we saw jennifer bailey, vice president of apple pay. we talked about products and mobile payments. this comes after tim cook acknowledged over the weekend that the lack of women in apple keynotes was the fault of the tech community. apple's diversity reports as men make up 70% of the workforce and the u.s., 50% of workers are white. perhaps this come to -- this picture, the line for the men's room at the wwdc, for the ladies room. there was no line. coming up, pounding the pavement in new york and chicago. teaming up with alibaba. that is ahead. ♪ emily: a story we are watching, jack ma visiting new york and chicago. the alibaba chairman pitching china's middle class is an opportunity. tonight, he will dine in manhattan. tomorrow, he will have lunch at the economic about new york and the bloomberg west team will be in attendance. he will hold a townhome -- a town hall meeting in chicago. at some point, international revenue, he says, will be 60% of alibaba. six weeks ago, apple released the apple watch. today, the announced an updated version of the watch operating system, which al

the vp of product marketing and jennifer bailey, the head of apple pay both presented at the worldwideopers conference. it has been five years since a female apple executive presented there. some are praising apple but others say it is not enough. here to discuss this is the ceo and founder of web 2.0 and the director of the documentary "code -- debugging the gender gap." thank you both for joining us. let me ask you to -- two women presenting yesterday and people are celebrating the fact. how happy are you or is it patronizing and sad that we need to look at the first women on stage in five years and make a big deal of it? guest: we could do a happy dance if we really wanted to, but this should have been a long time coming. there's not just one type of person working at apple or the tech industry. it's great apple has done it because they are an iconic company. one that many companies want to emulate. big companies and small companies want to be like apple, so i am thankful, i suppose. brad: a breakthrough or a step in a long journey? guest: i think it is a first step, and i applaud t

jennifer bailey introducing new features for apple pay. certainly that is a sign of tim cook.s is a guy who cares a lot about diversity, who cares a lot about social progress. was another thing that got a lot of applause here. alix: if you had to pick one thing with a lackluster response, what was it? annalee bank there were a few lackluster responses throughout the show. we saw a lot of refinement updates to the ios. operating system software, , all of these little things apple is using to refine the experience and all the things we do with our apple products. a lot of interesting stuff coming out with regard to the watch. just goes to show how fast rings can develop and move when it comes to software. the experience is much more efficient, much more quick. controlling all the appliances in the house. not quite there yet. alix: we will be checking back with you in just a few minutes. 50 minutes before the closing bell. off by about 50 points. julie hyman has the action. julie: let's start with the casinos. wind has consistently been the worst performance in the s&p 500. there

. >> reporter: moments ago a woman did go on stage, jennifer bailey talking about apple pay updates. that's something that happened in recent memory. with the os-10 now called el capitan capitan, talking about how faster it is and you can do -- e-mails, things like that as well as for instance on your iphone f. it will search for the phone, and suggest who it might be. stuff our reporter will give you updates more on that tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. live in san francisco, stephanie chuang nbc bay area news >>> to the warriors a new video in our newsroom of the team getting on the plane to head to cleveland. how are they looking? well, this is the view from our chopper about an hour ago where the players and coaches took off, the team trying to shake off from last night's game. >> curry -- and knocks it away. and is the nash finals are tied. at one apiece. >> those aren't the words any war i don't fan wants to hear. a gut-wrenching loss. to the cavs the nash finals tied up the warriors will hit the road, as you saw, here is what -- this is the first time the first time in -- have both g

. >> our vice president of our apple pay business jennifer bailey. >> reporter: yes we're still at the point where a woman on stage at the apple development conference makes news. >> they have incredible brands. >> reporter: but with more female developers in the tech industry tech companies are taking notice. >> by the second or third -- >> reporter: intel says it will invest $125 million to build companies led by women and minority entrepreneurs. >> it puts action to it because now we have capital. >> reporter: lisa lambert is the lead investor. >> we've got over 100 companies in our pipeline without much effort so there's quality companies, they're very diverse. >> that fund is targeting companies led my entrepreneurs like britt morin. 80% of her staff is female. >> they want to work along smart, ambitious women so we're able to provide them a community to do that. i think if more tech startups had more women in them more women would want to work at them. >> all involved say it's a start. something they hope will lead to a time when funds like this aren't needed. >> i hope to work m

