well, add microsoft to the list of companies hit by a hack attack. ft says a small number of computers were hit with malware. no evidence data was compromised. >> zynga trying to cut costs, shutting it's office in baltimore also consolidating in new york, austin and dallas. shares rose more than 7% today a look at broader markets over km over itally's government. and spot fi teeming up with ford to offer streaming music service in cars. theford eco sport will be the car making spot fi service available through the app link system. ford has partnerships with amazon and others. larry, carolyn, back to you. >> thank you. >> synchronized ice skating is not an olympic sport but it is the fastest growing segment of the figure skating board. now, a team is proving california will work as well. abc 7 sports reporter has their story. >> this is ice skating as a team spot. >> it focuses on unison with all of the requirements that technical figure skating have. >> they call this tremors but girls come from high schools all over the bay area this, is the performa

. >>> you can add microsoft to the list of prominent technology company that is have now been hacked. microsoft acknowledged the hacking today in a blog posting. and also found they found no evidence that any customer information had been taken. all three of those companies now say they are investigating. >>> google is preparing to expand and tonight we have a glimpse of what the new 42-acre campus is expected to look like. here it is an artist rendering of the mountain view complex called bay view. google says it'll be the largest office complex with all radiant heating in the u.s. >>> flashes break out in a holy site. the catalyst for today's violence. >> a wrongly convicted bay area man is free tonight mom, i invited justin over for lunch. good. no, not good. he's a vegetarian and he's going to be here in 20 minutes! [ mom ] don't stress. we can figure this out. ♪ [ male announcer ] get the speed to make a great first impression. call today to get u-verse high speed internet for as little as $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. this is delicious. ♪ [ male a

. >>> you can add microsoft to the list of prominent technology company that is have now been hacked. microsoft acknowledged the hacking today in a blog posting. and also found they found no evidence that any customer information had been taken. all three of those companies now say they are investigating. >>> google is preparing to expand and tonight we have a glimpse of what the new 42-acre campus is expected to look like. here it is an artist rendering of the mountain view complex called bay view. google says it'll be the largest office complex with all radiant heating in the u.s. >>> flashes break out in a holy site. the catalyst for today's violence. >> a wrongly convicted bay area man is free tonight in part thanks to the help of the innocence project here in the south bay. still to come, the most common problem they say can lead to a wrong conviction. atever you want, baby. let's just share a 20 piece. [ internal ] 20 mcnuggets, for only $4.99? she's beautiful smart and sensible. [ male announcer ] mcdonald's extra value menu. the simple joy of having more to love. ♪ >>> santa c

. >>> so you can now add microsoft to the list of companies that says it's been hacked. small u.n. of computers were infected -- small number of computers were intected with malware. it's similar to the ones that plagued apple, facebook, and twitter. doesn't appear that customers' information is affected. >>> dangerous flooding in australia has killed at least two people. look at the pictures. many drivers left stranded because of the rising waters there. >>> nearly four months after superstorm sandy ravaged the northeast, the last of the residents forced out are finally being allowed to return home. they're finding they have a lot of work ahead of them. more than half of the homes in this new jersey community are beyond repair. the mayor says it will probably take about three to five years to rebuild. >>> sometimes it pays to return a ring that was accidently dropped in your cup. that's the moral. here's the story -- we'll do this backwards today. we told you about the homeless man last week and how he returned a diamond ring dropped in his change cup by accident. get t

microsoft running attack ads against googled saying googled goes to every g-mail you send or receive looking for key words so they know which addsto try microsoft instead. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. >> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. >> good morning. today will be a quiet day. tomorrow could be a different story. 26 at the airport. we will make it up to 40 this afternoon. some rain in atlanta. 36 in chicago. nice in los angeles, 62. >> good morning. quiet on the area roads. defective traffic light its average 27 in the manchester area at main street. traffic is building at security. southbound j.f.x. running smoothly down towards 28th d street. northeast side and harford checks out just fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. 26 degrees at the airport. >> five strikes and security. the warehouse opens up about its drone strike program. details are coming up. >> the approach to national security will be the focus on capitol hill. >> the confirmation process gets under way for president obama's pick, john brennan. >> hallie jackson h

