a thousand at which timer bots cost $18 on average. the practice is gaining on popularity, creating the illusion that their opinions are valuable. large following contain the perception that you are creating agreement. >> those fake followers may help you attract real customers. >> skyrocketed into a more than 300 million industry which is expected to grow to radio billion dollar business within the next few years. emhave developed algorithms to find out if followers are real human beings. >> if their user numbers aren't really what we think well then that affects the value of those companies. >> reporter: in its latest filing with the securities and exchange commission, facebook estimated as many as 12 million of its 1 billion users were fake accounts. a spokesperson stated, we also take action against sellers of fake clicks and help them shut down. >> as long as the number of followers that an account has is a currency that people are interested in having more of there's no stopping it. these companies can beings figure out the way t

a thousand twitter bots cost $18 on average.ractice is gaining in popularity, helps businesses and people create the illusion that their opinions are valuable. >> those fake followers might help you attract real followers and real customers. >> by some estimates the market for fake social are media followers has skyrocketed 52 a more than $300 million industry. social media customers are not taking this lightly. facebook estimated as many as 12 million of its more than 1 billion users were undesirable accounts. a spokesperson for facebook told al jazeera, "we built a combination of automated and manual systems to block systems for fraudulent purposes, help shut them down. there's nothing illegal about creating buying or selling a fake following but it does raise serious ethical questions. high profile names like mitt romney or lady gaga have distanced themselves from fraud. >> there's always been lots of ways that companies or individuals can make themselves look bigger than they really are with a little marketing savvy and a li

it's a remote controlled bot. now those of us from around silicon valley know it creates a lot of jobs and opportunity. but all over the world, the tech world creates a whole lot of coffee. >>> it's still huge. in fact, the consumer electronics show takes up 35 football fields with just about every square foot taken up by gadgets. and there are 1.9 million square feet worth of space here, the most ever for ces. 3200 companies have come to las vegas from all over the world to show off their products, with somewhere close to 140,000 of us here to test those products out. by the way, that's three people for every single slot machine that you'll find in vegas. if you're wondering how we all stay energized, ces will serve up close to 17,000 cups of coffee this week. if you were to drink one cup of coffee a day you'd reach 47 years to reach that number. now let's say you wanted to see every product here without ces, with companies representing every part of the planet it would take you 700 million miles worth of travel

polly morphism and bot walls. this could be the next target. >> it's desperately needed. >>> "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site in a snowy times square. i'm melissa lee. our traders are tim seymour, steven p. grasso, karen finerman and guy adami. we'll talk to the executive editor of citron research. it is calling for an urgent trading warning. it's sending one stock down 10%. we'll have details coming up. >>> our top story. old tech withers while new tech soars. ibm falling after missing revenue expectations. this while apple, google, amazon, continue to outperform. amazon and google hitting a new high in the session. guy adami, what do you make of this disparity between the old and the new? >> ibm is ibm, specifically. steve has talked about them. the eps, a lot of it was a different tax. their tax bracket got ratcheted down. this is as lousy, i think, a quarter as the lost couple that we've seen, which have been equally lousy. it's a big revenue miss by them. yes, they're moving int

net. -- using a bot net and letting them do their malicious bidding for them.t's hard to block all those attackers when you can't tell them from humans or bots. >> you think we will see more of these kinds of attacks this year? >> i think we will see a rise in it. social media that -- social media websites will be in an attack and commerce websites are going after user profiles and banks as well. >> they will definitely face these kinds of attacks. it's a growth in this kind of style. >> big news in the security world, fire i announced under the radar security firm of more than a billion dollar acquisition. >> it was obviously a pretty plum acquisition that has a lot of attention because it specializes in cyber espionage from nationstates like china. they got a lot of attention when they responded to attacks like on the new york times. their ipo did really well and it did enough to create this acquisition but a link between this company that has a product and a company that does a lot of very sophisticated response is pretty powerful. the stock went way up. it'

a thousand twitter bots cost $18 on average. the practice is gaining in popularity because a large social media following helps people and businesses create the illusion that their opinions and information are valuable. >> perception is reality, and those big followers might help you attract real followers and real customers. >> reporter: by some estimates the market for take social media followers has skyrocketed into a 300 million industry. social media companies are not taking this lightly. in its latest filing with the sesec, a spokesperson for facebk told al jazeera, quote, we built a combination of automated and manual systems to block accounts for fraudulent purposes. we take action against sellers and help shut them down. >> there is nothing illegal by creating, buying or selling fake following but it raises ethical questions. high profile names like mitt romney or lady gaga have distanced themselves of follower fraud. but proponent said this practice is the new front tear in marketing. >> there have always been lots of

are bot nets.ere what are bot nets?> a collection of computers that have been hijacked by viruses, essentially. and then hackers use those computers to send fake traffic s, and often it is websites playing autoclave pre- roll. -- autoplay pre-roll. buys intoe kind of the system, but when i look at this, i look at companies that do this right before ipos or corporate bonuses are paid. these companies, the ceos of these companies have a tremendous multimillion dollar financial incentive to pull off these scams. >> i don't know if there is proof of that. publishers may buy cheap traffic and they don't ask questions, so they may be complicit in the process, but they are not generating the traffic themselves. does this sort of regular shuffle and they change their algorithm results, we see things like we saw last week with expedia were suddenly the traffic they are getting from thingsis a result of people were not actually searching for. >> i don't know if it is premeditated, but it is a big problem, so that is why we decide

share prices have dropped since late december and the bot is losing ground. it hit its lowest level in case the midst of a last tuesday in nearly four years analysts say investors may leave the market at the thai government fails to resolve this crisis. people are also concerned about the impact the protests could have on tourism authorities said bangkok's to one of whom the airport are calling on travelers to arrive four hours before their flights passengers crowded the departure lobby from early monday. sunday winning the honor roll and tear at the airport for one points extra early. people that i didn't get enough sleep so i really need some rest officials say there have been no major problems so far that some airlines have cut the number of flights in and out of the thai capital human rights activists say fierce fighting between rival anti government groups in syria has left almost seven hundred people dead this month. forces loyal to president bush are all outside are trying to take advantage of the divisions among t opposition new the members of the maj

and folks, i want to thank all the hardworking twitter-bots that outvoted jimmy fallon's twitter-botts. i'm sorry, jimmy, i'm sorry, jimmy, i guess that's why they're cancelling your show in february. but i'm sure you'll find something by march. and finally, folks, because you chose me, i want to thank all the people out there. and i mean all of them starting with aaron a aardvark, thank you. aaron a aardvark, jr., you are the best. aaron b aardvarkenberg, we c n

the wind bot promises to leave your windows streak free. but wearable gadgets that can do everything from read texts to monitor your health. the fit bit force tracks your workout. it runs $100 and connect wirelessly to your smart device and track your results online. it's not just electronics, toyota unveiled a car that runs on hydrogen, but gadgets are the biggest draw. >> this isn't a normal basketball. this is a smart basketball. >> a sensor inside this ball tracks the ark of your shot. the information is sent wirelessly to a smart device so theyers can improve. it's one of 20,000 products trying to score big with consumers. cbs news, las vegas. >> the warriors are scoring big. they don't need any gadgets. trying to push their winning streak to double digits. the minute is next. ,,,,,,,, good. good answer. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that franklin fuzzypants. ah, the educational toy bear. remember when the battery went out? [

and folks, i want to thank all the hardworking twitter-bots that outvoted jimmy fallon's twitter-botts. i'm sorry, jimmy, i'm sorry, jimmy, i guess that's why they're cancelling your show in february. but i'm sure you'll find something by march. and finally, folks, because you chose me, i want to thank all the people out there. and i mean all of them starting with aaron a aardvark, thank you. aaron a aardvark, jr., you are the best. aaron b aardvarkenberg, we could not have done it without you, good anton onaardvark lopez garci captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. my guest tonight the great scarlett johansson is going to join us a little bit later. [cheers and applause] but first, as you know, there's a bit of divide in this country. income inequality. the left thinks it's unfair because of disadvantages built

nicker bot. idea that 3d printing is going to revolutionize our loams, that hasn't come to life quite yet. happen. if you have a computer that you have at home you can't avoid having a 2d printer at home. who would need those in the home, the same is going to happen with 3d printers. >> across the country in los angeles, liz and cal von hasseim create in the sugar lab. >> it spreads a very fine layer of sugar. it paints with water, wherever that model exists at that cross-section and then it spreads another very fine layer of sugar and it paints the next cross section from the very bottom to the top layer until the whole model is built. and it is totally a magical process. >> then comes the fun part. >> we calls call this the excavation station. that's when we clean off all the sugar that's burying the model now. >> that's like the mow delicious air i've ever breathed. >> it's like you annihilated some sections of it here. >> i know how to get rid of these damaged goods. it's delicious! >> all ri

and folks, i want to thank all the hardworking twitter-bots that outvoted jimmy fallon's twitter-botts. i'm sorry, jimmy, i'm sorry, jimmy, i guess that's why they're cancelling your show in february. but i'm sure you'll find something by march. and finally, folks, because you chose me, i want to thank all the people out there. and i mean all of them starting with aaron a aardvark, thank you. aaron a aardvark, jr., you are the best. aaron b aardvarkenberg, we could not have done it without you, good anton onaardvark lopez garcici captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ tomorrow you shuck the cane ♪ ♪ your little fingers bloody ♪ prepare to be whipped - [whispering] she's asleep. [laptop rings] [baby fusses] - [loudly] hey, it's mommy! i'm in beijing! - shh. liddy just went to sleep. - well, wake here up, jack. she needs to hear her mommy's voice.

