gesturing and satya nadella is much quieter.ould say he's no less opinions.s he has very high expectations for people. but he also listens. and he wants his employees to be ambitious. focus on beingo open-minded. though, you know, people said to us, they've never heard him say no, never heard him that's very different. but he is equally strong-minded and insistent that the company really serve its customers and do a high-quality job. muchd dina, we talked so about all the rivalries down in silicon valley. talk about this rivalry up in neck of the woods around the cloud. microsoft vs. amazon. who has got the upper hand? >> absolutely amazon. that's the problem. when satya nadella took over as of microsoft and wanted to refocus the company around cloud, there was one very which isnt challenge, that one of the most important parts of cloud and services, amazon had about a four-year lead. wayshey're still quite a ahead. microsoft is getting important customers. kroger, chevron, walmart. starbucks is another microsoft cloud customer.

tell us about satya nadella.e works with his employees and staff. >> bill gates was known for a louder style. certainly steve ballmer was known for gesturing and yelling. satya nadella is much quieter. but i would say he's no less firm in his opinions. he has very high expectations for people. but he also listens. and he wants his employees to be ambitious. he wants them to focus on being open-minded. so even though, you know, people said to us, they've never heard him say no, never heard him yell, that's very different. but he is equally strong-minded and insistent that the company really serve its customers and do a high-quality job. >> and dina, we talked so much about all the rivalries down in silicon valley. talk about this rivalry up in your neck of the woods around the cloud. microsoft vs. amazon. who has got the upper hand? >> absolutely amazon. that's the problem. when satya nadella took over as c.e.o. of microsoft and wanted to refocus the company around cloud, there was one very significant challenge,

when satya nadella took over as c.e.o.osoft and wanted to refocus the company around cloud, there was one very significant challenge, which is that one of the most important parts of cloud and infrastructure services, amazon had about a four-year lead. and they're still quite a ways ahead. microsoft is getting important customers. we talked about kroger, chevron, walmart. starbucks is another microsoft cloud customer. but amazon has a huge lead. one of the things that nadella and his team really try to make customers aware of, although subtly, is that amazon is increasingly competing with some of those customers. and microsoft, you know, without outright saying it will point to the idea that they want to help the customer succeed. they want the customer to be the one running their own platform and their own services and not to replace them or do it for them. some of the customers we spoke to felt that that was a powerful message, particularly as they start to worry more and more about jeff bezos getting into their area. >>

satya nadella has made it clear microsoft will work with the government.ow do you draw that line,, in terms of what customers you will and won't work with? scott: one of the things we have been very focused on has been around being principled about it, not trying to make an individual decision on a case-by-case basis. instead, we publish our principles. brad smith, our president, published a blog post that listed in very clear terms, here are principles and our rules of ai ethics. we will be principled, make sure we stand to those roles. obviously we are all citizens of our government, and we are an american company. we want to make sure that our government in particular we can help and assist, but we will be very clear as we do it and very principled. we found that resonates pretty well with our employees. it is an important debate that we want to make sure we have both with society but also with our employees as well. emily: bloomberg reported satya doesn't want executives focusing on the market cap, most valuable company or not. but how do you not look

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andould be a pushover, satya nadella was very doubt. >> how cisco views the ban on will weigh. >> and for businessweek talks. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ at comcast, we didn't build the nation's largest gig-speed network just to make businesses run faster. we built it to help them go beyond. because beyond risk... welcome to the neighborhood, guys. there is reward. ♪ ♪ beyond work and life... who else could he be? there is the moment. beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. ♪ ♪ every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected, to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." carol: still ahead in this week's issue, how the world's ultra risk use so-called free ports to avoid paying taxes. jason: and how jeff bezos bank account would stack up against john d rockefeller. cisco ceo john robbins joins us for an interview. jason: we talk about cybersecurity and so much more. chuck: about eight months ago when this began, our teams proactively thought about it. havede the status that we parts of the s

there were some folks who said that benioff probably expected it because satya nadella is viewed as thisr, gentler personality, versus ballmer, who was very boisterous. he could be a pushover, and nadella was very doubt. dachshund deked -- deft. carol: how cisco views the ban on huawei. jason: chuck robbins talks. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." carol: still ahead in this week's issue, how the world's ultra rich use so-called free ports to avoid paying taxes. jason: and how jeff bezos' bank account would stack up against john d rockefeller. carol: and cisco ceo john -- chuck robbins joins us for an interview. jason: we talk about cybersecurity, the ban on huawei and more. chuck: about eight months ago when this began, our teams proactively thought about it. we made the status that we have -- statement that we have parts of the strategy and would continue dialogue to influence the outcome. second, we would optimize our supply chain. we have the capacity to move things on a regular basis. our team does that as part of doing business. t

in business insider, satya nadella explains why unconscious bias should be one of the biggest prioritiesent. 0n quartz, how to delete your alexa history — and why you should. the inside story on how amazon can use the data it gathers from the popular digital assistant. and don't forget, let us know what you are spotting online. use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing that's it for the business briefing this hour. but before we go, here are the markets. up next, newsbriefing. we'll take you through ther stories making headlines in the global news media today. the supervision of all offenders in england and wales is being taken back by the government after a series of failings with the partially—privatisated system. the national probation service will take over management of low and medium—risk cases, which was previously given to private providers five years ago. the justice secretary, david gauke, said the new system would "increase" public safety. danny shaw has more. he promised it would transform rehabilitation for offenders. chris grayling was the architect of the biggest probation shakeup i

