google? darren gersh reports. >> reporter: google is breaking up the triumvirate. for a decade, founders larry page, sergey brin and c.e.o. eric schmidt have made key decisions together. now, schmidt says he'll be focused outside the company on deals, partnerships, and the increasingly tricky relationships with governments. schmidt says larry page will take on the c.e.o. job a week after he turns 38. >> i want to say very clearly, i believe larry is ready. he's been working on this area for a long time. his ideas are very interesting and clever. it's time for him to have a shot at running this, and i'm sure he'll do a fantastic job. >> reporter: larry page used today's announcement to push back a bit on critics who argue the hyper-growth days of internet search are over. >> i cannot be more excited about moving us forward, and we're really at the beginning. >> reporter: the announcement took investors by surprise, but tech analyst gene munster said page will bring new energy to the c.e.o. rol

i mean the same thing happened to google, google in 2004 did not want to go public when they did but once you have -- you have reached the sec threshold of 500 shareholders you have to go public. and they are reaching that this year. they predict. >> rose: mark zucker. rburg, tell me about him and why many of us seeing the movie and on 60 minutes and that two parter, what is it about mark and the decisions he has made that have put facebook in this envious position? >> well, there are a number of things, mark is a very unusual person, and one of the things that makes him so unusual is that he really isn't doing it for the money, and this is -- you know, i think it is interesting he wanted this goldman deal, because this is something very new for him and the reason he is interested in having facebook be perceived as so valuable is because, in fact, it does achieve a number of strategic objectives for facebook which we can talk about, but because i don't plea exactly with what michael and ken just said but basically, you know, mark wants to change the world, i mean, i say this a lot an

on the other hand, google is at an important turning point. they are trying to diversify google. they make most of their money from advertising, from search and display ads, and they continue to do very well in that area. their numbers we got today were very strong. but they're also looking for a new way forward for google, and that in -- includes the smart phone android. >> what does it suggest to you that they are most likely to be doing most immediately? >> they have had this huge success and it has been a very unexpected success with the android software. apparently, there are 300,000 androids devices being switched on every day. a year ago, nobody thought that android was going to be a big competitor in the market. but now, it really is. this is a departure for google and certainly, is successful one. there are other areas of development that allow -- that larry page is supposedly going to be looking at. eric schmidt said his strong points -- said the strong point in his blog today. but he also said there will be challenges for google this year, particularly when it comes to

google and hewlett-packard. >> that is right. the announcement from google overshadowed by solid 4th quarter earnings report. and google founders are shoveling their responsibility was eric schmidt. abc 7's david louie is live tonight with more on this sudden change, david, and what it means for the company. >> this will be the same people at the top at google. eric schmidt gets a new title which some imply he's being pushed aside but this is apparently not the case here. >> google revenue up 26% compared to a year ago. why change ceos? here is what eric schmidt said. >> i believe larry ready. his ideas are interesting and clever. it's time to do a fantastic job. >> and reluctant to say schmidt has done anything wrong. he worked to make google a giant advertising platform bringing you tube into the fold. google hasn't made a dent and has stumbled on tv. and analysts think that will be the focus in the new job. >> maybe google needs more in in washington, d.c. and and. >> page was enthusiastic about embracing his new duties. >> i

-and a tough economy i would like to work at google and i'd like to work at google in a good economy. the doings of the correct. >> a lot of people would love to work for google. >> they have free food on their campus, even their five years to get the google 60. whatever that's worth. >> rob is coming back were blended talk about just in bieber, the super bowl and the bieber fever. the search for juliani card you as the 4 year-old boy was kidnapped by his mother's former boyfriend jose rodriguez. it is picture also on the screen. it happened last tuesday while juliani was at his grandmother's: the central valley area of paterson. police received a report that a car matching the description of the vehicle driven by rodriguez was seen going into the nearby delta mendota canal. to date dive teams continue their search at that canal and pulled another car from the water and found several other objects including a cement block. it teams have gone back to the site where they believe the car driven by rodriguez actually went into the water. please submit their starting to get discouraged. >>

