ibm isn't the sexiest name in tech, but it's a consistent dividend payer. this is a return of $109 billion in shareholders since 2003 in the form of dividends and buy backs. strategically i like what ibm has done shifting from low margin areas into high margin areas. and that helps weather previous economic downturns, and i think we'll see the same again. good return on equity. profit margin and earnings growth. i think moving forward, the company is well positioned, despite the exposure to europe. put a lolt of focus into emerging markets. i think warren buffet isn't stupid. he got into this stock because it's stable and dependable, and investors can doot same. >> they call that growth geographys. sales force.com is another one you mrook at crm. it was at a 52 week low -- cloud computing is hot. where is the business coming from for crm? >> at this point in time, sales force uses cloud computing and the internet to manage customeridate a. it hasn't had the easiest times. there's a big pullback in the stock after the third quarter numbers weaker than expect

oppewall: he was the guy that the ibm executives would call. he was the guy that you went to to discuss the projects intellectually. he was very charismatic. charles was extremely charismatic. he was very charismatic. he was very handsome. he was very handsome and very charismatic. i know that word is really overused, but he was. and especially very charismatic to women. blaich: he reminded me of henry fonda, and i met henry fonda one time, and i told henry fonda this, that i thought they looked alike, and he said, "that's a compliment." sussman: i mean, he had these dimples, and he -- "aw, shucks," kind of guy. schrader: he was handsome and smart, and cool. so, you know, that's a kind of lethal combination. wechsler: it was the vision. it was the personality. it was the charm. it was the unexpected. it was the person. this is just a small selection of letters that i went through to find things that pertain particularly to the work. "in the next few weeks, i must pull together a preliminary film for the 'franklin and jefferson' show." and then

we teach this ibm case study. in the 1990's ibm was in trouble. they had that ibm computer. there are not liking a money because their computer was no better than any other. the mothers were not good. the chinese had cheaper computers. ibm said, how do we like money? we are not making it selling computers. they had a soul-searching discussion and ask what ibm really did that people needed. we manage information. that is our expertise. and now ibm, cisco, h-p and consulting companies are managing information flow and every company and the world as a chief of mission officer. what is the real expertise of a utility company, managing energy. it will step -- set up harvesting for those of corporate clients, small and medium-sized to large businesses , many is the energy flow across the supply chain, embedded in their products and processes and distribution. the name of the game for the next 30 years during this montell transition from a second industrial revolution that is dying in the third industrial revolution that is pushing to be born, the actual contest in which you surviv

ibm dropped a little more than 1%. demand-tec shot up 55%, closing a nickel below the purchase price of $13.20 per share. an f.d.a. panel approval for an anemia drug sent shares of affymax soaring, up 36%. volume jumped 20-fold. it goes to a full regulatory review in march. in commodities, oil dropped below $100, falling 2% to $98 and change per barrel. that's its biggest loss in two weeks. metal prices also fell with traders pointing to anxiety over europe. gold and copper fell more than 1.5% each. with the european central bank not buying bonds, that put pressure on inflation sensitive gold. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: an early christmas present for ford investors-- the auto maker announced its dividend will return after a five-year absence. as ford's sales and financial condition get healthier, the company is reinstating its quarterly dividend of five cents a share. with about four billion shares outstanding, that quarterly payment will be about $200 million. ford's big rival, general motors, has

ibm found online shopping jumped 16.4% on christmas day over last year. the dollar amount of those purchases that were made using mobile devices leaped almost 173%. nearly 7% of all online purchases were made using an ipad. >>> a just released study shows a growing income gap between most americans and members of congress. between 1984 and 2009, the median wealth of members of the house rose 2 1/2 times from $280,000 to $725,000. that's according to "the washington post" and the university of michigan. over the same period the median wealth of american families declined slightly, $20,500. and that is a look at your business news. whit? >> not good for the approval rating, drew levinson, here in new york. >>> the babysitter accused of murdering a 9-year-old indiana girl will be in court today. 39-year-old mike plumadore has been charged with killing aliahna lemmon. she had been missing since last friday and her body was found yesterday. police say plumadore was a family friend. >> after three different interviews with one of the individuals involved, he wa

