google yahoo microsoft and facebook all of them received millions of taxpayers' dollars from the n.s.a. . helping to illegally spy on unsuspecting web users that's according to the latest top secret files leaked to the media by edward snowden it is the first direct evidence of a financial relationship between the web and the u.s. surveillance agency details here. judgment which was declassified on wednesday by the obama administration found that the agency was unable to separate purely domestic communications from foreign traffic now while the n.s.a. reportedly began working on a solution to the process that had been ruled illegal tech companies including google yahoo microsoft and facebook allegedly incurred cost certification demands the entire process reportedly costed prism participants millions of dollars to implement each successful extension and those costs. covered by an arm of the n.s.a. known as special source operations according to the guardian newspaper n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has described special source operations as the crown jewel of the agency that handles

the national security agency allegedly paid the bills for google yahoo microsoft and facebook in return for helping and to spy online this information comes. from whistleblower edward snowden and is the first reported evidence of financial dealings like this are in a pardon as mine. the so-called pay to play relationship between the u.s. national security agency and the internet companies reportedly began after the foreign intelligence surveillance court here in the us known as rules in october two thousand and eleven that some of the n.s.a.'s activities were surprise unconstitutional and violated the fourth amendment now the judgment which was declassified on wednesday by the obama administration found that the agency was unable to separate purely domestic communications from foreign traffic now while the n.s.a. reportedly began working on a solution to the process that had been ruled illegal tech companies including google yahoo microsoft and facebook allegedly incurred cost certification demands now the fisa court is required to sign annual certifications that provide the legal frame

working on a solution to the process that had been ruled illegal tech companies including google yahoo microsoft and facebook allegedly incurred cost certification demands the entire process reportedly costed prism participants millions of dollars to implement each successful extension and those costs according to u.s. documents were covered by an arm of the n.s.a. known as special source operations according to the guardian newspaper n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has described special source operations as the crown jewel of the agency that handles all surveillance programs that rely on corporate partnerships with telecoms and internet providers to access communication data now this revelation is being considered evidence that a financial relationship between tech companies and the n.s.a. has existed and as the guardian newspaper put it the disclosure that taxpayers' money was used to cover the company's compliance costs raises new questions surrounding the relationship between silicon valley and the n.s.a. now the guardian reached out to the alleged prism participants for a response about

like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francis

. >>> yahoo hit a major milestone the based company beat out google microsoft facebook and amazon. yahoo had 196 million viewers. the numbers indicate to turn around the company are starting to pay off. >>> president obama kicked off where he unveiled a plan to rent colleges. told the state university of new york at buffalo that higher education should not be a luxury. has trip allied over the past 30 years. would include ranks for student debt. it does not require congressional approval. >>> saving city college of san francisco. political motivations were behind to revoke accredit edition next year. the based made the move and retaliation for city college support of an open access. the commission wants to eliminate remedial classes in favor of a degree focused system. the commission had no comments so far. >>> thank you for making your source for news. our coverage continues with tonight's news. stick around, t m z is next. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in

paid millions of taxpayer dollars to technology companies like facebook yahoo google and microsoft so that these internet companies would be in compliance with the fights the ruling but that's not the only development coming out of the snowden leaks today. and a strange turn of events british newspaper the independent came out with an exclusive story about a secret surveillance base run by the united kingdom in the middle east the article says quote the independent is not revealing the precise location of the station but information on its activities was contained in the leaked documents obtained from the n.s.a. by edward snowden. why is this so odd now well that's because snowden had this response to the independence article i have never spoken with worked with or provided any journalistic material to the independent it appears that the u.k. government is now seeking to create an appearance that the guardian and washington post disclosures are harmful and they are doing so by intentionally leaking harmful information to the independent and attributing it to others. so snowden is now

last year yahoo was third behind google and microsoft. >>> coming up a new twist in the legal drama surroundingonvicted serial killer joseph naso. why he may not be prosecuted for another alleged murder. >>> a rash of robberies in one east bay city. the big question police are trying to answer. >>> we are still looking pretty good on this early thursday morning. on the golden gate bridge. the traffic looks good heading to san francisco. >>> low pressure system which gave us thunderstorms a couple days ago is moving north. far enough north for lightning? >>> a, a huge wildfire continues to burn out o of control as it moves closer to yosemite. we'll tell you about the big concern on the fire lines. >>> live in hayward where firefighters get more than they bargain for in fighting a pot fire. >> and police are investigating two robberies. i'll tell you what connects all four cases and what may look like. >> and president obama, how he makes college more affordable. plap ? >>> well good morning. here's a live look of the city of oakland from the roof camera. steve will tell you what the weather. >>