that it has become google private airport. the jets flying executives to junkett and vacation in the caribbean and cannes film festival. president of consumer watch dog. >> we have 40 google executives with access to 6 jets. 2 helicopters and flight records that show a google executive like eric schmid are using the jets to go to cannes film festival where they party with mick jager and glen close. >> according to federal records google pays about 120,000 dollars a month to house its aircraft. but consumer watch dog question whether company also get a teal on the rent as well as jet fuel. >> they may be paying rent we don't know if it is market rate rent or not. we do know they are getting a government fuel. we don't know how that fuel compares to the jet fuel at a private airport. >>reporter: the group also wants congress to investigate google contracts with several other government agencies. where it services are used. >> google has gotten no bid contract because it gained so much influence in washington. >>reporter: google

i have heard of google, what started this all? >> this is one of the google server racks from 1999. it is a pc hardware -- if you are a pc geek, you may recognize the components as something you could buy in the shop back in the day, but the software makes it. >> reporter: scott, i want to show you something. you are familiar with one of these, they are only a few pounds with quite a bit of processing power. and maybe you remember this -- this is from 1981. 24 pounds. this is one of the first laptop computers. this is 1,000 times -- remember that? you remember this ibm pc. they have a ton of old pcs on display. that's one thing that strikes me most. you come to the museum to see things pre-data. here these are things we remember growing up. >> it is temporary technology. it is a real challenge to collect these things now, things we don't necessarily consider to be historic items, but the general public may still have them in air their attic. we have to preserve them for future generations. >> reporter: i know we talked earlier about pong. this is the original pong, is that correct?

. >> and infrared vision googles this morning to see through the fog, mike. >> yeah.t's pretty thick in some areas. the tulie fog moving through the east bay kind of rapidly this morning. three of us here kind of came through the same area. i didn't see any fog. i won't say the other two came to work later than i did but they did see fog later on in the morning. low to mid-40s throughout the valleys. mid to upper 40s around the bay shore. 53 in san francisco to 61 half moon bay. as far as your 24 hour temperature change, oakland, novato, santa rosa the same. antioch 2 degrees cooler. half moon bay, 18 degrees warmer this morning than yesterday. have the fog around around through the 8:00 hour. temperatures jump by noon. antioch a little behind because of the fog and by 4:00 in the afternoon we're all back into the 60s with sunshine. here's a look at your 7-day forecast. day eight of record high temperatures. tomorrow day night possible and then it's over as we will settle into seasonal conditions with more cloud cover and cooler conditions this weekend. here's megan w

and google today has a mandate, do no evil, which is basically backed by the three guys who own google. and it seems to me that a large percentage of the shares. and it seems to me that that's a real problem because we're not in the let a thousand flowers bloom right now, we're in a mode in which very large entities are moving to carve up the information infrastructure. and they're doing it pretty fast, and they're doing it in a world in which we have powerful voices that say the market reigns, and the little guy is blogging, the little gal is blogging. and i just think that's fantasy. >> right. >> next question. >> i'm going to try and meld both threads of this. the telecommunications giant at&t, as you said, provided research and such under a regime of regulated monopoly. >> right. >> regulated rate of return. >> uh-huh. >> they broke up ma bell, right? >> uh-huh. >> it has now reconsolidated so now, basically, at&t and verizon constitute most of what were the seven baby bells. >> correct. >> so now we have the worst of both worlds. >> correct. >> we have a deregulated monopoly, esse

