. >> news on aol. special dividend.ght hear from the company on this show later on in the morning. dividend of $5.15 a share. that's the amount the company received when they sold all those patents to microsoft back in april. >> patents in focus so much this morning. also the dividends. i think back to morgan stanley a week or so ago coming out and saying, investors still despite the attention we've seen aren't focusing enough on dividend strategies. there should be more dividend-focused hedge funds. that's their big pitch. seeing more income generation driving markets. >> true. it's a good opportunity for us to, too, to sort of debrief you and see what the -- how this is all being read in europe, how these merkel meetings went off last week, some of the rhetoric we got from her saying, i want to keep this together if we can. meaningful or not? >> what's interesting is i think we got to a point a couple of weeks ago maybe during this market melt-up where people started feeling better about the european situation, policy

our partners on this effort include aol, facebook, the free to be foundation, the waite institute fore prevention, johnson & johnson, and the u.s. departments of education and health and human services. and our cause has been aided by pro bono resources from ddb, communispace and cara as well as generous media support from clear channel, aol, facebook and many others. we're delighted that some of our partners have joined us today, and i would like to take a moment to acknowledge them. over here we have joe and jenny, and also from cartoon network, alice khan. thank you so much for all that you're doing on this effort. and a very special thanks to deb temkin from the department of education for all her input and guidance and for organizing this terrific summit. [applause] the campaign was developed with help from a very engaged advisory group, many of whom are also here with us today, and we really appreciate your valuable feedback. nearly three out of four children in our country witness bullying. research has shown that parents don't see an inherent need to talk to their kids about b

aol hit it's highest value.he company sold patents to microsoft and collected more ad revenue n san francisco, i'm emily chang. and dan, carolyn, back to you. >> and we talked about tropical storm hurricane moving on the east coast of the -- . >> it's a very different story. >> perfect weerj and what we normally see as coastal clouds are off shore now. there are sunny skies in the coast and inland areas. it's nice and warmer in the area. looking towards the golden gate, you can see clouds are showing up you'll see are well off shore. and and it's sunny and mild and warm. take a look at live doppler 7. you can see there are clouds approaching the coastline. they will get closer during late night and overnight hours, up to 87 degrees in several locations right now. 87 in santa rosa and fairfield. 86 in concord, rather uniform inland readings at the moment. 82 in fremont. 81 in san carlos. 66 in san francisco. highlights, we'll see patchy coastal fog, sunny tomorrow, mild at the coast, warm inland. there are clouds

i open up aol and check my mail. look what i found. boom.hings about the show is people are learning about my background, half irish and half puerto rican. my mother was born in puerto rico. met my father in san francisco. they fell in love. one of the things that brought them together was a great love of music. and dancing. i definitely inherited that from my parents. it makes me feel alive. it's funny, we started the show. they said you know you kick your leg and dancing and moving in the chair? i look back and i watch the show. and i saw that every time we come in with music and on the way out i was doing myself moves and doing my dancing. people wrote in about it. they love it. my bosses said you know what? don't change a thing. keep on dancing. >> i'm guessing "dancing with the stars" is next. yes, greg, i use o aol. >> bob: mine is simple. mitt romney this is for you. i decided to ask for your payment for the taxes to be sent to news organization. it'd like to give to this to you. i'd pay for if it you stop hiding. >> glenn: like he ne

washington gave birth to aol and now has living social. americans are getting better at paying off automobile loans. more homeowners are still underwater on mortgages. more on that in the next hour. live at bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. 4:38 right now one this thursday morning. >> from the >to florida people stocking up ahead of tropical storm isaacs. how the storm could put a damper \ >> folks are getting storm supplies ready as they brace for what tropical storm isaacs might bring. the storm already forced officials at guantanamo bay to cancel pretrial arguments from 9/11 terror attacks suspects. >> and it poses a threat to the republican national convention in florida next week. andrew spencer has more. >> residents stocked up on emergency supplies on wednesday. the national hurricane center has issued a tropical storm warning for the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. in cuba, sirens blared as the u.s. military base at guantanamo bay and went into readiness mode. c