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of course, walter, mark stuckerberg, ibm chairman, dreamworks chairman, ibm, the inventer the watson. paul allen, jane, the expert in gaming around the world with npr. pulitzer prize winner james miley. mark bowedden, author of "black hawk down" here talking about his new work "worm: the first digital world war," and venture capital legend, bill draper with kqad, and peter norvig of google, the two leading ai experts of the world talking with tim olson. quite a lineup, and we feel very, veer privileged to -- very, very privileged to have these people on the stage, and looking forward to kicking off season 2 in january. watch your e-mail and news deny -- news letter because we'll talk more about the lecture series to come. now on to the program. it was january 16th, 2008, steve jobs was on stage in san fransisco making a legendary presentation. the kindle e-reader comes up, and jobs said this will go nowhere. being uncharacteristically blunt. [laughter] he said it goes nowhere because americans stopped reading. it doesn't matter how good or product is. the fact is people don't read any

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ibm is almost 101 years old.i think apple has imbued in its genetic code this desire to drive great design and artistic creativity with great engineering and technology, and it will be at that intersection and the people there now are capable of keeping it at that intersection. you know, ten years from now, 25 years from now, ups and downs and ups and downs at disney but they're doing fine right now of a few rough patches since walt disney died. if i had to wager, and up like rick perry, i am a betting man -- not $10,000 but i would wager that a generation from now, even a century from now, apple will still exist, at the intersection of the humanities and the technologies. >> so that's apple. one final question about steve jobs. 100 years ago the great industrialists, carnegie, rockefeller, melon, built institutions and legacies, and that legacy survived, steve jobs might have done a similar thing but he chose not too do it and his legacy is apple, and it's built on shifting sands of tech -- technology. what do y

it sits on a ibm platform. look at -- >> what are the dollars that flow around in a situation like that? billions? >> oh, a lot, billions. >> hundreds of billions? >> yeah. >> go ahead, guys. >> so here's a question. we've heard a lot in the political discussion here in the united states about how we can incentivize companies to do, whether it's, you know, tax breaks or you name it, has that worked? what are we not doing here that we should be doing? >> a lot of our politics, frankly. you know, teenage boys play computer games -- >> it's like teenage boys. >> it's politics, and it's about -- it's really not serious. and it's really frightening, because our big multi-national companies know how to redeploy assets and go where the action is. where's high-speed rail? we're not doing it in the united states, so the ibm lab that's building high-speed rail is in china. >> but -- so are you suggesting, then, at the government advocates we need to be building high-speed rail and we're going to give this kind of a tax b

encontrÓ que las ventas a travÉs de la web del dÍa de navidad aumentaron 16,4% con respecto al 2010,ç ibmcÓ. >> desafortunadamente no todo ha sido celebraciÓn en esta fecha navideÑa. luto y tristes a varias familias durante las conmemoraciones. algunos de estos incidentes lamentables. >> pasadas las 12 en la nochebuena,1 inocente de sÓlo nueve aÑos saliÓ a celebrar junto a sus amigos la llegada del niÑo jesÚs en colombia. >> no esperÁbamos eso. >> pero aparentemente,1 inescrupuloso disparÓ su pistola y una bala perdida le impacto el crÁneo. >> robÁndose la alegrÍa de un niÑo. >> el pequeÑo ahora se debate entre la vida y la muerte. >> peor suerte corrieron los miembros de una familia en este vecindario de texas. cuando abrieron sus regalos de navidad,1 de los suyos llevÓ a cabo un fatÍdico plan comprometido como papÁ noel. abriÓ fuego contra su familia con dos revÓlveres. el pistolero luego se quitÓ la vida. >> durante la nochebuena, la lujosa casa >> es la primera realidad en la historia. las llamas causaron tal destrucciÓn que cobraron la vida de dos gemelas. lla y un sujeto que realiza

ibm is almost 101 years old. i think apple has imbued in its genetic code this desire to drive great design and artistic creativity with great engineering and technology, and it will be at that intersection and the people there now are capable of keeping it at that intersection. you know, ten years from now, 25 years from now, ups and downs and ups and downs at disney but they're doing fine right now of a few rough patches since walt disney died. if i had to wager, and up like rick perry, i am a betting man -- not $10,000 but i would wager that a generation from now, even a century from now, apple will still exist, at the intersection of the humanities and the technologies. >> so that's apple. one final question about steve jobs. 100 years ago the great industrialists, carnegie, rockefeller, melon, built institutions and legacies, and that legacy survived, steve jobs might have done a similar thing but he chose not too do it and his legacy is apple, and it's built on shifting sands of tech -- technology. what do

