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around the fatal accident. first, to the lead. mark zuckerberg has decided it is time to face a congressional music. the facebook ceo will appear before the u.s. house energy and commerce committee to answer on his role in the cambridge scandal. he has been the subject of criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. he will not, however, appear before a u.k. parliamentary committee. we spoke with sarah frier, who covers the social network for bloomberg, after the news broke, as well as caroline hyde, who joined us live from london with reaction. >> zuckerberg has come to terms with the fact that he will do this. he said last week, if i am the right person to answer these questions, i will do it, but i have to do be the right person. congress said, you are the right person. we want to hear from you. so zuckerberg has come to terms with that, and in front of

congress, there are going to be so many questions that facebook just can't answer. a lot of questions in particular about where this data has gone that was shared with third party developers back before 2014. facebook really doesn't know. they are going to do some audits, but they don't have the answers to where are these 50 million user profiles now, when did cambridge analytica delete them? they relied on cambridge analytica, saying it was gone, until the reporting from "the new york times," saying that wasn't the case. emily: what is the reaction from the u.k., saying he will send deputies instead? >> he came back fighting the head of the committee, which is investigating how fake news might have played a role in the brexit vote. damien collins, who heads up that particular committee, has

come back very strongly to the news, and it will be the cto or cpo. he said it is absolutely astonishing that mark zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself are questioning, urged him to think again. if he has any care for people, he is trying to be emotional. but he wrote to facebook in the senior saying, "a facebook executive who they hoped would be mark zuckerberg." he feels in this case he is not the right person. the cto and cpo said they are among the longest-serving executives, with extensive backgrounds, and are well-placed to answer the committees. but interestingly, there's also this statement from facebook. they say, the u.k. anti-e.u. shouldn't matter. we can now confirm that around 1% of the global downloads of

the app that came from the eu and u.k. -- remember, this app is the one that was designed by kogan, that was passed on to cambridge analytica, and therefore gave them 50 million users of facebook. of those 50 million, hardly anywhere from the eu or u.k.. meantime, facebook is getting its ducks in a row to lobby lawmakers. they are hiring for 11 different positions on capitol hill. talk to us about the extent of facebook's lobbying efforts, as of now, how it compares to other tech companies. >> the first thing we have to note is that the facebook budget sont on lobbying in d.c. is much smaller than the companies that have been doing it for years -- google, microsoft, apple. facebook is pretty slow to join this party. in the past, they didn't have a

very competitive relationship with washington. they grew up in barack obama's presidency. now they are realizing that they need to make nice, they need to figure out how to get in on these issues before they come to a head, and most of all, how to explain their products to congress and lawmakers, because a lot of them don't understand some of the fundamental ways it works, like the fact that most ads are not purchased through humans, but through this automatic advertising system. these are all things that have become very clear in the last few months, but like the general public, congress has a lot they want to educate. emily: and the controversy continues to swirl. we are learning new layers to the broader cambridge analytica story, and there's a whistleblower who looked at a contractor at cambridge analytica who told parliament basically that brexit could have gone the other way if there hadn't been, as he calls it,

cheating. give us a little more background on what we learned here. christopher wylie, the whistleblower for "the observer" and "new york times" pieces. notably, he is saying, potentially the brexit vote could have gone differently if perhaps some of these related entities -- if cambridge analytica and related entities were mixed up in the brexit vote and were paid significant amounts and could have helped sling it. he also says more than 500 million people that have been affected iv cambridge analytica data overall, and notably, he talks about a company that peter itl is on the board of, could be wrapped up in all of this. emily: that was sarah frier and

caroline hyde. and as the fallout continues in the wake of the exploitation data on millions of facebook users, we caught up with dick costolo and asked him to weigh in on the controversy. >> one of the concerns or questions i have is the impact it will have on the way people think about api's and access to data in the future. obviously, facebook has built out this platform approach that enabled third parties to act as this -- to interact with it in gauge with people on facebook, and turned that off from years ago. we are seeing the consequences of some of that. i think it will have an impact on the way technology and company is forward think about how the data will be used, how they can audit, how it is disposed of. emily: how does facebook use data differently than twitter? twitter istand it,

more protective of user data, though twitter has its own issues which we can talk about. do you think facebook has been too permissive, too careless about user data? not to be an apologist for what has been going on, but this platform was public. people knew what those api's were capable of, and they have been long disabled. the big difference tween twitter and facebook is that on facebook, there is lots and lots of personally identifiable information. that turns out to be particularly helpful to advertisers. advertisers want to be able to demographically target, micro target, and twitter doesn't have a lot of. to go back a few years, when i was running twitter, frequently that was thought of as a disadvantage.