microsoft has not had an easy time recently. would you ever return to the front office? >> i'm engaged adds chairman on a part-time basis but my full-time work for the rest of my life will be the foundation work. microsoft has a lot of exciting things going on. it's a competitive field. windows 8 has done well. surface computers are doing well. so i share lots of ideas about where office should go and, you know, i think the field as a whole should be proud of how quickly it's moving and microsoft is lead in a lot of those areas. >> you and melinda have given away some $28 billion through your found dags. your fortune is still more than $68 billion. where do you see your work now? >> well, we're committed to the diseases that affect the poorest, malaria, live, all that affect childhood conditions. until we treat the health of that poor child as being as important as health of a rich child, we'll still have work to do. and, you know, that gives us decade after decade of needing to make progress. malaria is a great story. the decaths have come down a lo. we don't yet have the tools to do eradi

microsoft's new surface tablet has more capacity than the surface rt introduce add few months ago and runs the full version of windows 8. abc news technology editor says this is a across between a laptop and a tablet. >> you can use it for watching movies, music, looking at yaps in -- apps in the app store but you can use the old word program. >> it is not the best tablet or the best laptop available. a study finds that three out of five facebook users admit to taking extended breaks from the social network. the main reason are lack of time and lack >> santa clara, san francisco, east bay, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> speaking of the east bay on this end morning a look at interstate 80 winding through berkeley with the traffic yet to pick up. we guarantee, it will, later in the morning. sue is monitoring the traffic. >> it is 4:40. abc news source says federal authorities are investigating disgraceed cyclist lance armstrong over obstruction and witness tampering. others have said he coerce the them into using performance-enhancing drugs and he admitted it in a recent in

adds a feature to its laptop. >> in today's tech bytes google challenges microsoft and apple. search giant is offering a touch screen version of its laptop. these laptops will lie on a cloud-based software. oracle will plug a hole in its software after a series of hacking attacks. security experts say hacker's see java as the easiest way to break into systems. for $19 a month republic wireless get unlimited a voice and data on android smartphones. there are trade-offs. >> it only works on a moral of hansard. -- motorola handset. >> there is no contract. those are your tech bytes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ woman ] looks like another glorious week in florida. ♪ ♪ that...was...awesome. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] how do you make your family vacation this epic? go to visitflorida.com. >> 7 is on your side this morning with a disturbing details about this year's flu shots. the cdc says the vaccine is only nine% effective. people over the age of 55 -- 9% effective for people over the age of 55. it could explain why some money -- so many older people have been hospitalized this flu season. >> time,

but microsoft doesn't have any better growth characteristics. >> i just add this to sort of the overall discussion of, oh, how the mightily have fallen. the most loved stock of last year can't even make it onto the top 50 at citi? >> markets are fickle. >> especially after the -- like you say, that 30% correction that it's made, wouldn't more of us say that it is a value down here than it was at $600 or $700? my answer would be yes. obviously citi's is no. >> i'm going to say citi is dead wrong. i look over to katie hubert at morgan stanley who i think is the peyton manning of analysts when it comes to apple. she's been around forever. i've been watching her follow apple since well below $100 a share. she's consistent. she's throwing touchdowns. show knows how to direct herself. >> she threw a big touchdown today, if it comes to fruition, saying that they were going to more than double the dividend, right? >> doesn't that all sound like what we've been talking about on this desk, a second-half story. she talked about carrier partnerships. they're seeing so much success with the minis in

microsoft needs. it is a log of what competitors have talked about. i would add teambuilding skills. everything by teams at microsoft. if you cannot work with theme -- within 18, you will not be -- if you cannot work within 18,, you will not be successful. look at what we are doing not only at the college level but in high schools and across the spectrum. we have nine states in the u.s. who look at computer sciences as a core degree in high school. for doing state take computer sciences and look at it like jim. we have 42,000 high schools in the u.s. 2100 teach ap computer science. if we do not look at our feeder network and what we are doing to bring more people in, to counsel them about the right choices, to let them know where the jobs are because once you are a senior in high school, it is too late. if you have not done the work, because you have the ability to solve problems, we will continue to have these challenges. >> thank you. it sounds like there is a lot of definite areas where we have a gap in what we are producing in terms of our college graduates and what is needed in t

