sundar: a lot of music videos. music videos, this whole notion where creators are watching other things and commenting on it. my kids are really into. i have gotten used to it. watching other games. emily: a policy that is worked for uyou as a parent. sundar: i have kind of given agency to my kids. the only thing i tell them is that i can look at their digital well being once in a while with them. and so -- emily: how do you do that? sundar: i ask them to show it to me and they show it on their phones. that's pretty much the only thing. beyond that, it is agency. and talking to them about it, and making sure we are spending time doing other things. emily: making sure they develop good habits. metaverse or real world? sundar: done correctly, you should not feel the need to make a choice. always want to be present in the real world, and when you feel the need to do something, you want to do that but i do think presence and the realness of the real world will end up mattering for humans for a long time. emily: do you

sundar pichai addressed challenges that lie ahead. sundar: it is the most vibrant region we see. it is our 20th year since we opened our office in tokyo, our first office outside the bay area. you have 2.5 billion people on the internet. there are many areas in which they are leapfrogging trends which are here and embracing the future. digital payments is a good example. many of our products originated from apac, google pay. a lot of our journey is playing out in asia. i am excited about the work we are doing through cloud. the companies are rapidly transforming digitally. a chance to provide that is exciting for us. a super dynamic region. i feel like we are learning as google being in the region. i think it will transform. the first 10 years, i would have said we took products here and brought it to apac. in the past few years, we are beginning to build things there. some of our future global products will be apac first. emily: you can't talk about apac without talking about china. you are facing stiff competition from chinese tech giants there and beyond. what should u.s. poli

sundar: as a company we are trying to do more with less data. one of the biggest changes we made was making auto delete the default session for signing in. now over 2 million users have their data deleted. we rely on trust. every day when people come to google they place their trust in us in vulnerable moments, may be a health issue they are trying to understand. there is no more important responsibility we have than doing right by their trust. when we provide gmail to journalists and relies their accounts may be under attack by an authoritarian government, that is what motivates us to make sure -- all-time regulation will have an important role to play. areas like ai regulation will be important. emily: facebook and microsoft are all in on the meta-verse? what is googles meta-verse strategy? sundar: it has always been obvious to me that computing will adapt to people more than people adapting to computers. just like you speak to people, you see and interact, computers will become more immersive, they will be there. i've always been excited abou

sundar: thank you for doing it. emil

sundar: forever, yeah. we are committed to it. through it all, it forces us to design that are product. since people use google workspace, it gives us a chance to innovate and bring all that out. i think there is so much value in giving people more flexibility between their personal and personal lives. and it will lead to people being happier and i think companies can be flexible in that model so we are trying to get the best of both worlds but embrace the flux ability and see where we go. haidi: that was the alphabet ceo speaking to bloomberg emily chang. you can watch the full combination -- conversation on studio 1.0. japan air seeing travel stocks getting back to today even as worst sentiment starts to improve in the asian session. airlines down over 2% when it comes to some of the players across the region. we're also seeing the lights of korean air down 3%, as well as juju error one of the performers, as well, falling the most in over a year. we're going to have more focus on those travel stocks in hong kong and travel reope

juliette: that was the alphabet ceo sundar pichai speaking to bloomberg's emily chang. watch the full conversation on "studio 1.0" on bloomberg television. let's look at how traders are assessing the impact of the omicron variant and what it means for the countries that will submit further caution in terms of the borders. we hear from the end tv that japan is going to bar all foreign entry. some pressure on the nikkei and here in singapore. prime minister lee saying potentially singapore could ease restrictions with seeing the yen under pressure to and the who urging caution saying it will take time to assess the pathogen. traders pushing back on the expectation of the first rate hike from the fed. . that is it for "bloomberg markets: asia." this is bloomberg. ♪ every day in business brings something new. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for just $30 per line per month when you get four lin