falk is ceo of kimberly-clark. let's talk about the field right now and which candidate from your standpoint represents the biggest impact on business. >> you know, it's really hard to tell at this point, maria, until we get a closer choice. thankfully the primary season doesn't start until may in texas. and so we'll make a decision then. but there's a lot of time between now and the election that we can work on other things, like corporate tax reform, like getting a budget passed for 2013. >> we've talked about tax reform now for several years. what kind of tax reform would you like to see and what would have the biggest impact in terms of business productivity? >> it's simple, i think. i testified in front of the senate last summer and talked about this. give us a much lower marginal rate, down 25% all in, federal and state, give us a simpler system. we'll push all the incentives in to help pay for the lower race. and tax us on our u.s. territorial income only. that's the way really all of the rest of the major c

and you're finding it in kimberly-clark.it has had a nice rally from the low 60s to the low 70s since september:ism right. >> tom: still pays the yield, what's left? >> 39 years in a row this company has raised its dividend, and the brand that you would recognize as kleenex -- in recessions and boom times people need toilet paper and need to use consumer products. so we think it's a staple of the economy t. has worldwide diversification in terms of the investor base. we like it. >> tom: what do you anticipate of the stock price from the low 70s. >> a move to the mid to high 70s. not a big move, but -- >> tom: time frame? >> three to six months. >> and we like to be rewarded by a dividend. >> tom: and you like intel which pays a dividend close to 3%. >> you could have picked this up in the fall below 20. could be a volatile stock being in technology, could >> could be. 15 billion in cash on the sheets. warren buffet owns the stock. we like the trade. we think the 3% dividend end, and the technology sector will continue to be

kimberly clarke makes the tampons. they are brushing it off. >> if a woman uses a tampon that is contaminanted with bacteria mold, i suppose there could be potential risk of infection. >> i wouldn't want to use it. she posted pictures of the tampon on her blog and facebook and the image went viral. >> that's disgusting. >>> many of us collect frequent flier miles on our credit card. when you try to do it, we went up with flying. you may have built up a lot more miles than you first thought. >> that's right, abc 2 news consumer report shows us frequent flier frustration so you won't waste your money. >> reporter: with air fare soaring to new highs every week, that vacation get away is getting more expensive every time. that's why so many people now using credit card that build up frequent flier miles. that free trip is getting more and more out of reach. if you trying to get away this spring or summer, you know that fares are highlier than ever. $250 flight is now $400. but if you try to use frequent flier miles, don't

kimberly clark which makes huggies got a rash of criticism, dads were offended by the previous campaign called the dad test. the video showed fathers as incompetent caregivers who ignore babies. dads and moms protested on facebook arguing many of today's dads fully share childcare responsibilities. now this new ad features dad rocking babies in their laps. >>> college students have long complained there are not enough spots for core courses. they are offering the class but they cost six times the normal rate. several math and english courses needed by almost every student will cost $200 a unit. officials say it is necessary because of state funding cuts. >>> end of a publisher era then britannica has written the final chapter of its print history. the 244-year-old company won't be printing any more books but will continue digital publication and will try to expand its educational product line. >> we've been mostly digital for many years now. the company started to have more digital revenues than print revenue maybe six years ago. the majority is from creation and providing e-learning so

kimberly clark which makes huggies got a rash of criticism, dads were offended by the previous campaignalled the dad test. the video showed fathers as incompetent caregivers who ignore babies. dads and moms protested on facebook arguing many of today's dads fully share childcare responsibilities. now this new ad features dad rocking babies in their laps. >>> college studen have long complained there are not enough spots for core courses. they are offering the class but they cost six times the normal rate. several math and english courses needed by almost every student will cost $200 a unit. officials say it is necessary because of state funding cuts. >>> end of a publisher era then britannica has written the final chapter of its print history. the 244-year-old company won't be printing any more books but will continue digital publication and will try to expand its educational product line. >> we've been mostly digital for many years now. the company started to have more digital revenues than print revenue maybe six years ago. the majority is from creation and providing e-learning soluti

the guy sitting right here was the cio of kimberly-clark, an old friend of mine. so i asked him how many servers per employee he had, and he said we had 0.4 and headed for 0.2, proudly. ok, who do you think is sitting at 30 to one? facebook. would you think is sitting at 50 to one? for your technical people in the room, do you think they are operating inefficiently? no, i do not think so. furthermore, do you think that they are using all those servers to serve up web pages? no. right? these are truly information- power businesses. at the end of the day, my opinion -- lots of people may share this -- is all companies and that being information companies. all companies and of being software companies. i just did he know speech for a large german car company that you may know, that is clearly when you start realizing what they are trying to do, right -- it is really can we use all this cloud technology to takeoff structures down and across this down so now, i can change and 8% spent on a bunch of stuff that other people can go due to 80% i get to build applications,

trying to suppress the cold, i'll take the 4% yield from kleenex maker kimberly clark. i'm giving out exhibit b for the defense. i'm giving you ipos. there have been more than 30 of them this year. and do you know that only six of those have lost you money while the vast majority have made you huge sums of cash? i see another five that made you more than 0%. that's certainly more than half the ipos. meanwhile, the losers, with the exception of two, the others have lost you only 6% or less. ipos have been a gold mine this year. which brings me to this -- any of it. we've been loving the natural foods. pounding the table all 2012. 23% in whole foods. i said over and over again people want the healthy alternative. sure enough, this morning, annie's became public. all natural. all loved. number one in the category. who would have thunk mack and sleaze could make you so much money. and how did you do it? you nearly caught a double in a single day's trading. this is a food company for heaven's sake, not some internet tool company. it's a tock that looked like it was going to

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