. >> if i'm google or yahoo! or microsoftany of the technology giant out there, i'm licking my chops. i'm saying i must have shutterfly. it is -- that is the business model for the future. the diversification that comes in technology these days and photographs would be one key of all of that. don't you think you're a perfect candidate for acquisitions? have you spoken to anybody? could you be for sale at the right price? >> you know, we've been focused on building a largent prize that stand alone and independent for our customers. but as an independent company we have to acquire customers one at a time. so we partner with folks like yahoo! microsoft, best buy and david's bridal and target, where they help us get customers. we can be an independent company down the road. but as a public company, if the along, fer came ertainly the board would consider that. but our focus is really about building a large stand-alone company. >> we will leave it there. good to have you on the program. we've been watching the success. thanks for

edward snowden revealed that prism collects unable collection directly from the servers of microsoft yahoo google facebook and other online companies the government said the n.s.a. does does that only with a warrant from the five the court these are secret court orders snowden said to fight the court merely rubber sense such warrants and he revealed one such court orders secret court order for communications company to hand over its client data in bulk the government has acknowledged bulk collection of communications but said no one to look at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said yes they can he said i sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge or even the president if i had a personal e-mail no words need it and this week the guardian relying on the documents that we had earlier provided as revealed details of the program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows us to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs this build up of confrontation with russia over snowden is supposed t

. >> reporter: he says google and microsoft have the encryption, but yahoo does not. >> we first heardrogram called prism. what's the difference? >> reporter: that's when they target specific dumbs to get information on certain foreign terror suspects. keyscore is a lot wider in scope. >>> students getting ready to head back to school this fall can rest a little easier. congress just approved lower interest rates for student loans. once president obama signs that bill, undergraduates with government loans for this school year will have an interest rate of 3.86%. the house approved the bill today after rates spiked on april 1st. >>> it's part airplane, part car. take a look at this. at about seven feet 7 feet wide, 19 feet long, this contraption shown off today at a wisconsin aviation show can fly you and a buddy. and when you land, you just fold in the wings and drive to your next destination. >> you drive it like a car. it's got a steer ing wheel, a gas pedal, and you fly it just like a little airplane. the stick comes off the floor, you've got rutter pedals. >> it is called the trans

. >> google and microsoft have the enkripgs but yahoo and aol do not, and facebook announced today it will. >> interesting stuff. when we first heard about the nsa surveillance going on, we heard about program called prism. now, how is prism different than the x key score. >> that's right. okay. prism is when the nsa targets orders to specific silicon valley companies to get information on specific foreign terror suspects. x key core is much wider in scope. one description that it's like vacuuming a who will room on americans. sharon, thank you for that. >>> new revelations tonight in the case of the three women held hostage for years in the cleveland house. documents show how arielle castro lured them to his basement in the first place. amanda barry, gina dejesus and michelle knight kept diaries. instead they were chained up and raped repeatedly over the years. if he wanteded to punish them, he kept them in the cold basement or the sweltering attic. they got one meal a day and one shower a week. last friday, castro pled guilty to rape, kidnapping and aggravated murder. he'll spend th

yahoo has topped google in web traffic for the first time since 2008. the latest numbers from comscore show yahoo had more people clicking on its sites than google during the month of july. microsoft, facebook and aol round out the rest of the list of the top 5. don't be so quick to recycle your old iphone. reports say now is the best time to trade in apple's older models for cash. historically,resale values drop dramatically right before apple releases a new phone. currently trade in site gazelle is shelling out 300 dollars for a 16 gigabyte iphone 5 in good condition. however sources say prices will drop between 15 and 20% in the six week period surrounding apple's announcement on september 10th. it may pay to read the fine print on credit card rewards. card hub.com finds some rewards from using your credit card come with fees attached. and often those fees are buried in the fine print. based on clarity of reward rules-- the study ranks american express with the most confusing credit card application followed by barclays, and chase.capital one is noted as having the clearest credit card application.there are currently no regulation requirements on rewards. well, that was fast! a

