so alistair, let me start with you. what fueled today's demand?there are really two things: one is fundamentals of a company off into the future and the other-- which is probably more important today-- was the supply and demand of the stock. there wasn't a lot of stock available and there was a lot of demand from big institutional investors. >> sreenivasan: mr. hambrecht, who made money today. of the 230 million users i talked about i imagine very few got in a share at $26. >> i think you are right. the system of an i.p.o. that basically calls it a public offering, it really isn't. i mean, it was an offering to really select institutions and some clients of the underwriters. but the public at large just really didn't have any access to it at all. >> sreenivasan: also stair barr, where does twitter say it's going to make its money? >> well, right now it makes most of its money in the u.s., but most of its users, interestingly, are abroad. over 70% of them, actually. and so when wall street is in a good mood, they look at something like that and the

well alistair darling figures are mostly a work of fantasy itself mostly it's mostly a very shrill tone all all afternoon and all morning he really hasn't been happy with what he said because he knows well he peddles meth and fear that the reality and the hard facts are coming from my side scottish national party in the us campaign what alistair darling of course should realise is that it'll be in everybody's interest to copy it afterwards and he should move away from the truth as adopted they had nothing positive to see he's a case to make for the his own preferred choice he just rather goes a boat spreading fears and a misinformation frankly this paper produced today has been described by the gas last mother spoke to it as a catalogue information at your fingertips accessible easy to digest but it's a lot of information in there but of course there's also a lot still to be negotiated as well isn't there this is a big decision for the scottish people do they really have all the information they need in that document to make the right decision. well no peoples anywhere would have had th

alistair knew less about them. >> most guests don't have as many reviews.nce i get their name, i'll try to do a facebook search on them, but generally i've had really good luck. >> he's happy, they're happy. and this wonderful new business where strangers with complementary needs find each other keeps growing. so, of course, politicians crack down. this politician got a law passed that bans anyone from renting their own apartment to anyone for a time period of less than a full month. if you do, you're an illegal hotel and you can be fined up to $25,000. the hotel industry supports the law, to protect tourists, they say. >> they walk into a situation that is not safe, not clean. >> really? when we asked for names of complainants, her office didn't provide any. >> there are people begging legislators for the laws to be overturned. >> despite all the laws sometimes entrepreneurs and their customers still win. room for rent website listings are up since new york's law pass ed. liam like alistair make some money, people like the hocktons save some money and they

. >> sreenivasan: so alistair, staying with you, you said there are quite a few challenges, it's notonvince the existing user base on how to use the service. how do they do that overseas? >> if i was trying to explain twiter to my mother it would probably be extremely difficult for her. and you see this in the comparison between facebook and twitter. twitter has 230 million users, facebook has over a billion. and when music news has come to the twitter site it's not immediately clear and easy how to use it or how relevant it's going to be. so one of the main things twitter has to do is fix that and make it much easier for new users to come to the site and say, "hey, that's relevant to me." >> sreenivasan: bill hambrecht, if they're facing usability or the overseas market challenges, are investors going to take concern or pause? take a time out here? >> that's going to be hard to guess. you know, i think it's very clear that are facebook -- facebook? twitter has great respect, i think, in the technology world. they've done a very good job of distinguishing themselves in the mobile mar

joined by alistair bar of "u.s. today," welcome to the program. kim mcnicholas of pando daily. obviously awful, awful things happened to you, and we'll get to that in a second but one of the vance that ashley vance in bloomberg business week wrote about you is you spent a number of years essentially in an old folks home at the age of 22 recovering, and they themselves took care of you, the senior citizens. >> yeah. you know, ashley was exactly right. i spent about three years in a senior citizens home in colorado, and during that time it was as if i had 100 grandparents and just like anybody's grandparents, they'll assess you, figure out what your learning needs are, and then they retrain you, and when i showed up at the senior citizens home, i couldn't speak. i could barely walk. i had no ability to cook or to take care of myself, and everybody figured out where their skills were best and paired up with me to help me learn to speak, cook, go to the grocery store, go to the bank, open up a bank account, and so, yeah -- >> saved your life. >> saved my life. >> along with a team

