if you order a smartphone from asia today it will take around four to six months to arrive. we want to cut that to four weeks. for us market accessibility is the biggest challenge. for the. biggest set factory in hopes to trump facilities in asia in terms of turnaround time not just on the production front but above all when it comes to special customer requirements. of the state fund everything from a memory expansion into specialized software and product bundles featuring items like bluetooth speakers it is i must design related aspects such as color scheme or laser engraving on the back of that work site for a bunch number one we want to offer customers the chance to have their name a laser on to the device. the g.s. one eight five marks a major step forward to get set the entry level smartphone will be the first to be made in germany and if it proves successful it will surely not be the last. that's all for business thanks very much for joining us we'll see you next time or whenever you want on the dot com ticker good bye for. the. memory. being gone be told. his work th

now as you probably know the vast majority of the world's smartphones are made in asia ten years ago nokia closed its last mobile phone factory here in germany but now production has returned to the country thanks to industry four point zero and a domestic manufacturer that could be the future of made in germany. it looks like just another regular smartphone and doesn't post any state of the art frills that's reflected in the price tag of google sets g.e.'s white five model a comparatively modest one hundred seventy nine euro's. the munich based manufacturer has a high degree of automation which more than compensates for the high labor costs in germany. for smartphone makers in asia largely rely on manual production and we've managed to establish a major cost advantage by having seventy percent of production robots there like recession cost enables us to deliver a low cost product cost. so far the company has one domestic production line in the western german town of behold the facility assembles up to six thousand smartphones a week thanks to industry four point zero humans and robo

for smartphone makers in asia largely rely on manual production we've managed to establish a major cost advantage by having seventy percent of production robots. resolution cost enables us to deliver a low cost product cost. so far the company has one domestic production line in the western german town of bottled the facility assembles up to six thousand smartphones a week thanks to industry four point zero humans and robots work side by side here an option that was not available ten years ago. as long letters and i think almost made it working with the robots initially took some getting used to but then you discover what a big help they are the states and i did this in other sports as you know what i robot is putting together the phone you can get to work on another activity. that i think. there's another benefit from automation a low rate of production line rejects. that also makes smartphones in asia but production their season around ten percent of devices exhibiting defects in germany is just two percent. does need us to accredited in affordable we prioritize quality and delivery t

maker was rising about 13% to just over in smartphone maker was rising about 13% tojust over $2.1; inmartphone maker was rising about 13% to just over $2.1; billion in the second quarter, memory it was its largest contributor to profit is by far, and the growth of huge data server centres. profits from its mobile business though, that was key, that sank 34% from a year ago, mainly due to lots of stiff competition and of course, samsung is facing challenges from the us china trade war, of course there are the rise of memory chips and those chinese made handsets as well. research in july chinese made handsets as well. research injuly is showing samsung's galaxy nine handset had been overtaken by sales of the apple iphone. thank you. mount everest, the world's tallest mountain, is notorious for its harsh climbing conditions and treacherous weather. climbing to the top can cost as much as $100,000 and you need significant technical mountaineering experience and fitness. but for those unable to climb everest, the trek to base camp is very popular. pamela parker looks at how adventure touri

only a third of india's one point three billion people have a smartphone the untapped potential means sales have room to grow here samsung is banking on this front with the new plant is the biggest smartphone factory in the world for what's become the world's second largest smartphone market after china one hundred twenty million samsung units are set to roll off the assembly lines here every year the facility is a boost to indian prime minister narendra modi's make in india campaign aimed at attracting foreign investment and creating manufacturing jobs. in may i congratulate the whole samsung team for creating this new unit this event today's key in making india the hub of manufacturing this investment of fifty billion rupees will not only strengthen the business relations of samsung in india but will also prove imperative for indian korean relations. samsung may be investing up to seven hundred fifty million dollars in the mega facility but market dominance is far from assured affordable models from shalmi have made the chinese manufacturer the top around the new factory as some thi

the robot takes advantage of the chinese love of cashless payments and smartphone shopping. china is the biggest online market in the world. of all chinese consumers make at least one smartphone purchase a month the huge delivery demand could soon eclipse the number of available human couriers. a hundred million packages a day are delivered in china in future it'll be a billion there won't be enough humans to make the deliveries we need more robots to fill the gap. the little yellow horse is equipped with g.p.s. sensors and cameras and travels up to five kilometers it can't however climb stairs . to her course weakness is that it can't deliver directly to the door like a human but it's still quite practical the robot delivers relatively quickly. and. similar robots exist in the u.s. and germany so the last stretch of road to the consumer could likely be covered mostly by robots in future. as long as they don't invent robot newsreaders that's what i say that wraps up your business for today don't forget to check us out on social media as well. same time same place. capital. f

