on the airplane, i am trying to learn the apple business. i have my files like a reporter. i realize i am treating my brother as if he was a source. i just wanted him to like me. i wanted to impress him. i had to do that little sister thing. the first rule was, put yourself into their world. the second part of this was understand how difficult it is and don't wait for a crisis, because the fact is, if you have this strange relationship with a sibling, you are already in kind of a crisis. you may not recognize it and maybe comfortable and okay with it, but it isn't perfect. the best predictor of happiness and long term happiness is to have good relationship s with your family and friends. the 3rd aspect is try to see your sibling as they are not as you would like them to be. going to the apple country was huge for me. again, i am embarrassed to say, 15 years i had never been once with. this is a lunatic thing my brother is doing with these apples. when i sailed down this huge area of fruit country, imagine after 9/11, apple country at harvest, thousands of acreage, beautiful

the european union is wondering the same thing this morning, launching an investigation into apple's businessctices, wondering if apple worked with publishers to keep ebook pries high. >>> i am ready to buy myself a dell streak seven? it is too late, killing the tablet experience. what is the dell streak seven, you're probably saying, just like everyone else. there were streak 5s and streak 6s. they were dell tablets. there will be no dell streak 8. back to you. >> thank you very much, scott. >>> local pizza chain will offer a slice of bay area life and do it overseas. >> opening a location in shanghai next month. eventually the chain hopes to extend to beijing and hong kong as well. it opens a southern california location in la jolla this spring. the first restaurant opened in san mateo in 1997. >> i still have to try that out. >>> also reportedly opening up in shanghai is an in and out burger. at least for a day. people who live in the area tell the blog serious eats, burger chain, set up a one day pop-up shop to give locals a taste. >> no plans for the chain to expand internationally. prob

they're launching an investigation into apple's business practices, wondering if apple worked with publishers e-book prices high. an l and i'll leave you with this picture from facebook. identified only as abby and her christmas sweater. there you see the baby jesus and uc davis police officer. >> that's just wrong. >> i got to say, i don't agree with even showing that. 6:26 right now. still to come on "today in the bay." ed lee seems to give up home of the niners staying in the city. >>> the occupy movement launching the next phase called occupy our homes. we'll have a live report next. >>> and jack frost is nipping at your nose in many places in the bay area. not your toes, your nose. where it's the coldest and when it's expected to warm up. we have a nice looking forecast coming up. >>> and we're watching an accident. first more cars and metering lights. we'll show you the latest. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond

apple's share when it comes for the battle of tablets. amazon will ship four million kindle fire in the 4th quarter. it gives the company 13.8% of the global tablet businesscontrols 66.6% of the market. it is down from almost 70% in the third quarter. san francisco based online game maker, zinga. they plan to sell shares between $8.50 and $10 a piece. that puts them at $7 billion. the stock should go on sale on stkpw-pl 16th. groupon and pandora are trading at or below their price. airfare is going up as the travel season gets into full swing. it will raise fares by $10 per ticket. this is the latest in a series of fare hikes that airlines imposed this year. industry analysts say the fare hikes indicate they are seeing strong demand for travel dispaoeut the weak economy. >>> all right, if you have not gotten your christmas tree yet there is a way to get one tomorrow for free. how can you do that? and you can help the environment at the same time. >> reporter: the ring mountain open space nature preserve. people forbidden it to remove anything. so, why is the public invited to cut downy trees here tomorrow? >> down trees here tomorrow? >> it is not normall

apple and google have gotten into the market. does rim need the consumer market at all? couldn't it concentrate on what you call the enterprise market or business market? >> the enterprise market is the target segment for apple and for google. we see more and more of a consumerization of the business segment. employees are coming to the i.t. department on a daily basis and saying why can't i use my iphone like i use my android device on the corporate network and i.t. is running out o of excuses why they can't. >> if have you a 24-month time horizon would you buy shares of rim at this price? >> no, i would not. >> any disclosure. are you owning any? >> i do not own any rim shares. >> on research and motion tonight roger entner with us from massachusetts with recon analytics. >> tomorrow is a >> susie: tomorrow will be a big day for zynga. it makes its wall street debut, selling shares to the public for the first time. the social game maker stands to raise a billion dollars. zynga priced 100 million shares at $10 a share. that's at the high end of its range. the stock will trade on the nasdaq under the ticker z-n-g-a. zynga is part of a slew of c