ibm was the biggest decline and financial shares were lower on lingering worries about europe. take a live look at the big board, the dow is down 31. the nasdaq is also down significantly because of its connections with technology. down 40. s&p is down 2. oracle is down 13.5 right now. this is after the sot ware company said it was struggling to close deals. the results seem to reinforce worries that businesses and the government may cut back on technology spending. especially worrying was a weak 2% gain in new software licenses, a key sign of demand from other businesses. oracle predicted gains of as much as 16%. >>> the city of oakland is reviewing the tactics it used in handling the occupy protests. there's new information. kraig debro is live to explain how the city is gonna handle this review. kraig? >> reporter: yeah, tori. the mayor announced there will be an independent auditor but here at city hall across the plaza, there is a group of occupy oaklanders out here right now. i just talked to a police officer and he said they have a permit to be here, not only during the

with 2,000 projects underway, ibm is helping make cities smarter. i'm an ibmer.'s build a smarter planet, city by city. >>> while the republican candidates are all taking the weekend off for christmas, they won't be able to rest for long. here's jon karl with a look at ahead at the next week in politi politics. >> reporter: next week, all eyes are on iowa. as the gop candidates make their final push before the january 3rd caucuses. on tuesday, newt gingrich and michele bachmann both hit the road with bus tours across the ha hawkeye state. romney makes his final appeal to caucus goers on wednesday. ron paul, holds a salute to veterans rally in des moines wednesday night. flat tax god father steve forbes stumps for him. president obama spends the holiday week relaxing with the first family in hawaii. >> stay around. for sunday funnies are next. >>> and now the sunday funny sfls this one is entitled things that we'll miss about kim jong-il. ♪ >> nothing. [ laughter ] >>> republicans and democratic senators set aside their differences and exchanged gifts in the first

. >>> ibm found a online shopping jumped 16% on christmas day over last year.ade using a mobile device was up 173%. nearly 7% of all online purchases were made using an ipad. that is 18 months after it was released. >> taking over. >> it is. 40 degrees. >> call it the dream job. one company is giving employees as much vacation time as it wants. >> expect a busy winter at the verizon center. the wizards opened their season pureed what fans have to say. i'm just a bit of residue left behind by some mop. why you... nobody's taken a shine to me in a long time. phooey. i don't need anybodyou.but you! ♪ i believe in miracles ♪ [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. used mops can push muddy water around. swiffer wetjet's new upgraded solution helps prevent streaks and residue to reveal more shine than a mop or your money back. you're a fresh swiffersnapper! >>> good morning. we check traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> not a bad start to the day today. temperatures are -- have bottomed out now for the morning hours. a surge of former air ahead of this low pres

you have ibm, home depot, pfizer rounding out the top. alcoa, hewlett packard, j. p.ase and ciscoe making up the five worst performers. the dow is up 5% this year. all of those dow stocks trade down here on the floor of the new york stock exchange. but the dow would be negative if it weren't for gains from ibm, mcdonald's and chevron, believe it or not. those are point gains, not percent gains. so many people are going for the big stocks these days. the russell 2,000 is not doing well so far at all this year. >> a lot of folk hoping that we'll get off to a good start in 2012 as well. they look at the holiday shopping numbers to see where we're standing. how did we do now that we are a few days past the holiday shopping season. >> december 26th, the day after christmas, was a great shopping day. in fact, shopper track says it was the fourth best shopping day of the year. $7billion rung in. that was a gain of 26% over last year. we were getting the discounts and we found them the day after christmas. i went shopping yesterday, steve and all those deals that i saw in the

ibm says online sales were up 10% from last year. >>> the u.s. could legalize many forms of internet gambling, including online poker. originally read as banning all gambling across state line ls. actually only barred betting on sporting events and contests. individual states would have to agree to regulate the online games. but that's certainly one to watch. >>> time to check in once again with meteorologist christina loren to fill us in on what's happening all day long. that air quality has really made for unhealthy air quality levels. so today we're asking you to spare the air. it's not an official spare the air day, however. eight degrees warmer in hayward. five degrees warmer in san francisco. i think temperatures are going to be rather mild. only a couple of outlying cities. temperatures are going to stay on the mild side today because we're not going to see as much fog. by 10:00 a.m. most of the fog stays over the central valley. we're also going to hit 60s in los gatos, san jose and gillry. wednesday an area of low pressure will arrive to

in the top 10, chevron, hewlett-packard, ibm, wells fargo, at&t, the ford motor company also made top grades. >>> it's the hottest ticket in town, after a nine year drought, the 99ers are back in the playoffs and you have a chance to get tickets at the stick. tonight is the deadline for 49ers' season ticket holders to buy their playoff tickets. for the general public, like me, tickets go on sale january 3rd through ticketmaster tuesday. a limited number of tickets per sale and you can only buy eight per order. seats are first compete first serve. >>> from the pros to the college of ucla, they will be playing each other at at&t park. today, they tackled hunger in the bay area. ucla players served food in san francisco and st. anthony's, they served more than 3,000 meals to hungry men and women as part of the kraft food huddle to fight hunger campaign. >> today, we provided a service to some people in san francisco, give them a nice meal for the holidays and make sure they get fed and showing we love what we do and help them out. >> the kraft fight hunger bowl will donate a meal for eac

