The coveted iowa caucuses. Shares of herbalife are soaring after they posted a 5 gain in firstquarter profits. Revenues of 1. 1 billion. Sales in china were strong, rising 21 . In every other geography, herbalife saw sales decline. Bill ackman called the company a pyramid scheme. Groupon posted a 14 million loss in the quarter. Sales fell 1 in the First Quarter compared to last year. They blame currency headwinds. Electronic arts reports lower sales in the fourth quarter. The maker of fifa soccer says it is boosting its shares buybacks to 1 billion. Two nevada residents have sued Manny Pacquiao and his promoters for not disclosing a shoulder injury before his big fight with Floyd Mayweather. They say they defrauded viewers and sports bettors for not revealing the injury. They are seeking classaction status and damages for all ticket buyers and payperview watchers. Salesforce may have potential buyer 800 miles to the north microsoft. They are bidding a possible bid of the company after salesforce was approached by another would be buyer. Salesforce is working with two investment banks to respond to those offers. It sent shares flying again. What does this tie up mean . Joining me right now from seattle is matt, partner of a venture group. There is a company in seattle called microsoft. Matt i have heard of them. Cory what is their aspirations in Enterprise Software . Matt i think it is to be a winner in both the infrastructure as well as software and service which is the big transformation that is coming about. I dont think either of those would be enough for them to justify buying salesforce. I think the bet on salesforce is this a can we build Intelligent Apps together . Datadriven applications that will be for the future. For example, salesforce but a company last year that have technologies combining with microsoft technologies and that delivered Intelligence Services to companies. Cory i want to back you up. You say microsoft thinks salesforce has engineers they dont have and they need them . Matt i think that is correct, particularly around software as a service application. There are things that salesforce has done on a goto market that microsoft has not fully figured out yet. Together, they can build this next generation of smarter applications. Cory that is interesting. My spreadsheets have been burning because i have been trying to figure out ways this could make sense. I look at salesforce as a company that is what it is, but it is also a compilation of a bunch of recent acquisitions that have been very expensive or the Company Without delivering Free Cash Flow after the cost of the acquisitions. Anybody in the industry could see they are doing a lot of acquisitions to boost revenues but they are not getting the Free Cash Flow as a result. They are spending its on on marketing. Eight on on mara ton on marketing. Matt it is very highly valued before the runup we saw. It is a big bet if that is something they are trying to evaluate here. The rumors suggest they are. If so, it will not be just because it makes you better, but because salesforce. Com the cloud where microsoft is strong and the Data Analytics you could embed would be the bet. That matters because there is a lot of usage and understanding in both what salesforce does in its own products that are built on top of its platform. Cory matt, always glad to see you, even on skype. Thank you very much. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg made her first Public Comments since the death of her husband. Responding to a statement from president obama, she wrote on the Facebook Page thank you president barack obama, for this beautiful tribute and your friendship. David goldberg admired you for your passion and deep love of sports. He died of head trauma in mexico. He was a friend of a lot of people. Ben affleck bono and a friend of ours. The Memorial Service caused the movement of the Earnings Release to this morning. The numbers from disney show the company is doing really well. Firing at all cylinders movies, theme parks. Frozen still contributing. They posted a 7 gain in revenue and a top 2 million for the calendar First Quarter. The movies are going to play a bigger role going forward. Tstar wars seeing huge buzz. I talked about disneys business with rami and cynthia from los angeles. Rami people used to joke that maybe they shouldnt change their should change their name to espn. They were actually down this quarter. Froszzen still having an impact on the business. Merchandise sales were up 10 . Although they had the dvd release and the same time. The film studio business was down but you are seeing spillover in other parts of the company. Cory what is your big take away . Looking at the earnings i was not too surprised they came up better than expected even know there was guidance the analysts were saying buy or hold. Nobody was saying sell. Even before the earnings came out, a couple of video from people from citi raised their earning expectations and raised the price up over the next 12 months. Everyone was saying it was going to pop. Cory i dont care about stocks. Im interested in the disney business. Theme parks doing really well. Ramy they rose about 24 in the quarter year on year. The number was 566 million. Half 1 billion of revenue coming half 1a billion dollars. A lot of people are buying things while they are in the park as well. Cory is this disconcerting you mentioned espn. The programming costs and i call it college football. What was it that hit them in the quarter that was a bigger expense than espn would like . Matt they decided college football, thenn n nfl wildcard game and the sec netowork. Cory both play tough nosed games. I wonder at one point, to your point, espn was such essential business for disney. We see what has happened with sports in america. We see the rising costs of programming and one wonders if espn will keep the lead and continue to fight off fox and comcast will that come at a stronger expense for the profitability . Chris interestingly enough, they have posted really good revenue numbers. All of the numbers in tv which people think of now as in peril were really strong. So, it is obviously a concern for bob iger. He talked about these new skinny cable bundles. It is more of a programming cost issue that it is a revenue question. Cory coming up, target india. We will go inside the plans for global domination. Yes. We will talk to one of the big shots. That story is next on bloomberg west. Cory this is bloomberg west. Top headlines hsbc reported profit of 5. 