Heavy rains began last sunday. That ahorities say nearly half mile long tunnel has been discovered. Than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana were seized. Six people have been arrested. The American Lung association has released its annual report card. Eight out of 10 californias living counties with unhealthy pollution. That is about 32 million people. Los angeles and bakersfield have the worst grades. More than 150 news bureaus around the world. Emily i am emily chang. This is bloomberg west. Qualcomm cannot escape the gloom, facing a sluggish third quarter. We parse through the main takeaways. Google is back in the eus crosshairs as regulators take aim at android. How much could the case hurt googles business . Ford shelling out for one of teslas white model x cars. First, qualcomm continues to get hit by the slowdown in demand for highend smartphones. They forecast thirdquarter earnings short of estimates thanks to weaker than expected appetite for the most expensive mobile phones. Joining us from new york with a breakdown, cory johnson. What are the big takeaways . Cory if you have a smart phone, you have a qualcomm chip in them, almost guaranteed. The problem is growth has been shrinking. When you look at qualcomms revenue, we can see a decline steadily as the smartphone growth rates have slowed down in china and all over the world. When you look at the percentage change, you see something different. The percentage changes, we see things have been getting worse on a yearoveryear basis. That is bad news for these guys. What is interesting is they have figured out they can still make money rightsizing their business. They have a profit margin that is Getting Better as they had cycled through issues managing costs. Emily the Smartphone Market is obviously saturating. Highend smartphone sales do not appear to be Getting Better. What does that mean for qualcomm . Cory it means they have to manage expenses. They can see where this is going. They want to get paid better in china. They talked about progress in that matter. Customers that did not want to pay them in china, they have worked through some of that. Yesterday, we were talking about intel. They finally decided with the slowdown in pcs, they are going to have to cut jobs. I want to show you a comparison to intel and qualcomm. Intel, you can see times where they have had layoffs. You have layoffs announced finally at intel. Qualcomm, same situation. They did this in 2015. They could see on the horizon the issues they were going to have. Now they are getting the benefit with slowing sales. At least they are seeing profits increase. It shows the management really grasps the difficult decisions they had to make and made some of them to lower costs. Emily interesting. Cory johnson, thank you for that update. Google is back in the eus crosshairs as antitrust regulators file charges against the android business, saying certain apps being preinstalled is stifling competition. Caroline hyde has developments. Eu regulators are going after google, accusing them of wielding too much power with android, crushing competition in the app space. They have sent a formal antitrust charge to google, saying they stop competing Search Engines from tablets with the android operating system. Regulators accuse google of paying some players to only install googles search app on phones. The objections could lead to huge fines and major changes to the way google does business. The eu complaint about googles Shopping Service and is worried about phones being preloaded with apps. Google states its Partnership Agreements are voluntary, and the android model is designed to be good for competition and consumers. This is the latest in a formal investigation by the eu, sparked by initial complaints dating back to 2013 from an Industry Group backed, at the time, by microsoft and nokia. Emily googles problems in europe date a few years before that. Joining me now are jack clark, who covers google, and mark maheny. Mark, you have been covering google for years. The eu made it clear they mean business. How much could this hurt google . This will continue to be an issue for google. There is no company, maybe with the exception of facebook, that has dominance in internet advertising, search, as this company does. Amazon does not have this market share. There will be other countries that will look at it in the future. What kind of impact could this have . It is impossible to tell. Just a fine is not a big deal for shareholders. A Material Change in business practices, unbundling of search from the operating system or a required change to the Search Engine results page, that could become material to google. Hard to know. Emily jack, where does this proceed from here . A fine is one thing, but the eu has made it clear they are not happy with the business overall. There will be a discussion period. Google has 12 weeks to reply, then a further conversation. Regulators have been signaling they are trying to be strong. They want to make an impact. They have suggested it cannot just be a fine. It has to be something that has the company behave. We do not know if it is going to happen, but if it mandates changes on the software, that could have Significant Impact on the ability to make money from android. Emily the European