true, and you could post something like the ceo of a company was. >> we're going to bring in julia boorstin. thank you, mark. as you point out, mark, that is a lot easier, a one-line tweet than putting out a fik press release, which is harder and easier to spot. >> julia, you have the rules of twitter. what does go on? >> that's right. right now i'm looking at a piece of paper. when there were some hacked tweets back in february of some big brands, including burger king, twitter directed us to the basic rules. one of the main things here is it says that twitter will never contact you asking for your password. that's exactly how a lot of these phishing accounts happen. people think it's legitimate that twitter wants them to change their password. twitter is trying to get companies and people to be very careful. this is obviously a big challenge. >> thank you very much for that. >>> just a moment ago -- and right now we're showing you live pictures of the president. he is in the rose garden and not talking about the tweet. in fact, as you can clearly see, he is fine. he is giving the national

julia boorstin has the story. >> while summer action flicks may target teenage fan boy, what is old isgain in hollywood. studios are increasingly targeting the 50 and older crowd with the r-rated romantic comedy "the big wedding" with four a-list baby boomer stars, robert deniro, susan sarandon, diane keaton and robin williams. >> i feel so used. >> this weekend's "big wedding" is debuting against mark wahlberg and the rock in "pain and gain" which targets a younger demographic. earlier, featuring 70-year-old harrison ford brought in nearly $30 million. in contrast, teen scream flick "sq "scary movie 5,". >> they believe that's how you see a movie, in a theater. >> in contrast, teenagers and 20-somethings more open to streaming a move owe netflix or watching video on demand which is why movie studios are increasingly focused on the older demographic. based on last year's results, it's working. >> a slew of movies with adult appeal like "silver linings playbook" and "lincoln" made big money at the box office and drew critically acclaimed. >> ults don't wan to feel ke ty'reteenagers agai

julia boorstin joins us from facebook headquarters in california with what it all means. julia? >> reporter: tyler, facebook home is more than an ordinary app. it gives you the option of replacing the phone's home screen with facebook updates and photos. mark zuckerberg saying he wants to reorient phones so they're about people and not apps. >> we don't want to build some kind of phone or operating system that only some people are going to be able to use. we want to build the best experience for every person on every phone. >> facebook's home app, which will be available for download on certainly htc and samsung phones on april 12th features a new tool called chatheads which allows you to chat with friends when you're on other apps so you can continue conversations across instagram or even fandango. a new htc hand set going on sale for $99 on april 12th is tailored to work with facebook home. it will be sold exclusively by at&t. to make sure there this runs smoothly, facebook is partnering with qualcomm. >> what is really important with this kind of app is the bat ray life not b

julia boorstin has been tracking the response and she joins us now. > there were more than 1.5 million tweets mentioning boston after 4:30 p.m. eastern yesterday, and this is the first disaster since twitter launched its video sharing service, vine. this six-second video clip was not just retweeted tens of thousands of times, but it also aired on tv and was posted across the web. the boston police used twitter to solicit clues as the to what happened. tweeting updates and asking people to e-mail in photos and video and to call in tips. google built a person finder page to help runners and their families find each other. it's tracked more than 5,200 records, and youtube launched an officials spotlight page of explosions at the boston marathon to compile videos on the developing story. "the boston globe" has also playplay ed a key role, drawing six times it's normal traffic. the news site also set up a spreadsheet to help runners find a place to stay. and facebook became a destination for people to check in on friends and also share their sympathy. and a

let's get to julia boorstin, the online social gamemaker's results. over to you, julia. >> adjusted earnings per share coming in at one penny. wall street analysts had been expecting a loss of three cents and this is down from a gain of six cents a year ago, but it still is four cents better than expected. now, revenue came in, the revenue number that wall street looks at here is $230 million. that's actually the bookings number. that's stronger than expected. wall street had been expecting about $210 million, but it is down from a year ago, where we saw $329 million. there are a couple of key metrics here, these metrics that measure how much people are paying and how much they're playing to pay. the monthly active user number decreased, down 13% from a year ago and down 15% from the prior quarter. that is a pretty significant quarter over quarter decline. now, the other key number here is the average daily bookings per user. that's how much people who play every day pay to play. and that declined from the first to the second quarter by 2% and down 11%