twitter doesn't know enough about its users, so i can't target my advertisement as accurately as i can on facebook. so there are two sides to this coin, and in some instances it's a real benefit to the platform's business, and in other areas, it lacks. emily: we are seeing former facebook or is increasingly speak out about facebook. brian acton tweeted #deletefa cebook. he's the guy that sold his share for $20 billion. do you think this will take off? you think this will have a significant impact on users desirability to use the platform? >> i'm sure these people will be returning all their ill-gotten gains any moment now. -- thesehink this is things happen. they come up every now and then, where there is a big news event.

facebook is such an important part of a lot of people's lives. it may be the case that a certain number of people in silicon valley, inside the bubble, will delete it. i don't think it will be a big movement. it's too important a part of too many people's lives. emily: is a disingenuous for people who made a lot of money on facebook -- >> i already made a joke about that, come on. [laughter] easier,nk it's certainly, when you are not a part of the company anymore to sent back and lob in molotov cocktails. there are people working extremely hard inside these companies to do the right thing. the head of product at twitter as been talking a lot about the issues twitter is trying to deal with. so there are people inside these companies trying to do the right thing, i tend to not love it

when people sit on the sidelines and lob in criticisms. emily: mark zuckerberg said in an interview that perhaps tech should be regulated, not a question of if, but how. do you think tech should be regulated in this so,, how? >> i think it probably will. there will end up being regulations. it seems like that is heading in our direction. challenge, particularly around areas of technology, is --tends to be frequently heavy with details that make it difficult to understand, which makes it difficult to lobby. there are lobbyists on all sides of these equations. and finally, i worry that in most cases, the regulations start to fight the last war, right? in the past, this happened, so let's prevent that from happening again.

technologies are changing so quickly, they don't anticipate the next issue or challenge the way becoming a. -- may be coming up. he saysn that note, that version two of russian meddling is happening on the platform. it's probably happening on facebook and twitter. can facebook and twitter stay ahead of us? now that they know it has happened, can we really keep up? >> it's an arms race. like spam was in the fast, like phishing and other challenges. the differences now there are state actors, not just a few people trying to hack into an account. when you have state actors who have enormous amounts of resources, it will be a battle keeping up with them, and going after their new attack sectors. they will never attack the same way they attacked in the past. keeping up with that will be a real challenge for these platforms. emily: some of my conversation

with dick costolo. oracle $8.8 owe billion for using its java programming code. a lawsuit says they violated oracle's copyright. the case was first filed in 2010, and then remanded to a federal court in california to determine how much the alphabet unit should pay. google said it is considering all of the next steps in this case. coming up, apple announces a new, lower-cost ipad that aims to go head-to-head with chrome book in the education market. details next. and if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. ♪

emily: apple is making a new push to go head-to-head with google and education, market apple helped pioneer but has let

languish. at an event in chicago on tuesday, the unveiled the new ipad that will square off with the cheap cronbach laptop, as well as a new education app to compete with google's classroom software. apple was founded 40 years ago, and for decades after that, it was really synonymous with both creative users, internet users, but also education users. going up in school we had emacs back in the day, but that has languished over the past few years. andnt data indicates ipads iphones had 17% of k-12 shipments, while google had a combined 60%, and microsoft had 22%. so clearly there was a problem and apple needed to address it, so they decided to go back to an ipad they released last year, a $329 ipad without many of the

bills and whistles, but it was good enough for education users. this year they are updating it with a slightly faster processor, support for the apple pencil, and a few other bells and whistles in the forms of such,, lcd screens and putting it in this huge new education market. in addition to that, they have new software , and new app -- a hacks further swift programming apps. softwarenew education going along with the education hardware. but the bigger picture news here is the push around it. nothing they announced today is very novel or breakthrough, they are just refocusing the marketing strategy around students, teachers, and general education. emily: all right, mark gurman in chicago. thank you. for breaking it all down, and