Commissioner has made it clear she is not going to drop this. Google has tried to settle on these other cases a few times. Listen to what she had to say earlier today. The remedy in this case is simple. It is to stop these practices that we find to be damaging for innovation and competition. That is, of course, quite simple and straightforward. Yet, we have found evidence that it has been going on for quite some time. Emily google does not say a lot about how much revenue it gets from android, but we believe it is 50 . How much do you estimate . The number sounds high. It is indirect. If you did not have android, you would not have mobile internet today as it is. Are they one of the biggest beneficiaries of Global Internet . Absolutely. Internet revenue for google is probably 20 of total revenue. It is hard to calculate. The indirect android revenue opportunity created is probably 10 or 20 . Emily do you think the accusations are fair . There is either voluntary bundling or there is not. Look at the eu fact sheet, about a page. The facts have not been publicly made available. If they are required bundling, per European Union rules, maybe there is an issue. Emily are they voluntary or not . We have a document with htc that mandates as part of the manufacturer agreement they bundle certain apps. We do not know the back story and are waiting for the facts to come out. Along with being a profit driver for google, android keeps costs down. Because chrome is bundled with android, they do not have to pay to get searched people. Emily mark, microsoft fought antitrust issues for a decade in europe and had trouble transitioning into the digital age. They are still struggling. Could this hurt google over the longer term . If it turns out to be a distraction of management attention, it could. The irony could be, with microsoft, fines were levied during the top of the desktop cycle. The reason microsoft suffered was not because of regulatory actions but because they missed the trend towards the internet. What could happen is when apps start coming unbundled is when the zuckerberg view of messaging and bots taking over there is irony, but the regulatory process can take it while. A wild. Emily there was a piece about how facebook is the thing that google has to worry about right now. Mark, thanks so much. Jack, thank you as well. Could verizon blaze a trail to integrate Virtual Reality into news reporting . We will speak with the ceo of Huffington Post about their first acquisition in that space. Apple announcing it will delay its Earnings Release to april 26 for the Memorial Service of former board member bill campbell, died monday and was close to the apple family for many years. We will be right back. Emily Virtual Reality may be hitting the mainstream. As news and Media Companies dabble in the technology, exploring ways to create immersive video experiences for viewers. On wednesday, aol announced it is making its first acquisition for the Huffington Post. The company has agreed to buy riot, a studio in l. A. , for an undisclosed amount. Joining me to discuss the deal, Huffington Post ceo, jared grusd, and bryn mooser, the riot ceo. How long have you been in talks . Thank you for having us on the show. We met in september at a festival in central park. I was struck by four different things. The first is his presence and leadership. The second is he was displaying some films in Virtual Reality. I was attracted to two things. The category was it a novelty or a compelling way to tell stories in the future . Bryn shared with me the fact that he made 100 films in 40 countries. Finally, the overall mission. Huffington post has been a Mission Driven company to inspire and empower. The mission of riot has been the same thing. We thought this could be a tremendous partnership to do something transformative. Emily what convinced you to go through with this . What were the terms . For us, it was an absolute dream. The work that arianna did at Huffington Post blazed the trail for young Media Companies to come along. We have a wide audience of the people excited about the work we are doing. We are linking every story to Virtual Reality. It is the most exciting thing for us and a long time. We could not think of a better partner than the Huffington Post. Emily can you share more information on the terms of the deal and what your vision is for riot within the huffpo Verizon Family . We are forming huffpost riot. There are two pillars. The first is storytelling journalism. How can we bring Virtual Reality storytelling across each of our 15 additions to create one of the biggest Virtual Reality newsrooms in the entire world . That is the first piece. The second is in the context of building out capabilities. Bryn and his team have become worldclass brand ambassadors. We will be working with riot to build content for each of our brand partners. Emily what kind of stories or journalism do you think works best with this potential future of Virtual Reality . Right off the bat, the thing that is extraordinary is there has been a platform shift with the way we see video. 