let's get to julia boorstin. she's got the latest. >> that's right, maria. that 31 cent per share eps is coming in much higher than expected. wall street was looking for 19 cents per share. that does exclude one one time item. that's a big beat to the upside. revenue also coming in higher than expected. global revenue for netflix coming in at $1.024 billion. wall street had been expecting $1.017 billion. the key number to watch is the net additions of domestic streaming subscribers. netflix reported over 2 million net additions for domestic streaming. that's higher than the 1.7 million we had been anticipating. international streaming sub skrikers also increased by over 1 million. also higher than anticipated. i continue to dig through these numbers and tell you a little bit more in a couple minutes on the projections for q-2. back over to you. >> thank you so much. more on netflix and the release. michael ole ston of piper jaffray. gentlemen, good to see you. thanks for joining us. barton, your reaction here to the numbers just out on netflix? >> obviously,

. >> let me get to julia boorstin real quick. i want to get some headlines on this at&t report, which is just coming out. and of course, the revenue looks light and the stock is trading down, julia. what can you tell us about the report? >> that's right, maria. even though earnings per share was right in line with expectations, secluding one-time items, revenue did come in light. looking at some of the other data points, wireline consumer revenue growth was 2% and u versus revenues was up 35.2%. there are 1.2 million new smartphone subscribers, but there is, of course, the question about churn. there was post-paid churn, it improved to 1.04% and wireless data revenues grew 21% from a year-ago period. and the total wireless revenues and wireless service researches were both up about 3.4%. but in terms of overall revenue, the numbers are slightly light. >> and we're looking at the stock here, trade down 1 2/3 percent on@. the you have to wonder if this is going to be art of the tone. we're waiting for apple. jeff, you're basically s

cnbc's well-liked media reporter julia boorstin is here to break down what investors need to know. >> well, thank you, melissa. the bigç question for facebooks all about mobile. is it making more money from users on their mobile devices. more than a quarter of revenue is expected to come from mobile. other hot topics include the success of new ad formats in drawing more ad dollars and if facebook is generating higher margins from users outside the u.s. than it has been. analysts expect revenue to grow 36% to $1.44 billion. as you mentioned today, raymond james upgraded the stock to strong buy from outperform, anticipating ad strength in the quarter. whileman sachs says it expects it to speed up. everyone will be listening very carefully to mark zuckerberg's comments on the call, looking for insight into new potential business down the line. >> brian has a question, julia. >> you have heard anything about the facebook home page, how successful will that be, will that drive ad sales here in their mobile devices, drive revenue to the company? >> well, it's still too soon to be seen.

our own julia boorstin has done reporting on this. hair of the dog that bit you approach in the housing. getting more popular in the white house. they're trying to encourage banks to go further out on the risk scale, to lend to less qualified borrowers. are we creating just another housing bubble here? i think, very dangerous. >> maybe, but what about this? hey, wall street always climbs a wall of worry. so i'll take those worries. and then some. >> i think you could be talking about a pretty high wall there and that wall could come crashing down on you, any second. i'm particularly concerned about housing, because i have been a housing bull, but i am worried about, rather than letting the housing market grow organically, we're going to start force feeding it and pushing it because we're not seeing other areas of the economy that are carrying the weight, so they'll try to make housing do too much and push it too far, too fast. >> don, what do you think about all of this? lots of worries. >> it all depends on your time horizon. if you'

a little tease right now with julia boorstin. >> reporter: brian, facebook is getting ready to unveildroid phones. sources tell me it will effectually give users the option of making facebook your home screen. facebook wants users to spend more time with its mobile services including texting, voice calling, e-mail and eventually search. 680 million people use facebook on mobile devices every month. the question is, how many people will want to use facebook for all of their communication and how the software could boost facebook's revenue. analysts whom we've talked to are reserving judgment until they see the new software thursday. the half dozen we talked to say it will be positive if facebook can drive user engagement. facebook bear rich greenfield, an analyst at pbtig, cautions people are so used to going to different apps for different services, he cautions whether people will want to use facebook for their home screen. >>> breaking news out of north korea. u.s. defense officials telling nbc news the u.s. navy is shifting the guided missile destroyer "u.s.s. fitzgerald" in the pac

julia boorstin is there, selling powerball ticket -- >> well, i'm having a hard time hearing you, carln the powerball lottery with an estimated starting jackpot of $60 million. the lottery has done a huge p promotional push with billboards saying believe and a tv spot to the song "cal dreaming." there's even been a public art installation called red ball project touring california ending at the lottery headquarters today. now, powerball is expected to generate about $350 million intact sales. the multi-state lottery association projects that will eat into other lottery games for net increase of about $100 million in total ticket sales. and with 40% of every $2 ticket going to schools, that translates to more than $40 million in additional revenue in california schools. that's small addition to the annual spending. 21,000 plus retailers also cash in on higher sales. >> all of our shopper studies show that lottery players go in more frequently into the convenience stores and buy more goods. i think there's a tremendous benefit for the retailers. they see more traffic and get improved sal