aol, netflix, that is a lot of companies. two radio stations have dropped his show altogether. not surprisingly, john stuart have had the best commentary on what is going on. there are so many attacks on women's health. we talked about this on my show today. last year, states enacted a record number of abortion restrictions. in all 50 states combined, we are talking. legislators introduced more than 1100 provisions. in 2010, it was 950. 68% of these provisions restrict access to abortion services. yesterday, bob mcdonnell signed a bill that requires women to have the ultrasound's prior to having an abortion. this was supposed to be a transvaginal ultrasound. 300 women's rights groups to to the streets of the capitol in richmond, va., on saturday and they were matched by cops. i saw a little girl that was on the steps with about 10 cops. a protest is taking place as we speak in idaho over a similar law. in alabama, one of the ultrasound bills can be and is president of the company that sells the equipment to do the ultrasound. you have to follow the money. there are connections

and aol going to buy back stock and cash dividend 15 cents per share, up 33 on aol. tiffany, lowered sales and profit forecasts, and not more than analysts expected and it's up 5%. m and t bank to buy hudson city savings bank in a deal valued at 3.7 billion. there are your 7 early movers ap the dow as we said opening pretty flat and a down side bias, not much. down 13 points as we speak. and you know, there are 11 key swing states that could decide the presidential election and next, scott rasmussen has his first tracking poll from the 11 states. who is leading, where it really counts. an answer in a moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade. before you

aol says it will do two things. it will pay a special dividend of $5.15 a share to stockholders and will buy back $600 million worth of its own stock, aol share price getting a bump on the news. >>> and we've told you a lot about tech jobs so far this year. and here's why. the san francisco center for economic development today saying the number of tech jobs in the city has tripled so far for 2012 from this time last year. among the big factors at play here, more venture funding here in the bay area than anywhere else in the world by a large margin. among the effects, a jump in housing prices for san francisco, as well. jessica? is. >> okay, thank you very much, scott. >>> oakland sports fans held a morning rally, hoping to show that they're committed to oakland pro sports teams. sports fans and city leaders showed their team spirit as they took part in the oakland love sports teams rally. sports fans are worried the a's and raiders may follow in the footsteps of the golden state warriors who announced plans to leav

aol stock has more than doubled over this year up 120%. >>> food stocks hitting new highs.pbell's soup trading at levels not seen since june of last year. jm smucker all-time levels and bc to the ipo in 1959. >>> navistar rallying. c eo stepping down from the truck maker. he's replaced by an interim ceo lewis campbell, the former head of trekstrom. >>> up next, shares of tiffany surging despite missing profit estimates and cutting its outlook. we'll tell you why wall street still loves the little blue box. >>> plus, diamonds are forever. could they be a smarter long-term play? think gold. we'll show you a rock that's sitting next to me here at the new york stock exchange that will make your jaw drop. my volt is the best vehicle i've ever driven. i bought the car because of its efficiency. i bought the car because i could eliminate gas from my budget. i don't spend money on gasoline. it's been 4,000 miles since my last trip to the gas station. it's pretty great. i get a bunch of kids waving at me... giving me the thumbs up. it's always a gratifying experience. it makes me fe

how is tech crunch -- it's been bought by aol. that's the latest. >> you're really putting me in the hot seat. it's great. obviously lots has happened over the past year. but i think we're better than ever and we've got new leadership, new talent, and i think it's a different tech crunch now, but i think that we're on it a new chapter. we survived. michael is our founder and he'll always be tied to our brand and we're lucky to have him. >> the latest thing you wrote was about square. mobile payments have become an enormous and understandably, i can understand the desire to be able to do all this with your smart phone. target and walmart announced that they would team up to try to create their own mobile payment system. are we thinking square will ben? >> square announced a partnership with starbucks, so they'll be processing all the payments in about 7,000 stores. and their loyalty app will best. it's a huge deal for square and it should just sort of expand their user base significantly. and you're seeing all these other retailers

our partners on this effort include aol, facebook, the free to the foundation, the we've institute for violence prevention, johnson & johnson, and the u.s. the part of education and health and human services. and the cause has been aided by a probe of resources from bbb, come in space and tara as well as generous media support from clear channel, aol, facebook and many of there's. we are delighted that some of our partners have joined us today and i would like to take a moment to acknowledge them over here. we have joe and geneina levine. also from cartoon network, alex cahn. a special thanks to devotee to from the the part of the ejection for her input and guidance and organizing this terrific summit. [applause] the campaign was developed from help from a very engaged advisory group many of whom are also with us today and we really appreciate your valuable feedback. in nearly three out of four children in our country witness bullying. research has shown parents don't see an inherent need to talk to their kids about fleeing unless their child is involved in an incident or approaches th

