jon fortt will talk to the ceo thorsten heins first on cnbc during power lunch. and thanks to those on twitterland, we just top 1 million follower online, on phone first in business worldwide. no matter how you get your news from us. we'll see you tomorrow. let's get to wapner and the fast money halftime. >>> welcome to the halftime. the dow is sort of in healeding patent as the march to 14,000 continues. 13,951 is where we currently sit. here's where we're currently following on halftime. what's under the hoodie. facebook reportings after tonight and with the stock on the street, what will the company deliver? a perfect ten? what does the real money think of blackberry's big bet? don yak min with more on the stock on where r.i.m. goes from here. but first the top story, the dow's posted its best month in 16 years. it sits only about 1.5% from its best level ever. will it get there or should you be prepared iffer a pullback. we're trading everywhere today. how about it, pete? are we going to get there or should we be prepping for a pullback? >> i'm prepping for a

thorsten heins is a german technology physicist.g of which, they're bringing on the man himself, thorsten heins, the president and ceo of r.i.m. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning. good day. good afternoon. good night. wherever you celebrate the launch of blackberry 10. thank you for joining us here from new york, to london, dubai, johannesburg, paris, jakarta, delhi and toronto. and i guess i hear some noise here right now, if i'm not mistaken. for sure, to all of our employees watching around the world, we have definitely been on a journey of transformation. a journey to not only conform our business and our brand, but one which i truly believe will transform communication into true mobile computing. it's been almost one year exactly since i was handed the reins at research in motion. and it has been easily the most challenging year of my career to date. but it has also been by far the most exhilarating and the most rewarding one. and i remember people asking me how i felt about taking over the role of ceo. and all i kept say

thorsten heins, thank you for joining us. want to start off with a question about investors.f the launch where there is positive buzz. what do you say about those giving up the stock for dead but now in the last few weeks hoping your market share would turn around next week. what do you say about the path ahead over the next couple quarters

i want to go to the agreet agreement with heins. i would like to find out the bullet points. what are the responsibilities and deals made there? to the best of my knowledge is not a public record and wondering if it will be a public record ? thank you. >> thank you. if there are no other members of public that will like to speak, we'll close public comment at this time. [ gavel ] and we'll move on to the regular calendar. >> item no. 17 a presentation of the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended june 30 120 [#20*-/] 12 and the report to the board of directors. >> thank you. >> and director sarah will present this item. >> good morning again directors. you have been presented with our annual financial report and i am of course pleased that we have again received an unqualified clean opinion. i do want to acknowledge the other tjpa financial staff that you haven't met. they are not at our meetings, but they are instrumental in making sure that we maintain our financial symptom throughout the year and that we're able to produce these statements. and with, that i

thorsten heins, thank you for sitting down with us in the studio. if you have wild success with the blackberry 10, do you have production to meet demand? >> so what i did with my chief operating officer, i actually challenged a little bit and said, let's build a little bit more because the demand that we are seeing, coming in and having acceptance, is quite encouraging. so we have the supply in place and manufacturing in place and so we can fill the lines and keep them running. >> i would like to question you further on the market shares. three years ago you had shared market share of 20%. three years ago 40%. now both of those single digits. what kind of market share do you see in three years time from now? >> we have our plans that we want to achieve in terms of market share and units being sold. we run our business plans. but what we look at first is what frank and i have introduced as net promotor score. we want to understand is blackberry creating the wave of recommendation. is that dynamics that people move ton blackberry even from other syste

and company in san francisco and i have watched this board go on and analyze this agreement with heines behind closed doors for the last year and a half and finally reading the minutes which are about to be approved this deal has concluded apparently. i would like to know from the board, why is this a good deal for us? no. 1. and no. 2 could i get a copy of this deal to evaluate it? thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. and we'll move on to our regular calendar, which brings us to item no. 7. >> item no. 17 authorizing the executive director to negotiate a contract with the san francisco public utilities commission. >> and directors bob beck will report on this item. >> thank you, we did get a really detailed summary, which i appreciate. since we did a detailed one, we could just answer questions. >> the detail was at a pretty high level and really at the end of the day boils down to what are the economic terms of two proposals. so we did receive proposals from both pg&e and puc to provide power source to the tjpa and base