yahoo had nearly 197 million unique visitors in july. that's 4 million more than google which held the top spot in april of 2008. last year yahoo was third behind google and microsoft was brought in to try and beat them. she succeeded. >> 8:45. hey, sal. i haven't asked you about 880 in a while. >> the truck made things really slow. people driving to downtown oakland off the bay bridge are not used to seeing all kinds of slow traffic. there's the stalled truck that's been there for a bit. the traffic is really very slow. the traffic is going to be busy all the way up. and i'll show it to you on the maps here. slow from near the oakland post office. down to where the truck is. use 580 eastbound westbound 580 right there is going to be slow. but eastbound 580 is doing okay. we have slow traffic especially from right in here all the way down to the fremont area. take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza between a 5 and 10 minute delay into san francisco. >> all right. thank you. a couple breaks in the low clouds. a lot of low clouds down. with that in place and in mind, we have a decent westerly breeze. the low responsible for it is moving so far north, it's taking clo

only at hotels.com >>> i'm betting a lot of you have a free e-mail account with google, microsoft or yahoobably think your accounts are pretty private. as tom foreman found out, that may not be the case. >> every day, people around the globe send or receive about 180 billion e-mails according to research. much of it goes through free e-mail services, but across the ocean in london, an activist says, hold on, some of these free services may be costing us dearly. >> if you're not paying for the product, you're not the customer. you're the product itself. ♪ >> what he means as this. for years, we thought of mail as private. but they're much more like postcards, easily read by anyone or any company between you and the person you're sending this message to and huge e-mail companies with millions of users do just that. with powerful computer, they scan every word for clues to help them sell precisely targeted ads, so if you write kayak, you'll soon see odds for river trips. have doubts? in a recent court action, google cited a decision stating users should have no legitimate expectation of priva

that's about 4 million more than google cypriot unique site visits were also up 20% from the same time last year when yahoo was third and the ranking behind google and microsoftre called " super editors " men and women who are in their 80s and 90s but with brenda memories testing for our young girl. researchers at northwestern university are looking at this rare group and the hope that they may find ways to help protect others from memory loss. and they've had some tantalizing finding to imagining tests have found usually low amounts of it related plaques along with more brakeman's related to attention and memory in these elite seniors. at 443 we will take a break return with more headlines. --super agers. >>erica: and other morning of 50s around the bay with pleasanton at 57. a little warmer and the south bay we are seeing low 60s in sunnyvale and san jose. as we follow these numbers into the afternoon, you will notice it is going to be a little bit cooler to what we saw yesterday so we are forecasting any 90s. pleasanton one of the warm spot at 86 degrees. it said '70s down the east bay shore line. upper '70's and san rafael bridge we will see a mix of sun

like there are not trade going on and big-name week continued to follow that with the microsoft or google or yahooquities we're talking about. cheryl: i want to update our viewers, talking to officials at the nasdaq, telling them everything halted. and the stock price quote issue of dissemination, and all of the trades, at 12:14 p.m. eastern time according to what is coming through on the nasdaq website. they are not willing to speculate on what the issue is. dennis: dissemination, they're not getting enough price information coming back to update to let investors know where the real prices are, disseminating the information. and the notice and transparency is everything. and this is also breaking. when microsoft shares trade on nasdaq they trade on the nyse and so does apple, trading and exchanges. they don't go so far as to save stocks trade on nasdaq and elsewhere, stock everywhere, trades have tried to happen on the nasdaq but not let go to other exchanges. >> let's start with john cortines who is an executive floor governor, of meridian equity partners. what is the latest you are hearing pert