. >> reporter: apple pay vice president jennifer bailey spoke. >> we've had three women on stage since 2007. none of those women are executives. they only have one woman on their executive leadership team which is the -- highest execs of the company. >> reporter: for years, this was the female face technically voice of apple. siri. siri, are there enough women in tech? >> hmm. i believe someone just asked me this the other day. >> reporter: with the ellen pau sexual discrimination case and apple admitting that 70% of the work force is male, bailey made history. >> apple has definitely been paying attention to this, you know all of the companies have like they know it's bad press and just you know bad business practice to not have any diversity at their companies. >> reporter: a little line, a small step for women in tech. but to keep it all in perspective? take a look at the men's line. in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >> and there was some instant reaction on twitter last night. someone tweeted what man at apple can i thank for the truly revolutionary act of letting a woman up

jennifer bailey the vce president of apple went fist and then apple revealed the health kit app willrcent of the apple employee. >>> a panel set to vote on approval. nearly one in three american elevated ldl or bad cholesterol. our doctor is a cardiologist here in new york city. good to see you. >> good morning gayle? >> well it's been really hot by one player. now we're at an exciting time and we're posed to see a new class of drugs. this is called the pcs and the two drugs up for approval are ant antibodies that we use in cancers and not necessary in cardiology. they target proteins so in this case they target the pc skprks the blood. by doing so they take it out of the circulation so that our body can more affectively clear ldl or bad cholesterol. while they can low er 30-40 percent, they can low er in about 60 to 70 percent. >> do you see it replace something. >> that's a great question. we see them working and they're in many cases affordable and well tolerated and tried and tested in terms of showing us the events of the cardiovascular disease over time. this new class is going

jennifer bailey the vice president of apple pay went on first, followed by susan press cot, vice presidentproductive health. women make up 30% of apple's workforce. >> the first new approach to fine fighting cholesterol in three decades could move closer to reality. an fda advisory panel set to recommend approval. nearly one in three american add doubt dults lives with elevated ldl, less than half treated for the condition. our doctor tara. >> statins has been the big fighter. now we're at a point in time where he ear competing the. these are monoclonal antibodies which we often use in cancer and rheumatology, not so often in cardiology. what they do is they specifically target proteins and so in this case they target the pcf protein in the blood. by doing so, they essentially take it out of circulation so our body can more effectively clear ldl or bad cholesterol. while statins can lower it 30% to 40%, these drugs can lower it 60% to 70%. >> do you see it replacing statins? >> that's a great question. at this point we see them working synergistically. statins are relatively well tolerate

he had jennifer bailey announcing apple pay. women taking the fold.: the stock did not bounce that much. there were some wow factors but the stock did not do that much. the reason for that may be because all of the tech tstocks were down yesterday. ♪ anna: welcome back. let's talk about what is happening in the foreign exchange market. get up to speed what is going on with the dollar. we have a three day chart. we saw a push back upwards on the payroll number. more jobs being created in the most recent month. that pushed the dollar higher on expectations of a sooner than expected rate increase in the united states. that has been tempered in yesterday's session and continues to be in today's session by speculation and commentary about whether we are starting to run into issues with the dollar. yesterday, an official said president obama said the strength of the dollar could be an issue. later yesterday, president obama said in a press conference denied that he said that. many analysts said it would be unusual for him to mention the dollar specifically.

let me bring it to >> jennifer bailey saying that square is going to have a new reader.s the plug-in to your phone that accepts credit cards. that will be carried in apple stores. apple giving the update that 1 million retail locations now accept apple pay. also saying it is coming to the uk next month at a number of big retailers there. quite a bit of news on apple pay. the momentum there. we'll have more "power lunch" coming up after the break. er group, they work all the time. sup jj? working hard? working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading app in the app store. it lets you trade stocks options, futures... even advanced orders. and it offers more charts than a lot of the other competitors do in desktop. you work so late. i guess you don't see your family very much? i see them all the time. did you finish your derivative pricing model, honey? for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. it's more than a network and the cloud. it's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with cen