i caught up with box ceo, aaron levie. take a listen. ron: two things that we have been benefiting from. we have been building a platform for 11 years now which is differentiated from the rest of the competitive landscape. as more and more enterprises need to move their data to the cloud and manage it securely, we have the most competitive product on the market for helping large companies, companies of all sizes, storing, share, collaborate on information in a very secure way. that's what has been going well, and we are benefiting from the fact that most enterprises all around the world need to modernize their infrastructure, modernize the way they work. we happen to be in the right place and the right time. emily: you see growth from expanding sales to existing customers, or adding new customers? aaron: a mix of both. our product makes see for any business in any industry, anywhere around the world. we see a dramatic expansion because of new customers. were now at 69,000 businesses that use the product. at the same time we are seeing con

emily: that was box ceo aaron levie.ning to samsung, south korea's most valuable company climbed to a record this week after announcing a series of moves, including pending shareholders a 36% increase in per-share dividends. the company also announced it may split as soon as next year, responding to pressure from activist hedge funds. paul singer's elliott management. we caught up with the managing editor for asia tech, peter hellstrom, from tokyo, just as the news broke, along with tech economy ceo david kirkpatrick in new york. >> the big news out of this is that samsung has decided it's going to return more cash to shareholders, specifically through dividends and share buybacks. it set in the past that it wants to return about 30%-50% of free cash flow to shareholders. as it has done that, the amount of cash and has on hand increases. it will go to the top end of that range, 50% going back to shareholders either through dividends or share buybacks. it's going to begin by increasing the dividend for 2017, by 36%. it wi

to talk about all of that, we are joined by aaron levie, the ceo of box.reat to see you. >> good to see you. >> let's start with earnings because ibm in particular was responsible for eight of your six figure deals. i'd ask if you sent them a fruit basket for that, but more seriously, how risky is it for you to rely so heavily on a single vendor or single partner? >> we have many partners that help expand our distribution and facilitate the growth of box in the new markets. ibm is one of those. we did eight deals in our sort of large-deal segment of which we did 38 deals over $100,000, so eight were through the ibm partnership. i know that we have 69,000 customers globally now at this point. we brought on thousands of more customers in the quarter. so we're pretty diversified in terms of how we get to new customers but ibm has absolutely been helpful in reaching new markets and regulated industries, governments and especially a lot of our international segments that we're growing in. but it was a phenomenal quarter. we did $102.8 million in top-line revenu

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i sat down with ceo aaron levie to talk about what is fueling growth. >> one of the core things about our product is that it makes sense to any sized business in any industry around the world. we see dramatic expansion because of new customers on board. we have 69,000 businesses that use the product. accounts.ing extended some of our new products that we launched that our products in terms of the revenue model have actually been performing very well. coming up, we get our hands on snap spectacle think to jeremy lou from lightspeed. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: there has been a major shakeup at small books. howard schultz is stepping down as ceo next year but thing on as executive chairman. he built the coffee empire and spent two separate times as officer. johnson is known as a tech veteran before joining starbucks in 2009. since johnson became chief operating officer, starbucks has rolled out mobile ordering across the u.s. and tested delivery. investors are rushing to snap up shares of snapchat's parent lowany, but they are having look with typical private stock. this is according to

. -- aaron levie. ceo aaron levie is with me. profit is beating estimates. what was different about this year? think one thing we have been benefiting from his building a platform for 11 years that is differentiated from the rest of the competitive landscape. more and more enterprises need to be able to move data to the cloud. we have the most competitive product in the market for helping large companies and companies of all sizes be able to store, share, and collaborate their information in a secure way. that has been going well and we are benefiting from the fact that most enterprises around the world need to modernize their infrastructure and the way they work and we happen to be in the right place in the right time. emily: do you see growth from expanding sales to existing companies or adding new customers? aaron: it will be a mix of both. anyproduct makes sense for size business anywhere around the world. we see a dramatic expansion happening because of new customers on board. we now have 69,000 businesses that use the product and we see continued expan

i sat down with the ceo aaron levie talk about what is fueling growth. >> one of the cool things aboutur product is it make sense for any size business and any industry anywhere around the world trade we do see dramatic expansion simply happening because new customers coming on board, we have 69,000 businesses that use product rate at the same time we are seeing continued expansion within existing accounts. some of our new products within the last year and a half that are sort of add-on products in terms of the revenue model, i have been -- have been performing very well. emily: coming up, we get our spectacle.ap his insights on the product, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ spectacle. his emily: there's in a major shakeup at starbucks. howard schultz is stepping down as ceo next year but staying on as executive chairman. the high-profile executive will the coffee empire and served two separate stints as chief executive officer. he's being replaced i kevin johnson, who currently serves as coo. johnson is known as a tech veteran before turning starbucks in 2009 as an executive at microsoft. si

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