i'm watching particularly shares of aol right now.e highest level this year. they're returning 1.1 billion dollars to shareholders and buying back 600 million dollars of stock announcing a cash dividend of $5.15, and one more thing on the markets, dennis, this hasn't been spoken about a lot today, charles evans, the chicago non-voting fomc member basically saying that the market could use immediate easing now, but for some reason no one is picking up on this today, and it is certainly not moving the markets too much. back to you. >> thank you, lauren. >>> and it's time to make money with charles payne. charles, what do you have? charles: carnival cruise line, they were in the news last week. it is a pilot program, i'm thinking about the guy who piloted the costa concordia. last two quarters beat the street. of course it still gets no real should i say credibility if you will on wall street. i think though if they continue to do this kind of stuff, continue to beat, particularly like that, the stock is going to make a big move. i look

you saw what aol did today with the special dividend.ure of what the dividend taxation rate will be going forward into 2013. i think you're going to see a lot of pull forward. m and m is going to heat up. special dividends will begin to come out in a more intense fashion. >> stephanie link, i hear all that. but the 10-year yield is still at 1.6%. i can buy a huge percentage of the s&p 500 and still get more yield and, perhaps, even get an appreciation of the underlying asset. >> certainly. i think the key here is dividend growth. that's to joe's point, right? you have over $2 trillion in cash sitting in the balance sheets of u.s. corporations. particularly if romney wins, you're going to have the repatriation possibility. either way you'll see companies continue to raise dividends. i look at more of the di dend growers. something like a jpmorgan, something like a nike, something like a chevron or even a bristol myer. you can get more growth to the dividends going forward. also solid underlying fundame fundamenta fundamentals. >> iron man

you have aol popping about 2%. >> and a 5.15 dollar per share special bid.opping 70%. >> dollar thrifty has been going on, finally bought out by hertz. it's almost doubled the price. perts is very interesting. i think it goes higher from here. >> a lot of things i don't understand and this next story is one of them. missed earnings, missed sales and the stock popped 7%. >> they asked me the same question, here's what happened. they actually cut their estimates letss than what analysts expected. i still do not think this is a name you want. >> just not as bad as people thought? >> i don't know. all right. >> it can get a lot worse. you don't are you bidding for best buy. >> i do not like the company. but they did a 180. i don't know how you tell a guy that he can't look at the books. >> earlier we heard from kudlow. he will be speaking with governor scott walker from wisconsin. governor bob mcdonald of virginia, which also is sort of many play and the governor of oklahoma. key people from important swing states. it's too important to miss. 7:00 p.m. eastern t

adults radio is still number one. 9% say get this, they still listen to cassettes, more than spotify, aol or yahoo music. guess old habits die hard. >> and there is us in the sports department we fire up the 8 track. >> yes. >> sandhya patel is in tonight. >> there is a good sign. >> fog started this afternoon, highs so far, mid-90s live more and there is vacaville up to 100 degrees. i'll show you what it looks like. there are high clouds moving through there in the north bay and fog layer is deepening so there is a sign of things still to come. temperatures now 59 in half moon bay. 94 inland. fog at the coast and cooling tips inland tomorrow. we're looking at partly cloudy skies this weekend. this is what is going to get interesting here, it's developing here. as it develops there is a drying up moisture in the form of high clouds. and there is a combination of a two there is going to fall part. when the moisture makes the way up we may be tracking with our live doppler 7 hd and numbers 85 in couper teen yes. high clouds on the peninsula, 80 redwood city. upper 50s to low 60s. fog going