smartphones in 2017. apple, 215 million iphonesin 2017 so it's a lot smaller than some of those bigger rivals i think that does lead to some of the big risks around the company coming through to the ipo. one of those, as i mentioned, is the reliance it does have on smartphones. 70% of the revenue from smartphones, and 70% of revenue from china as well it relies heavily on that market that market is extremely saturated. there's slowing smartphone sales there, and it has competition. and as xiamoi oshgashxiaomi ree smartphone shares, will they see a benefit? they are also looking at investment they want to enter the u.s. market that will be increasingly difficult as we've seen many of the intelligence agencies in the u.s. warn against chinese products like that from rivals that could be a concern when shares start trading next week >> let's have a chat about this, it's topical given that it's a chinese tech company that is coming to the market they wanted to ipo they wanted to achieve a valuation of 100 bil

it is the pa rt smartphone bit of it? yes. it is the part of the business doing particularly badly.of the business. they had the slowest quarterly profit growth and almost two years, it was still up about 5.7% with a growth of $13 billion, but the smartphones were down across the board. the iphone overtook the galaxy, that is a particularly bad pa rt galaxy, that is a particularly bad part of the building. —— business. the chip or semiconductor part of the business is going very well, contributing about 80% of their earnings. due to a growth of server data centres, they say we should see continued growth in that area but we will be on the lookout for potential fallout from the us/ china trade war. thanks very much, katie. let's look at markets in general. in asia it was no big dramatic moves on the markets overall, the bank of japan met, they said they are keeping interest rates very low for the time being, monetary policy flexible at the bank of japan. being, monetary policy flexible at the bank ofjapan. we had all the earnings coming out. katie mentioned samsung. european markets

all global smartphone sales have been affording last year the dropped two point three percent as most markets become saturated most markets but not india bucking the trend india saw a fourteen percent spike in smartphone sales anticipating a further boom samsung has now opened the world's largest smartphone factory in the state of the top redish. only a third of india's one point three billion people have a smartphone the untapped potential means sales have room to grow here samsung is banking on this growth the new plant is the biggest smartphone factory in the world for what's become the world's second largest smartphone market after china one hundred twenty million samsung units are set to roll off the assembly lines here every year the facility is a boost to indian prime minister narendra modi's make in india campaign aimed at attracting foreign investment and creating manufacturing jobs. is needed i congratulate the whole sum some team for creating this new unit this event today is key in making india the hub of manufacturing this investment of fifty billion rupees will not only

the first one is that google is requiring smartphone manufacturers to p rei nsta ll smartphone manufacturerseinstall google search and google chrome if they want to take the place talk. the second is allegations around exclusive obligations, they are also requiring smartphone manufacturers to take the google search functionality. and then a third element to their concerns, also called on defragmentation measures, which are requirements imposed by google that the smartphone manufacturers do not sell devices on a rival android systems. so that is the crux of the commission's concerns. —— play store. will argue is actually our business model increases competition. on what asus kennett say that? google would say and have been saying up till now that their business model actually allows them to bundle together what consumers want. -- on what basis can they say that? and it allows them to deliver ona that? and it allows them to deliver on a consistent basis exactly what consumers are looking for, so they would say that they have opened the market and promoted competition stop right now, it is expe

these people don't buy a new smartphone each season they're committed to smartphones that live long and productive life and that's exactly what the young company they work for makes. scheft was founded by two brothers kostin and. their aim is to make sustainable high end products that are also affordable. they started out with smart phones two years ago now they've come up with a new kind of laptop. it's very important that a device can be repaired or it is to repair the longer it's working life and the better it is for the environment that's our main concern new ones on the. smartphones are built using a modular design and each component can be easily replaced the brakes can usually be revived that means it doesn't get thrown away or end up in a drawer. just to get. out of vises should remain functional for a long period of time so its use life cycle as we call it should be as long as possible so. we support that by accepting returns customers give us their old bones when they upgrade to a new model upgrade of the phones can then be resold second hand i just. bring the want to achieve