. >>> first, julia boorstin has the cnbc market wrap. > good afternoon to you, martin. the s&p 500 ends lower on the first day of the quarter for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2011 as apple drops 3%. the dow ending down 5 1/2 points. the s&p 500 lower by 7. the nasdaq down more than 28 points. the s&p 500 and the markets taking a breather on weaker than expected manufacturing reports. after the s&p finally broke through its record close last week. that's it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. arrival. with hertz gold plus rewards, you skip the counters, the lines, and the paperwork. zap. it's our fastest and easiest way to get you

julia boorstin with it. you, julia. >> that's right, maria, roger ebert has died from complications of cancer at age 70. he was the film critic of the "chicago sun-times" starting in 1967 and his reviews were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers around the world. he wrote more than 15 books, including several best sellers and us with known for several tv shows. he hosted sneak previews with gene sis kell starting in 1975. it was the first tv show offering the film reviews. he was joined by roeper and he had a trademark in the thumbs up and thumbs down feature. two days ago, he posted his final blog, saying it was time to slow down and he was taking a leave of presence after writing 306 movie reviews in 2012. back over to you. >> thank you very much, rest in peace. >>> well, you have heard me say it a number of times, don't fight the fed. the bank of japan getting in on the act, announcing a $1.4 trillion injection into the economy of japan to end two decades of stagnation. former treasury secretary paul o'

julia boorstin has more. >> reporter: well, tyler, you may not have ever heard of nuance, but its technology has likely heard your voice. it's the leader in speech recognition, powering everything from apple's siri to customer service to new ads that talk back. >> should i buy that ring? >> you should definitely buy it. >> reporter: just yesterday it announced a partnership to tackle the ad market to make them more engaging and effective. nuance also makes dragon speech-to-text software, transcription schools for health care providers, businesses and the likes of microsoft windows action and it announced it's even integrated into tvs, with a set 6.7 million cap, shares have declined as its margins have fallen on increased investments in r&d and marketing, but today the stock is up nearly 6% on icahn's investment. icahn says his investment right now is passive, but you'll never know when he'll go active and icahn did not respond to cnbc's request for comment. back over to you. >> thank you very much, julia. >>> credit suisse downgrading morgan stanley to neutral. here the reason -- valuation.

as you know this week, julia boorstin on the story. you, julia. >> reporter: maria, china has the largest box office outside the u.s. $2.7 billion last year. so hollywood is willing to make changes to get a bigger piece of that fast-growing market. paramount tweeted this upcoming brad pitt film called "world war z" so the origin of zombies does not point to china. it could appeal to china's powerful film board. and they're working with china's movie channel to promote the fourth "transformers" movie. after "transformers" three grossed $165 million in the country. this comes after disney's marvel announced friday it will release a chinese version of "ironman 3" in collaboration with dmg, featuring an appearance by china's biggest actress. and when film district released its "red dawn" remake in november, it switched the villains from chinese to north korean soldiers. of course, china's not alone in looking to make -- hollywood's not alone in looking the to make china happy. yesterday, apple ceo tim cook apologized to chinese consumers fo

julia boorstin is on it. over to you, julia. >> that's right, maria.living social. data of 50 million customers has been affected. more than 50 million customer names, e-mails, birth dates, and encrypted passwords were accessed. this coming from live social's ceo. the one piece of slightly positive knew heerz, maria, is that the database that stores customer credit card information and also the database that stores merchants' financial and banking information was not accessed. so that information was not accessed, but the e-mail addresses and date of birth and all of that other personal information was accessed. they say that they are actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue. and obviously, maria, this is a major, major issue and people always have to keep changing their passwords. back over to you. >> julia, thank you so much. >>> meanwhile, president obama meeting with ceos today at the white house, talking about investing in çmexico, a subjec we've been talking about a lot here on "closing bell." executives here in the u.s. h