. >>> remember the days of the dial up and aol and only way to get online. >> i like that name, hot mail. >> maybe after hearing your thoughts they may change. [ laughter ] >> i've got the weather outlook. >> perfect. >> let's take a look outside, a live view from mount tam camera looking down into the bay, reflection of moonlight. lovely evening around the bay area. a little coastal low cloudiness. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. gives you an idea how klees clear things. we have low cloudiness near the coast and few trailing high clouds that have been pushing in towards marin county. we've got clear skies over the entire region but we had a hot day, in the upper 90s. mid to upper 90s fairfield, concord and livermore. heat goes on. we'll have more of this weather coming our way tomorrow. 82 in antioch. 73 in san rafael. santa rosa, 61. 56, san francisco. highlights, areas of fog near the coast. hot inland the next two days and then we'll start cooling down for the weekend. overnight tonight, look for little patches of coastal fog, couple patches working out over the bay, mid to uppe

remember in the '90s when your e-mail options were aol, yahoo or hotmail? yahoo!s aol is considered a relic and microsoft is phasing out hotmail. this is a radical overhaul for the company. over the next few months a number of hotmail users will be invited to test out the new outlook. yes, what's old is new again. eventually everyone will be transitioned over to outlook. but no firm deadline on when that will happen yet. don't worry if you are an existing hotmail user you can keep your hotmail or live.com address. new users will only have the live or outlook options. hotmail is still the world's biggest e-mail service with 325 million users. gmail and yahoo! follow with 298 million each. who knew? >> will there be exciting new changes in the new outlook? >> it seems that way. what microsoft says is the e-mail will maut matcally label e-mails it detects are newsletters or store promotions. it will have a universal unsubscribe button and promises fewer ads. we can hope. >> thank you. >>> a woman kidnapped is now safe this morning. it's all thanks to the tsa. ♪ [musi

the entire video is available on aol's music home.ce ♪ >> isn't that great? >> cute. >> he is cute. >> he said we could show it only if we promised to let him come back and sing it in the studio for us live. >> maybe he could play christian grey. . >> cheyenne would be a great christian grey. >> a little cheyenne jackson. >> we are so happy for him. most talented people you meet do something else very, very well. so he's a doll. we are very, very happy. >> how's your coors light? >> i'm not -- i have to have maryland crabs to go with it. got any of those back there? all righty. let's face it, men and women are different. will we ever truly understand each other? >> our guys tell-all panel will chime in on, well, everything, as you've already heard. but first these messages. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities whi

aol is high after declaring a special dividend of $5.15 a share, look where the stock is at this pointit would repurchase $600 million in shares under an accelerated buyback program and the company is returning $1.1 billion to shareholders, the same amount it got from microsoft in an april patent sale. >>> hertz is buying dollar thifty for $2.3 billion in cash. >>> tiffany shares are higher despite the earnings release, luxury goods earnings fell short of estimates, it's cutting its outlook for the year, but it is indicated higher. >>> gulf coast residents are preparing for tropical storm isaac. cnbc's scott cohn joins us now. wow, scott, yeah, rough down there for you. get some cover there, buddy. looks tough. >> reporter: yeah, right. well, look, i mean the storm is still about 400 miles away from here. they do say that they could start feeling some effects here on the gulf coast by the end of today. the extreme outer bands of isaac, which is still a tropical storm with 65-mile-per-hour maximum sustained winds. the longer is stays just a tropical storm the better off for everybody. s

former congressman patrick kennedy tells nbc news he had an emotion aol meeting with jackson at the mayor clinic. jackson is worried about his political future and called jackson an inspiration for addressing his mental illness. jackson is up for re-election this november. >>> the grueling presidential campaign is taking a toll on mitt romney's wife. ann romney said she had a flare-up of multiple sclerosis on the campaign. she was diagnosed in 1988 but she's been in remission. flare-ups can occur though under constant stress. >>> 6:19. this morning there is a second case of west nile virus in maryland. state health official says the new case is in the d.c. metro area and involves a 70-year-old patient. health officials will not release any more information. the state's first case of the virus was reported last month in central maryland. health officials say one or two cases of west nile is typical this time of year. >>> texas suffering from the worst outbreak of west nile virus in decades. overnight for the first time in 4 45 years dallas dropped insecticide from the air. you can see the