360 degree video, you are able to move your phone around and see things in a way you have never been able to. The opportunity for how this technology will radically change news, documentary, journalism, across these platforms, you will see a shift. For us, that opportunity to bring this kind of technology to 15 news bureaus of the Huffington Post means our reach can grow. We can tell these stories. With Virtual Reality, you can step inside a story and experience the world in a way you have not been able to do with traditional video. You can see the scale of it. We are really planning on doing some amazing work together. Emily i spoke with arianna about this last week. Verizon has bid for yahoo . If they buy yahoo , how do you see the media assets working together . Do you see much overlap between yahoo and huffposts vertical . I think verizon acquiring yahoo is for a different day and for a different set of people. We are excited about talking about how the Huffington Post is advancing our strategy with riot. We are excited about the things we can do together going forward. The opportunity between Huffington Post, riot, aol, and verizon, to transform the world of storytelling is compelling. Emily jared grusd, bryn mooser, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having us. Emily nielsen was the Gold Standard for tv viewership until the streaming industry upended it. Emily nielsen just reported earnings. Sales and profits rose from a year ago, but it is a critical time for the company. It is getting critical audience measurement off the ground, which would measure views from dvr and streaming, a major attempt to catch up with Media Consumption trends. There still a standard like nielsens tv ratings. Joining me now, mitch barns, nielsen ceo, from stamford, connecticut. The old business of serving people via nielsen boxes makes sense. Nobody understands how you will do this. How do you intend to measure streaming on phones, settop boxes, and get it right . Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. We are building on our historical strength, measuring television audiences. We are measuring viewing across all the platforms that consumers love so much. We are capturing that viewing, focused on video content, whether it is a tablet or pc, or a connected device like apple tv or roku. We are capturing all that viewing, measuring those different viewing environments, in a way that is comparable, so we can represent a total audience for the marketplace. Emily the service has been delayed. What work are you doing to make sure the information you are giving is reliable . We are on track with our rollout. Our products are in great shape. We have a growing number of clients receiving data, getting more familiar with it in the new metrics we are providing to clients, and understanding the impact on their business. We are working closely with our clients to fit with changes they are going through in their businesses and business models. We have stayed on track with the execution and rollout of the plan throughout the calendar year so far. Emily is it true the software is preloaded onto phones and data is sent back to nielsen . If so, how do you get information from settop boxes . There are a varty of ways consumers view. We have a variety of technologies and methodologies we deployed. If you are viewing the video content through an app versus a web player or a connected device attached to your television set, each of these are different ways consumers view content. We have a different measurement methodology associated with each. What they have in common is a combination of big data sets that we have access to through our work with publishers like facebook in the u. S. And tencent in china. We combine that with high quality panelbased information to get the best of both worlds. We get high quality from our historically strong panelbased approach and the incredible granularity that big data sets provide. Emily it sounds a little big brother. Are viewers being tracked with consent . We are focused on privacy and respecting consumer interests around privacy. We have a privacy officer that receives all our product design. In fact, one of our tenets is we design respect for privacy into our product from the start. If you are a member of the nielsen panel, you are opting in to that service. We think that is important. Emily i presume you cannot track netflix data. Everybody wants to know how many people are watching house of cards. Only netflix seems to have that information. To what extent can you track netflix, amazon, and hulu . If you cannot, does not undermine the model because more people are watching shows produced by amazon or netflix . Because of the growing consumer interest in subscription videoondemand platforms like netflix, hulu plus, it is now up to 63 of all u. S. Households that have a subscription to at least one of those services. We rolled out a measurement methodology that allows us to capture the viewing last year. Over the past several months, there has been tremendous interest from media clients. Emily we have to leave it there. We are getting a commercial break. Thank you. Ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. I order b14. I get b14. No surprises. Buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster White Knuckle thrill ride. Youre promised one speed. But do you consistently get it . You do with comcast business. Its reliable. Just like kung pao fish. Thank you, ping. 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