be involved. Christina, just to give some has a about it, img fashion model representation business. They also represent musical artists. By ari it is run emanuel, the brother of the mayor of chicago, former chief of staff to president obama, correct . William morris endeavor, the buyer, is run by ari emanuel. He will be the head of the new company . Hypothetically, yes. That presents another discussion about culture clash. Ari has a strong reputation for a strong personality. That could come into play when you talk about some big personalities over at img. When of these kinds of Companies Come together, those are questions that are always coming up. We are going to have to see how this integration plays out, but ari does have a track record in integrating talent agencies. William morris endeavor, after all, was created when you combined William Morris with endeavor. Very much, bloombergs Cristina Alesci. Lets continue with img, a major player when it comes to representing sports, athletes, as well as producing sports programming. Our next guest is becoming a star in his own right. Kyle larson was the nascar rookie of the year. This upcoming year, he will not only be racing in the nationwide spirit series, but also the sprint cup series. It is a pleasure, kyle. Thanks for coming in. I have been busy in new york, driving around. It is not the same kind of traffic. I think we need to bring some of these taxidrivers onto to the racetrack. They would do a good job. Tell us about the first time you got into nascar. What was it like . Untilidnt get into it 2012. I havent been in it a whole lot, very long, but i had a blast with it. I think i got night or something my first race. I have been a big fan of nascar growing up, as a child, a big fan of jeff gordon and guys like that. Im glad to be up in the cup series now and get to compete with those guys. 17 top 10 nationwide finishes in 2013. You are changing cars. What is going on . Into thethe promotion cup series. Im really excited about next year. Thefully, ill get to 20 2014 sprint nascar rookie of the year. We are looking forward to getting next season started. What is your training regimen like in order to prepare for going around the track at 200 Miles Per Hour . There are a lot of drivers that do a lot of training. My training more comes from i raise a lot more than anyone else does. To 100120 times a year. That is my working out. I know jimmie johnson, like you said, he is a super workout guy. Maybe someday i will get to the gym and get to running. Well, keep us uptodate on the progress of the 2014 season. Thank you very much, kyle larson. Coming up on taking stock, kiss is the fan favorite, nirvana is in the first time. We will bring in the rock n roll hall of fame class of 2014. We have the chief executive, next. Onhis is taking stock bloomberg. Line to go to bottom anchor mark crumpton. Among u. S. Ce homebuilders increased more than forecast in december, matching the highest level in eight years. At build her confidence rose in the three of four regions. Jefferies group says profit rose stock underwriting more than doubled, and the Investment Banking reached a record. The Securities Firm reported net income of 120 million, a rise of 71 . 6 million from a year earlier. Ukraine has secured 15 billion worth of russian financing at a one third discount on energy imports. This is russian president Vladimir Putin who has said russian will russia will buy Government D