the big apple mind it own business. private sales rleal and internet sales are also legal. the city of new york has no business attempting to curtail or forbid the guns in virginia. focus should be on the treatment of mentally impaired individuals such as the two young perpetrators at virginia tech before they can harm members of their community. you might want to remember it is illegal to sell if you think a person can't pass a background check. meantime, christine said guns in fact the problem. hate guns, only hunter, the governor, and criminals need guns. my dad had one for protection, but we didn't have access. and then we had this from thomas alexander, love me some guns, but they should not be sold to criminals or undesirables who done harm to others. another municipality have chosen to stick its nose into the compty of another state. i donned don't love or hate guns, a special alarm will go off if some crazy person tries to buy one. sadly, that is science fiction. so in the absence of a perfect system, should we be erring on gun ownership? the e-mail address is mailb

business saturday on november 26. it was a great experience to be at north beach and in my district participating with a green apple bookstore and a number of other businesses. i want to thank kathleen from the small business commission and regina from the office of small business for their efforts, not just on the saturday after thanksgiving, but to make every day a shop small day. a lot of the reusable bags were given out, and if anybody wants these, the office of small business has them as well to encourage the use of independent stores throughout the neighborhood, who helped fuel the economy in reinvigorate communities across the city and across the country. he also wanted to let people know that there is a fun party organized by a group that we're calling -- it includes everything from the toy boat cafe giving out free ice cream to a number of the bars and cafes to green apple bucks giving out free beer. and you get reusable code bags as well. other participants include the rocket room and dirty tricks room. and another of -- in number of stores like the clothing store. come out thursday from 6:00 to 8:00. the wreck and

business saturday on november 26. it was a great experience to be at north beach and in my district participating with a green apple bookstore a number of other businesses. i want to thank kathleen from the small business commission and regina from the office of small business for their efforts, not just on the saturday after thanksgiving, but to make every day a shop small day. a lot of the reusable bags were given out, and if anybody wants these, the office of small business has them as well to encourage the use of indep

business. >> in some case there's is such a thing as big government. it is great government. it builds great infrastructure. steve jobs, apple, it is great business. we have seen both of these things being good. >> but jobs wasn't in the government. >> that's my point. the private sector can do wonderful, amazing things, but more were getting through the arts and now we are left to deal with that. and there are governmental failures that went into the mortgage crisis too. >> you fear big wheelels. >> yes. >> i was always a match box guy. are you a max box guy or big wheels guy. >> why do you not like the poll? >> the big government democrats don't exist anymore. they haven't since clinton. a perfect example is our governor cuomo. he is austerity and yet not upset if two men want to get married. and that's what i can get behind. look at obama. 200 cuts or cancellations of programs on the 2012 proposal. it is people who don't necessarily want to rule with the bible in one hand and a wallet in the other. >> big government is helping their lives. it is not giving their jobs and retirement plan and helping their kids go to college. why make it bigger w

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business solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. >> first apple stores in china. and they can't sell ipads. and john, you say that is more details . it is good for america's economy. >> how does that work. >> they don't want to invest in the chinese commempt lookk at that. losing so many billions. they simply lied about the balance sheet. that is no cause and affect. you don't know money is there or if they are flat telling something falsely. and no cause and affect. no one in chynna is going. people are looking at chin hua and there is no cause in affect and invest in places like the u.s.. it is patent violations. and they don't seem to have a handle on. it is a trade dispute. they will go to the lowest possible place. let me finish, please. i will put up with the cost of doing business. i grant you what john said. you will accept that. trade off makes it better and cheaper. and there is no dispute. they make the property. it is a brutal destructive . i simply can't and that is capitalist rights. . and explainn that to the public if you will. it is nikeexperienced counter. and it is cheap

billion bucks so when you look at pretty much every measure for how apple thought that this was just going to destroy their business it hasn't in fact it's helped their business they've a doll. to these technology the innovations that all these researchers have come up with into their new operating system so apple should really be thanking koreans to try to fight it. does apple or so many are microsoft or any of these companies do they have a response thus far to this kind of request you guys just put in. not yet we are waiting to see what happens and hopefully they won't. you know they won't try to go so sort of always us here because in the end everybody wins users and manufacturers i'm curious what you think is going to happen with him with his board as i guess you could say that was a big victory in two thousand and nine do you think they're going to side with you you know does that seem like they're leaning in that direction or at least the trends. i mean it was that it's definitely good sign that we got this exemption back when we did and we laid out in probably sixty or seventy pages all of the evidence that