transforming smart gadgets into malicious bots are easier to infect and control than computers. >>> paramount pictures is the first major studio to announce it will stop releasing movies on film here in the united states. the last movie it released on 35 millimeter film was "anchor man ii." the "wolf of wall street" was released digitally. back in a moment. ♪ >>> the good news is we have this great game coming up this weekend. but we still have to wait another 48 hours before this game. >> raj, i've broken it down for you. we are 144,000 seconds, or 2400 minutes, or 40 hours away from the nfc championship game. however you look at it, the time to prepare is just about over. so as the game approaches, how ready are the 49ers? mindi reports from seattle. >> reporter: the media sessions are over, so are the practices. but as jim harbaugh likes to say, the hay is never in the barn. the 49ers will continue to fine tune their game plan until gametime. some people may say preparing for three playoff road games is a challenge. but the 49ers are more than confident in the work they've put in. >> i fee

the bot has continued to drop. it has dropped about seven percent since november to the lowest level in three years. as far as businesses are are urging for some kind of speedy resolution. there is a lot of frustration among the businesses. on the part of the government, it has put in measures to help the city cope with the expected challenges of the day come of the week. trains, which are running, are running a better frequency. you see train after train trying to cope with the expected rising commuters. the numbers are expected to double. tourism has been greatly affected. it has fallen 10% of the gdp of the country and already grow operators are saying that occupancy are likely to drop 40% to 50% from the normal 80% to 90%. >> thank you indeed. inside the clinical instability, there is impact on the thai baht its particular. >> yes, you talk about instability and all of this political uncertainty in bangkok. and you're looking at the dollar-bot, where looking at not much of a move. you can see this one-week char

the $25 billion question if you look at twitter bot ipo. it is something that is different for everyone. it was started by four people and they were collectively trying to build something that would communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. they all had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the moment that it started, was to gentlemen. jack dorsey and noah glass. thatwork for a company produced podcast in early 2005. it was in san francisco. the company was failing. noah and jack had been out drinking. jack had this idea that you could build something that would what you to tell people you were doing in real time. , his cofounder's company, he had the idea that they would be able to share with their friends. you could connect with your friends. he was going through a difficult private time. they thought that twitter would make you feel less alone. that was the genesis of the idea. everyone had a different concept of what it was. >> how did the name twitter come about? >> a lot of people probably do not k

it even sounds like europe has bot told out, they are expecting 1% growth.an will be the same as last year. does that jive with what you are predicting? >> yeah, we are predicting another record year for our industry. around 84 million cars in 2014, and i think practically all of the markets will be growing, even europe which have been decreased for the last five years, we are seeing a growth of 1%. >> you are brazilian of lebanese extraction, running and french and japanese atoe maker. do you think the next head of nissan should be japanese. tell me about that. >> i think every car maker needs to have a diversified executive team -- >> you are pretty diverse. >> exactly. but i would like a diverse team, because i think it will make much better decisions. except we don't want also car maker to loose its identity. after a foreigner it is good to have somebody who is local to remember the car company that it has a home, and in the case of nissan it is japan. this is just to say that yes, with equal potential, talent, and expertise i would prefer japanese. >> y

for example, a child that has had one of these teachers, the bot on 1, 2, 3%. you can't make up that loss with four above average teachers. if they get four teachers in a row which they are not going to, slightly alove average. they can't make up for the one teacher. you talk about leadership, principles. explain this. in the schools that close the gap. it's a very consistent architecture to what the leadership looks like. by that i mean leadership. so there's a principle and there's another group that takes care of kind of paper work and fundraising and facilities and all of that. they bifewer kate that responsibility, and they have principles. that is the chief academic. >> they are the coach. they are spending 80% of their time teaching teachers. if you are the coach you can't be in the office while the players are hitting each other. the coach is going to be down with the players. no matter how talented the players are they need a basket coach to tell them, "why you do this, you do this?" it's the same way. classroom doors are open the the principle comes i