google, microsoft, and boeing. one of the internet's most recognizable logos is in for a change. yahoo is planning a logo makeover. during the next 30 days, the company will release different variations of the project. its new trademark will be unvieled next month. still to come, a feud on wall street spreads to hollywood. can george clooney stop an activist investor? the unique ways entrepreneurs are funding ipos. and, what the merger mania in the media industry says about the economy. aol is making its largest acqusition to date under its new management. aol plans to buy adap.tv, an online video company that matches advertising buyers and sellers. aol will pay $405 million. it's estimated spending in the digital video advertising space will grow 41% to $8 billion this year. media mergers and acqusitions are picking up the pace this year. monique lewis, who heads up the tech and media division of mergermarket, is skyping with us this morning. good morning, monique. why are merger deals so active? - we're seeing a lot of activity because interest rates are really low. you have these la

they tried to take on, not microsoft, they tried to take on google and yahoo!e increasing share but very tough these days to come in well behind an established winner like facebook. i'm not saying don't try it. we love davids versus goliaths stories but how would they go about doing that on a grander scale not just like with an idea like facebook? >> you know, social media today, basically needs a face-lift in order to make it even more interesting to more people. if that is done right they will find the audience. the audience will fine then. adam: okay, so we've been beating up on mr. ballmer and microsoft. what are they doing right? is windows 8 something that is right or need to go back to the drawing board? >> i believe windows 8 was not a bad idea. yes there is a little bit of execution missing there at the end, but you know what? they will get this fixed in october with 8.1. not a problem. i think the real issue is, windows is basically some kind of a platform and that is not good enough. liz: waa keep,djoachi, he has no shortage of ideas to talk about. w

guardian newspaper that, in fact, the nsa has cut checks for millions of dollars to google, facebook, microsoft, and, yahoodo the sort of compliance issues. when they give them a fisa court order and google has to look up information on mike jerrick, going to cost them some money. so then the. in sa was cutting checks on behalf of this whole -- >> ainsley: does it bother you. >> clayton: yeah, bothers me because we were led they didn't know anhing about it at all. the fact that they said we didn't know anything about this and yet we are receiving checks on the back side of this? where is this money coming from from the federal government? >> ainsley: coming from you the taxpayer. >> mike: you areworking for the nsa and tools to spy on people. let's say you are in a relationship and you are kind of iffy, i wonder if my wife is cheating on me and those tools are right there at your finger tips. can i check out what she is up to. would you be tempted to do that. >> clayton: turns out. they had a number of people at the nsa not like an epidemic of people at the nsa. we are learning this morning from the "wall

google, netflix, office depot, office max--i can--staples, yahoo, and youtube. >> right. >> how do you argue that you had something to do with google? it just seems so outlandish or kind of wacky. >> look, microsoftoogle, all these people have patents of their own. they all enforce patents. they all charge other companies for patents, and all i'm trying to do is get back the investment that i made to create these patents. >> we kept hearing that what he's really trying to do is gain recognition as a tech visionary, but with his book idea man, he's being branded a bitter billionaire. what's your reaction to people saying it's kind of a revenge book, a bitter book? >> it's not about that. i just felt like, you know, it's an important piece of technology history, and i should tell it like it happened, and i hope people understand and respect that. >> but for all the bad feelings allen writes about with gates, near the end of the book, he reveals something that happened when he got cancer a second time in 2009. and he came to see you. he comforted you when you were sick. >> right. bill came, you know, here to my house multiple times, and we had some great talks, and there's a bond there that can't be

they have really great security technology, which, yes, microsoft could leverage, but it could be a valuable thing for google, for yahoo for any one of the companies. i'm not sure nokia could acquire it here. >> right. >> there's a lot more behind the surface here in blackberry than we're really thinking about if we just look at the phones and the playbook. >> all right. i'm hanging on till the light goes out for the last time, if that's what happens. thank you both for your thoughts today on blackberry. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> we've got a lot of stories we're covering today. more on carl icahn announcing he's got a big position in ap e apple. he's already spoken to ceo tim cook. the stock during the regular session was up about 4%, almost 5%, having one of the best days of the year. it continues a little bit higher here in the after-hours session, up to $490. meantime, from main street to your living room -- >> i have a tape recording of a conversation that i had with john f. kennedy. >> so did the president know you were recording him? >> i can't tell you anything. >> "pawn stars" co-host rick harrison helpi