we have 40 google executives with access, six jets, two helicopters and flight records that show googleves like eric schmidt are partying with mick jagger and glenn close. >> in a statement google said, "this is just the latest of press stunts working closely with our competitors." >> the port of richmond is negotiating an import deal with a major japanese car maker. the financial boost it could give to the community. >> a north bay woman goes for a walk and doesn't return home. search teams have been looking all night for her. we're live at the scene. >> i'm jenelle wang. the president's state of the union address is here. what will be president obama's number one priority this year? a preview coming up in a live report next. [ ma announcer ] 95% of all americans aren't getting enough whole grain. but actually, it's easier than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america's number one source of whole grain at breakfast. there's whole grain in every box... ♪ ...from chex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you can get the whole grain you want with the taste you lo

of google and facebook. in america, innovation does not just change our lives, it is how we make our living. >> lawmakers made a show of solidarity sitting together and we will have more from washington in just 11 minutes. >>> google is adding jobs and they will hire 6200 additional employees. jana katsuyama is live with this story. >> reporter: the lights are on and new hires are on the horizon, outlining a plan to hire thousands. >> reporter: today we talked sweet treats, and today had google more to smile about. they stated that 2011 will be the biggest hiring year in the company's history and its needed 6200 jobs worldwide. the internet search giant has one big profits in online ad revenues in its looking to expand. >> a lot of the work will probably come from acquisitions. >> reporter: it came just as yahoo announced up to 150 layoffs. this afternoon some employees told me they had not heard about the cuts and a spokeswoman said about 1% of employees are affected and they say yahoo is struggling to keep

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consumer watch dog has been a lng-time critic of google. >> we see google influence is growing in troubling ways. opening up phone shallly our private data to the world. >> google said jets carry instruments to nasa. however, consumer watch dog says it reveals little research has been carried out on planes. >> and still on google company today, $100 million and the chief exec wife will stay on. and one says magnitude of the award is a signal to stock holders schmidt will continue to steer the ship after co-founder larry page take overs as ceo. >> residents in a neighborhood are concerned following a second suspicious death there in less than a week. the body of a woman found in the passenger seat of a barning -- burning car this morning. a witness took this picture and maybes say it's latest in troubling incidents. >> i heard from neighbors on page street they often don't walk down the block. i walk a 9-year-old child to school on a daily basis. so that is unacceptable. >> neighbors are wondering if this is related to the stabbing death on friday. an autopsy will be performed to determine w

getting into google is like getting into stanford or harvard.e likely to hire young people not too far out of college, but they are required to look at all applicants. >> the average age is 48. lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. >> yahoo!'s job outlook is not as positive. the sunnyvale-based company is saying it is laying off 150 workers. this comes just six weeks after it let 600 employees go. the cutbacks are part of yahoo!'s continuing effort to boost earnings bi-looring expenses. the -- by lowering expenses. it appears to be earning as their fourth quarter earnings doubled. but sales slid 4% as yahoo! continues to struggle to compete with google and facebook in the race for on-line advertising. >>> more than 900 be jos will be available at the event we are sponsoring. it includes verizon, valley yellow pages and state farm insurance. they need sales people, accountants, loan officers and software developers and more. the event is co-sponsored by abc7 and the job journal tomorrow from noon until 4:00 at the south san francisco convention center w

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>> i'm at google now, which is a blast. i try focus on where i am and don't think ahead. >> what's that like working for another guy, given you've worked for yourself, you've done your own thing for so many years? >> you know, google is crazy. it's very entrepreneurial. you don't feel like you're working for someone up. feel like have you big projects to go on, tackle them and people supposedly on my team they don'tically ask me what to do. >> at google you could probably create something on your own and build a team without necessarily having to start from scratch, right and you have the resources behind you? >> that's exactly right. >> what are you doing at doing snl can you talk about it? >> yeah. i'm the project manager for research. my second company, direct hits, wasn't a search engine, so -- >> do you know what you're doing? and i mean that in the sense that you've not known what you're doing in the past. are you learning as you go or have you got a pretty good idea as to how this works? >> the fire hose analogy is v

