narrator: in addition to the screenings at davos, virtual reality portals have been set up to view the films at high-level political forums around the world. one of the leaders who made use of the vr portal was samantha power, united states ambassador to the united nations. power: what the portal does is it doesn't just give you those faces. it's not just a newspaper, but you feel like you're right there. narrator: the virtual reality film that she watched was "clouds over sidra." arora: "clouds over sidra" is a short film in virtual reality about a girl named sidra who lives in zaatari camp, which is a syrian refugee camp in jordan. and it is a story about a young girl who has been there for a year and a half, and is giving you a tour of the camp, of what it's like, what her life is like. when the film debuted in davos, ta sensation to everyone we showed it to, they come out of it very deeply who watch "clouds over sidra" cry. koblin: we're seeing generally a much higher level of engagement. i mean, one, because they're actively engaged in looking around, but also i think a higher lev

when the film debuted in davos, to a sesensatioion to eeveryone e we showed it to,o, y come ouout of itt very y deeply who watch "clouds s over sidrar" cry. koblin: we're seeing generally a much higher level of engagement. i mean, one, because they're activevely engaged in looking around, but also i think a higher level of emotional connection and empathy. arora: the film was then integrated with the secretary-general in the kuwait pledging conference for syria. he made everyone at the reception at t the pledging conferencece watch it,nd it really made a big differencece on getting people to pledge more and to care more and to be more involved. and then we cut a version for unicef, where it's face-to-face fundraisers. the way they do that is usually someone with a clipboard on the street in europe or different countries. so, they thought, well, what if we got people to o experience virtual reality on the street? [girl speeaking native language] man: i i was a little depresessd aboutut the situatition for the peopople there. woman: quite sadad. they don't have a good environment to st

comedy of you have been $2 -- davos? i was invited to go there in january for the annual summit of the economic forum. that is 40 or 50 heads of states in the ceo's of the top fortune of hundred companies and civil society leaders so a group of 48 people as a closed room with no windows. that what the leaders isn't one by one peace and security experts, they sit at six different tables. i sit next 50 minutes you will have a wonderful opportunity to create your own tribe your own groupon they filature or identification here is some supplies if you want to dress up tribally so literally i have the picture of a deputy at a state waterfowl blackmail i will never use. [laughter] eliot feel the energy with six very different tribes so get up in the most boring voice i say let's debrief the exercise. all of a sudden it goes completely dark it into the room is the intergalactic alien bulging eyes. i have come to destroy the eric. -- see earth that will give you one opportunity to save from destruction of u.s. shoe's one of the s

have made you have been to davos in the mountains? i was invited by a nine profit organization to do a little workshop in january for the annual summit of the economic forum to key january is c0 worse and and for heads of state and people with amazing portfolios. so i let a small workshop that is called the tried to exercise and they bring in the 48 leaders one by one ceos from the fortune 50 companies security experts it is an impressive group faces a different tables and i say to them now you of a wonderful opportunity to create your own tribe to the group had their identification with their questions you need to answer here some supplies and give them balloons literally have a picture of the deputy head of state with a balloon on his head wonderful black male i will never use. [laughter] but they cut back to the room and now we feel in energy of six very different tribes and characteristics to get in front of the room i said okay let's debriefed this exercise they think it is interesting that all the sudden it goes completely black

a bathroom story, but philadelphia is host this weekend to indiaspora, which is an invitation-only davos-likerence of indians from around the country and a few from india itself. the top innovators, mostly silicon valley folks who are gathered here to talk about innovation, and it's great that philadelphia's hosting them. they were supposed to go to silicon valley and boston as a second choice, but we stole them here, so it's a good event. >> yeah. >> thanks, ajay. ed. >> matt, one of the great, all-time good guys, wonderful corporate citizen of our region, bill sautter, the president and owner of elliott-lewis corporation, is being honored as we speak by la salle university at its commencement. so to bill sautter and his wife, claire, all the graduates at la salle, everyone at elliott-lewis corporation, congratulations and well done, mr. sautter. >> all right. george, christine, ajay, ed, thanks for joining us, and thanks to governor wolf. aside from his politics, he's actually a really funny guy. not many people get to see that. >> he likes the phillies. >> and he likes the phillies. so tha