we're well past sort of peak smartphone shipments the last two years it contracted 11% and 3% smartphones makes up about 70% of the revenues that come in for xiaomi the future is internet services >> you bring up a great point, jake this idea, it wasn't long ago we were talking about peak smartphones. how they're co-monetized apple is making a foray to grow the services business on their side of things what is it that they can do or what's their competitive advantage going up the likes of a samsung or an apple in this kind of ecosystem environment? >> i mean, they do have an innovative strategy. they've been trying to build out this platform. it's essential will i a software platform where they've got e-commerce cape nlt, a number of different apps and controlling the number of iot devices. it's also part of the key portfolio, not just smartphones. they're push rg into the smart home it's built up about 210 partners companies that it brings into the fold they're branded with somehow me logo be this platform enables it to therefore control devices and bring in -- the profit margins are clo

infrared cameras guns his irises data and then compared with a recorded image of his iris on a smartphone is unlocked. use the scanner a lot at first but i don't anymore because all i wanted to do was check the time and every time the phone would on lock itself obviously i wasn't keen on that. as well as being impractical they are a scanner in the summer sun model is easy to outsmart demonstrated by the hackers stop out from germany's chaos computer club. he takes a photo of his online with an infrared camera and prints out that image on special paper to create a three d. effect to attach as a contact lens on to the paper then he just holds up the new image in front of the iris gonna and in a blink of an eye the security mechanism has been cracked. it's you know. you might be in a cafe or on a train so you need literally a fraction of a second while the eye is open if you keep on filming the person's face with your camera eventually you'll get a decent iris image that you can use. and what about the i phone ten uses adult maps of the face idea over thirty thousand laser dots are projected

passwords are so yesterday for unlocking the screen and authorizing payment transactions the latest smartphones use biometric data just how dependable and secure is this innovative technology. when your phone with an iris scan looks tough to accept this method it's a stream. that can be a risk of strangers unlocking my phone and then accessing my data. biometric data replacing passwords the first step in this direction was using a fingerprint when lots of phone best selling phones like the samsung s eight and i phone ten take things a step further. instead of entering his pin or bad obama and just held his summer sun sh in front of his face a built in infrared camera stands his irises the data and then compared with a recorded image of his iris on a smartphone this unlocked. i use the scanner a lot at first but i don't anymore because all i wanted to do was check the time and every time the phone would on lock itself obviously i wasn't keen on that. as well as being impractical they are a scanner in the samsung model is easy to outsmart as demonstrated by the hackers stop out from germany's cha

one eight five marks a major step forward to get set the entry level smartphone will be the first to be made in germany and if it proves successful it will surely not be the last. and has to come back to the trade attention some analysts say trumps tariff strategy is just going to force other parts of the world to work together more closely in a win for trade relations between two rival asian nations officials have reopened the final stretch of the railway between cambodia's capital phnom penh and its border with thai that. a train from cambodia's northern border with thailand arrives in phnom penh it's the first one in forty five years much of cambodia's rail network was damaged during the country's civil war including this forty eight kilometer stretch near the border town of point that the reopened track represents nearly eighty percent of cambodia's total railways a little over six hundred kilometers in all the rest of the link to phnom penh had long been suspended due to the poor condition of the track in two thousand and nine the asian development bank provided thirteen million

ago competition from chinese devised makers has grown in recent months consumer demand for new smartphones as fall of some survival apple is due to publish its latest figures today. we stay in the sector for years tech shares have been the strongest winners on stock and strangest around the world but as of late the fast growing business seems to be in trouble and investors are worried facebook shares lost just about twenty percent in a single day last week when the company failed to meet expectations it cost the social network more than one hundred billion dollars in market value for this week software maker electronic arts and take towers down almost seven percent each netflix lost six percent meanwhile investors are gearing up for a barrage of earnings including apple as with later today. well for all its talk to my colleague. who is standing by in frankfurt poll take has been down for a few days now what's behind the sudden losses and do investors fear there's a trend. there's been a big selloff triggered by earnings season mostly on nascar but other tech companies as well also in asia

it was an effort to get into smartphones, and it didn't work out. do you think it didn't work out? steve: number one, maybe it was late. number two, after i left, the company went ahead and bought it, i don't think there was the same level of enthusiasm at the board level and management level for scalin ug up and investing there. david: you ultimately decided to leave. your successor is satya nadella. were you surprised when he was selected? steve: no, he was the recommendation that i made. he was the recommendation that bill gates made. i thought he was a candidate to replace me, which is why we moved him into his last job, which was running one of the big decisions -- divisions. i was that he got the job. he's done a great job. emily: steve ballmer, former ceo of microsoft, now owner of the l.a. clippers, with david rubenstein. watch the full interview wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. next, opening up the android market. what does the eu decision against google mean for its competitors, smartphone makers, and the android platform? we are live strea

