steve balmer wants to integrate the web phone company with microsoft's mobile software products. meanwhile, microsoft's stock is stuck in neutral, trading in the same range now that it was three years ago. investors with an eye for talent were applauding apollo management's move to buy ckx. it owns one of tv's popular "american idol" franchise. ckx share holders, including elvis presley's daughter lisa marie, get $5.50 per share. ckx owns a treasure trove of rights to legendary icons, including elvis and muhammad ali. the stock jumped almost 23% to a nine-month high. finally, a final chapter in an illustrious career. shares in medical device maker boston scientific fell 9% after c.e.o. ray elliott surprised investors with plans to retire at the end of the year. that loss of a well respected leader made boston scientific's shares the most actively traded on the big board. and that's tonight's "market focus". >> susie: the major stock averages continue to march back to their pre-recession levels. so, tonight, our word on the street is "recovery". joining us-- stephanie link, direct

balmer focuses on the positive.widower christopher sweets who wife was in the air force and died of cancer two years ago. he has three kids of his own who are also in the camp. >> we're going to provide them a lot of love and that's based on what we, the love that we learned from our spouses, and they still live on in our family. >> i love it for all of us and i love that we're able to have this happiness again. >> reporter: sandra endo, cnn, arlington, virginia. >>> coming up, tearing down the food pyramid, the government is moving ahead with plans to restructure nutritional guidelines. we'll reveal the new shape of healthy eating next. >>> hi, everybody, this is staff sergeant lyle williams, afghanistan. i want to take this opportunity to say hi to my mother and father, jenna and david willi s williamser anna and bailey. i love you. i wish you a happy memorial day and hope you guys enjoy the game. take care. ♪ you love money ♪ well, you know i love it too ♪ ♪ i work so hard at my job ♪ and then i bring it home to

balmer agenda in the name of freedom faced with to succeed where the cops had failed. to build a free market movement capable of staging a revolution at the ballot box to find out more i went on to cover as a budding fiscal conservative. my first stop was the training session for tea party was held by the competitive enterprise institute. what is the theme to the people what is the tea party about is it about just opposing this is opposing that opposing this or is there really integrated p. and that idea i submit to you the idea i want to show you one today is the idea of the rights of man the basic issue at stake is the destruction of the rights of those who produce in the united states and the people at each of course are the battleground we're in today we are today as an army we are the thin line between freedom and the status spokeo they want to create freedom is a wonderful thing to fight for it's time for us to join the army and that's something i hope we're all. in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country teaching guerilla

. >>> in less than two hours microsoft ceo steve balmer takes to the stage to announce his company is the latest to buy skype. scott mcgrew joins us. it's not every day someone buys skype. >> right. it's more like every other day. this is the third time skype has been bought. the first time by ebay, then net skap founder, then flipped it to microsoft. microsoft is going to pay $8.5 billion for skype. it's more than ebay paid for it before they dumped it. in fact, it's the most microsoft paid for anything, ever. press conferences in san francisco and london at 8:00 a.m. our time. how are they going to connection the conferences? over skype? nope, satellite. skype is not a unique product. it's voice and video over internet. apple has the same with face time product. it may be what has microsoft concerned. they have wound face time. microsoft doesn't have the equivalent. $8.5 billion. wow. nora, you mentioned you skyped with your mother-in-law over the weekend and liked it. let me ask you this, how much money did you pay for that call? >> nothing. that was her mother's day gift. no, no,

. >> reporr: in maryland, gary balmer who prepared for the end to come saturday is angry. >> he never did say anything about being wrong or what havoc he caused. >> reporter: for late night tv comics it's manna from heaven. >> when asked what happened, and this guy doesn't miss a beat. why didn't the world end? he said, it's a miracle! >> number three, at 89 i can't remember how to operate the toaster. number two, didn't everybody's world end when oprah was cancelled and number one, harold camping says, i'm [ bleep ] crazy. that's why. >> reporter: some s buy this paperf it's the last thing you do. on twitter there were comments like, this is my first rp temperature. i'm trying to figure out what to wear. people posted facebook pictures of empty clothing as though the occupants were swept up to heaven. given recent events -- tornados in joplin, missouri, and elsewhere, flooding along the mississippi, the tsunami in japan, it's easy to see why some might believe the end is near. >> there are a few people in camping's followers that gave up their retirement funds. they stood on street c