sony playstation, boards coming out the microsoft xbox one and they'll look game stop a winner. stuart: take that google. more people visited yahooe the two stocks, nicole. nicole: you have to put in a cave caveat. they did not count mobile. they did not count mobile, smart phone, tablets, seems a little skewed. google at 872.31. stuart: check the big board. we got what we were expecting, a modest bounce at the opening bell. 30-odd points, roughly 30 points higher. 14-9 is where we are. president obama kicking off the two day college tour today. and we're told he will push for a free ride for college students, funded in part by taxpayers. a conservative commentator on that next. ♪ ♪ today i don't feel like doing anything ♪ ♪ i just want to lay in my bed ♪ (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking, i get one view of my bank and brokerage accounts with one login... to easily move my money when i need to. plus, when i call my local scottrade office, i can talk to someone who knows how i trade. because i don't trade like everi'm with scottrade. me. (announcer) scottr

that's exactly how google and the rest of the search engines make money it doesn't require you a lot of people advertise. you you sell advertising we actually syndicate microsoft yahoo is ad feed and we just say oh someone typed in the search sponsored links yet there's a there's a lot there's like you may not have noticed because we don't have that many i mean we try to keep the site very cluttered really and. speaking of the clutter free just twenty seconds here it's people talk about this is like the google experience before google your goal to keep this site clean yeah i mean google when it started out when people fell in love with it was because it was clean and simple and you got stuff fast and that is what our goal that's right and that's what you're doing more of tonight's conversations with great minds and one of the first. wealthy british style stock it's time to rise. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds of reports . on the wonderful strong arm and why should these college face i think i'm peter. a pleasure to have you

that's exactly how google and the rest of the search engines make money it doesn't require you know a lot of people advertise. you you sell advertising we actually syndicate microsoft yahoo's ad feed and we just say oh someone typed in the search it was sponsored links yet there's a there's a link you may not have noticed because we don't have that many i mean we try to keep the site very cluttered really and do the speaking of the clutter free in just twenty seconds here it's people talk about this is like the google experience before google your goal to keep this site clean yeah i mean google when it started out when people fell in love with it was because it was clean and simple and you got stuff fast and that is what our goal is right and that's what you're doing more of tonight's conversations with great minds and people one after the birth. dramas that can't be ignored. towards others the fields in the same. faces changed the world the lights never. told pictures of the states the long distance from around the globe the brooklyn. i mean. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or

into that position is going to say a lot about microsoft what they can and cannot do in the years ahead. >> what did ballmer miss here? there's yahoo! googlefacebook. who did ballmer team up with for phones? nokia. his cloud effort, that salesforce.com. where did they show leadership? i ask you, jon, where was microsoft on cutting edge post-windows? >> well, you know, actually done some of the right things for addressing the enterprise. i mean, look at what they've been able to do in server software. you look at their server and tool biggs usiness consistently for years. but as we said, mobile, social, online. and these are not areas where microsoft couldn't see big truck headlights coming down the track. they saw them. they had some friends in many cases but microsoft's internal culture of competition where the knives are out in a lot of cases, where the company had a lot of trouble working together, really did it in turn after turn. the latest reorg was supposed to feel good for a lot of that to keep people protected. that's going major challenge of the next ceo. >> wow. 8% is a massive move. >> there's the plus side on steve ballmer. >>

yahoo!'s 196.5 million visitors last month beat out google by about 4 million to claim the top spot for the first time in more than two years. microsoftsites came in third with about 180 million visits followed by 142 million for facebook and 117 million for aol. >>> he's one of the most powerful men in congress, now he tips the hill newspaper's list of the richest on capitol hill. as of 2012 darrell issa amassed an estimated fortune of at least $355 million. he overtakes michael mccaul of texas who slumped to second with just over $100 million after losing two-thirds of his net wealth mark warner is third wealthiest with 88.5 million. >> i don't think -- >> with his political wit jon stewart is laughing all the way to the bank with estimated earnings between $25 million and $30 million a year. but he's still a distant second on a new tv guide earnings list. judge judy is the highest paid person on tv with a massive $47 million annual paycheck. and those are your number ones. [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [