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William Santana Li, chairman and CEO of Knightscope, and Stacy Stephens, vice president of marketing and sales, explain how the company's K5 autonomous robot security guards work. They speak with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."
82 percent of California is experiencing extreme drought and farmers in California's Central Valley are looking for water elsewhere- underground. Well drilling for groundwater in the state has doubled and even tripled in some counties. Bloomberg heads to a dairy farm to learn more about the drilling boom.
Alibaba is now the world's largest ever IPO and now that it's public, it means the Company is now bigger than the majority of companies in the world. But just how big is China's e-commcer growth? Bloomberg’s Mia Saini reports on the Chinese story in Alibaba’s IPO.
In this episode of Canadian Cannabis, Damian visits two gigantic weed factories in Ontario to check out what kind of bud the government has legally authorized. He also chats with pot activists throughout British Columbia to get their take on the new licensed producer system. And, lastly, we visited a private pot grower who has a medical grow license, but is being squeezed out by Canada's new medical marijuana program: the MMPR.
The combined net worth of the top five NFL franchise owners is close to $34 billion. Bloomberg Ranx looks at the NFL's richest owners according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Michael Toscano, president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, discusses Amazon's battle against Google for drone supremacy and weighs in on the commercial drone controversy. He speaks with Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."
In March a US airways pilot reported a near-miss with a tiny drone over Tallahassee Airport in Florida. And that is just one case of 15 recently registered. RT's Gayane Chichikyan reports.
It may be legal to buy marijuana in 22 states, but growing pot is still against federal law. And yet, the US government grows some of the purest pot in the country, spending almost a million dollars a year on a contract with the University of Mississippi to grow cannabis and manufacture marijuana cigarettes. The UMiss farm is currently the only source in the US for legal marijuana for researchers, and the government currently gives it away to researchers who get all the right approvals.
Median CEO pay now tops $10 million, the first time the figure has reached eight digits. With their wages rising 50 percent in the last four years, CEO's made 257 times the average worker's pay in 2013. While wages for top business executives continue rising, middle class job growth and pay still struggle. Most new jobs are on the lowest end of the wage spectrum. RT's Lindsay France takes a deeper look at the figures and the widening income gap.
This Company is worth more than half of the companies on the S&P 500, but should it be? Uber's valuation has now hit $17 billion.
Hong Kong is now home to the most expensive real estate in the world. Hong Kong property power broker Sebastian Skiff, CBRE Asia executive director, gives Bloomberg's Betty Liu a tour of Causeway Bay, the world's most expensive retail area in the world.
In today's "Movers & Shakers," Betty Liu reports that Google founder Sergey Brin has unveiled the company's first driver-less car.
eBay asked users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack exposed a database with login information and data such as birthdays and phone numbers. Shape Security Senior Security Researcher Wade Williamson and Social+Capital Managing Partner and Founder Chamath Palihapitiya speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Barbara Corcoran Ventures Partners Founder Barbara Corcoran and Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries discuss the U.S. housing and the impact of underwater mortgages on the economy.
Rethink Robotics Chairman and CEO Rodney Brooks and New York University Marketing Professor Scott Galloway discuss the future of robots in our lives.
Denver Relief Founder Ean Seeb discusses the truth behind pot banking with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
Marijuana stocks have been flying - even if some of them are worthless garbage. Watch as Finra's Gerri Walsh discusses possible marijuana stock scams.