want to continue the discussion with shira ovide in new york. you are quite strong and saying apple may not be able to reverse its fortunes in this market. why not? the marketked about share losses that apple has had, mostly because of google. it's honestly one of the under told stories and technology, the way that google has managed to sweep into u.s. schools and take over the computing market there. i think apple's weakness here -- and they talked about this today -- was in software. the big software of cronbach is not just the low-cost device, but this ecosystem, is bundle of devices, plus all the software that kids, teachers, and administrators need to both manage those devices and to have get email, write papers,

assignments from teachers, and apple made some of those promises today, but the question is, can they deliver? can accompany whose software history is a little checkered, thinking about some of the feelings of software like iwork, which got a refresh today, icloud, itunes, does apple have the software jobs to -- software chops to go head-to-head with google? emily:, that said apple wasn't first -- that said, apple wasn't first to market, but they came to dominate. why couldn't something like that happen in education as well? >> totally fair. in has been a seesaw market for decades. apple had a turn, microsoft had a turn, google was more recently. apple could absolutely rebound from some of their earlier losses in the educational market, but again, there is some weakness that google exploited

on the software side, and in talking to teachers using teachers as evangelists in the educational market. if apple is focused on the education market, i think they absolutely can't rebound. i'm just not sure they have the technical chops or the focus on education they need to really make a go of it. emily: that was shira ovide. still ahead, tesla falls the most in two years as investors question the company's ability to keep up with production demands. and its driverless ambition. and all episodes of "liver technology" livestream on twitter. check us out. this is bloomberg. ♪

emily: waymo and jaguar are

teaming up to make autonomous cars, integrating the self driving system into the jaguar electric suvs. tests begin this year. the suv is that to become part of their ride-hailing taxi service by 2020. alphabet is investing $1.3 billion in the venture. is the path forward for driver -- the path forward for driverless cars is still unclear. one involves an uber autonomous car in arizona, and another involving a tesla model s in in california. tesla stock tanked off the news this week. the company said they are working with authorities to retrieve the vehicle's logs. the crash killed the driver of were concernshere that the electric car maker won't reach production targets for the all-important model 3 sedan. we spoke with max chafkin. >> there was a very significant sayingt, and tesla is

it's the most damage they have ever seen to one of their model x suvs. the rescind this is a problem for tesla is that they also have this huge production sprint going on, trying to get as many model threes produced this year as possible. to the extent that they are not able to hit those numbers, and you have something like this that calls into question the company's long-term prospects, that could be a toxic mess for a company like tesla. emily: combine all of that with the general news about production delays. how much does this really set tesla back? >> so bloomberg has a model that is very impressive -- we don't know how close it is -- the model has been showing that tesla's production is likely ramping up toward the end of the corridor, so it is possible that even though the numbers have not looks uber good, that elon musk will come out and say we knocked it out of the ballpark, because

they were able to do a last-second sprint. that said, this is more than the sprint. they have to get to hundreds of thousands of cars per year, which is something they haven't done, no one has done with an electric car. so investors are going to be reading the tea leaves, but whatever happens this next quarter, they will have to continue growing production on a huge scale for the coming year, basically. emily: we do have a chart here that maps real-time negative news sentiment heading tesla. red is negative, green is positive. they have been getting a lot of bad news lately, so not surprising the way this chart looks. like to you make of tesla's response, and the fact that they have never seen a crash like this before? they are working with government agencies. is that standard? >> yeah.

what tesla -- the line they are trying to walk is they want to take this seriously. we are seeing this with uber as well. they want to take this seriously, but they want to leave open the possibility that, yes, even though there may have been a very bad crash, maybe even one in which the car didn't perform as they had hoped, that their autopilot could still be better, on average, than a human behind the wheel. that was the argument that was made in the wake of the crash last year, or a person was tragically killed. it is the general tension around autonomous driving in general. even people who believe in this industry know they are going to be bad things happening, and they just hope the number of those bad things is less than what happened today. emily: right. and i wonder -- we are hearing uber will not renew its license, they have taken self driving cars off the road.

if this iswondering going to take a lot longer than some would have hoped, to get self driving cars on the road, ismasse, in a way that surely safer than the roads as they are today. >> 100%. that is one of the reasons you are seeing tesla's stock take the hit. elon musk said the cars on the road today could be self driving cars with some updates and stuff. thatof the bet on tesla is self driving will come sooner than people think, that it will be how tesla is able to dominate the auto industry. if it takes longer because the tech isn't there or because regulators can't get their heads around it and we as a society can't come together with whatever compromises have to be made, that will hurt the companies like tesla betting on it. emily: that was max chafkin. still had, the trump administration zooms in on high-tech industries in its push to rebalance global trade.