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days of the travel season has seen a total of nine hundred million passengers traveling by ship and bots. the number of bus trips is reached eight hundred and sixty seven million and that compared with last year's fig about the allies of four point seven percent. place in crowded transport options many have decided to find another way of getting home in guangdong with some young men most of the migrant workers is and towns are hundreds of kilometers away i've chosen to go to abide by this cycle. reporter sue yin ting has been following the bike is an idea she says this this update from john king city to make a getaway for the connecting guangdong province will face when auction site connecting guangdong province to watch the trunk for thomas region on our key angel's sissy this area connects long gone and six hours west of the lines and lines. jackson is optimal to cycling. let this be just the content seems to be a sissy and this its estimates that twelve hundred thousand migrants love this but just to go home on motorbikes and you know that's that for some of the migrants what this is

. >> and a lot of the fantasies about nanny-bots and elder-care- bots are really about being company,ng companions for people who, quite frankly, we think sometimes we don't have time for. and there, i think we get into a lot of trouble because, you know, why are we doing this? >> reporter: so, this is love's labor lost? >> love's labor lost. it diminishes us. it diminishes us as people. >> now, i-- i have faith that people are actually pretty savvy about relationships. and the relationship i have with various people, whether it's my children or my husband or my pets, these are all of very, very different kinds of relationships. the relationship i have with pets is a very different kind of relationship. i think people are pretty savvy. >> reporter: so when am i going to get my robot butler? the makes of big dog say all the pieces are finally coming together, intelligence, expressions dexterity and mobility. since he first filed that piece google bought the company in december t was the 8th robotic company the tech giant purchased in the past year. hari via de la valle looks at the per

this could very well be the world's newest gold rush bots in the not so wild east a population of some seventy five million people a youth literacy rate of ninety percent and and some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves in a country that's been isolated from the world for decades if this doesn't sound like a recipe for business but very little else well. right now iran is ready to host investors in segments like building royal ways construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources. and these resources need investment and technology capability so when the sanctions are over and the western or service companies are allowed to go in i think there will be plenty of potential tehran appears to have fulfilled the first two requirements of the recent geneva agreement by halting production of high grade uranium and stopping its most powerful centrifuges now it's waiting for the other side in the talks to deliver on their promises and ease some of the sanctions iran's new president seems to be in with enthusiasm and determination to show his coun

she bought it tfiver sells bots, with the click of a mouse, you can buy everything from facebook friendso twitter followers to youtube views. according to a study by research ferm bear a cued a labs, a thousand cost $18 on average. analysts say the practice is gaining in popularity because a large social media following helps people and businesses create tillusion that their opinions and information are valuable and create the perception you can help get the services. >> perception is reality and those fake followers might help you attract real followers and real customers. >> by some estimates, the market for fake social media followers has skyrocketed into a more than $300 million industry which is expected to grow to a billion dollar business within the next few years. social media companies are not taking this lightly and many have developed algorhythims. >> facebook and twitter are public companies if their user numbers aren't really what we think, well, then, that affects the value of those companies. the latest filing, facebook estimated as many as 12 million of its more than 1 bi

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the bot-of-broader point is, mark is saying, look into the eyes of workers and talk to them about a minimum wage. i would say look into the eyes of the small business owners. actually most min much wage workers with with fewer employees. raise costs by 40% and then we still want you to be able to hire and provide the same number of opportunities that do you right now. as someone who represents the urban league, where a number of the cities in the country, teen unemployment over 30 percent pshgs it surprises me we're talking about a policy like this, that the evidence clearly shows is going to reduce opportunities specifically for those at the bottom rungs of the career ladder. it's the last thing we need to do and it's an out-loaded policy. there are better ways to raise poverty than raising the minimum wage. >> the administration's folk sis in the wrong place, it's said. listen. >> instead of helping to create jobs the president is focused on making it easier to live without one. >> hmm. mark, shouldn't the message from the white house be more about creating good jobs that pay more, and re

don't like the fact that the gathering is taking place in the city's main palace where people with bots extremist and anti semitic views are gathering but the reality is that these right wing groups all gaining popularity across europe it's very very scary just that these parties are growing so much the crisis in europe the socialist or the social democratic parties they did not have to ride on susanto crisis and along comes right or right wing extremist parties and they have very easy on this is protest organizers say it's far right political leaders said to be holding secret meetings planning on how to build on not surgeon calculus support but they have been uniting ahead of. european parliamentary elections in may but while they're inside the palace as the saying goes they're only going to be waltzing to the right and the diverse crowd that's represented here this evening is determined to show you that it's not happy about the sound quality boycott see vienna. the syrian government and the opposition are again hoping to hold a joint meeting later on saturday that's after negotiations