their digital business including nook, the nook color, and now the nook tablet, which has just recently come out priced at $269, and a direct competitor with amazon's kindle fire and apple's ipad. they prompted the business to be approximately $880 million, and in the most recent fiscal quarter, which i think was the first quarter of 2012, that digital business was about $220 million. the digital business is going like gang busters for barnes & noble. walk into new york city's union scare, barnes & noble, the largest store in the city, what they did in the back is a gigantic kiosk devoted to all things nook. you walk around and there's various demos, tablets, and nooks for people to try out. they have all accessories and other digital related things. it's so clear just from the way they have been remodeling this store and i believe other stores around the country, that, you know, nook is where they want their business to go. their ceo, william lynch, said repeatedly that barnes & noble accounts for anywhere between 26%-28% of the overall digitallal market, so they have been moving aggressively, but the flip side of what's been happening with barnes & noble, the physical s

business report," chicago. >> susie: still ahead, apple's former chief evangelist gives us his outlook for technology in 2012. he's guy kawasaki. more discouraging news today about the housing market-- the standard and poor's case-shiller home price index showed prices in october were down over 3% from the same time a year ago. sylvia hall reports. >> reporter: across the country and with few exceptions, home prices dropped in october. the closely watched index tracks residential property values in 20 cities. it fell 3.4% in october as home prices dropped in 18 of those 20 cities from the year before. >> altogether, home prices have not hit bottom and these numbers have not started to rebound. >> reporter: atlanta led the decline with annual returns down almost 12% from last year. blitzer blamed poor consumer confidence and the low cost of foreclosed homes. he also cited market watchers. >> anybody who's looking at buying a house looks around at numbers just like this, probably finds it very hard to convince himself that home prices are going to go up. in fact, looking at these numbers, he probably says, "the

business. do you think? apple scored a big victory against a big rival in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. involves technology widely used on almost all smart phones. ashley webster from fox business is with us now. the at&t deal, what happened? no big surprise here at all. the justice department filed suit trying to block this particular deal. at&t say this is a classic example of the government interfearing in private enterprise. there is no doubt about it, at&t needed t mobile to get more airwaves. you talk about the connection with at&t, it needs more spectrum. more airwaves. they were hoping to get that through t mobile which would have been the worse combined have the been the largest mobile phone company in the united states. don't feel so bad for t mobile that is owned by deutsche telecom as part of this breakup of the deal they will get multibillions. 4 to 6 billion from at&t because the deal didn't go through. steve jobs used to complain google steals all its stuff. >> they got dozens of pate

not available in any other apple store, and that's 15 minutes training sessions on apple products for those rushed and busymandy, thanks so much. have a good weekend. >> you, too. >>> and gary marshall strikes again. the man who brought you "happy days," "valentine's day" and so much mores a gathered an ensemble cast. "new year's eve" is his new movie starring michelle pfeifer, robert de niro, alyssa milano, seth meyers, need i go on? jessica baiel, ashton sucher, zc efron. it's how the lives of several couples and singles intertwine on new year he's aev. "the sitter" stars jonah hill as a suspended college student coaxed into babysitting for the kids next door. ♪ and just let me be [ male announcer ] this is your moment. ♪ your ticket home [ male announcer ] this is zales, the diamond store. take an extra 10 percent off storewide now through sunday. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. this season's hottest games and...sweatba

he wants to invest in promising high growth business with global impact. he also holds stakes in applend fox news' parent company news corporation. >>> app makers are cramabling to beat the apple deadline. each year around christmas apple stops accepting app submissions and updating the store. this year the deadline is thursday. nen who misses it will have to wait until after the holidays to get their apps into the apple store. christmas is the biggest day of the year for app sales. developer who is want to cash in are cramming to get their apps finished in time. >> no app need. we have the premier forecaster with meteorologist christina loren. >> we have a good looking forecast. >> good. >> really good for people who push it to the last minute. which is me and many of you out there. if you have to get out there and do christmas shopping, if you have to get your tree, you can do so without dodging showers all week long. a u lot of kids have this week off. they can go outside and play without worrying about the rain. 49 in hayward. it is mild. the reason why is because we have high and

