you have samsung and lenovo. lenovo is introducing the motorola brand back into china.enovo just closed motorola. you have an interesting concentration of things. china is enormous and there is an a numerous amount of people in different parts of the country that act very differently. you cannot think of china as one homogenous rue. the coastal cities tend to have much more money and they act more like u.s. consumers. inland, it is a different story with xioaomi being a domestic brand. those things also play an impact. >> if we found out that apple was number one in china, is that good news and if we found out it was not, is that bad news for apple? >> i do not expect them to break out phone sales by region. that is where all of us during the estimating commend to look at. the key is it is increasing. it will be close. just from the data we saw in retail and network analytics. so the 6 and 6 plus are unprecedented. that goes back to the point of them wanting bigger devices are you -- bigger devices. what this talks to is the upside for china. if you look at the u.s. mar

>> this is from lenovo. and it is one of the word's lightest laptops. this one weighs just two pounds and it's the lightest touchscreen convertible laptop. lenovo makes one that's even lighter at 1.7 pounds. you're just giving up the touchscreen. but i almost want to hand this to you and just have you -- >> see how light it is? >> have you play with this. it feels like a fake computer. >> oh, it does. it feels like a toy. >> it feels like there are no components inside that it's some sort of mock-up or dummy computer. but it's very real. and very fast. and the battery life is supposed to be on par with some much bigger heavier machines. >> i bring my computer everywhere. >> we had this at ces for nine days and carrying around a back pack all day. i would love to have something like this in my passenger bag and not have the heavier computer breaking my shoulder. >> me, too. >> is this a charger? >> this is a battery case for the iphone. this is from a company called i-back. >> okay. >> so what makes this one special is there are charging cases but this o

we have samsung and lenovo. they are just introducing the motorola brand back into china. remember, they just closed motorola. you have a very interesting conflagration of things. the other thing to remember is china is enormous. there is an enormous number of people in different parts of the country than act very differently. we can't think of it as one homogenous group. the coastal cities have much more money and act more like u.s. consumers as you move inland to different stories. xiaomi being a domestic brand really resonates with people. >> been with creative strategy. if we find out tomorrow that apple and iphone was number one in china, is that good news? and if it wasn't, is that bad news? >> not necessarily. i don't expect to break them out by region. they haven't historically done that. that's where all of us doing estimating coming to look at it. i think the key is it is increasing. it's going to be close, just from the data we saw in retail as well as network analytics. it was really unprecedented, the things we saw in china. that goes back to bob's point about

. >> okay, so this the first one is this is lenovo is make a a selfie flash. >> jimmy: like a camera light. >> okay. did you -- i already took it. >> jimmy: oh, sorry. you didn't do 1, 2, 3, or anything. >> i'm sorry, but we both look like horrible creeps. that's really good. [ laughter ] i mean two disgusting creeps. >> jimmy: this is a big deal. >> it's not that big of a deal. if the lighting is bad in your selfies, which i know yours are often lowly lit, because you're doing them at night in the bedroom. >> jimmy: stop, stop, just stop. >> 29 bucks, you could buy it on lenovo's website. >> jimmy: worth it, i'll do it. >> okay, so this -- well of course. >> jimmy: yeah. >> for you. this is the new -- for your lowlight selfie. >> jimmy: yeah, thank you. >> okay. >> jimmy: this is -- i'm super excited about this. >> are you? >> jimmy: yes! i really am. i know what this is. this is the new sony walkman for audiophiles. >> you don't need me here. >> jimmy: no, i need you. we need you -- >> you don't want me to tell you what the device is. >> jimmy: sorry, tell m

how would push past makers but xiaomi and lenovo at a higher price? i'm joined from milton kings, england. let's start in england. how would you do find these results and how surprising his this turnaround? >> the results are really good. they had a really strong quarter. they blew past pre-much everybody's expectations. it is well-known they're going through a tough period at the moment. >> your results were it little different from earlier in the week. there is virtually no distinguish went. i have a hard time figuring out these numbers every quarter. is this just about a new phone release? or a new format? >> it is essentially the public wars. those five inch smartphones that are the cross between a phone and a tablet those wars are heating up now. samsung was the clear leader. with those big screens coming out they have taken the fight right back to samsung. there is a real battle now. >> do you think this is a one quarter phenomenon of a wildly successful device coming from apple that might slide off after being out for a while? >> i give them cr