cnbc's julia boorstin has more. julia? >> thanks, brian.fter 22 years jay leno is leaving "the tonight show." and will be replaced by jimmy fallon. when the hand-off happens next february around the winter olympics, "the tonight show" will return to new york city and will be executive produced by "saturday night live's" lorne michaels. leno is leaving around six months before his contract expires. nbc saying launching fallon's new show during the olympics should give him a big audience for his debut. the news has been speculated about for weeks, but the transition is coming a bit earlier than expected. brian, back over to you. >> thanks, julia. >>> attention taxpayers. president obama paying us back. well, at least sort of. the white house says the president will return 5% of his salary in solidarity with federal workers that have been furloughed because of the sequester. of course those spending cuts have cut in just about everywhere. the president makes $400,000 a year. so a 5% cut amounts to a little less than $1,700 a month. the white h

julia boorstin was at that event and she has more for us now. julia?reporter: well, bill, facebook just unveiled a new google android app called home. it's more than just an ordinary app, it takes over your home screen. ceo mark zuckerberg says it puts people, not apps, first. a new feature called chatheads allows user to chat with friends while using other apps. available for download april 12th for certain android phones, zuckerberg says every month, the company will roll out more devices and app updates. today's announcement, though, isn't just about facebook and google's android. on april 12th, htc will start selling the htc first. it's a phone optimized with the new app, home, preloaded for $99. it will be available exclusively through at&t. qualcomm is here announcing a partnership with facebook to power and optimize facebook for home on all snapdragon devices. >> what's really important with this kind of an app that the battery life not be impacted and that you have all the stuff scroll really smoothly and it's all multimedia, so it's important

thanks very much for the latest on that, julia boorstin. >>> let's take a look at what the dow is up to with only about half an hour to go. it is currently up by 15 points. i think that might be the high of the day, you know, bill. >> it is. >> we were down, what, by 67 points earlier on the day? a really good comeback here in the last hour. >> we've come back 82 points at this point. we'll see what we do here as we go to the last half hour. >>> alcoa is about to kick off earnings season. maybe the market's anticipating that. coming up, how you should prepare for your portfolio for what some say could be a game changer for speaking of alcoa, chairman and ceo klaus kleinfeld will break down those numbers for us before he speaks to the street. an exclusive interview right here on the "closing bell" coming up just after the bell in half an hour from now. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 opportunities are waiting to be found in faraway places. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 markets on the rise. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 companies breaking through. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 endless possibilities. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 wi

. ♪ >>> i'm julia boorstin with your cnbc market wrap.the second quarter with declines. the dow falls 5. the s&p is off 7. the nasdaq sheds 28 points. >>> manufacturing activity slowed in march but it remains in expansion mode. the economists expected a flat reading. >>> meanwhile, construction spending rose slightly more than expected in february. >>> and ebay was a winner after several analysts raised their price targets on the stock. shares were up nearly 3%. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." the tension in the crkorean peninsula has been rising to scary level the over the past cup days. it started february 12th. thread to a new round of sanctions at the u.n. on march 7th. north korea on march 7th announced it was canceling the armistice agreement that ended the korean war in '53. united states and washington started flying b-2 stealth bombers over the korean peninsula in what has been seen as a show of force to the north. last week north korea cut off its military

netflix tells our julia boorstin we appreciate the s.e.c.'on of this matter. tough news for analysts paid to reap ten q's. >> just get the twitter feed. >> reed hastings getting it done that misstep was a bit of a misstep, but he is on fire now. and jc today, didn't he say microsoft should gobble up net netflix? if you sell netflix short here, i think you do it at your own peril, jane. >> finally, he may be spitting on his neighbor, walking around with his pants on the ground, driving too fast and now owning a monkey. and no, i'm not talking about guy. but justin bieber hasn't completely lost it yet. he tweeted an invitation to fans to call him and gave out a phone number. it was the number for tmz. so those hoping to talk to the teen heartthrob instead got harvey levin, baby, baby, baby, ouch. >> that's pretty crafty of the biebs. i got to take my hat off -- no, i'm not taking my hat off. >> play him in your car. i was driving with you the other day. >> we were rocking it out. you had your pants down. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> wow, that is a v

julia boorstin joins us to explain the implications. morning to you, carl. thanks to the latest legal ruling, aereo can roll out the service without paying the tv providers. federal appeals court approved the legality of the business models, which centered on the idea that they don't have to pay content providers because it assigns each user a tiny antenna to allow subscribers to access free over the air tv signals. then they transmit live and on demand tv to any internet connected device. the ruling deny an injunction to shut down the service, which was filed by media giants, disney and nbc universal. they argue that aereo violates copyright laws. iac backs aereo but plans to expand to 22 other markets this year. nbc issued a statement saying the case is in the early stages, but we are confident the rights of content owners will be protected. but for now with the ruling aereo can expand nationwide while opponents watch to see how the subscription revenue is affected. >> julia, don't go too far. we want to bring in the ceo, who joins us

