And the overhaul of the culture you left behind. We will then hear from the ceo of starbucks to hear how the company adapts in the age of technology. We sent Bloomberg Technology to seattle for the geek wire summit. We spend time with the biggest names in the region including amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets start with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. Nottells us that they would rule out partnerships with rivals if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really, it is making sure that alexa is more humanlike. Pathwe can shorten the from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Want alexa responding likeless of the ah has in the snl skit . Something like that, yes. Emily when it comes to understanding human language, are we already there when it comes to how much improvement can be made
She covered the candidacy of donald trump. Along the way, the future president often singled her out for criticism. Her new memoir documents that experience. I am pleased to have her back at this table. Welcome. It is great to have you here. You have not seen the president since the election . Katy not in person since the election or the inauguration, i should say. Charlie tell me what people are saying about you today . Katy there are questions about what exactly is going on inside the white house. What does the president do every day . Is he fully invested as the daytoday operations of governing as he needs to be . Why is he getting so distracted by cable news still . Also, has he lost a step . Dave sherman wrote a report in vanity fair about this and essentially said what i have been hearing from my sources within the trump orbit. There seems to be Something Different about him today then during the campaign. One person read the book and asked do you think something has changed . Ch
Amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She told us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. So, it is conversational. So we can shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Emily is alexa be responding with the uhhuhs like in the snl skit . May be. I joke that that is Something Like a human would do. Emily when it comes to understanding human language, whether it is an adult talking or a child talking, or are we there when it comes to how much improvement can be made . We are definitely not there. It is day one, super early stages. We like to say we are on
In hong kong it is just past 8 00 a. M. The am julie hyman and political stories continue apace in the United States where the ands today was on mexico that cancellation of a meeting with donald trump and theresa may coming over as well on earning season in the u. S. A lot for investors. Yvonne absolutely. Picture on wall street, it is mixed. Relatively leading into asia, we are seeing positive asian stocks. Positive move in asia ahead of the holiday. We do have the nikkei 225 opening higher. Extending the gains that we saw on thursday when it was higher over 1 . Trading could be choppy given the stronger dollar and the mixed picture on wall street. Tensions between the u. S. And mexico over the border wall and markets in china, south korea, vietnam closed today along with partial trade in Hong Kong Hong kong, singapore. We have stocks in wellington snapping a two day rise. Australia adding. 5 after coming back from a thursday holiday. We do have miners dragging today on the index. The
Kuala lumpur trading getting underway and in singapore. We are heading up to the Lunar New Year holiday. And we have volatility and volumes are then. Let us see what we have at the moment regarding the session in this part of the world. Malaysiaore and joining the rise we are seeing in the region. We do have gold retreating for a fourth day. Moving further from the hundred level. Approaching as one high as we are seeing the yen stumble a bit. Aussie shares up 0. 6 with consumers stocks and banks. Metals are under pressure. Looking at the nikkei 225. Reversing thursday losses. See argy producer did contract cancellation for a power plant in australia. Declinectric on the after a earnings announced yesterday. Currenciesok at some. Bityen looking a little steadier. 60. After the cpi data. At 443 against the dollar. It has weekend about 5. 5 since Donald Trumps win. Suisse said recently that malaysia is one of the most vulnerable economies to a proposed border tax from the u. S. Along with