3 billion in the First Quarter. Costs for bad loans and medications declined. The ceo criticized british policymakers for driving out banks. Hsbc moved its headquarters of the u. K. The result of fridays elections may play a role in the decision. Sprint surprise some people want posting again of 570,000 monthly subscribers in the fourth quarter. It is the second month of customer gains. Tablet subscribers had a decline. The Company Posted a loss of 21 million. Xiaomi is on a mission to dominate the world. Xiaomi launched a new Flagship Smartphone in india last month. The Company Announced they will sell ta phone in hong kong that will cost 200. It is the leading smartphone maker in china based on the number of phones sold. They are trying to expand to india. Angie lau spoke to hugo berra on their plans. Hugo . this is our latest flagship device. It is also the first smartphone we designed specifically for Global Markets. Angie talk about that because predominantly your market has been china. It is 90 of your sales so far. You are expanding. That is why you are here. That is why xiaomi hired you away from google. How is it exclusively designed for a Global Market . Hugo we have designed it from the very beginning thinking about markets like india and indonesia. We wanted to design a very large battery into a five inch device. It requires breakthroughs in engineering. The result is we have managed to build the largest battery that you could find on a five inch device and it is as thin and light as devices that cost four times as much. Angie how do you sell it . Hugo primarily online on her own website. Through some partners as well but primarily ecommerce. Angie you are selling it at cost. It is about growth, getting people drawn into the xiaomi story. What is the story . We have seen exponential growth. 240000 in the First Quarter of 2011. You have grown to 73. 317. 3 million sold. That is next financial growth. Hugoo we are growing at internet speeds. People continue to see us as a smartphone vendor, but we are really not. We make phones as well but we spend as much time Building Software as we do building phones. We are building an internet connected platform. We have over 100 million users on that platform alone. We have to keep up. Angie you are also taking over the home apparently. This is part of the strategy of putting lowcost atcost phones in peoples hands, having them drawn into the xiaomi ecosystem. You are building that ecosystem now, right . Hugo that is a good way to look at it. We are an internet company. We are building a company for internet connected services. It is important for us to build internet connected devices and the home is perfect. It is a place where a lot of technology has not arrived yet. Companies have not been able to build compelling enough products for the home in a way that builds an integrated ecosystem. We have launched a whole range of products for the home from a series of smart tvs which are beautiful, all the way to an air purifier, security camera, a weight scale, we have even designed a power strip. We have rethought what a power strip should be like so you are proud of having a power strip. These are all products that are connected together. We have also gone beyond and built a wifi ship that applies manufacturers. Starting in china, building into the design like a fridge or dishwasher also connected together and be controlled from your smartphone. Angie you have a lot of investors, including from india. You have some new money. Who is this . Hugo we have Just Announced an incredible, the most wellknown business in india. He is excited. He came onboard recently. Angie what will you be doing with this money investing . Hugo we are continuing to invest in her own operations. We are also putting a lot of this money to work in startups. We have invested in dozens of startups to date. The idea is not only to be a venture investor. Of course, it is always great when the company does well. But also build up his ecosystem. A lot of our products, the mi band the fitness tracker they were built by this ecosystem of startups that we helped create. In the way that we are actually multiplying the sphere of products we are building by getting other startups to do it for us. Cory huh. That was hugo barra with angie lau in hong kong. Coming up, apple may be updating its design of the tv remote. How the Company Moving away from minimalism will affect the customer, next. Cory im cory johnson. Apple, some interesting items first, big changes on the tv business. The redesign of the tv remote. Adding a touchpad being unveiled next month. Apple is facing the practices of their music business. They have pushing music labels to take their music from Free Streaming Services and that has prompted an investigation. What will the Music Service look like and will the remote even matter . We are joined from our guest alex. Lets stick with the remote. Im curious about this. Is this finally the apple tv that was alluded to . Alex im glad you said finally because it seems like we have been down this path before when we had expected an update and only to be disappointed by a lackluster refresh or no change at all. This time, this seems to be enough anecdotal signs that we are