. >> ibm just offloaded a business unit to lenovo, which is used in a lot of back end for corporate andent customers . they had to pull and refile to get security clearance to move forward with that deal. in terms of the kind of customer he wants, it could potentially scare people off if john chen were to hand this company over to the chinese company. whether or not there is snooping and those kinds of malicious factors going on, some companies and some government entities just don't want foreign governments to have their hands and things that need to be very secure and very private and not get out of the eyesight of the people who are supposed to be seeing this information. >> definitely do not want china to get their hands on all those selfies. thank you very much. go big or go home -- a lot of startups are now doing both staying big, getting big, and staying private. now dozens of companies with $1 billion price tag -- we will talk about the growing trend of staying private next. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." google is moving its google glass program out, but they are not ki

>> this is lenovo the new lv series, one of the world east lightest laptops weighing 2 pounds the lightestch screen convertible laptop. they make one that's lighter at 1.7 pounds but you give up the touch screen. i want to hand this to you and -- you won't believe it. feels like a fake computer. play with pthis. >> feels like my kid's toy. it's very real. it's very fast. battery life is on par with bigger machines. >> amazing. i bring my computer everywhere when i travel. >> me too. weeks like this on the road for nine days end and just carrying around a backpack all day, i would love this in my messenger back and not have a heavier computer breaking my shoulders all day. >> me too. is this a challenger? >> this is a battery case for the iphone. this is callfrom a company called ibats. this is special because there are charging cases, but that's a popup battery. >> let me see how it works. take my phone -- >> yeah yeah. >> is it heavy? >> not at all. >> okay. ? yeah, so this is the case. >> oh it's lightweight. >> it does the iphone justice. it's a thin phone, and you want a thin case with

they agree that lenovo is the world's top pc maker. the u.s. military is hit with a cyberattacks. the attackers claim to be with the islamic state. the council was suspended but not before messages like american soldiers, we are coming. the cyber caliphate continue in cyber jihad. this is the same time president obama was announcing new cyber security proposals. >> under the new standard that we are proposing, companies would have to notify consumers of a breach within 30 days. in addition, we are producing -- proposing to close loopholes in the loss of we can go after criminals. joining us to wrap up all the development in the world of cyber security is phil mattingly. and our cyber security expert. the hack today was just as the news cross. what do we know now? >> self-control for about 30 minutes. over the course of the last couple of hours the white house has been trying to play down what this actually was. the defense department spokesperson calling it a prank saying it was more of an annoyance than anything else. the white house saying this is not a major data breach. what i

so this is the lenovo yoga tablet. about 300 bucks later this month. and they have this any pen technology. specially hardened glass, jon. and you can use anything. here is a kitchen fork. it does not harm the glass and i don't know if you can see that there. but it says fork. you can use a pencil. you can use a ballpoint pen. >> can you see yourself using this instead of a keyboard to jot something down quickly. >> i can see it. particularly if i didn't have to worry about losing a the stylis or storing one. this is the kind of incremental stuff that you see here at ces, rather than the big trends which are announced elsewhere. you see a lot of kind of incremental stuff on existing products. in the same vain here is an i d ipad. lots of people, including jon fortt use keyboards with ipads but finding something that isn't too heavy has been a problem. so the people who did the plastic keyboard for the iphone. >> famously crushed by blackberry lawsuits. >> but now back in with a new verng version. they claim is the thinnest keyboard in the world. on the