and google will have a new ceo. for more on that and news before the bell, nicole lapan, happy friday. >> reporter: a surprise announcement yesterday by google said their co-founder larry page will replace eric schmidt as ceo in april. schmidt has been ceo since 2001 but the shared decision did go on with page and the other co-founder. schmidt will become executive chairman. he's staying on but he's focusing in on government affairs while brim focused on strategic projects. all three men say there was no friction that led to this change, but under schmidt google flew past microsoft and yahoo! in surf and got into mobile devices. google also had a different side to this. schmidt had a public spat with china last year and recently the failed bid to buy online coupon site groupon. that's one shakeup. the other one is the management shakeup 15 minutes north of google's hq. hp is overhauling its board of directors involved in ousting mark herd. they are leaving. hp is naming five new directors in their place, including a

google not one of the companies banning wikileaks's activities. schmidt saying google plans to continue indexing wikileaks's content. a company from germany saying it's legal. payment system operators are dropped wikileaks as a customers over controversy surrounding the content and allegations of sexual misconduct by julian assange. a report showing the biggest year on year price drop. so the fear here double dipped in housing prices. this is the biggest year on year drop since december 2009 and that was the depth of the reception. a growing problem with foreclosures and anemic job growth. san francisco the weakness in home prices also continued in november. sweetness here. a bit lower here. a bunch of companies reporting weaker than expected results. all coming up short there. we have a two-day fed meeting which begins today. so some nervousness there what the fed may do, if anything. the dow, s & p and nasdaq all slightly lower with the nasdaq most percentagewise losses here today. at the new york stock exchange, i'm ja king, bloomberg news. >>

google says, google's idea is that they have designed their company to try to avoid internal corruption. that is what they said and we read their company so i'm surprised they were saying that. they said we are extremely aware of this danger and we are, we put in measures to try to prevent ourselves from becoming corrupted. >> three guys are what? 30 or 40%. >> i'm just saying this is what they feel. this is what they think. they believe that this would be their downfall, so they are trying. what do iin

google says, google's idea is that they have designed their company to try to avoid internal corruption. that is what they said and we read their company so i'm surprised they were saying that. they said we are extremely aware of this danger and we are, we put in measures to try to prevent ourselves from becoming corrupted. >> three guys are what? 30 or 40%. >> i'm just saying this is what they feel. this is what they think. they believe that this would be their downfall, so they are trying. what do i think? i think we are in a kind of a golden age. there is a lot of amazing stuff going on right now. watch very carefully a certain ratio of innovation versus soap reservation measures. you can look at any industry and see what ratio between the two you see. journalism, for a long time journalism was was no invasion but it has shifted a little bit. the content industry, hollywood, 80% of the record is to try to defend their business model and 20% is to improve it. you watch that racial and it starts to shift and it starts to get abusive when they start to exclude or destroy their rival. th

google and hewlett-packard. nounment from google today overshadowed a solid fourth quarter earning report. up 26 percent far more than expected. google founder page and grin are shuffling their responsibilities with schmid who has been the company ceo for 10 years. more tonight from money scope reporter david. >>reporter: geeling is flying high financially. it reported its fourth quarter results today. revenue up 26 percent compared to a year ago. so why change ceo? here's what eric schmid said on the earnings conference call. >> i believe larry is ready. he's been working on this area for a long time. his ideas are very interesting and clever and time for him to have a shot at running this and doing it i'm sure he will do a fantastic job. >>reporter: analyst reluctant to say schmid has done anything wrong. he worked with the co-found tore make google the dominant search engine and giant advertising platform. he brought you tube into the fold. but google hadn't made a dent in social networking against facebook.

