and john chen said he'll remain profitable in this business.o whatever he's doing there, i'm confident it will remain profitable. courtney, thank you. my english teacher, my late english teacher in high school is spinning in his grave. i introduced you by saying what do you got? >> that's what we know -- >> apologize. the heat of the moment. yes, thanks very much. >> thanks. >>> will people trade in the iphones for a blackberry? i don't need to do that. i have one. i have two, as a matter of fact, right now. >> go to cnbc.com right now and take our poll. what do you prefer? by the way, people already tweeting, when about the windows phone? neither one are part of the offer and joined by ari zoldan and chris siatchia to talk about whether the proposal pays off. how much do you think they'll get the changeover crowd for $550? >> they don't need a lot of crowd but a fraction of it, it's again the smartphone market we know is a massive market and always said and maintain my position is that you don't need to be the biggest in the space. you just ne

. >> do you think john chen is doing a good job?> yes, from what i can tell but it's not on me to judge him. that's not what my position is. in terms of what i see from execution, what his team is doing, i think they're continuing that path on a very disciplined especially -- execution. fingers crossed that they will make it. >> what did people not understand or you felt like was the toughest moment for you at blackberry? what we could have explained better is in order to change the business model of blackberry, we would have to separate the handset from the end model. you get the handset and you get the best fee. to become an enterprise player and get flexibility what you want to do with handsets, we had to break this up. it was not easy but it was a whole new strategy of how you build the product and enterprise. time, it was not well understood or not well communicated. that actually was the crucial element of the strategy that i laid out and executed against. they are executing a menu of things like enterprise and are looking at

so, john chen, again, on a big day for blackberry, frankly -- our congratulations so far on the turn around. you mentioned you're hiring and we hope to see you back here in new york when you do launch that device next month. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> nice to be here. >> john chen is the ceo of blackberry, shares up today in the range of 9% and we have gotten a eye on markets here into the close, only about 35 minutes to go now, still looking a at dow of 35 points, nasdaq up four. the s & p off by 2. >> got to admire the guy. >>> thanksgiving is two weeks away, a retail investing pro spots this year's hottest black friday and signer monday trends. plus, stocks that could rise on those trends and how you can invest in them with him. before larry instantly transferred money from his bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an "underserved season". and before he quit his friend's leaf-raking business for "not offering a 401k." larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. th

think john chen is doing a good job? >> this is not what my position is.hink his team is continuing that path on a very disciplined execution, so fingers crossed they are going to make it. >> you mentioned the last two years were very rough. what were people not understanding that you felt like was the toughest moment for you? >> in order to change the business model of blackberry, you have to separate the hand set -- there was a monthly recurring fee. in order to become an enterprise player and get some play, you have to break it up. it sounds easy but it was a whole new strategy of how you develop the product and enterprise. i think i could say at that time it was not well understood or well communicated, but that was the crucial element of the strategy i laid out and we executed against. >> where do you think blackberry has the biggest opportunity? is it in emerging markets or software? >> clearly like barry has a play an enterprise. it is the most secure platform, the most modern operating system, that gives blackberry room to explore things way beyond

. >> what do you think of what john chen is doing over there in terms of deemphasizing hand sets, whatou tried to emphasize, and folksing on enterprise software. >> when we started under my tenure we were trying to separate the hand seth from the enterprise business. at that time service fees were still associated with the hand set. we needed new platform in place to separate them to allow two different paths. and from what i can tell from a distance i think john is executing against that strategy. and i wish him all the best in order to complete that turn rarnd. >>duracell the company. or whether with technologies like power math it is an ip or a technology company. how do you view it at this point? >> i look at this as a journey. so we will be starting basically with the ip with a technology just trending the market hard with all these charging spots. then you will connect these to a network. and then you will have to put services on top of the network. so it is an evolution over the years where you basically climb up the ladder with various business models. >> how would you characte

