you saw last monday, cybermonday, really become mobile monday. with about half of all the purchases made on cybermonday over mobile devices. more than half of all u.s. households are wireless only. so this is actually a very good news for consumers. and what the order will do at the f.c.c., it will preserve consumer protection and protection for entrepreneurs, and it will allow more certainty for the investment of over $300 billion that's going to be needed in the next 10 years, to build out fifth generation wireless networks, which will have one giga herts of speed or six times faster than what you enjoy now with 4-g. and the three million jobs and the $500 billion in economic activity that should come from that. so you can have -- you really can have a win-win-win environment like you had from 1994 when the internet was privatized, until 2015 when the title two order interjected a tremendous amount of certainty. we can talk more about that in terms of all the independent wall street market analysts who said there's uncertainty as a result. we c

many cybermonday purchases being delivered and what police are doing tonight.ere's abc's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, the season of giving and taking is here. after a record breaking cyber monday, those deliveries are starting to pour in. that means it's prime time for package thefts. porch pirates, the real grinches. they follow delivery drivers, then snatch boxes. this woman, now serving up to a 10-year sentence. in chicago, residents in one neighborhood catching an alleged thief in the act. >> is that your package? >> yes. >> can i see it? excuse me. that's not your package. you just took that off of their porch. >> we gave chase to him and he actually handed over the package and i think we were sort of stunned we just let him walk off. >> reporter: police discourage taking the law into your own hands, but near denver -- >> this is operation trojan horse. >> reporter: -- sheriff's deputies and federal agents are leaving "bait" packages on porches. hiding tracking devices inside. but with more than a billion packages expected to be shipped this holiday

and that's after struggling with cybermonday. costello is tracking it all from a postal service in northern virginia. hey, tom. >> reporter: hey, guys. good morning. so listen, santa claus may be able to do it all around the world in one night, but if you want your package there on time, ground delivery with the postal service. you've got to get it in tomorrow. u.p.s., the world's biggest shipping company, is bringing on 100,000 people in december, just to handle cybermonday. they're still struggling with that. and now the clock is ticking for christmas. with three quarters of a billion packages in these brown trucks before christmas, will they make it to your home for the holidays? >> it's important to me they get there on time, because i want to make sure that my family opens their presents on christmas. >> reporter: but with hanukkah already here, many gifts ordered on cybermonday aren't yet. some angry customers on twitter showing their u.p.s. packages boomeranging back to the same distribution center not yet delivered. why t

black friday, cybermonday, amazon prime day or singles day?ned and we'll tell you the correct answer. >>> this week's book of the week is tina brown's vanity fair's diaries. we all know that tina brown is a great editor. it turns out she is also a great writer. vividly describing what it was like to live at the center of the roaring '80s. she writes honestly about her ambitions, fears, hopes, loves and losses. i found these diaries compulsively readable. the answer to my "gps" challenge question this week is, d., singles day. that is the unusual holiday that china celebrates every november. it is china's version of black friday. and on that day, a single chinese online retailer, alibaba, blew its competition away with $25 billion in sales. compare that to these figures from all online retailers on other capitalist holidays. $6.6 billion on cybermonday, for example, and $5 billion on black friday in 2017. singles day is celebrated on november 11th. 11/11 or 1111. and it took on special significance in 2011. that was, of course, 11/11/11. lots o

but if you have more households you saw last cybermonday became mobile monday almost half of all the of purchases made were from a mobile device. so this is very good news. this will preserve it --- preserve consumer protection and allow more uncertainty that would be needed in the next 10 years with this fifth generation wireless in the five and a billion dollar economic activity we can have though win/win environment to win the title ii order injected with all the independent wall street market analyst with the downturn of capital expenditures. but i am glad we're here with gigi sohn. so i am delighted we have this time here. >> if i could shed some light and facts talk about the federal trade commission because what chairman pai is trying to do is give overall oversight of broadband. first of all, i find that remarkable the sec started 1934 and was told by congress that your job is to oversee the networks the broadcast networks the telephone network so this fcc says rita one oversight to access and i find that remarkable so why does the ftc fall short? number one has no rulemaking

record-breaking day $7 billion in sales for cybermonday alone. to hire 95,000 workers to meet demand and they are extending hours. meanwhile, an overnight fire at a ups center in maryland has sent an undetermined number of packages up in smoke just in time for the holidays. these outlets reported 10 tries on a package loading structure while on fire. ups working to identify a shipper is that whatever damage packages brett bair. where is the best place to work? blaster or released its list for 2018. google came in at number five. west coast burger chain, and chain, in and out number four. number three, boston consulting. the former number one slipped into second place and coveted number one, facebook, this can need to work for roughly 17,000 employees working with smart people and food is a huge plus to work at facebook so far this year. cannot year. i don't do mornings with murray as the best place to work or not is good maria: i'm surprised. i think it is. dagen: you, dagen mcdowell called the ups story. dagen: i treated this. i was having shipp