business report," new york. >> suzanne: a partial victory for apple in a patent dispute with taiwanese handset maker htc.a federal agency sided with apple on a single claim related to key features in its iphones. the decision means current owners of htc phones will no longer be able to do things like tap on a phone number in an email and automatically make a phone call. this is the first major ruling supporting apple's claim that devices running google's android system copy the iphone. htc plans to change its phones to comply with the ruling. for its part, google is expected to work on finding a different way to offer the same data features covered by apple patent. >> tom: just enough to fuel the big stock rally today. updated with the details in tonight's market focus. strong new housing data in the u.s. and some better than expected news our of europe was enough to fuel that big stock rally today. the market saw buying right from the opening bell, and the s&p 500 was able to build on the early gains throughout the session, ending with a 3% gain. let's look at today's sharp rally in context with the pas

business report," new york. >> suzanne: a partial victory for apple in a patent dispute with taiwanese handset maker htc.a federal agency sided with apple on a single claim related to key features in its iphones. the decision means current owners of htc phones will no longer be able to do things like tap on a phone number in an email and automatically make a phone call. this is the first major ruling supporting apple's claim that devices running google's android system copy the iphone. htc plans to change its phones to comply with the ruling. for its part, google is expected to work on finding a different way to offer the same data features covered by apple patent. >> tom: just enough to fuel the big stock rally today. updated with the details in tonight's market focus. strong new housing data in the u.s. and some better than expected news our of europe was enough to fuel that big stock rally today. the market saw buying right from the opening bell, and the s&p 500 was able to build on the early gains throughout the session, ending with a 3% gain. let's look at today's sharp rally in context with the pas

business report," new york. >> suzanne: a partial victory for apple in a patent dispute with taiwanese handset maker htc.a federal agency sided with apple on a single claim related to key features in its iphones. the decision means current owners of htc phones will no longer be able to do things like tap on a phone number in an email and automatically make a phone call. this is the first major ruling supporting apple's claim that devices running google's android system copy the iphone. htc plans to change its phones to comply with the ruling. for its part, google is expected to work on finding a different way to offer the same data features covered by apple patent. >> tom: just enough to fuel the big stock rally today. updated with the details in tonight's market focus. strong new housing data in the u.s. and some better than expected news our of europe was enough to fuel that big stock rally today. the market saw buying right from the opening bell, and the s&p 500 was able to build on the early gains throughout the session, ending with a 3% gain. let's look at today's sharp rally in context with the pas

it takes apple from being apple computer -- they even changed the name to just apple -- into being in the digital hub business. first with dvds and video. then really big with the ipod and music, and the ipod is hugely successful so he starts to worry. what's going to kill it? and re realizes people putting music on their phones will kill it. so focuses and does the iphone, and does it at first -- they did two versions of the iphone, one with sort of an ipod modified with a track wheel which wasn't very good for a phone. and then with johnny ives and many other people, and goaded on by microsoft and an engineer there that steve didn't like -- this notion of a touch screen technology, and when he finally sees how the touch screen can work, he says that's how we're going to do the iphone. so you have a series of consumer devices from the decade beginning beginning in 2001, most prominently the ipod, the iphone, and the ipad, the totally transform industries. >> and statement he is bending other industries in the direction of his -- >> the music industry. >> the music industry, disney. >> retail -- >> retailers.

microsoft's phone software is far behind google's android system and apple's iphone, and microsoft has almost no market in the tablet software business. >> 11 month low for the euro currency. from 1.36 to 1.30 since the summit of euro leaders. today's drop came as germany talked about refusing to increase the size of the bailout. u.s. oil, brent oil and gas futures all up by two percent. pointing thed to possibility of less oil from iran to the global market to today's rally. that's today's market focus. >> susie: if you've had trouble finding a job, you might have better luck after the first of the year. a new survey by manpower, the workforce solutions company, says employers are slightly more optimistic about hiring in the first three months of next year. diane eastabrook has details. >> reporter: manpower says the first quarter of next year is the most promising one for hiring in four years. a survey of more than 18,000 employers nationwide found net hiring should grow 9% in the first three months of next year. that's up from the 7% projected for the current quarter, and about even with the first quarter of this year. who's hirin