ibm reports that as of 3:00 p.m.esterday online sales were up 10% from last year and up 16% on christmas day. the u.s. could soon legalize many forms of internet gambling, including online poker. "the wall street journal" reports that the justice department has decided the 1961 federal wire act originally read as banning all internet gambling across state lines only bars betting on sporting events and contests. individual states would have to agree to regulate online games. >>> and toyota has rolled out its called the aqua. the car will be sold as a prius c here in the u.s. it reportedly boasts a fuel r gallon, outstripping the 77 miles per gallon of its larger cousin, the regular prius. the starting price is set at $22,000, and it debuts in showrooms next year. eun, i'm very curious to check out this car. it's really ti ll lly tiny. that's one reason it has such great fuel efficiency. the prius isn't that big either. we shall see. >> thanks, julia. have a great day. >>> this morning the search for a missing blind ma

ibm down 3% was the biggest drag on the dow. cisco fell over 2%. jabil circuit, which also posted disappointing numbers, fell almost 3%. one tech exception, research in motion. it jumped 10%. leading the nasdaq on a report amazon and other potential bidders are sizing up the blackberry maker. elsewhere, fitch ratings warned again the united states' rising debt burden was inconsistent with maintaining the country's aaa credit rating. bank of america agreed to pay $335 million to resolve allegations its countrywide unit engaged in widespread discrimination against qualified african-american and hispanic homeowners. yahoo! today, the company may be close to sling its prime internet holdings in china and japan. and finally, white castle announced it's experimenting with serving beer and wine at one indiana restaurant. >>> well, right now the eyes of the world are on the sleepy northern town of north pole, alaska. that is where they are prepping for the big sendoff of its most famous resident. nbc's bob rydell is braving the cold for us in the north pol

planning department will surprisingly take the position that almost all the permits won't be recognized ibm. planning takes the position that it has a certain criteria for how the permits should have looked 20 or 30 years ago before the planners were out of school. they are judged by those standards in the planning department. obviously, that is a huge economic burden. the planning department wants all of the boxes to be filled out correctly in their view, notwithstanding what the building department does. the deadline for this legalization is january 19, 2012. the planning department have announced that only one dozen property owners have come in the last three years to legalize. some say there are 750 to 1000 buildings in question. there are 7000 lots in question, we know that. maybe 1000 buildings of this nature. maybe 1000 or more small businesses. had the fact that we had 12 people applying says a lot about how this process is not working, how the notification was not done correctly. some progressive activists have office users to move downtown, to leave to wherever it is, leaving the

ibm down 3% was the biggest drag on the dow. cisco fell over 2%. jabil circuit, which also posted disappointing numbers, fell almost 3%. one tech exception, research in motion. it jumped 10%. leading the nasdaq on a report amazon and other potential bidders are sizing up the blackberry maker. elsewhere, fitch ratings warned again the united states' rising debt burden was inconsistent with maintaining the country's aaa credit rating. bank of america agreed to pay $335 million to resolve allegations its countrywide unit engaged in widespread discrimination against qualified african-american and hispanic homeowners. yahoo! today, the company may be close to selling its prime internet holdings in china and japan. and finally, white castle announced it's experimenting with serving beer and wine at one indiana restaurant. >>> well, right now the eyes of the world are on the sleepy northern town of north pole, alaska. that is where they are prepping for the big sendoff of its most famous resident. nbc's bob rydell is braving the cold for us in the north p

ibm tracked shopping on more than 500 websites. christmas day purchases jumped more than 60% over last year. more people are using their electron electronic devices, including iphones and ipads to shop. that is a sign of the times. >> i can't see the product clearly enough, i think, on a smaller device. i guess on an ipad it would work. >> i don't carry m

of course, walter issacson, and ibm chairman, jeremy, ibm's david, inventer of watson. paul allen, jane, the expert in gaming around the world with npr's laura sidel. james miley, david heartily of the british computing society and protege of mark wilks. author of black hawk down, talking about his other book, first digital world war, digital legend and david irishman, and two of the leading ai experts in the world. this is quite a lineup. we feel very, very privileged to have had every one of these people on our stage in 12 # months and looking forward to kicking often season two in january. watch your e-mail and museum news letter because we'll be talking about the lecture series to come. now on 20 the program. january 15th, 2008, steve jobs was on stage in san fransisco making one of his legendary presentations. the kindle e-reader comes up, and jobs said this will go nowhere being uncharacteristically blunt. [laughter] he said it would go nowhere because americans stopped reading. it doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is people don't read anymor

. >>> in other financial news, ibm says christmas day online shopping was up 16.4% from christmas last year. a lot of that was on tablet computers or smart phones. buyers charged 172% more than last year while shopping on mobile device. >>> a survey of leading economists say they expect only small changes in the coming year. most say they don't expect to see much change in the current 8.6% unemployment rate. the overall prediction is by 8.4% by the time of the november election. they also say the economy is likely to grow 2.4%. growth for this year is expected to be less than 2%. >>> the sears holding company says it will close at least 100 stores and possibly more after the first of the year. they say poor holiday sales are forcing the moves. no decision has been made yet on which soergs will be shutting -- stores will be shutting down. sears also plans to cut inventory at stores that remain open. >>> hundreds of pg&e customers in fremont have no electricity at this hour. the utility says a wire came down on beard road near whitehead lane. that knocked out power to almost 6200 homes a

every year there is elizabeth taylor and when i die, will ibm the roster or don't jell birds belong there? -- jailbirds belong there? i could not handle anything after that trial. i was $30 million in debt from some crazy civil trial which i should never have done. i was suicidal. i did not give a damn, if i drove off a cliff it would be fine with me. i started driving. as soon as i got out of the town, i found out there was a whole lot of people out there that loved me. they were like my family. i could wind up in moab, utah and somebody would say hey, grab a stick. i stayed out there for a lot of years. breaux, -- broke. somebody, i live in a little apartment in the valley. next to me is a woman who is a computer night. she to do anything on a computer. she wrote the book for me. she says you do not have to travel. you can stay and deal with the people. get a facebook. she built this thing for me and pretty soon here were these people. toulouse, minnesota. what was it like -- was he a friend of yours? i started talking to them. not back-and-forth talks. if you want to know about the lit

ibm today announcing that it's buying demand tech out of san mateo for $440 million.t has 350 employees, makes software for the cloud that's used to analyze purchases by consumers both on and offline. it's a big market according to ibm. one for software that could be worth about $20 billion. back to you guys. >> that's $20 billion with a b. >> thank you, jason. >>> finding the perfect person to celebrate the new year and a holiday concert in the bay area. >> sounds like a good idea to say hi to liam mayclem from "eye on the bay," right? >> take it a with. good morning. >>> good morning, pleasure seekers. it is that time of year again when hollywood brings us a holiday helping of feel good cinema. new year's eve is the film we're all meant to run to see but should we? well, sure. if you want to escape for two hours and watch beautiful people fall in and out of love on new year's eve. see characters that are not fully developed nor do we really fully care about them. at least i didn't. the beautiful cast, sarah jessica parker, jessica biel, zac efron, ashton kutcher and

ross perot is working with ibm and with his own data services company. there are different texas industries and a different geography. they got into a terrible feud over the pow and mia issues. he really accused bush and the cia and general of being part of a drug trade and southeast asia. there were actually going slush fund monies by selling heroin and other opiates. >> we should interject, george bush was head of the cia. >> exactly. became pretty nasty. there is no love lost between george herbert walker bush and ross perot. that is politics. the bigger question in 1992 as we are talking about this, which just heard about this populist campaign. he put somewhere around $12 million or $30 million of his own money into the game. he was also able to buy tv time. half an hour television commercials. one half an hour infomercial but garnered about 10.5 million viewers. he was following no real rules. george herbert walker bush had been a head of the republican party and clinton was the darling of the democrat party ross perot was a vital center and trying

new solutions based on ibm watson are being developed to help doctors analyze a patient's history, symptomsaster, more accurate diagnoses. hello. my name is watson. let's build a smarter planet. this is the arctic join coca-cola and world wildlife fund to help protect it. so the polar bear always has a place to call home. to donate, and help create a safe refuge for the polar bear, look for limited edition coke cans and caps. >> osgood: now a page from our sunday morning almanac. december 25, 1941, 70 years ago today. day one for a christmas classic. listen closely. time has taken its toll. ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ >> osgood: what you're hearing is bing cross by's radio show. he's singing a new song from the pen of irving berlin, a song called "white christmas." ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪ >> osgood: koss by sang it on camera the very next year for the movie "holiday inn." the comforts of home and hearth, white christmas was a world war ii hit among soldiers and folks on the home front as well. cosby sang it again in the 1964 movie called what else but white christmas