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. >> and iac's ask.com is buying about.com paying $300 million to the "new york times" for the businesshoping this will get more people to serve using ask.com and if they search and find about.com material, that will help them as well. and ibm is buying connecta for $1.3 billion. the deal will give ibm access to social networking services companies use for recruiting. as for the market's stocks ended the day mixed and nasdaq rising as shares rallied after winning $1 billion in that patent case. your bloomberg silicon valley index closing higher. and adobe hoping pull the index up. >> aol says it will pay a special one time dividend and will buy back $600 million worth of stock on an accelerated program. aol hit it's highest value. the company sold patents to microsoft and collected more ad revenue n san francisco, i'm emily chang. and dan, carolyn, back to you. >> and we talked about tropical storm hurricane moving on the east coast of the -- . >> it's a very different story. >> perfect weerj and what we normally see as coastal clouds are off shore now. there are sunny skies in the coas

watching shares of barry diller's iac interactive. they're up one percent.re buying about.com from "the new york times" for $300 million cash. so those shares are up and the new york times company are down by 2/3 of one percent. back to you. lori: thanks, lauren we have breaking news regarding tropical storm isaac. we hear royal dutch/shell is evacuating all personnel from facilities in the gulf of mexico and shutting in production. all this ahead of tropical storm isaac. there is look at crude oil today. down $1.22. it joins b. had p and bhp billiton evacuating personnel. concerning reports as well that we will get possibly reserve releases. so we're keeping a very close eye on that with all of our reporters scattered across the country and in the trading pits. >>> social security on the path to be out of money by 2035 but there is still time to change course. find out how after the break. nicole: we're all paying towards hit. we'll see what happens. as we head to break, here is some of the winners and losers. there is the nasdaq. new all-time highs for app