they agree that lenovo is the world's top pc maker. the u.s. military is hit with a cyber attack. the attackers claim to be with the islamic state. the accounts were suspended but not before messages like "american soldiers, we are coming." the cyber caliphate continues its cyber jihad. this is at the same time president obama was announcing new cyber security proposals at the ftc. >> under the new standard that we are proposing, companies would have to notify consumers of a breach within 30 days. in addition, we are proposing to close loopholes in the law so we can go after criminals even overseas. other proposals include a consumer's privacy bill of rights. joining us to wrap up all theses developments in the world of cyber security is bloomberg whitehouse correspondent phil mattingly. and our cyber security expert chris hadnagy. the hack today was just as the news crossed. what do we know now? >> us central command lost control of their twitter account for about 30 minutes. over the course of the last couple of hours the white house has been trying to play down what this actual

year the jump was less but i think there is a real qualitative difference where the company like lenovomotorolla was completed a couple months ago. they are a first tier ces company now. and a few others. partnering with roku on televisions. a lot of chinese companies that used to just build for other companies now have own brands and they are doing it in a savvy way even buying western companies to put that marketing foot forward. also with the nsa revelation, fears people had about working with chinese technology have been moderated by the fact there are concerns overall whether you are talking u.s., china or anywhere in between about surveillance in technology. so i think chinese companies are more mainstream now, both at the high end, as top tier companies and in the traditional areas where you have seen some of the off brands. some of the manufacturers just coming out here to show what me-too products they have. >> and before we let you go and get you back here to post nine, any other takeaways from ces this year? >> well i think what's big for me is the pieces that are missing. i

jeff, of all the things you saw there, we saw announcements from lenovo, tv related stuff, also wearablesally catch your eye? >> not a ton. i don't think you missed much if you weren't there. >> i was there. >> vegas was packed. you couldn't get a hotel reservation. but perhaps the most notable thing is apple wasn't there. i think one of the big talked about technologies for 2015 is going to be the apple watch and not at ces. lots of robots, lots of connected cars. mercedes showed off a beautiful self-driving car. >> for me, it's what's not there. what wasn't there for the software to tie all the home stuff together, even the wearable stuff together. it was kind of glitchy. that's the opportunity, isn't it? software to make all this stuff work. >> completely agree. one of the things i tweeted out was i wish they would make it the doconsumer experience show d really embrace media and applications. so much is happening in the application area. it would be great to see those companies be a part of ces and have ces move up the stack from covering hardware and cover the software sector where y

there was buzz maybe lenovo was interested and canada made it clear that probably wouldn't go.lear that samsung would be that much better. probably a u.s. acquirer would be a little bit easier, like an ibm, but there aren't that many tech companies at scale who need the assets that blackberries has. you've got to imagine john chen is focused on keeping his nose to the grind stone making sure blackberry enterprise server 12 which needs to be a hit this year gets enough customers and then we'll see what happens once those things are taken care of. >> blackberry, another tough position, used to be mass market, they used to own a huge chunk of it. they have to go niche now and they have to figure out a portion of the market they can own. that is the only way they're going to survive. otherwise they have to be taken out. the only question is price. john makes a great argument why it's going to be tough. >> well we're in the middle innings according to john chen of blackberry's turnaround and jon fortt i'm wondering do you think that blackberry stands as a don't sell in general, see

but xiaomi and lenovo are the only two companies with any kind of sales growth in china. >> it's true potential going forward, if you want to invest in a u.s. domicile company that will actually have the benefit of growth and consumer spending elsewhere this is not a bad bet. >> i still can't get over the scale of some $18 billion in quarterly profit. that is the gdp of yemen. >> that is an important point. this is critical. that is the status point -- the static point analysis. tim cook does not think that way. he thinks flow analysis. i've never seen this with anything in the cfa. there is no equivalent to this ecosystem and juggernaut. if it almost feels monopolistic. >> well said. it is like rockefeller and oil. >> for affairs, foreign policy, all of the international relations people have to adapt to that cell phone, don't they? [laughter] collect you know, sometimes -- >> you know what sometimes the man with the bow tie said to you things you have no idea. >> in china, they asserted indigenous production for the chips to protect in cyber security. they are worried about american

