We have a Good Opportunity if we enable more people to participate to offer services that can generate revenue. This is supposed to be a Nonprofit Organization, is in the . Im talking about the calibra wallop which will directly impact facebook. Is it going to be a nonprofit . No, calibra is a forprofit entity and the entity that will dold the wallet that will be offered to facebook consumers. Is Digital Currency illegal in some parts of the world quick skinny touch on that . Gets congressman there are an number of countries that prohibit buying selling or using Digital Currencies. I also want to mention privacy violation concerns things that americans have been concerned with. The american consumer, do they trust facebook and do they feel comfortable with your company . Congressman i believe we have a lot of work to do to earn Peoples Trust and we have two definitely make though strong commitments when it comes to privacy and make good on those commitments for long periods of time. I
The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot
But theyre out of patience. And we couldnt contain that. And as you know, they went to the u. N. And i spent three weeks over Christmas Holiday working to keep people that we would like to be working with constructively from doing something negative. And in the end, by a vote where they didnt get the nine votes at the u. N. , so now we never had to exercise a veto. But theres a great deal of frustration build and this is not the moment to go into it in any depths. You know, were very anxious not to get dragged into the election process. Were not going to. Israel has the this important election coming up and they need to do it without us commenting from the sidelines. Im not going to go further on this. I just say to you we wish the palestinians had behaved differently. And thats why theyre not getting aid right now. And therefore maybe some other people we think others are going to step up and try to help bridge the gap in order to get them over the hurdle. But when the israeli electio
The 39 bus he says he fully supports his union. Were out here doing a job. You know . You just want to be compensated. That is all it is. Friday, the operators voted to reject the citys latest offer which proposed just over 11 in wage increases over two years, but also, calling for them to pay 7. 5 into their pension. That is what we did for them. We agree we pay more, im paying more. The mayor says he simp pathizes with the riding public. If no agreement is reached there will have to be arbitration. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Well, because of the sickouts, cable cars were not running today, look at that. Tourists hoping to take the ride can only get in, San Francisco, right . But theyre out of luck today. Were very disappointed weve seen San Francisco because we havent been on the car when young we used to have the movie on tv. And so we wanted to see it. Somehow its not the same. Yes. Frustrating for them. A quick check to see if having impact. Theyre inching along at 5 or 10 miles
Johnnys room im told but just listen thank you for joining us. We begin with what appears to be a rapidly deteriorating situation between russia and ukraine herald today the Russian Parliament approved the deployment of troops to the accident states and in return the interim leadership the heathens but the countrys them in a tree on the lives of the Crimean Peninsula is the main flash point in ukraine crisis. Its really a true russian part of the country which is so humble servant to russias black sea fleet will calls for a de escalation in tensions that come from all directions in washington president barack obama as National Security team had gathered to discuss one senior official described as a potential policy option while in ukraine has asked the us on the names of the Un Security Council to help safeguard its territorial integrity. Whats the route now the International Reaction to these latest developments and the colts from the International Community not to interfere in the po