scott: i have been fortunate to work with satya for a long time.worked on azure in the cloud business. the day before he became ceo, we had a conversation and i took on what was his role. emily: what did he say? scott: well, we worked so closely together, so it was a pretty quick conversation. the company as a whole has been going through this cloud transformation. it has been incredibly fun to be a part of. more importantly, helping our customers through it, it has been a great ride. emily: in the break, we're talking seven to eight years ago, the business did not really exist. it is a fairly new business but it has grown really fast, and you made a decision to focus on cloud and shift resources and workers to this area making millions from areas making billions. you are an engineer by training, how did you make that decision? what informed that? scott: in technology, things move fast. the most important thing is trying to understand where the hockey puck is going. how do you skate to it? as a company -- we had missed a couple of trends, which is

he laughed at me and said we should call it the satya yuga death trap. it's loosely translated as the age of truth. >> interesting. >> what he says is certainly alarming, but did he take those concerns about safety at the warehouse to anybody else? >> reporter: well, he did. he testified that after he had driven by the ghost ship on a later occasion sometime in 2014 after there had been a small fire outside the warehouse that griffin said to the jury that he actually went over to a fire station which was just a block away and he warned firefighters, he told them,heondions this warehouse are unsafe, asked what the firefighters did or a fire chief as the man was described did, grirffin said he acknowledged the conversation and said the fire department knew about the conditions inside the warehouse. as far as we know, this was ere follow-up. >>> new details a skateboarder accused of attacking a security guard in san francisco is off the legal hook, at least for now. a judge declare add mistrial in the case of 24-year-old jessie vee a ve viera. jensen's fami

he laughed at me and said we should call it the satya yuga death trap. he said he went to the nearest fire station and talked to the chief and was told they were aware of conditions there. earlier, jurors heard from a man inside at the time of the fire. ryan o'keefe was inside the warehouse the night of december 2nd, 2016. i fir he first saw an orange glow. as soon as the smoke came, we had to retreat. there was nothing we could do. >> no form of decoration or building materials that were used within the warehouse would have burned that fast without some assistance. >> reporter: on wednesday morning, the man who was the former head of fire inspections will continue his testimony about whether the city actually officially inspected the ghost ship before the fire. in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> and the ghost ship trial is expected to last for months. and abc 7 news is prepared to cover it each day. we will send out push alerts when there are major developments. >>> an east bay man is suing for go bikes saying he broke his leg in three places. i

but more recently in 2015, this is after satya nadella emerged as the ceo in 2014, microsoft and salesforce negotiations about an acquisition. salesforce wanted more money than microsoft was willing to pay, and benioff was interested in having a very big title at microsoft. he wanted the validation and respect from the company. it ended up falling apart, and then the next year, when the linkedin misadventure happened, his close relationship with nadella, who he saw as this visionary, as this really fascinating and inspirational figure, really soured. there were some folks who said that benioff probably expected it because nadella is viewed as this softer, gentler personality, versus ballmer, who was very boisterous. he could be a pushover, and nadella was very deft. >> how cisco views the ban on huawei. >> and our guest for businessweek talks. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ at comcast, we didn't build the nation's largest gig-speed network just to make businesses run faster. we built it to help them go beyond. because beyond risk... welcome to the neighborhood, guys. there is reward. ♪

chuck robbins, he's put together an amazing team and they've done a lot of satya sort of things and how they changed that business model and i'll just tell you, this is not a high-growth company and they have areas of the business that are growing and it's 17 times, 18 times railing and that's a high multiple for the name. >> do they think it will shift their mix? >> they never do they should, but they never do >> look at this quarter. look at capex spending from the carriers down 20% year over year >> enterprises did just fine the subscription is a higher multiple and that was one of the issues during the chambers years. >> let's not forget cash flow, too. unbelievable cash flow. >> of course, you don't want to miss jim cramer with the ceo and cfo of cisco tonight at 6:00 p.m. the trade war heating up as president trump signs a new executive order to ban foreign communications companies from operating in the united states read huawei. we'll tell you which stocks will get hit the hardest. i'm melissa lee on cnbc, first in business worldwide. here's what's coming up on fast. >> chip stoc

almost certain no one mentioned it to ceo satya medela. bloomberg businessweek he would be disgusted if anybody celebrated the market cap, but many are celebrating the turnaround. microsoft dramatically cut its dependence on windows and built a $30 billion cloud computing service that in some areas is ahead of alibaba and google. microsoft office used to be a one-off purchase, now it is a cloud-based service. microsoft fines for major retailers to cloud contracts. walmart, kroger, walgreens, and albertsons. nonetheless says this is due to a culture change. you can read the entire story in the new issue of bloomberg businessweek. softbankn tech, weighing an ipo and it is a fund to keep pace with the booming start of injury. this is according to the "wall street journal reporting. i want to remind myself. we know it has stakes in uber. holdings,nes, arm nvidia. slack, but wag, do you remember that one? a $300 million investment in a dog walking service. joe: have they filed yet? caroline: not yet. joe: i love this. romaine: it would be bonke