however, to reiterate the comments of the right honorable member for north east bedfordshire -- alistair burt), is now the time to urge iran to do everything in her power to bring an end to the desperate civil war in syria? there are millions of refugees, and we have learned today that 11,000 children have been deliberately killed in syria, some at the hands of torturers. >> it is time to do that. it is too early to say whether the agreement on iran's nuclear program foreshadows any other changes in its foreign policy. we would of course like to see such changes, particularly in relation to syria. we, with other countries, have worked hard to assemble the geneva 2 peace conference and in the past two hours, the date of the conference has been announced, and it will take place on 22 january. i urge iran to play a constructive and helpful role in the peace process. >> following on from the excellent question by my right honorable friend the member for mid sussex -- nicholas soames -- on verification and inspection, does the foreign secretary agree that the iaea will need more resources to

heavyweight stock alistair overeem recently held the last acoss in moscow and talked to robert thought on about his ultimate. their one and only often there's just a one out cliche but in a fire house they're all worst case it's an undisputed definition the only man in the history of gone with sports to hold jam bands bells in mixed martial arts and kick boxing at the same time to form a strikeforce dream and get one heavyweight champ than one of the most feared strikers in m.m.a. the demolition man whose full potential is still unknown. i find m.m.a. more hard because there's more displeasure to. get more factors the rest are just too striking there's more surprise element in there. but can also of course as i like strike and so forth it's like i would have to make choices it would be animate and of course i have a free championships belt for me only one remains and i was the you should go so this is my my goal with a total of fifty and i'm a belts on he says be there is six so which is one the english born dutchman lost his last two fights in the u.f.c. and his next bout against whic

they're far more self-sufficient everywhere in this country. >> alistair, good to talk to you for theer about barriers to international growth. >> look forward to it. >> coming up this afternoon. just more duty i have to do, karen. i'm going to be watching "worldwide exchange" now though because i want to see some of your -- you have a guest. how long, 10, 15 minutes? >> you're really annoyed that you missed out on this? miss america is coming up in a few minutes' time. >> i think there's a conspiracy. >> what are the chances you anchor 364 other days of the year and the one day you're out in the field we get a lovely guest for you not to interview. such is life, ross. but i'm sure there will be plenty of applause on the stage for you later this afternoon as well. >>> well, it is the final day for potential blackberry bidders to be looking at financials the $4.7 billion buyout offer. the smartphone showdown coming up. >>> here's how futures are trading ahead of wall street. a bit of green on the screen from some of the gains across the european session today. how do you make money in

with reporters kim mcnicholas and alistair bar of "usa today" this week on "press:here." >> good morningto start with my first guest. is the most remarkable thing about her that she started college at cal berkeley at 16 or she's so start the marine corps came to her

. >> alistair, good to see you. thanks for that.ll will be revealed, of course, tomorrow when we get the real market. now everything week, of course, cnbc is asking you to give up your thoughts on the trend. we bring you the results. our trader poll this week is how will twitter close on its first day of trade? it's pretty simple, higher, lower or flat. head to traderpoll.cnbc.com. cast your vote. have your say on twitter using #traderpoll. >>> plenty of ipos in focus elsewhere, providence hong kong exchange is clearing it up 20% on the year in september. thanks to rising revenues and trading stocks derivatives jumped nearly 20%, too. seeing more growth in its ipo pipeline. today, bank of -- made its trading debut in a $550 million float. also, in other ipo news, china's shangwhi international has reportedly hired six banks for a hong kong listing. it bought the u.s. pork producer smith foods for $4.7 billion earlier this year. if successful, the float would be the biggest in the asia pacific region since 2010. a lot of folks will a

world, including in syria, as my right honorable friend the member for north east bedfordshire (alistair burt) has rightly said; and end its involvement in the repression of religious minorities, including christians and jewish people, in iran? would it also not help if iran stopped the hate speech against israel, a recent example of which came from the supreme leader, who just a few days ago referred to israel as "the sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region"? that seems to have escaped the attention of the right honorable and learned member for north >> i agree on the importance of those issues and of iran changing its approach to them. clearly, the negotiations were solely on the nuclear program. it is right that they were, because in order to make progress, we must focus exclusively on that. however, in our wider discussions with iran, which have become possible with the upgrading of our diplomatic relations that i have announced, we will want to address the full range of issues, including the sponsorship of terrorism in other countries and the hate speech to which my honorable i co