. >> i know you can't make a commercial out of president but somehow john chen has to figure how to take advantage of that. >> and it's security issues. and you get used to them. and i was at a party and people were like what is that iphone thing you have there? that's an interesting device. but they love them in d.c. >> seems to be paying dividends for them. it is an anecdote they draw on a lot. >> if you can obama on one side and the kardashian on the other you should get to sell a few phones. >> thanks for having me. >> when we come back, shares of gap slipping even though earnings top estimates. but if you look online there was some good news. we'll explain in a moment. and action in europe a big reason for today's market rally. comments on the dovish side from draghi yet again. and when that happens the european close is usually the catalyst for the u.s. markets one way or the other. we'll have that close and the impact coming up here. "squawk alley" will be right back. this is a burrito made with chocolate, soybeans, and apricots. what kind of chef comes up with this? a chef workin

bdevelopment here and that's exactly what they should be selling and twitter should take notes from john chen because he has focused this company. unfortunately for b.k. he played stock market with blackberry. he had options that expired at the end of october so i sold out of those when blackberry was just below 11 i believe. thought it would come back a bit and i have not bought it yet. i still maintain my call. >> i bet you think it will come back. >> here's the thing. >> pull back. >> this has been through four different restructuring. they should have done this a half a dozen years ago. so many of their systems have been ripped out of businesses, this whole bring your own device. it may be a little too little too late. it reminds me of apple, ibm enterprise thing. >> that's what they are doing is supporting -- >> think about this. a lot of these data centers they don't want to support -- so it's like all of a sudden. >> it's all great and fine and good but too late. >> i don't think so. >> we'll hear from tom werner. and how consumers and retailers could benefit from falling prices at the

blackberry ceo john chen just announcing its classic device will debut november 17th in new york, frankfurt and singapore. the stock, look at that chart. i'm sorry, december 17th, soaring on that. the stock is soaring on that right now. the new blackberry. it is the old blackberry. basically what he said. retro. >> i lost my iphone and so they -- melissa: lost your iphone? you never had an independednt phone? you hate apple. >> it was a droid, right? melissa: there is a big difference. there is a big difference. what is that thing? >> my non-blackberry. so i had my blackberry for three days and it was heaven. melissa: got it back. >> i miss the keyboard. melissa: you missed, why did you go away if you miss it? >> because it does nothing else. this thing is little computer. i get directions. i do all kind of things that blackberry couldn't do. >> if you need -- type everything that happens in your life. melissa: is this enough to do anything to sort of save blackberry? should they give up on the device? how do they go from being so ubiquitous to now just sort of languishing? >> you know, the

a programming note, blackberry ceo john chen will be live on "the closing bell" at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnbc. sue, over to you. >> thanks, mary. >>> hasbro in talks to buy dreamworks animation, but not everybody's a fan. stock's going in two different directions decidedly so. dreamworks is up 14% but hasbro is down almost 5%. so would this be a dream marriage or not? morgan brennan is looking at the toy stocks. but first we start with julia boorstin on why hasbro and dreamworks would want to merge. hi, julia. >> well, sue, jeffrey katzenberg has been trying to diversify dreamworks away from reliance on just a few movies every year. with the disappointing performance of "turbo," "peabody & sherman," the stock lost 29% over the last year before today's big gains. katzenberg is bringing hit brands shrek and how to train your dragon into new businesses with a netflix deal, a partnership with the chinese government to build a theme park and movie studio and youtube with his awesome is tv acquisition. but katzenberg is under pressure to build new franchises. hasbro is al

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john. >> david schuster, thank you. joie chen is standing by to tell us what is coming up on "america tonight" at the top of the hour. joie. >> good evening john. democrats licking their wounds, one in kansas where republican governor sam brownback had a scare even loyal members of his party turned against him and the state's teachers led a fierce campaign to drive him from office. the aftermath of the battle for kansas, campaigners on both sides. >> we're kind of on pins and needles. a couple of votes can mean total difference in administration and in this case a complete difference in philosophy. >> just a couple of votes indeed. our close up look at the battle for kansas and what we might learn in the battle for voters across the nation. top of the hour, join us then. >> joy thank you. the future of u.s. foreign policy from i.s.i.l. to iran and putin. how a new congress could change the president's approach. >>> and climate change, what this could mean for the environment. all that still ahead don't go away. >> welcome back to