we also just survived black friday and cybermonday, the biggest shopping days of the year. right in the middle of all of this is another important day that deserves attention. earlier this week was the sixth annual giving tuesday. it was created in 2012 to celebrate and support philanthropy. it's a great reminder each year that we have the opportunity and duty to give back to the people, the institutions, to the country that has given us all so much. as the gospel of luke says, from everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. americans understand this. year after year, the united states ranks at or near the top of the world giving index, which ranks countries according to how charitable their people are. the president encouraged people all over the country to open their hearts and pocketbooks to support worthy causes. this giving tuesday , he said, i thank those who have given to charitable organizations, including houses of worship and ask that we continue to come together and give to t

. >> if you ordered something on cybermonday there's a chance you are waiting for it to be delivered.deliveries are backed up one or two days because there was a flood of orders after thanksgiving. they have got 95,000 seasonal workers to take care of this and using more automation to get these packages so be patient. >> the front door where the package comes at my apartment complex, they were overwhelmed. free cheesecake. >> cheesecake factory partnering with the delivery service, if you order anything on door - you have to enter the promo code 10,000 slices and you will get a free slice of cheesecake from the cheesecake factory. the day of 10,000 slices is what they will be giving away. >> they are known for huge slices. thank you so much. the time is 15 minutes until the top of the hour. how young is too young for facebook? facebook igniting furious debate with a new apps for children under 13 years old, it is time for parents to parent. that is up next. ♪ whcold sore.et you? grab lunch? cold sore. when a cold sore takes over, campho phenique's topical anesthetic plus anti-microbia

so instead of doing a big site wide sale, for instance, we do 12 days of giving campaign after cybermondaywe just promote one category per day. it is like an advent calendar. people get a new calendar. what might be on sale today. it might be dolls or wooden blocks or art supplies. customers will come and shop for the items that are on sale. they will usually add things to their cart at full price. so we are not losing. >> that's fun also. it gives people a reason to keep come canning back. >> exactly. >> that's a great idea. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. i know you are an expert at this because you do it all year-round and particularly now. talk to you soon. >> all right. bye-bye. >>> even some of the most intelligent people with the best intentions can be terrible managers. being a good leader can take a lot of patience, a lot of practice and, in some cases, serious soul searching. here are five ways to improve your leadership skills right away. one, swap jobs with your business partners. you can drum up new ideas. you don't have to hand off every pass to your partner, but s

. >> grinches targeting christmas packages in a day after cybermonday, are you expecting a bunch of deliveriesg. some tips to prevent them from being taken, thank you for joining us. >> i expect a lot of deliveries. >> i am a big amazon person, amazon prime. >> taken over holiday shopping earlier in the week, crazy money, crazy what is happening with packages being delivered to houses and new strategies to keep the grinch from getting to the front porch and swiping packages, this morning we take a look at four options, the amazon locker, have you heard of this? i have never clicked it. this allows customers to choose a location near your home so instead of leaving it on the front porch, drop it in the amazon locker and right around the corner. >> not as convenient but doesn't leave packages when people know you're not home. >> then a new thing called the package guard is like a frisbee faith object and packages are delivered to the front porch as usual, this puppy will end up pinging you in real-time the moment a box is delivered, multiple packages, anything from a pound to 100 pounds. if some

going lower facebook's growth had been slowing, amazon had a fabulous black friday and beast of cybermonday and alphabet's cloud definiti division taking off. occurred when falling but commentators assumed that f.a.n.g. was gone for. take cue from the action and not anything else, be wrong as often as rur you're right. f.a.n.g. stocks are fine happens all the time yesterday home depot was down before its terrific meeting. i went through it, chose not to watch it after the meetings, figured would be up $2, not down $5. but fact it was down made the negativity self-fulfilling something had to be wrong with home depot i know it wasn't the case. i have conviction, know my homework, have discipline and knew could bounce. at the same time the market is re-evaluating the stocks that surged without much thought. tjx bid up in positive aura from tax reform but didn't have good quarter back to $73 and change where it belongs because disappointed last week vmware reported in midst of tech selloff a beautiful quarter. integral to adoption of the cloud, still in infancy and business on fire but misfortu

cybermonday last year.d have some glitches. not all packages may make it in time under people's christmas trees. they are doing a lot to fix the problem, but in the meantime not everyone is too worried. here's somebody we caught up with earlier. >> i just received about all packages from ups. they are coming. don't worry. you'll get your packages. >> so there you go. an unflappable new yorkers and don't worry about it. the statistics as of this moment are telling a different story. if you look at ship matrix, basically a software company that analyzes shipping data. they are saying that ups success rate in delivering packages for when it supposed to come a 89.2%. competitor fedex doing much better. 99.4%. also worth noting ups has a higher level of difficulty if we want to be generous on that point agile to deliver 750 million packages between thanksgiving and christmas. fedex has a smaller load about 400 million packages to deliver in the same timeframe. ups management saying we are fixing the problem, doi

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remember, record i can just explain $6 billion in online sales on cybermonday among. ups hired 95,000's of the workers use more automation to meet demands of an estimated 750 million package deliveries between thanksgiving and the end of the year up 5% from last year. train to their offering to more drivers working with 70 hour weeks are some like that? that's crazy. train for in my apartment building allowed the mountain of packages, i can see why there might be a delay. lauren: at google and amazon going head-to-head. tracee: cut access to amazon to to amazon's effort showed plans to block youtube on amazon's fire tv media streaming device on january 1st because amazon doesn't sell competing products like the google home smart speaker or google's chrome cast streaming device. the move is because of the lack of reciprocity and amazon spokesperson told "the wall street journal" google is setting a disappointing precedent by selectively blocking customer access to an open website. cheryl: instagram taking steps to fight animals. >> instagram will issue warnings on sout

retailer said the holiday season was off to a strong start following record sales on black friday and cybermondayune in for an exclusive interview with the ceo of lululemon at 3:30 p.m. central european time. >>> city is bracing itself for $20 billion hit from the proposed tax plan should it become law the bank's cfo said it would have to write off about $17 billion worth of deferred tax assets and pay $3 billion on money held overseas. analysts say the mesh hasures cd boost the bank's earnings over the longer term. >>> president trump told reporters on wednesday he doesn't see why the u.s. economy can't achieve 6% of gdp growth to put that in context, the last time the american economy hit a 6% growth rate was in 1984 i don't remember that. federal reserve officials and mainstream economists expected growth to remain at just 2%. >>> more than 30 senate democrats are calling for minnesota senator al franken to resign amid a series of accusations of sexual misconduct yesterday a radio station reported that franken would step down, but his office tweeted the story was inaccurate saying senator traf

week radial expects to shift more than two and a half times of packages than on a record breaking cybermonday. if you're checking off your shopping list online, watch the shipping details carefully >> this year was unique with christmas being on a monday. so you had an earlier cutoff for ordering online than you normally do. our retailers did great behind the scenes upgrades. if you want to pay for airshiping, you have up to two days before christmas to order >> many retailers are been picking up the cost for shipping since december 13th, but now it's on shoppers to pay for rush shipping >>> we're back with cnbc's retail analyst, stacey widlitz taking a step back november retail sales numbers in the u.s. were strong the strongest in six or seven years. are you expecting that to continue going into 2018 as the health of the consumer continues to be a theme into next year >> there's no doubt that the november numbers were impressive they were up 6% almost year over year there's a lot of feel good going on in the states now with the tax impact here. i think there's certainly a lot of challenges

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so it's appropriate that today is cybermonday because -- plato computer i'm about to speak began on beast called the cyberand in plato era -- cyber culture meant plato and it hadn't really turned into a term that meant anything else but that, and remarkably as we'll talk about in a little bit more detail tonight -- this entire story has been almost kept classified in a way. it's so unknown and we'll go into that in a bit. so the way i organized this talk was to first think about the title of the book just to rehash that friendly orange glow, untold story of the plato system and the dawn of cyberculture, and there's basically four -- themes in that tilings and what i found helps people sort of gain a gradual understanding so we can arrive somewhere in about an hour and we now know something a little bit more about afl this stuff is to actually imagine rearranging title a little bit. and that's how i'll do the discussion and start with plato system and then talking why is it an untold story and then we'll talk about friendly orange glow and what the heck that is, and then -- we'll spend a l

is warning of temporary delays after cybermonday overwhelmed its network.does not expect to miss christmas deadlines. thank goodness. >>> the wall street journal says aetna's outgoing ceo is set to reap about $500 million if the health insurer's merger with cvs closes. he will reportedly pocket up to $85 million in exit pay. the rest of his projected payout is tied to stock invested rights that jumped in value because of the deal. >>> time reports on a study that suggests eating cheese every day may actually be good for you. researchers found people who had 40 grams of cheese a day, the size of a matchbook, had a 14% lower risk of developing coronary heart disease, that's compared to those who rarely or ever ate cheese. cheese actually contains potentially beneficial ingredients like calcium, protein, and probiotics. >> i think we'll live a long life. >> what kind of cheese do you like? >> all kinds. mozzarella, gruyere, american, cheddar, swim, munster. >> havarti. >> other than that, pepper jack, i don't know much about cheese. >>> the head of the austral

. >> cybermonday was the biggest shopping day ever in this country up 17% read how can ups not have anticipated like running out of roses on day. ashley: online surge had he been kidding me? of course this is going to happen. >> either way, fedex is running fine. it's not an impossible thing to get right. trade to google says amazon can put youtube on it that could show device. why? amazon refuses to sell google smarter. this is a battle of two big tax giant. amazon has done youtube they want their stuff because it's close to that channel. eventually google will capitulate and allow them to have been on there. >> now we have these two titans blocking each other and using their leverage. >> i think google is not being able to sell their product on the platform. >> google home products. stuart: island of irony and "varney & company." nobody has noticed that i had my first time on television and more in a nonwhite shirt. it's >> i notice i walked in. check the big board. 15 points. we are at 24,164. long, long way from 20 5-k. the unit, whole foods, prices going up. amazon made a big public show.

they were already late on delivery from cybermonday couple of days now you throw in last minute christmashopping online and this is going to be tough. already working mega overtime at ups, trying to get all of this back log. despite delays -- hold on. [laughter] dow just had a new high 24,556 and listening to shaw -- keep them going up, and 5 , 52 points up as we speak and interesting in this story meat i repeat meat processor tyson investing in -- veggie burgers. livesy. >> hot companied beyond meat they raws their investment they took a initial investment last year -- you know, and it's a big push a lot of boomers are going to move away from meat products. certainly in yiewrm they're moving away from meat products talking about tax meat like carbon for climate change but it is a big play right now whole foods. you see it at public safeway you see beyond meat and big foods companies are going to protein beef meat products like general mills and kellogg. >> fascinating story. it taste great i've had it. it is delicious. [laughter] >> you can tell the difference. but it's a nice difference

it tells you a bit about the success of cybermonday massively popular. know how often they're coming to my door i'm realizing i'm having strangers come to my door eight times a day. >> five boxes a day, easy. >> i see it. i have dogs. i know when they're there. >> loud. >> yeah. i keep telling them, they're allowed to be here they're packages, they're coming to us. >> it won't stop for the next two weeks. >> they don't care they're on our property. you don't seem to understand >> they most love coming to your house. >> the poor mailman. he tries to sneak up and set it down, and they do -- my mail lem jumps up to get through the door. >> that's a big dog. >> he is >> i would be a little scared. >>> bitcoin emerged in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 the currency allows you to purchase goods and services without going through banks or traditional payment processes. the chicago mercantile exchange announced plans to list bitcoin future futures and that helped propel the price of bitcoin to new heights. it gained more than 1,000 percent in the p

we know how big cybermonday was for retailers across the country, if you still need to order online,atch the shipping deadlines. in many cases, standard shipping options are in the rearview window, now you're looking at expedited options. tomorrow is a big cutoff to order in time for christmas. back to you. >> thanks. we'll move on and talk fedex we were just talking about it. i have to do the rule of 72, but it's up 500%, i think. shares of fedex getting a pop this morning the company posted a rise in profits due to increased shipping volume. joining us to break down the numbers, scott is here i hope he's been long since 2008 you had a buy on this thing? >> i have, thank goodness. >> so we were just talking about it 2008, the low was 40 it was scary to buy all stocks at the lows. now it's 250 that's six times your money, right? it doubles again that's four times the money. doubled twice, gone up another 50%. you know the compound annual return in that stock since '0 8 >> it's been strong. >> i would think 20% a year. >> it has been the earnings growth has been there with it. it's de

look, the retail sales in november were much better than expected, thanksgiving and cybermonday was upr over year and tomorrow we have super saturday, the beautiful saturday shopping day all day before christmas on monday, all of this put together is a much needed boost for retail. stuart: did you call it beautiful shopping -- ashley: like the president. beautiful thing. stuart: he's a hedge fund manager kind of guy, he said the impact of tax cuts will be small costly and fleeting. >> we should invest in infrastructure and education. guess what the u.s. is trying to do that. stuart: yeah, go ahead. >> i respect ray, but the fact that this is a tax cut that is affecting 80% of the population, so although he wants to see this increase spending on infrastructure, i think he has to realize that when a tax cut positively benefits 80% of the people it's a good thing and he should celebrate it more than he is. stuart: my bone with ray dalio is the hedge fund guys keep a very low tax rate compared to other wealthy people who are way up there. liz: he's a patriotic billionaire. stuart: they bou