own so does that show that there's some kind of a a breakdown there is google perhaps not as close to obama as we thought. the way i would think of it is this there is the candidate obama was embraced almost by folks in silicon valley you know google facebook the old those types of companies or both as a break from bush and also because he represented perhaps in their view at the time a more interesting vision of the future but then once he and a lot of those folks at that time there john and went to actually work for the white house not not maybe not a lot but a little bit but a substantial number of significant positions in putting google but there but since then it's more like democratic party politics took over and now we're seeing more i think the truly nature of the beast which is that this is some something that's going to be closer to hollywood the googles interest when the two are opposed so let me i mean there's that any any presidential administration any white house is a complex creature with lots of moving parts so i would say just this is a pro our area it is rationed ov

treats, not on a plate but on the lawn outside google's building 44. a giant cup cake, a claire and a sunday. each for names of android mobile phones systems. today google had more to smile about after they announced they are hiring people. >> as opposed to try to develop it from scratch, a lot of those numbers will come from acquisitions they're going to make. >> reporter: the news came after yahoo from sunnyvale announced cuts. 1% of yahoo's 13,600 employees are affected. >> there's still a decent destination site. they have a good news program, good information program going on. but i still think they are struggling with what it is they want to do. >> reporter: as for google, the aggressive hiring could be a bellwether for the economy if other companies follow suit. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> and more details now, google's news sent stocks higher today. at the close a share sold for more than $619 up more than $8. that's an increase of 1.44%. last week google reported better than expected earnings. >>> a seaside session on wall street today ende

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treats, not on a plate but on the lawn outside google's building 44. a giant cup cake, a claire and a sunday. each for names of android mobile phones systems. today google had more to smile about after they announced they are hiring people. >> as opposed to try to develop it from scratch, a lot of those numbers will come from acquisitions they're going to make. >> reporter: the news came after yahoo from sunnyvale announced cuts. 1% of yahoo's 13,600 employees are affected. >> there's still a decent destination site. they have a good news program, good information program going on. but i still think they are struggling with what it is they want to do. >> reporter: as for google, the aggressive hiring could be a bellwether for the economy if other companies follow suit. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> and more details now, google's news sent stocks higher today. at the close a share sold for more than $619 up more than $8. that's an increase of 1.44%. last week google reported better than expected earnings. >>> a seaside session on wall street today ende

. >> just ahead, a change at the top for google. switch in the ceo chair,. >> the miraculous transplant that gave a woman back her voice. >> i'm janelle wang, former giants baseball star barry bonds will soon be headed for trial. today a hearing on damaging evidence, it could be a strikeout for the prosecution and a home [ asst mgr ] what are you doing? fixing the name. it'siber none. looks like one. well, i know. i put an "n" there. ah! fiber one honey clusters cereal! that's really good! it tastes good, so there can't be fiber in it! it's actually got about half a day's worth of fiber. [ asst mgr ] it says so right on the box. [ fiber seeker ] really? try it. [ mr. mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? cardboard no, delicious yes. so where's the fiber? maybe it's in the honey clusters. [ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> it's 6:13. google chief executive eric schmidt is stepping down in a surprise shakeup. larry paige is reclaiming the top job. schmidt was brought in ceo

google is so -- google and facebook are so, believe it or not, insanely protective of their users and customers' privacy, it would just crush their business if there was big scandals. that believe it or not, people in my position are constantly asking them to let us target more. and they're constantly saying no. now there is something i'd like to talk about for just a quick second while we're on it, because we dovetail with the social media, and that is social seeding. i know you said size doesn't matter when it comes to the size of social media. i completely agree that i would rather have incredibly influential people than not a lot of influential people. but if you're going to get influencers, you want more of them rather than a few of them. if you're going to target an audience you want as many as humanely possible. for instance, if you're going to tweet three times a day, if you have 100 followers, you know, you might expose your ads to -- or your tweets to 100 people three times a day. but if you have 100,000 followers, the same exact amount of effort tweeting goes so much farthe