which industries will be most impacted? that is next. plus, more of our coverage on the fallout from facebook's data stand all. willis said advertiser -- data scandal. will extend advertisers running? that is next. ♪

emily: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg technology." president trump is pushing to rebalance global trade in america's favor and the global tech industry is preparing for a huge impact. peter navarro said wednesday the trump administration's tariffs on china will focus on high industries where beijing wants to lead >>. aree focus of the tariffs on what is called the china 2025 industries. china, in my view, brazenly has released this china 2025 plan that basically told the rest of the world, we are going to dominate every single emerging industry of the future and you

are not going to have any future. emily: we spoke with adam siegel on wednesday as the story was still unfolding. they name the specific sectors they are going to try to penalize, then we will see a lot of people trying to lobby, to be left out of the tariffs, and we are going to have a good sense of where you might fit on that supply chain and how you might be punished. , who do you think the winners and losers could be essentially? adam: they have been fairly clear that they want to punish china in high-tech. and internet of things devices, in automation, robotics, the made in china 2025 plan is basically an attempt to move china up the value chain from just labor-intensive production to internet-based

training design. if you are in any of those areas, it is possible that you will be caught up in the tariffs. artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, those are all areas that would be likely targeted. emily: i want to ask you about artificial intelligence specifically because there has been so much talk about how the chinese could win in the race for the most sophisticated artificial intelligence. talk a little bit about how advanced china's efforts are compared to the united states. adam: the chinese really have three advantages. the first is just the size of the data and the market. 750 chinese web users, and that data is available to the big players. tencent, baidu, alibaba. the other is an ability to use that data. chinese privacy concerns not as

high in the u.s. as they are in europe. third, a government strategy. top forig push from the china to be a competitor in this space. the chinese firms are still not as competitive as u.s. firms. most of the important research is being done in the u.s. china lacks on the talent side, but they are clearly a fast competitor to the united states. emily: we have a bit of breaking news. veteran affairs secretary david shulkin is being replaced by president trump, the president will nominate his personal physician, ronnie jackson to succeed him. the turnover in the white house continues. that leads to a pretty good question on these issues, on the tariffs. given the uncertainty of who is in these jobs, how do you think that will affect how the policy

actually plays out? adam: it has certainly affected the chinese. they have been scrambling to figure out who they should talk to and who they should negotiate with. i think the president has been pretty consistent about wanting to reduce the deficit, the trade deficit with china. i suspect no matter who is in the positions right now, we will see consistency. earlier, you showed us the quote from peter navarro and he seems to have really positioned himself to take the lead on these issues. out, i thinkrt there will be consistency in policy even if there is some more moving around of the chairs. emily: the administration is also reportedly considering trying to penalize her influence chinese investment in u.s. tech sectors, specifically talking about semiconductors and 5g.

how do you expect that to play out? adam: as you know, we have are ready cnet. the president blocked the broadcom acquisition of qualcomm. we have seen leaks of documents that apparently the government was thinking about nationalizing the 5g networks. the most likely move forward is the reform of the -- process. there has been concern that some of the ways that china has been acquiring technology, they have either been using minority positions or going after companies that are bankrupt or trying to buy an ip. i think that process will be reformed a bill with broad bipartisan support and it will make it harder for chinese to invest. emily: that was adam segal on the council on foreign relations. bayer is warning

of a potential halt for some advertising campaigns on the face bird -- facebook network. mark zuckerberg to let -- took ads.or -- full page is that enough to keep the advertisers happy? advertisers are thinking about a couple of important issues. the first one is, what our users doing? are a lot of them doing the #delete facebook for keeping their accounts but using facebook less? ors that lead fewer people fewer hours of time spent on facebook and less room for my advertising? any are concerned about sort of regulatory impact on the data they have access to. -- access to with regards to targeting advertising. if there were any sort of regulation that would involve reducing their ability to target

advertising, that will impact their ability to use facebook going forward. i think that is on the minds of advertisers as well. emily: let's talk about what we are seeing with engagement. i have a chart here which shows you daily active users as a percentage of mull -- monthly active users, an interesting way to examine engagement, how many facebook users are going to the app every single day. we are seeing it plateau. how much of a concern is that? debbie: i think that obviously, facebook wants to continue to see growth in daily active users, but they want to see growth in engagement, not just people randomly or absentmindedly scrolling through their feed, but interacting and talking to people, engaging with their friends and family. that is why you saw facebook a couple of months ago redo its algorithm to favor that content from friends and family, as they

