Of your new book, tools and weapons . Its Digital Technology has become both a tool and a weapon. Its creating all kinds of benefits is challenges as well we have to grapple it both sides of that equation. Your book is a world tour that starts in quincy washington why quincy washington . We chose quincy washington because its one of the data center capitals of the world if you will its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power this both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of if you will, what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings filled with generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries, but of course mostly server computers. Everything we do, almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud is really one of these data centers. And you have 100 of these in 20 countries . More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of the largest but Com
Mahindra. Welcome. Counsel,our fourth have i got that right . An extendedlike family now. We will be talking about how technology is radically transforming Customer Experiences. A little bit of background. You are a Top Executive at tech mahindra. It is a Technology Services business. 5 million per year in revenue. Thousands of employees worldwide. Half of your business is in the u. S. You are based in boston. You travel extensively up and down the u. S. Insight a really unique to some of the disruption that is on the way for a number of industries in the u. S. Big industries such as health sector,tail, the tech the auto sector. One of the things you were that Customer Experience will change radically in the years to come. Because technology permits that to happen. I want to see if we can jump straight in with. Scotia bank is the Third Largest bank in canada. It is almost 200 years old. You have been working with them on home loans. Home loans is a painful experience for most people. T
Power lunch kicks off right now. And stocks are hitting highs of the session on some breaking news out of washington, as you see, moving up by a half or a little more of a percent each lets get to Kayla Tausche with the details. Hi, tyler the market is moving on reports that u. S. Negotiators will be departing washington on monday to go to beijing my sources tell me these inperson facetoface talks are expected to take place in china at some point between the congressional recess, which begins friday, and a chinese holiday, which is set to take place on thursday, august 1st. Remember, the top u. S. Trade official, ambassador Robert Lighthizer wants to be meeting with members on capitol hill to talk up the usmca, he wants to get as much support as possible before lawmakers leave town for a month and so he personally, im told, has not wanted to leave washington until those conversations have wrapped up. That leaves just a window of a few days time for these inperson talks to take place. T
Rate. That meeting, 2day meeting beginning trade, trade in focus, Robert Lighthizer testifying before Senate House Committee today and ways and means tomorrow. Jeff, great to have you. Thank you, glad to be here. Maria thanks for joining us, i remember when you first went public, a lot of conversation of where the growth is coming for and since then the stock is up 1,000 , congratulations. Thank you so much. You bet, last year i move today hong kong for most of the year trying to understand better the market, but in that time we figured out something thats perhaps obvious which is thethe biggest brands in the world want to advertise more in china, largest surge in middle class in china, in fact, over 1 years 10 years they will create middle class. Maria wow. Cocacola, nike, you want to be tapping into a large surge in middle class because they are Global Companies and we help Global Companies . Given the fact that companies that want to get a foothold in china so far can only do it thr
Of the busy program of Vladimir Putins state visit to china, today is taking place in harbin, one of the central events, the beginning of the eighth russianchinese trade and industrial exhibition expo. Vladimir putin took part in the Opening Ceremony. Now this is one of the key platforms for interaction between business circles of the two countries. Nakhit babayev about how the russian leader was greeted in harbin. Harbin is perhaps the most russian city in china, it is still sometimes there. Century, pedestrian street, small buildings of two or three floors in the style of eclecticism and neoclassicism, signs with street names are also duplicated in russian, in russian they are sung from speakers on the main pedestrian street. Harbin was not only founded by the russians, but also liberated. Vladimir putin laid flowers at the monument to soviet soldiers who died in battles for the freedom of china. It was the red army, with the assistance of russian townspeople and chinese partisans, t