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. >> you won't find james chen sitting down on the john. >> i am walking while working.ly like it take my meetings while i walk. so, it gets the engine up here pumping out fresh new ideas. >> but he is not the gym, either. for james just another day at the office. >> working with the treadmill, you can adjust it up and down. >> pharmaceutical company glaxosmithkline, it is all about smart choices, when it comes to job productivity. choices that include an accessible fitness center, rooftop relax aches area, and natural lighting everywhere. along with healthy food options. but how about this? treadmill desk or walking station are key option to getting employees moving in the right direction. >> it does increase my productivity. >> of course if treadmills aren't your speed? >> i don't usually dot treadmill. i am a heals girl. dow like to stand at my desk. >> throughout this amazing building you'll find work areas with adjustable height desks. >> this building has 95% stand to work stations, stands to work stations energize people, they burn more calories, like 250 to 300 e

john, back to you. all right. and joie chen has it for us in washington. >> we have been watching carefully the battle for kansas because it has been fought on two fronts, the governor's race which we can say has been called form sam brownback winning over paul davis. this was a very hard part race for governor brownback. in the senate race, pat roberts is going to be returned as well, winning over his opponent in that, the independent greg orman. so these are two races we have been watching in kansas and now, we can say that the govern's race called for them as well. it's been considered a test of how conservative kansas voters really are. we also have been watching carefully to see what's happening in the overall picture of congress, of course. we are talking about your opportunities now that we know what the picture is going to look like. we are talking about your opportunity to say now that you have given your votes, what do you want? we have been doing this digital project hash tag dear congress in which we have en can you

john? >> all right. melissa chan, thank you. let's go to joie chen now. she is in washington. you have been looking at the role women voters played in this election. i guess democrats and republicans are going after them. but did they stay home or not vote for democrats? >> we will have to look at the numbers. >> what happened here is, yeah, right, john. the poles did suggest the gender gap between women and men, between republicans an democrats had narrowed significantly, but we haven't seen the final numbers yet and so it will be interesting to see as the number crunches go through everything and figure out the details exactly what women did in their voting. democrats have been pushing this idea that republicans were waging a war on women, they called it. they had made a very heavy emphasis in their play for women voters, a push to talk about reproductive rights as being a primary issue that they thought. >> that's a message that in fact had worked with women for the democrats in 2010 and 2012. did it work this time? look at the evidence on this. the colorado senator mark ud

chen. >> this is al jazeera america fm i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the news. president obama goes to southeast asia and awfd. , secretary of state john kerry running up against a deadline to reach a deal with iran or its nuclear program. foreign

sheila macvicar is in for joie chen tonight to tell us what's coming up for "america tonight" at the top of the hour. >> good evening, john. on "america tonight" we are looking at the mike brown phenomenon facing the nature. we saw protests from oklahoma to boston and everything in between. and -- oakland to boston and everything in between. to them this does feel personal >> i've seen my friends killed, my friends brutalized by police officers and coy have been michael brown. >> correspondent christof putzel went into the ground and see if he could bring the grass routes protest into change. that's coming up at the top of the hour. >> thank you sheila. particular, first responders say it's tough to live in the community they serve. melissa chan reports. >> andrew yee was born in san francisco, raised in san francisco. and now serves san francisco as a firefighter. he also almost got priced out of living in san francisco. >> i went to preschool all the way to high school here and everything has changed since growing up. i think tech boom has really driven the prices pretty high and it's been pretty hig hard to even afford

chen. >> this is al jazeera america fm i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the news. president obama goes to southeast asia and awfd. , secretary of state john kerry running up against a deadline to reach a deal with iran or its nuclear program. foreign troops abandon liberia. and nasa could send a crew deeper into space than ever before. good to have you with us. tonight president obama is in beijing preparing to attend the asia pacific economic cooperation or apec summit. it is the first time president obama has visited the country for almost five years. patty culhane has more. >> president obama has the long journey to asia, with stops in myanmar and southeast asia. >> by the united states, back to asia, our desire to pivot and focus on the asia pacific region. >> we were able to pivot to the asia pacific region. >> the pivot was part of his campaign promises but is it a reality? the military presence has not increased by much. >> the potential may have looked greater at that stage. since the budget cuts have gone through they have been able to hold asia level while other areas have faced serious cuts but not as dramatic as some might hav