the ceo thorsten heins. melissa: and it turns out japan's two largest airlines have had problems with the dreamliner battery long before the issue. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes, let's head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole petallides. those gdp numbers keeping the dow away from 14,000. nicole: they certainly did throughout the morning. it brings concern when there is no good gdp numbers. there has been less on defense and concerns, let's take a look now, much like we have seen recently where the dow goes over that one change line over and over again. today seems to be no different as we are back in positive territory. we haven't taken out our highs we saw yesterday, five year highs for the s&p 500, dow jones the thrills, russell 2000. we have had a lot of names and a lot of these indexes hitting these highs we have not seen since 2007. that being said, still concerned about the economy and jobs. the market has been running up, lots of traders say it is time to take a little bit

chest hein to and clarksville and davidsonville. winds are light right now. but they will pick up as we go throughout the day. also, what we are dealing with this morning. we have the patchy fog once again. so we are dealing with that mixed bag. you can put something into a hat and pull it out and we have it. and as we go through the rest of the day, this is what you can he can spt. showers around 3:-- expect. showers around 3 or 4 and the bulk of the rain is more into the later around 8 and midnight. let's check the abc2 time safer traffic with lawyer -- timesaver traffic with lawyer encook. >> reporter: you will want to turn -- lauren cook. >> reporter: you will want to turn on low beams. trouble on 295 where there's a crash along the southbound lanes between 895 and 95. it's been moved to the shoulder. not causing significant delays. and also another crash in parkville actually blocking the westbound lanes of puddy hill avenue at avondale road. traveling on 695 here's what it look like in parkville at harford rote. traffic moving along and no problems what

the c.e.o., thorsten heins, told a german newspaper the firm continues thinking about strategies like licensing its blackberry software or selling its hardware business. shares of rimm have more than doubled since july. on our web site, www.nbr.com, there's more analysis of the stock chart. you will find it under the "blogs" tab. just look for michael kahn. three of the five most actively traded exchange-traded products were up. the japan index fund saw the heaviest selling, down 1%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: a big win for the keystone x.l. pipeline and transcanada's plan to connect canada's rich oil sands to refineries in southern texas. nebraska's governor today gave the thumbs up for that pipeline's new route through his state. it's one of the last hurdles the pipeline needed to clear before receiving final approval by the federal government. late today, the u.s. state department said its review of the pipeline project has been delayed and won't be ready until after march. >> tom: updates tonight in three high profile investment fraud cases. first up, rajat gup

i want to go to the agreet agreement with heins. i would like to find out the bullet points. what are the responsibilities and deals made there? to the best of my knowledge is not a public record and wondering if it will be a public record ? thank you. >> thank you. if there are no other members of public that will like to speak, we'll close public comment at this time. [ gavel ] and we'll move on to the regular calendar. >> item no. 17 a presentation of the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended june 30 120 [#20*-/] 12 and the report to the board of directors. >> thank y

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heins, have enough bling to get people back from their iphones and droids. >> absolutely.cia back. and we changed the user interface, easy to use, just flowing. you don't have to go in and out of applications anymore, does what you want it to do. >> very quickly, the keyboard, for many blackberry devotees, this is the redeeming quality, why we hold on to our blackberry keyboard. will you keep that option for the future? >> absolutely. absolutely. we have so many diehard keyboard lovers for blackberry, we won't let that go. >> talk about a throwback. this is the one i use to call in air support. air travel on hill 4. all right, mr. heins, good luck to you and the newly named blackberry company. nice to have you here. >> thanks. a pleasure. >>> we want to take a turn and get a check of the weather from a al. >> today's weather is brought to you by universal orlando resort. it's your vacation, just don't take it, mean it. >> let's take a look at what's been going on in montgomery county, maryland, the water, as you can see, got really high really fast as these fast moving sys

the bottom line is it looks like republicans going to hein up behind this fiscal cliff legislation. >> i think at the end of the long road or at the bottom of the cliff but we are now being returned to the top because nothing really happens until the markets open tomorrow. and this will be done before the markets open. and this will pass. and that means that everything drastic that would have happened automatically, the hike in tax rates, income tax rates for everybody, the alternative minimum tax, all of these things which have taken a huge bite out of consumers and citizens that is all going to be avoided. this was sort of written in stone for two reasons as of yesterday. number one, the republican leadership does not have a fallback. they thought they might have one which is to do an amendment, send it to the senate but they realized that would be a loser. the president would come out and denounce and the senate wouldn't look at it. the other reason is the size of the vote last night in the senate. 89-9. i think it was 89-9. which was so overwhelming it it really left the republica