it's an ideological maneuver by google. google's idea is they win if systems are up there. so in some sense it's ideological and some sense it's commercial. they believe if we have an open platform we will win because we are better there. they know if they try to take on apple head to head in a closed system they will lose. so they're trying to convert the world into something more google wins in, that's the whole point of android. >> rose: some argue the internet is dead. >> people won't think of the internet or the web. they'll think i use facebook or my iphone or my android or the app, whatever apple's got. that's a different world, it's true because entrepreneurship has shifted. now you start a new company and you say i'm going start a facebook app or an iphone app. it's different than the 1990s when people said "i'm going to start an internet company on the raw internet." >> rose: or create a web site. >> something like that. >> rose: today everybody wants to create an app. that's where the business is because that's where people are going to seek out the kind of infor

a big shake-up at google. the change at the top and wall street's reaction to the news. >> plus, she lost the governor's race but meg whitman is moving on. her new role in a major tech company and her message to former rival jerry brown. >>> and champions, they don't come cheap. the record sum giants managers are spending to keep the team together. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is tgif! happy friday and good morning. yesterday's gusty winds are expected to taper off today. we saw a record temperature at the oakland airport yesterday. we saw 67 degrees and check out alameda, expected high today 67 degrees. 65 in berkeley. we'll see a mild 61 degrees in walnut creek. virtually the entire bay area will see mostly sunny skies. i have a seven-day forecast that i think is going to have you salivating for the weekend. ating for the back to you guys. >> be grateful, too, after seeing what's happening in the midwest with that big snowstorm there. what a mess. >>> governor brown making another move in his effort to reduce calif

google cofounder larry paige is reclaiming the top job. submit was brought in because investors believed the company needed a more mature leader but on his twitter account, he wrote day to day adult supervision is no longer needed. he will now act as an advisor to paige. >> i believe larry is ready. he has been working on this time and his ideas are interesting and clever and it's time for him to have a shot at running this. >>> google says schmidt plans to sell 534,000 google shares over the next year. that would be worth about $335 million. >>> there is a drastic decision in san jose to gut adult education. they voted to take millions of dollars from the program that teaches people english. lisa amin gulezian reports, it's all to protect k-12 education. >> they want to take money away from the metropolitan adult education program and use it instead to fund more programs for children. >> it puts us in a position where we have to feed our own. >> two years ago they gave control of the state funding to the school board, you now the district

it's the software that makes google what it is. in 1999, who had heard of google? >> how they've shrunk. the lap top of today weighs less than a few pounds. in 1991, you needed your own sherpa. that weighed 24 pounds. and it retailed for $1800. in 1972, this made the debut. you're looking at the original game of pong. how did you get your hands on this? >> al corn designed pong. was installed in andy capps bar in sunnyvale in ' 2, he had it. it was still stored in one of his lockers and he was able to let us display that for the exhibiti exhibition. >> revolution, the first 2,000 years in computing will soon be going virtual. in march, you can see the entire collection on-line at computerhistory.org. nbc bay area news. >> it is, isn't it? i thought for a second i thought hugo from lost was going to show up. >> i love the picture of the typewriter. my kids say, what is that, daddy? >>> still ahead, their family told them to always stay together. and through heart break, they're doing just that right down to their uniforms. >>> also reunited after more than two decad

this group says google's clout enabled the company to house jets and helicopters at moffett field air scrip and says they used defense department jet fuel. >> we have 40 google executive was six sets, two helicopters and flight records show executives are using jets to go to cannes film festival, partying with mick jagger and glenn close. >> google declined a request for an interview choosing to reply with a statement quote this is the latest from an organization admitting to working closely with our competitor. and this is referring to a consumer watch dog relationship with microsoft. >> and watchers says jerry brown broke a promise saying this proposal will not include pension reform, believing the rising costs will force to us pay higher taxes or push california into bankruptcy. >> and we need to come up with something that is going to be more aligned with what the private sector does, such as a defined contribution system instead of defined benefits system. >> i don't put too much on the table. the whole thing collapses. people are concerned about that. i said during a campaign bo