. >> judge jeanine: with me is the local editor of the patch an aol news service whose book fatal vows the tragic wives of drew peterson was the basis for the movie untouchable that we saw a clip of. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> judge jeanine: you wrote this book fatal vows the tragic wives of sergeant peterson. why did you write the book? >> i covered stacy's dis appearance and i covered kathleens it death in 2004. >> you are from the chicago area. >> i was the only person who wrote about kathleen's death. and then the state police determined it was an accident pretty much immediately and my losses didn't want me to write about it any more so i didn't. >> judge jeanine: why were you so interested in it? what you are tell meeing me isu saw something in this before everyone else did? >> he is a policeman and going through the lengthy divorce and animosity and there is court records detailing the animosity. her death was so suspicious. i don't know of healthy people who drown in bath tubs unless they are on drugs or alcohol. she had neither in her system. that was c

a couple include jc penney, aol.u could buy a combination of companies like pandora, jynga and still have money left over. you could buy 25 or if you want to spread yourself thin, four space shuttles, gto and nearly every person in greece an ipad. walt disney owned espn and chose live baseball. that is it for you guys. >> i think that might be the better choice. >> i don't know. some of those companies in there, $5.6 billion? but i think i would choose baseball, too. >> exactly. >> thank you. >> another day, another fresh batch of tea leaves on the economy. >> wall street's finest with their take on what's going to move your money the most tomorrow. and the foundation on which merrill lynch has been built. today, our financial advisors lead from a new position of strength. together with bank of america, they have access to more resources than ever before. a steadfast commitment to help you achieve your financial goals in life. that's the power of the right advisor. that's merrill lynch. >> with 30 seconds on the cloc

potentially we could see before the end of the year a lot of increases in the dividends as we saw with aol this past week as the fiscal cliff approaches with tax rates in 2013, what they will be? >> i do think so. you know, certainly there are a lot of companies that have a tremendous amount of cash on the balance sheet and are generating free cash flow that they have no use for, so that's certainly true of a lot of technology companies and i would like to think they would take this increase in taxes as a somewhat of a push to pay out a special dividend. >> let me commit michelle's question another way. your mandate is to invest in dividend and income stocks so you're in the market all the time. it's a matter of fact for you, what you do as a living. what have you seen from nontraditional yield buyers in terms of sectors as you look out across your whole landscape? >> the most interest from -- >> nontraditional yield buyers that are going after that safety trade. >> i think for one thing, i am looking for total return. so it's not giving up total return for a dividend. and for individuals

major employers include verizon business and aol and the latest boom to hit this pocket of the northernirginia high-tech economy? data centers which now occupy 4.3 million square feet. numbers two, three and four are in texas. fort bend, williamson and montgomery. number five, douglas county, colorado. >>> oil prices getting pretty close to $100 a barrel again and experts are blaming the fed and the indications that the central banks could prop up the economy. that could lead to inflation and oil tends to be the type of assets that investors buy in inflationary times. we are all bearing the blunt of higher oil free agencies already when we -- prices already when we go to the gas pump. aaa says $3.71 a gallon on average in the washington area this morning. that's up 22 cents in the past month alone. >>> hollywood is set to unleash a blockbuster lineup of anymore. this is fall on blue way and that includes this one -- open their ill-fated voyage. box oversale vie on the titanic comes out on blu-ray september 10th. there's a 3d release as well. other classics includes the indiana jones fil

i was at aol and they put in physical barriers to keep employees away from the executive suite. this is the right kind of message to sen. it's not like the best employees are coming for just free food, but it makes a difference. >> you know, john, the stock price is unfortunately the measure, the report card of the company ceo, and it's up about 30 cents since she took over. >> that's right but she's taken the stock price off of the internal home page that's not a measuring stick for people inside. she is getting her own food in the cafeteria, holding weekly meetings where she talks to the staff and takes questions. she really jumped right in and done that. it's sending the right symbolic moves, but the focus is on product, and to get focus on that you need new people. she got a former googler that just started and a pr person from google had. so you you need to see who she brings in. he lost some people, you have to suspend judgment until you see what people she's able to bring there because that will lay the foundation. >> yes, rocky, what has she not done yet that we want to

this may be the worst merger since aol bought time warner. with me are bob shrum and michael steele. i want to start with you, michael because you're always a stra straight shooter around here. is cold feet too cold a term to tough a term for the feeling some are having about ryan with his difficult budget to sell? >> i don't think it's so much cold as it is nervous. i think that as the dust has settled on this and particularly those down ballot congressional races, we're only talking about 25-seat change in the house. when half are close to half of these seats may be in districts that are too close to call for some republicans, if it becomes a major concern, now that as you already noted, the conversation had shifted away from even you know, taxes and tax returns and the like to okay, let's talk about the specifics of your budget cht let's talk about the specifics of medicare and i've begun to hear a little bit of that rumbling among republicans. are a little nervous about it. >> politico's story today was headlines gop pros fred over paul r