how about partnerships i think you would be a natural to partner with adobe or satya do you plan on somehat we have done most recently is we launched a new platform concept. >> the sunshine. >> exactly called sunshine. it's building on aws it's open. it's super scaleable it's very, very developer friendly and it allows you as a business to tie all the different things together. >> you go to amazon web services you direct amazon web services. >> that's a huge free platform and going on every business are moving more and more the sfrux, and it's because there is an architectural change it's a new way of being able to try everything together without necessarily having to rely on formal partnerships between these businesses so that's very much what we believe in >> how did you get the accelerated revenue growth, 41%? that's extraordinary you kind of percolated, boom >> we like our customers at a run rate of serving like a billion consumers and customers every single year. and it's really helping our customers keeping up with the massive demand and the massive expectations there are from busi

microsoft ceo satya nadella, quoting, i would be disgusted if someone celebrated our market cap.ng on to say it would be the beginning of the end. what? melissa: i don't understand. wouldn't you be proud of being over a trillion dollar market cap. connell: we're living in a weird world. talking about money, capitalism. melissa: i like money. still works everywhere i go, money. ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug what do all these people have in common, limu? [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely different people, that's why they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need! [ gargling ] [ coins hitting the desk ] yes, and they could save a ton. you've done it again, limu. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ back then, we checked our zero times a day. times change. eyes haven't. that's why there's ocuvite. screen light... sunlight... longer hours... eyes today are stressed! but ocuvite has vital nutrients to help protect them. ocuvite. eye nutrition for today. the doctor's office might mejust for a shot.o

nadellat under satya has really focus on the commercial software business, windows software and cloudng and microsoft office to companies large and small. and bing doesn't fit naturally into that ecosystem. but at the same time, if you talk to executives at microsoft, they say bing provides strategic value. they learned about crunching huge datasets which was valuable for the empire. you: i am sorry,, romaine, are may be the first person i've ever met that bing is their go to search engine. it makes me wonder about how microsoft is using their size as a way to push out bing in different places, the default search engine on certain microsoft computers. does this sort of reflect how , how difficult it is for smaller upstarts to consolidate even if they offer a better product? isra: the reason bing successful is not necessarily because it is better, although romaine believes it is. it's because microsoft has a huge audience of people using microsoft office and windows computers, and if you do any searches through the built in search bar on the windows 10 computers, you are using bing, ev

he said -- satya nadella. many are celebrating the turnaround.ut its dependence on windows and built a $30 billion cloud computing services that is , in some areas, ahead of alibaba and google. cloud-based service with more than 155 million subscribers. microsoft has four major retailers. walmart, kroger, walgreens, and all britons. this is due to a culture change. francine: staying in the tech sector, warren buffett is telling people ahead of the berkshire hathaway annual meeting that buying amazon shares recently, he was an idiot for not doing so sooner. the announcement gave amazon shares an immediate bump in after-hours trade. our guests are still here. thank you both for sticking around. we are almost getting to the end of the earnings season. i think the blowout figures were the banks. and then tech earnings came out with quite a lot of strength. does it make you worry that valuations overall for the sector are overstretched? i think especially for cyclical sectors, tech is part of that, i really believe tech remains to be very cyclical. ex

gordon stated to his recollection this was the only change satya by the campaign. sam clovis, the campaign's national co-chair and chief policy adviser stated he was surprised by the change and did not believe it was in line with trump's stance. mashburn stated when he saw the word appropriate assistance, he believed gordon had violated mashburn's directly not to interve intervene. seven, post convention contacts with kislyak. ambassador kislyak tipped his efforts to interact with campaign officials with responsibility for the foreign policy portfolio, among them sessions and gordon in the weeks after the convention. the office did not identify evidence in those distractions of coordination between the campaign and the russian government. 7a, ambassador kislyak invites j.d. gordon to breakfast at the ambassador's residence. august 3rd, 2017, an official from the embassy of the russian federation and the united states wrote to gordon, quote, on behalf of, end quote, ambassador kisly kislyak, inviting gordon to, quote, have breakfast, tea with the ambassador at his r

why not satya nadella?le thought may have been one of the founders of crypto. people have wondered who created crypto and his name came up as satoshi nakamoto, not as elon musk but i think amazon has thought about a coin any big, major technology company has had to think about that next step, because once you have your own money, you know, that's the end game, i think. >> but then is it really a currency >> well, it is it's a currency if we believe it is you know, if we're all able to use it -- >> it's the same thing, the dutch tulips that was currency because we thought it was currency and we thought it had value until we thought it didn't. >> but i can't send you a tulip in india instantly, and that's where crypto has a big advantage over all of these things with crypto, i can literally send you money -- you can walk around with your vault of gold on your phone -- >> but anybody could also make up their own currency, too -- >> anybody can, but if not everybody's behind it, it won't dominate it won't be th