it is the current biggest smartphone vendor in india. let's take a look at other business stories.t tencent has submitted a proposal to the hong kong stock exchange to list its online music entertainment business seperately on an american stock exchange. they confirmed the proposed—spin off in a statement, but didn't reveal the size of the offering, nor which market in the us they intend to register with. former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva will remain injail, a judge has ruled on sunday. earlier today two different judges issued conflicting orders: one to release the politician from jail and another one to keep him in prison. lula was arrested in april after having been sentenced to 12 years in jail for corruption. you may have been glued to the screen if you area have been glued to the screen if you are a football fan. england and croatia were playing pretty critical matches and both came out as winners. football fans in england and croatia flooded the streets as the two sides progressed to the semi—finals of the world cup. the tournament has now been running for

the performance in terms of sales of the smartphone.f people are saying there is no wow factor that sets apart the galaxy s nine from the previous model. note smartphones are dipping in simpson's operating profit, they're big enough to be the difference between bidding the estimates and coming short of estimates. anna: thank you very much. let's turn is down a little bit in seoul. sam kim joining us from seoul. let's talk about trade because this is the big thing of the moment. united states imposed $34 billion of tariffs on $34 billion worth of imports from china. the levees target products reading from semiconductors an airplane parts. china said it's forced to retaliate. joining us is marion schneider, a u.s. fellow at chatham house. happy to have you on the program. let's talk about the mystic u.s. situation and how this could influence trump's policy. do you see free-trade republicans raining in trump on his tariffs? d.c. that as a possibility? guest: that's the big question, especially into midterm elections. in theory, they could

i think when you look at the way people behave with smartphones in the time they spend, part of where they are right now is a bit of a cultural shift. that is something the table stays on the table. at the beginning peter mention the fact that this is all happen in a decade. i want to say very clearly that this technology, where we are ennobled is the fastest adoption in the history of humanity ever. faster than fire, faster than the wheel, faster than the printing press, faster than the microwave. no histories had this widespread use against all groupings as mobile technology and smartphones have. the best way i can describe it as right now we have put at your fingertips and fingertips a three-point 4 billion people access to 10,000 years of collective human history for each of these goals to tab videos is not the hands of three-point 4 billion people around the globe and we did it in a decade. the question you're asking is what is the cultural impact of that and how are we adopting culturally to happiness always on, always available information. i would like to say that is something

has toying it smartphones not selling enough.are big enough to make difference between beating the not beating the estimates. galaxy s9 released in the 1st quarter. not selling enough. not doing as well as they expected. sales to apple have not very strong enough as strong as expected. of this also comes down to their bread and butter. head and shoulders above everyone else. margins theree marginsseem like those are sustainable? that should be their saving grace. >> these for this year p it does sustainable. reason samsung is able to earn every quarters the company the market. there are three majors memory the world. around the -- is democrat definitely the leader here. you seen lot of chinese inpanies trying to catch up lcd smartphones. they're investing lot of money manufacturing a mass amount of memory chips. theseht be seeing challenges happening in the coming years. we have to keep and eye on how fairs. david: absolutely as well. sam, thank you so much. of kim joining us live out south korea. let's have a lock at the broader

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it will produce 120 million smartphone units a year like the galaxy x 9.was inaugurated by the indian prime minister and south korea's prime minister. it became the second largest smartphone market after china. they are the following. a major week ahead for media. the biggest industry names will gather in idaho for the allen and company conference and we could get it from comcast in the bidding war for fox assets or a higher bid from fox as it competes to buy sky in the u.k. jerry, what is comcast's next move? >> that is what everyone is looking for. one of the combattles going on is between comcast and disney over the fox entertainment assets. and disney has the upper hand and has the higher bid and i think a lot of people are waiting to see what comcast is going to do and come back with a higher bid. emily: what do we expect in does disney or comcast have the upper hand? and rob have the upper hand. >> i think a lot of people are expecting comcast to come back and top disney's bid. and we could have a bidding war that continues on into the summer. emily:

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and a smartphone ban at schools in france. his are outraged, parents are happy, but the t teachers worryt will be tough to enforce. as temperatures soar off the scale, what happens if we just have to carry on work in the relentless heat? we ask the advice of berlin's road builders as we sweat our way througha real heatwave. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, reports that north korea has not stopped working to build new ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear weapon. the washington post says that u.s. spy satellites detected renewed activity at a site that has produced them in the past. this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong-un. at a summit in singapore just last month, he reportedly told u.s. president donald trump he would end all nuclear testing. we will get reaction from washington in just a moment. but first, this report. reporter: on the surface, relations between the u.s. and north korea have been warming. earlier this week north korea returned the remain