. >> it is a tempered flas that lenovo came up. tablet under $300 coming the end of the sglont portable. >> exactly. >>> this little guy is neat. this is from sir techie. this is the media button. what the media button is a way to control your tablet or smartphone so that you can play tunes, control the volume. but keep the device in your pocket and you can either -- it comes with a stick on for your dashboard or put it in this holder that is also in the kit. put it on the steering wheel, carriage auto you can control it without taking your eyes off of whatever you should be doing. >> i hate the feeling when you are running. >> looking down and that's under $30. this is called charge a leash pro. last year we had the charge a leash. what that is as you are charging your phone n the hotel, you are running and packing and you unplug it and if you forget to unplug it from the wall after 30 seconds, it starts beeping. then i said to the people who made it what if you want to keep using the charger. so this year they introduced a snooze

huawei is expanding its lineup to better compete againstx ioami and lenovo.short break. stay with us. ♪ >> welcome back to "countdown." time to check on the foreign exchange markets. are the russian banks intervening? this is the movement on dollar-ruble. the dollar traveling higher. the ruble off. we are just getting used to the 60's. hello. we are on our way higher. central bank has $379 billion. this is the ruble strengthening. this is the dollar falling ever so slightly on the back of the cut to junk by s&p. moritz kraemer will discuss the implications very shortly. today is going to be a flash reading for gdp growth semester product -- gross domestic product in the united kingdom. the monetary policy committee says production growth has finally improved. inflation expectations will not become unmoored. dollar sterling belts -- bounce. that is what you make of the monetary policy comments in terms of where we are. the market is assuming rate hikes will come a little bit later. we also want to keep an eye on the dollar. you are looking at a 10-year high. i

. >> ceos from etna, dow chemical lenovo and a lot more. >> the monsters of money! in davos and we are trying to connect him. >> this story, i am glad john stuart finally agrees with us here that it is ridiculous the amount of money they're spending. al gore as charlie reported from davos actually took a commercial flight. the rest of the not so much. before finally got it. charlie is with us and joining us from davos. what do you make of it all? >> we do not make the john stuart klipper real. no fox business in that. i have been saying that, one big circle, you know what. the interesting thing about this the panels are in danger, there is a panel about meditation that went on yesterday or the day before. it is all but touchy-feely topics about making the world a better place and i think to be honest with you basically to protect the fat cats and allow them to do their sleazy business on the side which goes on at all the parties, all these other gatherings and restaurants. what goes on isn't the story of davos. what goes on in there is the sort of dream of what it s

long-term long-term, lenovo is one of the hardware winners because it's going to be the next ibm. and signer security i think you should buy a basket of these stocks. >> thank you very much for that update. cyrus mewawalla, thank you very much. >>> and we're going to talk about markets, more coming up. investors welcoming the fed minutes as investors snapped a five-day losing streak yesterday. but where do we go from here? we're going to discuss that, coming up. >>> welcome, everyone to "worldwide exchange." i'm seema mody. >> and i'm wilfred frost. here are your headlines from around the world. >>> a gunman is on the lose after shooting two officers south of paris in an incident this morning. but no link has been confirmed to yesterday's attack on charlie hedbo. at least two suspects in that incident are still on the run. >>> u.s. futures point higher after the best day on wall street in three weeks as investors cheer the latest updates on employment data. >>> dollar bull out in force. the dollar hits a fresh new year low following the greenback since december 2005. >>> tesco's n

. >> lenovo had been talked about at one point as a possible suitor for blackberry. that's a chinese company. cross border deals will always be a huge amount of skepticism is going to be at least paid to some of these takeover deals, but when it's cross border like this, remember, it is a big deal for blackberry if anybody is talking about this. but you're right, bill it's something that's been talked about for a while in terms of a possible suitor. it's the first time we've heard that samsung is very front and center in the talk. >> thanks dom. see you later. let's get back to oil prices. late day rally settling over $48 on wti. 5% gain there. jackie deangelis at the nymex. >> good afternoon. a near 6% gain on the day, very volatile seesaw trading but we closed at $48.48. we had options expiration today which usually does take prices up. that's one of the reasons. and also the pattern of late has been to see either extreme buying or extreme selling into the close and that is exactly what happened today. however traders are saying the downward bias remains for a coup

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