you know, it's funny in the talk that i did at davos that helped build on the idea, i was paired up with a fantastic japanese technology and crisis management expert, and so he had me on swans. so you can have so much fun with this, with all the animals. but it's actually quite serious. and i think that there's a reason that we pick animals,' sop's fables -- aesop's fables, my friends book was called why do cocks fight. [laughter] it's coincidence, but it's not. i think we can see things in animals that help us to see more clearly what we're doing. >> so maybe we should take a few questions. i would strongly urge everyone to read the book. it's very -- it's a lot of fun to read, and it's a lot more detailed. she's got one whole page of the diagnosing which kinds of rhino it is, is it a meta-rhino, and is it, you know, i forget what, a dead cat bounce rhino? >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> you really have broken it down to show, you know, the different permutations and how to diagnose. and then that leads to whether, how you try to solve it, whether you confront it, you run from it, you slid

honor of cheering a session in davos three years ago. part of that, i interviewed, or had a conversation with the then president and was told beforehand to please ask -- he wanted tough questions. him when russians would have enough confidence in their economic future that they would start investing in russia and stop shipping monday abroad. it turned out that he did not want that question. i got a not very happy response. it looks like we have not reached that point. is that correct? when of the big problems is that russians are not investing in russia. ms. hansl: it is certainly correct. it started to happen before the crisis. thate that kind of pattern investors are sitting on the fence already since 2012. we saw that the large state driven or quasi-state driven investment started to finish off and private investment was not coming in to drive investment growth. then, with the crisis or the oil price shock over the last year, we saw that, of course, that due to these new conditions that investors are facing, a lot of uncertainty of wh

liz: the last time, bill, you and i spoke -- i believe it was in davos -- i asked you what your mostnicorn start-up in your mind was and you said you thought air bnb was. is there a runner-up in the next four months that i've seen you? >> you know, i don't know them all to compare them. the software world continues to have a lot of exciting stuff. the big companies doing great work, the unicorns, the small companies, you know, we're just scratching the surface whether you think about data visualization or virtual reality or artificial intelligence, software is where the action is. liz: uber was huge here this weekend. warren, we used it a couple of times, came in two seconds. everybody with was helpful. it really worked. >> i find, that always impresses me when somebody takes something like the car or the driver which is -- and then figures out a way to make it way more productive and change human lives for the better. i tip my hat to people that do that. fred smith did it at federal express, you know, jeff bezos has done it at amazon, they've done it at uber. you know, they didn't i

he is a big government davos government guy. can't tell you how disappointed i am with him. >> mr. nealon, thank you so much. we are out of time. good luck on the campaign. hopefully we get a chance to talk to you again. >> thanks so much. we'll be back in a moment. [phone buzzing] ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. this is the pursuit of perfection. when they thought they should westart saving for retirement.le then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges.

francine: when you talk about gloom, i know in davos, any ceos were optimistic and there is a re-shift. let's get straight to the bloomberg first word news with vonnie quinn. consumer prices in china keep rising although they are still below the government's target price. it is the third straight monthly increase. food prices with a big reason. investors want to know exactly what the and come and president does incoming president of the philippines will do. he was elected with 39% of the vote and campaigned on a platform of fighting crime. he has sustained investor confidence on an economy that grew an average of 6% a year in the last decade. north korea staged a massive parade. kim jong-un looked on at thousands of people marched across the main square in pyongyang. the number of officials linked to his father's rule were hurt. ministers wille come up with their greatest plan yet for greek debt relief. the plan calls for extra austerity measures for greece. productions,budget they have said it is not possible. in the united kingdom, the trade will haves employees excessive working hou