. >>> aol will pay 5 clin $15 special cash dividend to shareholders.y will buy back $600 million of stock under an accelerated stock repurchase agreement. >>> viacom adding commercials to maintain revenue. recent data from nielsen says nickelodeon and comedy channel boosted ads by 9% since first half of the year. >>> they will collect $1.95 billion in extra fees this year. recent study hotels will charge access to the internet, telephone and business centers. >>> hp launch as new web app, social fix to turn the facebook time into custom note toe book. hardcover books will cost, 28.95. that is today's speed read [buzzer] david: might as well use all the seconds. you did it. you go. tracy, this is the first time. corn and soybean prices fall from the peak as concerns from the midwest drought lessen. this commodity guru says investors focusing on agriculture are missing the number one market. we'll get into that a moment. he it is father of the futures market and chairman of the cme group. leo, thanks so much for coming in. appreciate it. >> very happy to

we're also watching best buy shares jumping this morning, plus aol says later today it's going to give find safe places to park money? germany a few minutes ago sold bonds that pay negative interest. you lend germany interest and then pay germany for the right. do you that because you're still protected against inflation. boy, that is interesting. back to you. >> thank you. time to check the forecast once again with meteorologist christina loren. >> good monday morning to you. as you're waking up starting to get the wardrobe ready you want to think two parts of the day. we'll be at 89:00 atç 4:00. and 63 degrees at the çcoast. we'll have your seven-day outlook every 15 minutes throughout the "today" show and we're dealing with hour and 20-minute flight delays out of sfo. 6:56 on a back to school monday. >> you have about 45-minute delay oun the east shore freeway because of two accidents which have now cleared but very slow, expect a burst of traffic at the toll plaza soon and the accident clearing coming out from 24 and off of highway 13 as well. a live look shows you the volume of

. >> this may be the worst merger since aol bought time warner. >> there were safer choices. >> this conversation has now shifted. it shifts the debate from a referendum to a choice election. >> i did not make a mistake with this guy. >> in college, paul ryan, one of his jobs was he drove the oscar mayer weinermobile. >>> he's going to be held accountable for all the other things that he's done. >> it's medicare that dominated the day. >> paul ryan's budget. >> ryan's budget. >> there's about 100 pages' worth here of details. >> the only place that paul ryan finds savings is by increasing costs on seniors. >> i have my budget plan, as you know, that i've put out. >> how is your budget deferent from ryan's? >> i'm sure there are places that my budget is different from his. >> do you agree with him on medicare? >> we haven't gone through piece by piece and said, here's a place where there's a difference. >> romney's strategy of avoidance and denial. >> mitt romney chose paul ryan to represent something, big ideas, change, reform. >> the items that we agree on, i think outweigh any diff

. >> aol, apple, ebay, facebook, google, netflix, office depot, office max--i can--staples, yahoo, andht. >> how do you argue that you had something to do with google? it just seems so outlandish or kind of wacky. >> look, microsoft and google, all these people have patents of their own. they all enforce patents. they all charge other companies for patents, and all i'm trying to do is get back the investment that i made to create these patents. >> we kept hearing that what he's really trying to do is gain recognition as a tech visionary, but with his book idea man, he's being branded a bitter billionaire. what's your reaction to people saying it's kind of a revenge book, a bitter book? >> it's not about that. i just felt like, you know, it's an important piece of technology history, and i should tell it like it happened, and i hope people understand and respect that. >> but for all the bad feelings allen writes about with gates, near the end of the book, he reveals something that happened when he got cancer a second time in 2009. and he came to see you. he comforted you when you were s

we ask is it the next aol? is it, people have responded to me saying it's the next nokia, the next yahoo, those are the kind of names being thrown out today. >> hopefully it's not those and i don't think it is. i think facebook is really tied into something where they're networking everybody together. that some company will be doing this. for a long period of time. whether it's facebook or somebody else, so they've tied into that. the question is, can they really monetize it. before the ipo, everyone convinced themselves that this was going to be the next google, you just had to be involved, because no matter what price that people paid, the stock was going to go up. the truth is when you look at google relative to facebook, google's earnings and revenue were growing much faster than facebook at this period in its life. >> henry, you may be revealing more than you want to about the mobile device that's in your wallet that's having an impact. >> sorry. >> i agree with henry. the thing about linkedin if you want