adds a touch pad, light bar and a share button. the device will also feature game streaming and social interaction. playstation 4 will hit stores later on this year and competitor microsofto unveil its next xbox in june. >>> let's say hello to our facebook fan of the day. day davis is in the hospital awaiting the birth of her sop and she is still tuning in to fox 5 morning news. >> best of luck with the child, the new baby. >> this is a first -- awaiting the birth of her son.  [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thankyou card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot, even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely... looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your citi thankyou points to travel whenever you want. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! my bowl, my spoons! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who

microsoft deals with a string of problems. the latest involves a worldwide outage for a service that stores data. the service went down yesterday afternoon. the company says it's slowly restoring the program. to add on to the problems, it's the latest company to suffer a hacking attack. it's giving few details about what happened but said it affected a small number of employees' computers. no customer data was stolen during the attack. microsoft now joins facebook, twitter, and apple as online companies that have been hacked in the past month. >>> if you've noticed that your office has been a little empty this winter, you're not alone. more americans called out of work sick in january than any other month in nearly five years. the bureau of labor statistics says nearly 3 million full-time employees missed work last month because of illness. more than 1 million were out an entire week. the last time numbers were that high was february of 2008. >>> a local man busted again. coming up, wait until you hear how many times he's been arrested and how police tracked him down after his latest crime. >>> plus, could a house fire that claimed the lives of a father and two little girls actually save more loc

so when you look at what microsoft needs, it's a lot of what the panelists have talked about and i would add one, team building skills and working within a team. we do everything by team at microsoft. easy can't work within a team under their how smart you are, or how fascinating -- you will not be successful at the end of the day. and so really important to look at what we're doing, not only at the college level but in high schools and all up and down the spectrum. we've only got nine states in the united states who represent, who actually look at computer science as a court agreed in high school. nine states. 41 states take computer science and look at it like jim. we have 42000 high schools in the united states. 2100 teach ap computer science. so it's certainly a a higher it issue but if we don't look at our feeder network and what we're doing to bring more people and, to counsel them about the right choices, to lessen the early on whether jobs are. because once you get to be a senior in high school or a freshman in college it's too late. if you haven't been the prerequisite, if you have

trade commission block add similar merger between staples and office depot for being anticompetitive but officials say the economic situation now is different. >> today, microsoft releases the outlook e-mail service after six months of the preview period. it is open to the public and microsoft is spending $30 million to market it. they seek to lure members away from gmail with 60 members using outlook.com and microsoft says the features include ability to send large files and becomes that automatic and fewer advertisements and the option to connect through social media sites. >> we are now a day away great robin roberts returning to "good morning america" after the grueling fight with a dangerous disease. she has been off the air since august and when she sits down she will have fans here who can identify with what she has gone through. >> joan became an avid viewer when "good morning america" anchor announced the new fight against a dangerous blood disease. >> when you have a bone marrow transplant you do not have an immunity system for a while and you are versus sentible to infection. >> i ran to the tv and watched what she was talking about and i could relat

with microsoft and windows but the chrome devices would compete with android, which powers a slew of smartphones and tablets. google shares up about 0.3% today. well above the market, we should addrest, valuation of $2.5 billion. hedge fund valiant led the investment group. pinterest has grown quickly since launching in 2010 and now has more than 49 million users worldwide. that's a growth story for you on what's otherwise been a pretty grim morning. the s&p 500 trying to cling on to that 1500 level. european trade has seen markets whacked across the board. down in the range of 1.5%, almost 2% now slightly off those lows. but the pmi figures not doing much for sentiment. i'll have more on the market update for you on "squawk box" in just a couple minutes time. for now, that does it for us here on "worldwide exchange." thank you for tuning in. hope to see you back here tomorrow morning. [ male announcer ] any technology not moving forward is moving backward. [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] and you'll find advanced safety technology like an available heads-up display on the 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back.