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but in terms of driving top-hein sales -- >> what will be a better way of on giving us a trading update to tell us, you know, is there a better method than just to go for like for like? >> it's two things. one, is that you have more transparency around your like for likes and a more standardized way of looking at them so you can compare them. the other thing is to spend more time looking at major yip. if you look at the stocks recently come out, there has been more focus on the margin than we've seen in the past. >> that's the bottom right is that we've been protecting margin, right? >> right. i think a time of people have been focussing this year compared to last year on protecting brands and protecting margin peps so we're not seeing such early and deep discounts as we did in 2011. >> does that mean a better 2013? >> 2013, more of the same, i think, in oerchls consumer spending. >> high utility bills are still going up and squeeze on real pay continues. >>> still to come, we'll look ahead to the u.s. trading day. what are you doing? nothing. are you stealing our daughter's school supp

. >>> later, blackberry ceo, thorsteh heins will be joining us to talk about blackberry 10 and its big the new york stock exchange. i saw drudge and faber said enjoy the rally. i just assumed. but it's some other guy. >> yeah, some other guy. >> michael faber? >> oh, yeah, from homeland. >> hey, you guys, jim, i just was talking, i think the consensus, and david, i think it's 2.5 for 2013. i think the market is saying 2 1/2. i think everybody's saying 2 to 3, maybe hoping for 3. >> davos was saying 3. >> if it's 1 to 2, and i'm not saying it is, but if it were, if it really did come at 1 to 2, that's a huge disappointment. >> that's a problem. >> it's going to be 3. >> i don't believe this thing. all right. so you're with me on the consensus? >> yes, i am. that's what many of the companies in the conference call are using. i'm using it. don't forget, the euro 135. these are bullish things for our country. >> this will probably be revised, you figure, jim. >> it's one off. i don't want to take action on it. >> jim, what do you do about boeing this morning? >> it's not an earnings play.

. >> people have compassion for thorsten heins, given a hospital pass by the founders when he took over has bought companies to make it trendier, the touch screen facility a big pet beth on the way people might use phones in the future, he has brought in to market ex7,000 apps with it -- 70,000, i beg you pardon, apps with it. what more could the man have done realistically against samsung sand apple? anything could have done yesterday to have held that stock up? >> to be very fair, you were right, he was dealt a very difficult hand when he stepped into this role. he has been -- he has done what he could with a very bad lot. however, however, i think the market is against him. you mention $70,000 apps, simon, but there are some that are missing and it becomes a chicken and egg type thing, people will come to them only if certain apps are there and if -- if those apps -- if people come, the apps probably will come. necessary a very tough position and i think he's done the best co-with a very difficult hand. >> last question, you know, some argue that maybe their best foot forward would h

meanwhile, anti tax leader grover norquist sat down with andrea mitchell where hein insisted that theyote to increase taxes. >> no republican voted for a tax increase. what happened was obama had the sort of dam aclays over the heads of the american people with a $5 trillion tax increase over the next decade that would happen automatically. republicans are quite clear. they want the tax cuts extended for everyone. the president is just not taking them away from some people. that will hurt the economy. he got his tax increase. but he can't claim republican fingerprints on his tax increase. >> well, wait a second. i mean, we're not living in the "alice in wonderland" world here. there is a tax increase for wealthier americans. it's literally a tax increase. rates are up. >> what happened yesterday was that all the tax rates went up, and then the republicans and the congress together took them down for some people, not for everybody. >> speaker john boehner, meanwhile, he -- >> got to stop there. come on. >> fine. >> what world does he live in? >> i don't know. someone tell me. >> john, i