>>reporter: also today google revealed schmid plans to sell 5 34,000 google shares over the next year worth about 335 million dollars. >>> also big changes at h p including whitman return to the by world. palo alto base tech giant named 5 new director to the board today including former ebay and candidate whitman. 4 of h p current board members will step down in march. the changes come just 6 months after the company ousted former ceo hurd in scandal oath personal relationship with a part-time marketing contractor. hurd departure triggered shareholder loss and an internal investigation over the size of had severance pay. >>> drastic decision tonight in san jose to gut adult education. school board voted unanimously to take millions of dollars away from a program that teaches people english and trains them for jobs. as lisa reports it is all to protect k through 12 education. l. >>reporter: tonight san jose unified school board meeting the focus was on a money grab. superintendent want to take money away from the district metropolitan adult education program. or metro ed and use it ins

. >>> google reacted to news of the shakeup. google stock was up slightly after yesterday's closing bell. google anowed that company cofounder larry page will take over, a position he held during the early stage. that upstaged google's fourth quarter earning which increased by 4%. >>> a company named angry bird is migrating to another form ofplatform. it is now an animated series. it is not clear if the series will be web based or for television but the ceo of rodeo mobile is focusing on broadcast content. angry birds first appeared on i phones but now is available in traditional platforms, including game consoles. >>> nobody knows if the clydesdale will be on, but budweiser has locked the spot for the sponsor for the next four games. to you can watch the super bowl right here on ktvu. >>> the minnesota metrodome that caved in during a snowstorm last month may not be ready for the vikings' preseason game. the roof collapsed under the weight of heavy snow in early december. you will remember these pictures. right now, official st

it's the monopoly that google and amazon are trying to establish. and they have come close to succeeding. and here again the antitrust fact -- pact is not being invoked. you had a showdown the other month where amazon was offering to the publishers and the authors about half of what they normally make. they were keeping the difference, of course. so that battle was temporarily won by the publisher that said, okay, you don't have our books. then amazon said we aren't going to list your books at all if you don't give us any books. which i would have thought any antitrust lawyer would have said this is an abuse of your powers. nobody said anything at the time. that's the real battle that's going on. if you get a situation where one or two firms can control, you know, what's going to be sold in that form, then you have -- you have real problems. the other aspect and i don't know how many of you have read this stuff but robert in the new york review is the whole library issue. and he has chose to become librarian if i were precisely to be able to have a

google is so -- google and facebook are so, believe it or not, insanely protective of their users and customers' privacy, it would just crush their business if there was big scandals. that believe it or not, people in my position are constantly asking them to let us target more. and they're constantly saying no. now there is something i'd like to talk about for just a quick second while we're on it, because we dovetail with the social media, and that is social seeding. i know you said size doesn't matter when it comes to the size of social media. i completely agree that i would rather have incredibly influential people than not a lot of influential people. but if you're going to get influencers, you want more of them rather than a few of them. if you're going to target an audience you want as many as humanely possible. for instance, if you're going to tweet three times a day, if you have 100 followers, you know, you might expose your ads to -- or your tweets to 100 people three times a day. but if you have 100,000 followers, the same exact amount of effort tweeting goes so much farthe

google is in the right place. and the no. 1 web page in the world. they're doing something san and becoming more irrelevant. relevance like yahoo. will not happen for 5-10 years. i like that they're making it sooner rather than later. >> 39 running one of the biggest companies of the world. his other known as the guy who really took on face book and did a great bank or a his-luck. he will either get a home run or strike out. it is fun to watch. ok so we are here and the republicans come to us for more than this. even as a lot more people in trouble. >> two years ago we got into the great reception. they wanted more money in be said come to us will try our way. they're high on their horse and they are telling the states to not come to us that people are going to get into the province. the call of the state is to take care of their own. he is starting to go bankrupt. that way they can go to the pensions and the people who worked for 30 years or of lading the scare tactic. i do not think that happens. i do think that renegotiation is really tough. job l