also last year welcomes twenty four seen under new currency but many doubts that the crisis botted euro will turn out well. is just over a month before the winter games start insult we're told from decision preparing to host the olympics and a wound staff. you're watching on c international live from moscow hello and a very well welcome to the program and the world has running the new year everywhere on the planet it's now fisher twenty fourteen and here's how it was welcomed across the globe last now have a look and australians were among the first to welcome twenty four team with their traditional dazzling display of fireworks over a million people blocks around the iconic bridge in sydney harbor bush was lit up by more than seventy tons of pyrotechnics festive crowds gathered in new york's times square to watch the famous crystal ball count down to midnight rio welcome to twenty four seven with a traditional party on the iconic cup like a banner beach over a million revelers gathered some trust in. traditional white a good lock up as a ghetto to attract well something new yes champai

a steep slide in thailand's currency the bot triggered a full-blown asian crisis causing economic pain in the united states as well. >> i think there's a balancing test going on right now between the strength in the united states and a little bit of a slowdown in the e.m. my guess is that this is not the correction that people are expecting, and primarily because we're still in dramatic qe. >> whether it will spark a full-blown crisis or not economists are getting more gloomy on prospects for growth in the developing world. instead it's the united now that the world is looking to be to be the engine of global growth. for "nightly business report" i'm sara eisen. >> joining us now to talk more about the big global selloff, david gordon, chairman and head of research at the eurasia group. thank you both for joining us. david, let me begin with you. you heard our reports. china china china. everybody is saying that that's what got it started. but you don't see thought way. tell us what you think is a catalyst for this big selloff. >> i think a little bit of this is bad news in china. but

page made it clear google is still in the hardware business when it comes to the robotics companies a bote cars they are making, and i just bought the thermostat company. google is called the ge of the 21st century yesterday. mark, what do you think of that come paris and? >> you've got probably the leading internet company with a company that should be making bold that's. they would not be with android today if they had not made that that. that several years ago and should be making these kinds of bets just like dea does -- ge but -- ge does. it is a couple of billion dollars lost here and there. they are making appropriate risks. they are sizing them correctly. this move, google should be there. whether in the future, maybe they'll end up doing that. they will certainly learn a lot. >> they do a lot of futuristic products. goal of the next 10 years? >> wow. it continues to be primarily a search on pinnie so powerful that it allows them to also be futurologist. that is basically what they are. came upon a very powerful business and advertising, really creating an incredible revenue sourc

has already yielded to pressure from the street and planned new elections for family or a bot protesters say that's not enough they want to set up a citizens council to carry out reforms for any new elections are held. and a stampede at a muslim ceremony in northern china has left at least fourteen people dead and many others injured four are critically ill it happened during a traditional religious ceremony as people surged forward as food was being handed out. record low temperatures are set to hit parts of the u.s. as winter storms continue across the country forecasters say the freeze could hit minus fifty celsius in the midwest and are warning people to stay home extreme weather as claimed the lives of sixteen people this week and grounded thousands of flights and coming up the crosstalk power argue over whether time magazine got a ride or not with its latest choice for person of the year to stay with us. there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anythi

. >> he invested his family's entire savings into the grill bot, an entire robot that aims to clean yourout 20 minutes. woods isn't the only inventer trying to clean up at this year's show. the $400 win dot promises to leave your windows streak free, but the latest are wearable gadgets that can do everything from read texts to monitor your health. >> tracks your workout and runs about a hundred dollars. it can also connect wire leslie to your smart device so you can track your results online. >> toyota unveiled a car that runs on hydrogen. this reyes car runs on electricity, but gadgets are the biggest draw. >> this isn't a normal basketball. this is a smart basketball. >> a sensor inside this 300 dmrrs ball tracks the arc of your shot. the info is sint wireless to a smart device so player ks improve. it's one of thousands of products here trying to score big with consumers. >> cbs news las vegas. >>> i think the warriors need that special basketball. >> warriors need nothing. i mean, they are on the verge of franchise history. >> wow. >> if they keep this up. they are looking to push th

inventor of overdose refused to grant offered by the us space agency nasa student housing provided by a bot made an impression on the wet space community with a design capabilities which was only sixteen years old. then as a schoolgirl she presented her first word or venus brought down the teenager commonly stated that this complex should be used in exploring the most mysterious planet of the solar system the american space agency expressed interest in for the moment of the schoolgirl disease has even visited nasa headquarters later she was offered to study in the usa and i became interested in space since my childhood i was one of what is happening in the universe. they begin to read books and i went to art school. then i became interested in space like that on this list and cold stocks the young girl begin to make homemade or with balloons herself after having read books about space. since then the zebra stripes to learn more about the unknown. she won several international scientific conference in perth dissipated in aerospace projects. let's just do it spits in your living space industr