coming into a new remote and new interface for apple tv. It is really about time for apple. It has fallen grossly behind in this market. You just had hugo barroa on. They are doing a great job of integrating home devices. Apple needs to make some moves here. Cory one wonders what it means across platforms for them. The remote that they ship with their apple tv also worked with the computer and im sure you have enough apple products in the house it works with. Im wondering if they gave up with this tv thing. Alex i dont think so. Gmp securities really believes in this internet of things. Cory everyone there . You all get together and have a session . Alex we are talking about nearly 15 million connected devices today. It wont be too far away until we see the next 15 billion devices. When you see what apple could do around the tv and the interconnectivity with the pc and mac, all of these things come into play with apple. We dont think that they can give this up in the same fashion they came out with the apple watch. A device whose features have not fully matured, but they have to be in that market. Yes we do think they are going to do some refreshes here hopefully this summer. Cory im glad to see you all get along there. Lets turned to music. Apple was, for a brief while, the dominant company in music. Maybe no longer so, but interesting that their strategies would be garnering unwelcome attention. Alex we will have to see exactly what they are doing on that front. More than a year ago, thatey got in trouble in the ebooks arena. As they go from going to transform the Music Industry yet again, they have learned something from that and can do it in a more elegant way. Well know what they are doing. It is good to know there are watch guards out there to protect consumer rights, but it is also nice to know their Art Technology innovators like apple that are trying to improve services and get artists paid. Cory that is what they want. We will go to commercial in a minute. Alex we appreciate your time. Coming up next, periscope was that the actual winner of the fight on saturday . The Video Streaming Service was a tool for piracy. Could that be a risk for twitter . We will discuss when we continue. Cory this is bloomberg west. Im cory johnson. Lets check the top headlines. President obama nominates Joseph Dunford to be the next chairman of the joint joint chiefs of staff. President obama general dunford is one of the most admired officers in our military. A native of boston joe is the definition of boston strong. The song of a retired Boston Police officer and marine veteran of korea he followed in his fathers footsteps and distinguished himself for nearly 40 years of military service. Cory he is expected to be easily confirmed by the senate. Islamic state claims responsibility for the attempted attacks in texas however no direct evidence linking the suspects to islamic state. They were shot dead by police afterr opening fire. Eu competition chief says regulators will miss a selfimposed deadline to finish tax probes into companies apple, amazon. She told the European Parliament that regulators would not sacrifice the quality of their investigation. Apple raise the potential flag on the cost of the company. It was required to pay path taxes to ireland. Hewlettpackard and former chief of autonomy, it is getting ramped up. Mike lynch said that hps 5 billion u. K. Fraud loss is a desparate search for a scapegoat. Hp bought metonymy in 2011 for more than 10 billion and was forced to put down 8. 8 billion of that value year later. Google wants to say automatic flight go beyond pilotless planes. The chief of the cargo Drone Program says they can be made safer. Germanys air traffic controls suggest that aviation has been considered to let groundbased operators take over during emergencies. If you are trying to watch the anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao on saturday night, there was one place you could have found it for free periscope. People turning to periscope to stream the fight from bars and living rooms across the world, some people even stream the video from the event itself. Ihbo and showtime were trying to make sure if you watch the fight, you paid for it. Dick costolo, whose company owns periscope, says the night was a victory for periscope. Where does that leave periscope . What risk is there to twitter . Joining me right now is joshua. This is interesting because its issue of what the place where the pirating happened, is the owner responsible . Joshua that will be something that rights holders want to argue especially when you have someone like twitter who owns it and it is not a startup that has eight people. Cory there are some deep pockets behind periscope. Do we have any sense of how big of a deal this was . Joshua periscope said they got 66 complaints about streams and took down about 30 of them. The rest of them were gone by the time they got to them. There is a question of how many of these people would have actually watched the fight, paid for the fight or whether people were just tuning it because they were curious. We dont have a good count on how many people watched those streams. Cory did you watch it . Joshua i did not. Im more of a basketball guy. Cory it was curious to me because twitter has not been in this space before but other companies have like youtube. They had a longrunning fight with the Music Industry. Is there a parallel to be drawn . Joshua i think there is. You might remember that youtube was sued by viacom. Eventually, they did not have to pay anything. They came up with a system called content id which identifies copywritten content and notifies the owners and lets them make decisions. That will be harder for something that is live because they can check it against the database with the id and contact someone. Cory to it down half of the things that were complaints. They check on