need people to spend more active time on facebook, not just logging in once a day to randomly look at what is there. emily: talking about advertising in particular, there is a lot of questions as to how facebook will potentially involve the way that it uses data in order to target users, in order to target advertising. i have another chart here, which shows that as the prices of ads have grown, the growth in ads has actually slowed. i am curious what you think advertisers are going to do here. our advertisers going to wait this out? keep pouring money into facebook because it is one of the best ways to reach a very specific user? or are they going to leave? debbie: does our conversations we are having right now with the market or subscriber base. i can tell you right now eliminate early, we are seeing

that facebook is still one of the largest platforms around in order to reach a mass audience of people. you have to remember at the end of the day, a lot of major brand advertisers want to reach a lot of people, so that is one side. i think the targeting is another issue. certainly the ability to finally and precisely target people on facebook is something that advertisers love about facebook, and once again, if there is any limitation to that going forward that will give them some pause. right now, advertisers looking for branding goals or that massive reach will continue to use facebook and continue to want to spend time and dollars there, and watch what happens in the next couple of weeks or months with regard to usage. emily: always great to have you on the show. i want to continue to look at what this means for facebook and advertisers with michael wolff, the ceo and founder of activate.

prior to that he was president , and ceo of mtv networks and a yahoo! board member. i am curious, speaking earlier about the power that facebook still has and the fact that ,crises like these facebook has , weathered before. of what facebook is going through now, how much of an impact will this actually have on facebook from a reputational and business perspective? >> stepping back and looking at the big picture, facebook is an integral part of marketers' campaigns and there are advertisers looking for -- looking to facebook to drive their sales. there are advertisers that look at branding and there are advertisers that use google and facebook for performance, to drive specific sales. apart from google and facebook, those are two of the most important ways in which

advertises are not only joining sales online, but driving visits into an automobile dealership and coupons. it is going to be an important part of what advertisers do and it will continue to be. the bigger issue -- go ahead. emily: i want to ask you from a reputational perspective. in terms of trust, users might opt in to this, but even when users opt in or check a box, they do not understand how their data is being used. facebook has not done a good job about being clear about how the data is being used. will this fundamentally undermine trust in facebook and thus impact engagement? trust, it will undermine but at facebook there is a lot , that facebook can do to reestablish that trust. first of all, it is less about privacy and it is more about control. facebook needs to be explicit in allowing people to have control. second, facebook needs to be clear to

its users what information they have on them and how that information is being used. in the last couple of days, there has been news that facebook was using data from conversations on facebook messenger and calls for advertising targeting. facebook needs to make it clear to users how they are using their data. if users feel like they have control, they will not delete facebook. emily: coming up, sure, the ai that powers your facial recognition app is great, but did you know it could be hiding in inherent bias? that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪

emily: twitter is banning ads for initial coin offerings and token sales on its site. know that this type of content is often associated with fraud."

the decision came after facebook dropped cryptocurrency ads in february. artificial intelligence is supposed to make our lives easier. from robots taking over monday and tasks to the technology that unlocks your smart phone, but is that tech really colorblind and gender blind? a study by researchers at m.i.t. shows that the gender of darker skinned women was incorrectly identified 35% of the time. how do we un-bias ai? spoke with a postdoctoral researcher at microsoft who is studying bias in ai systems. >> i do not know if we can un- bias it completely, but we can try to mitigate the bias and the effect of the bias. the first thing we need to do, what i am working on right now is to give people a guideline as to how and where a particular data set can be used.

emily: some of your most recent research showed facial recognition software is far less accurate for women of color and for white men. that is essentially sexist and racist. can you explain? work, we looked at commercial gender classification systems. what they do is they look at a picture of a face and they tell you whether the picture in it is a man or a woman, male or female , binary classification. they do not handle any other types of identities. so even in this case, when we look at the accuracies and break them down by the intersection of race and gender -- sorry, i do not even want to say race because race is not a well-defined thing. we looked at skin types. we looked at skin tone, which is a dermatologist approved way of looking at skin types. as the skin type gets darker and