the mac world expo runs through side. >>> google announced it will expand the workforce this year. the mountain view based company plans to add 6200 jobs around the world. google is looking to expand the new technologies after reporting big profits from online ads last year. the fastest way to do that would be to buy other companies and some analysts say the announcement is worded so that it could mean that google will add the workers through acquisitions and not necessarily by hiring. >>> that announcement came at the same time that yahoo! announced to lay off 150 jobs after laying off 600 workers last month. >>> california state university is expected to approve another fee hike and this is for those looking to become teachers. the proposal calls for a 10% or $1,000 fee hike for the ph.d and education program and that translates to an annual tuition of 10,500 starting this fall. the new fees will be in addition to a 5% tuition hike already in effect for all students this winter and another 10% increase taking effect in the fall. >>> today, three bay area mayors are joining other

google was second with just over 7% of all visits.rs facebook has become the world's largest web social network with half a billion users worldwide. >>> get this. childhood obesity can start before most babies start eating solid food. researchers found that one third of 9-month-olds are obese or overweight as are 34% of 2 year olds. the study was published. being overweight at 9 months researchers say sets the stage for weight problems as early as 2 years old. >>> check your tickets. you could be a winner in tonight's mega millions drawing. ticket sales were brisk before tonight's drawing and that boosted the top prize to an unbelievable $242 million. it has gotten so high because the jackpot has gone without a winner for 14 consecutive drawings. here we go with the winning numbers. they are 10, 12, 13, 35, 56 and mega number is 9. did you win? send a little money my way. >> either way the chances of winning this jack pot are huge. it is one in 175 million. mega millions is played in 41 states and the district of columbia. gary, what

what is going to be the effective google into the bookmark it? >> guest: i think that -- you know, it's anybody's guess on this, really. it's a whole new frontier. mica is again that if you buy a book like matterhorn, what i would like to see is you buy this 800 page book on the vietnam war and maybe you don't want to schlep it on the train that day. so what would be nice is to be able to read it on your phone or read it on your ipad or on what other device that is while you're on the train so you don't have to shut the book around. i think that if that's the way things are going to go and that's what we called abilene, where you buy, you know, you buy the book and pay a few dollars more and you get the e-book for free or something like that. that that the way the industry is going to be going, i think google is a front runner for the understanding what consumers want. >> host: when it comes to digital books, here is some information about some of the devices you can use to read him books. kendall. kendall three has become amazons best-selling pr

and great for google for listening. the microsoft also, for privacy the the will of a similar feature on the next version of internet explorer. interstate-9 later this year. fire fox, it is also going to be releasing a do not track any teacher. for a direct link to try the anti-track-me, and the website cuf, gambe slate and amazon, kimberly? but >> and right now, it is being developed tested and around seattle, washington. they're headquartered but according to the financial times they have already started creating a national push. what does this all about? certain products lab free weekly delivery with beauty products, grocery store, low-priced goods. no subscriptions, no delivery minimums, or no fees and they've not decided on with the want to expand this, yet. amazon, so could face competition from wal-mart. creating similar structures. for on-line delivery. >> president obama will give the second state of the union address tomorrow night. will have complete coverage at 6:00 p.m. be sure to tune into kron 4 tomorrow

google's workforce grew by 23% last year. the company did not say how many of those jobs will be added in the u.s. google's smaller rival yahoo is cutting 1% of its global workforce. that's the second round of layoffs in six weeks. in december, yahoo announced it was laying off 600 people. the news comes on the same day yahoo said sales fell 4% last quarter. on wall street, stocks staged a late day comeback. investors shook off a sharp drop in home prices and disappointing earnings from dupont and johnson & johnson. the dow is just 23 points away from 12,000. the nasdaq is up 2. verizon will offer an unlimited data plan for iphone users for a limited time only. customers who sign up during a specific window will have unlimited data on their iphones for the life of their verizon contract. the company would not say how long the temporary unlimited offer will last. after that initial period it will move to a metered system similar to what at&t uses. that plan charges customers for the amount of data they consume. and that's your