tom: when i saw you in davos, i observed the decline of the strategic plan from five years to the newhich andhree years, or two years 10 months. there seems to be an urgency to refine strategy. is it successful? richard: i would say that is partially true. the near term performance pressure on companies is immense, and the need to deliver is high. but i think what digital is doing, its applications for how you connect with consumers and bring innovation and products, how you rewire the company, is forcing a medium to longer term look at what is the business model for the future, what is the customer offering for the future? it is the duality of that that can be tricky. francine: you are right, the need to deliver is very high. , because ofof qe certain safety nets around the world, it seems we do not have nearly enough bankruptcies. are we going to see more defaults or bankruptcies as interest rates go higher? richard: the evidence that interest rates are about to shoot up is not strong. thet now i think that pressure to keep interest rates low on economies around the world -- we see

i had the honor of chairing a session at davos three years ago on ask -- he wanted tough questions. i should give him tough questions. i asked when would russians have enough confidence in their future that they would start investing in russia and stop shipping money abroad. it turned out he didn't want that question. i got a very -- not a very happy response. looks like we haven't reached that response, is that correct? one of the big problems is not only are foreigners not investing in russia, russians aren't investing in russia. >> yes, that's certainly correct. it is something that started to happen before the crisis. we see that kind of pattern that investors are sitting on the fence already since 2012. we saw that the large state driven, quasi state investment started to finish off and private investment not coming in to drive investment growth. the prices, oil price shock over the last year, we saw, of course, these new investors are facing, a lot of uncertainty of what will be the domestic demand in the country, very little willingness to take what we think is really an oppo

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i had the honor of chairing a session at davos three years ago in russia and part of that i interviewed -- a conversation like we're having with then president medvedev. i was told before hand to please ask -- he wanted tough questions. i should give him tough questions. i asked when would russians have enough confidence in their future that they would start investing in russia and stop shipping money abroad. it turned out he didn't want that question. i got a very -- not a very happy response. looks like we haven't reached that response, is that correct? one of the big problems is not only are foreigners not investing in russia, russians aren't investing in russia. >> yes, that's certainly correct. it is something that started to happen before the crisis. we see that kind of pattern that investors are sitting on the fence already since 2012. we saw that the large state driven, quasi state investment started to finish off and private investment not coming in to drive investment growth. the prices, oil price shock over the last year, we saw, of course, these new quns investors are facing

guys better than anyone else know what was going on in the markets through january when we were in davos and we came out of that with customers that had really put their foot on the brakes. and over the last 90 days, it's still a very uncertain macro environment. there is still a fair amount of caution out. there we see customers spending in areas they view to be strategic. so overall, i think the teams did great. they're spending on security up 17%. our collaboration portfolio up 10%. and that business eclipsed to, you know, e$4 billion run rates. i think customers are spending in areas they deem to be stra teeth toik their future. >> there is a funny moment where someone says the slowdown in china n reality, your chinese business year over year is pretty amazing. how did that come back? >> well, as china goes, we had a tough 2 1/2 years where i was constantly answering questions about when china is coming back. the joke on the call was that i think we grew 40% two quarters ago and maybe 60% last quarter and only grew 22% this quarter. we had decelerating growth which i thought was iron

maria: and we talked to him in davos and he's not doing it. what's happening with relativity?ch is great. i think that dana burnetty, kevin spacesy's partner is going to run the studio going forward and i have respect for ryan cavanaugh and glad they're back on their feet. maria: we'll watch for "6 below". >> thank you for having me. maria: thank you for joining us. >> take care. maria: we'll take a short break and more from the milken conference. ♪ i'm walking on sundays, whoa, oh ♪ ♪ when a moment turns romantic why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache

>> how about the parties in davos?him, which is to say he has connections to facebook. gawker has a relationship with facebook. >> everybody has a relationship with facebook. >> you are one of a handful of media organizations involved with the facebook live where they're paying gawker. >> peter thiel does not believe gawker is a legitimate media organization. but the company, the giant company that controls pretty much distribution of news in the modern world actually does include several of our properties as being kind of preferred sources. >> in your letter you made the point that maybe sometimes i go too far maybe. i'm wondering if it's -- if it's -- i could almost argue that it's black and white. the lowest common denominator will be reached by somebody and it will be consumed by the public because that's what they want. then again, i could argue it's a gray area, where there are times where you have something that the public won't benefit from knowing about and all it does is hurt the person you know it about. the