darker for women, this gender classification system has worse and worse error rates and approaches random chance. one of the ways in which we can mitigate this bias could be to try to gather more diverse training sets and test our algorithms by different populations, instead of having one single number that says my algorithm have a particular accuracy at 90%. but when you break it down by subpopulation, you might see it works much better for some populations than others. this something that apple face id, for example, has a problem with? >> i'm not done a study of apple face id, but there was a highly publicized article of this chinese woman who said the face id did not work well on her. i am pretty sure this is a problem that happens across the

board in most industries, across not even just face recognition but other types of algorithms as , well. emily: face id, facial recognition is just one. what are the consequences of this on the broader scale, if retraining these algorithms and rewriting them them to get new data to fix it? >> one thing people do not understand is that ai components are being used everywhere by everyone. they are being used in many different places in many high-stakes scenarios. for example if you look at face , recognition algorithms, they are being used to identify what people -- who people think are criminals and for surveillance. whether or not facial asognition should be used surveillance is one debate people should have anyway. even if it were to be used for surveillance, we have to make people understand that these face recognition algorithms are not

accurate enough to be used for surveillance. emily: you say women are at a bigger risk of losing jobs because of this. how so? >> i am not sure if women are unilaterally at a bigger risk of doing jobs because of ai. i do think that anybody who is marginalized in our society is at a higher risk of losing jobs because of ai. this is because many of the lower paying jobs that are more are beingomatable done by people who are from lower income, by people who have been historically marginalized. anybody who our society has marginalized is more likely to lose jobs because of ai. emily: how much of this can be solved by getting women and people of color into ai and machine learning, and how much we cannot solve because it has already been done? >> i think a lot of issues of

bias could be mitigated by not only having more people who are from historically marginalized communities in ai but also , interacting with these people. it is not a coincidence that the two authors of the paper you were just describing on gender classification systems and showing how biased they are, are black women. if you are not interfacing with people negatively affected by bias in ai, you are less likely to think this is a big problem. emily: do you think companies like microsoft, facebook and google are doing enough to build diverse teams and try to make sure that the bias does not get rewritten over and over again? >> no. i do not think companies are doing enough to build diverse teams. i absolutely do not. i would say this unilaterally across tech companies. there is a lot more talking about diversity then there is action. there is some action, but it is not a priority.

emily: coming up, uber exits south asia, selling their installations to grab. this is bloomberg. ♪

emily: samsung vice chair jay y. lee is visiting europe in his first business trip since getting out of jail. the trip singles -- signaled an ignorant to get back to managing the global tech giant. samsung de facto chief met with local business partners. the company declining by email to say when he left and what he plans to do in europe. he departed on march 22, a day before an annual shareholders meeting, maybe seeking acquisitions. uber has agreed to sell its southeast operations to grab. withdrawing from yet another fast-growing region.

acquire all of uber's operations, including uber eats. they will take a 27.5% stake in a combined entity and its ceo will join the board of grab. we spoke with the managing partner at gigi b capital on monday on the phone -- ggb capital on monday on the phone. >> the competition has definitely happened in china and southeast asia, has required a lot of investment, and in some ways, there is a lot of waste in the process. the consolidation makes a lot of sense for both grab and uber in southeast asia. i think the threat of what they

did in china with dd and southeast asia, is both a good deal for both companies. emily: uber also got a huge investments from dust investment from softbank. goobers competitors, how much do you think that is playing a role competitors, how much do you think that is playing a role in the decisions being made about strategic partnerships? jixun: he is a very influential man. he has a stake in dd and uber and grab. from his perspective, obviously, this consolidation makes a lot of sense. he definitely has a hand in it, in the whole process. i do think that the local go,ices as a reaction to going just beyond the

ridesharing, because if you look at what is happening in china dd, despite consolidation will ,face competition. the competition is not over yet. i think the consolidation is a step forward for grab and uber to have a strong goal of lending -- landing on the local businesses. emily: what would your message be to the new uber ceo about india, about latin america? are these markets that they should wave the white flag in? jixun: i do not know enough about these other markets to provide good advice. what we are seeing in southeast asia is the ridesharing service it actually a fairly local business. i think it has to extend beyond

just ride, per se. you have to offer a more comprehensive service on your platform and that incline --ting quiet test includes includes food delivery service. asia, bikeoutheast sharing can be a strong contender to this as well. you have to have this comprehensive service on the ground. until these other markets like india, i do not know enough about them to make those comments as of now. thank you. that does it for "the best of bloomberg technology." be sure to tune in on wednesday for the debut of spotify's direct listing debut.

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