julia boorstin with a look at what is driving the stock today. hey, julia. >> hello, carl. is up dramatically as investors bet that zyga can translate the popularity of casino games into profits. both in the uk and the u.s. where new jersey recently legalized gambling. 18 years and older can play zyngo poker and plus casino, they are powered as download or web versions. zynga is looking forward to launching social versions for players on facebook and mobile games for the uk later this year. zynga shares are up dramatically on optimism about the potential for gambling to replace the decline in virtual goods for social games. today's launch is unlikely to boost the revenues, but it's a low-cast way to test erpting as it evaluates other online gambling opportunities. and they call today's move an important first step to what could ultimately become an important source of revenue for zynga and something to differentiate it from other gambling companies. the biggest will come with mobile and social gambling in the uk, and then in the u.s., which may not happen for another year.

julia boorstin in menlo park.culation surrounding the big announcement did, joe, good morning. >> i think a lot of people want to see facebook when they turn on their phone. facebook has e-mail, facebook has chat. it shows you what all your friend are reading, taking pictures of, what their babies are doing. it is increasingly a much more, as they say, social web experience and people just don't want to read. >> they're not exactly putting a new horse in this race. meaning they're at least up likely some believe to introduce hardware but they are trying to put a jockey on a winning horse, and that is android. is that a fair comparison? >> that's quite a deep analogy. but i mean -- yes. there's no advantage to facebook building a phone. they're not a hardware company. it is not a good idea. zuck has said that. but getting people to an spoorns where they use their phone more is something the company needs to do. they need to be able to take over every aspect of your web life. facebook is kind of like a casino mental

thanks so much, julia boorstin in los angeles.lly offer the lowest levels of the year. zombies have been good for amc but can they compete with time warn warner? we're going to dive into the zombie effect when we come back. >>> couple 06of hours of tradin into the q2. 11:27 on wall street. shares of hess, new 52-week highs. selling the russian unit to luke oil for just over $2 billion. chairman and ceo says the sale is part of the plan to transform hess into a higher growth, lower risk, pure play exploration and production company. molson coors up. goldman upgrading them from buy to neutral citing a recovery in north american beer volumes. the u.s. supreme court has declined to hear a case surrounding a federal rule making the airlines do this. it was upheld by a federal appeals court in july. >>> let's get a check on energy and commodities for us this morning. sharon epperson is at the nymex. >> looking at a decline across the nernlg sector. wti is leading this decline. down almost a dollar. so just above $96 a barrel. we had tol

i'm julia boorstin in los angeles. discover new music by tapping into all the activity and conversations on its service. it is launching a new stand-alone app called twitter music today. the app has a couple of different features. you can track the most popular music on twitter. can you follow your favorite artists and friends to see what they're listening to and which artists they follow, and can you tweet out the songs you like without leaving the app. twitter is partnering with apple's itunes to allow people to click to listen to song previews or click through to the itunes store to buy a full song. which should drive traffic to itunes. in addition to apple, twitter music is also integrated with subscription services spotify and rdio. right now there are no ads and twitter wouldn't comment on whether it is sharing revenue with itunes download or spotify driven by twitter music by but twit her could eventually include ads or do revenue share down the line. twitter is in talks to partner with more music services, perh

jul jul jul julia boorstin is live. wonder the house of cards was worth it? >> that's right, carl.due out after the bell this afternoon. perhaps the most important number to watch is is it in netflix' streaming subscriber numbers. they expected the net additions to be slightly more than the 1.7 million subscribe weers it added in the year ago quarter. that could prove an indication of whether netflix '100 million investment in "house of cards" pays off. the first quarter's big push in original content with another original series launching last weekend and "arrested development" out next month. investors are eager to see if the new strategy is working. today eric wald upgraded the stock to neutral and increased the price target and national alliance capital upgraded the stock to accumulate and upped the price target as well. netflix shares have pulled back over the past month a bit but the stock is still up about 82% year to date. analysts expect the company to report 17% higher revenue than a year ago while earnings per share are expected to grow to 19 cents, swinging from a loss

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