you've got folks, parents who are designing linkedin profiles for their kids and managing connection.u've got parents who are writing the cover letter, handling the resume, doing the networking on linkedin and helping their kids on the front door of the job interview. we've taken the kids from getting them through schools and now in a tough job market they're doing it again. is this the sign of a weak generation? >> i don't know if it's the parents or the kids who are the weak generation, either. >> there is a line. but between networking for your children, helping them out with that first job and cheerleading for them and showing up to their first job interview. there is a line and we might be crossing it from time to time. >> i can see it in the linkedin profile. if you are in the workplace and you are already doing it, i can see how you would start it for my kids. >> accounts my dad doesn't have, linkedin, facebook. but this idea that somehow college age students are having their parents doing their online networking, it surprise he me that they don't know a lot more than their par

college, come on, linkedin is the only way you're getting jobs. up 20% before the kids start moving out. >> brenda: gary b. bull or bear. >> bear. my daughter lives with us, doesn't use linkedin. >> brenda: and neil is next. erin-- >> and what, china playing a dangerous game of chicken. and more proof if we needed that if you do business with china, you're doing it on a, well, a chicken wing and a prayer. because the chinese government is now cracking down on mcdonald's for allegedly serving kicken wings 90 minutes after they were cooked. the rules apparently say that there is a half hour limit. and this is the same china that last year literally shut down some wal-mart stores because, well, they supposedly mislabeled organic meat. and mcdonald's and wal-mart and lead aside they were poisoning our animals and contaminated games for kids, i digress, this pretty much says it all. and charles payne, adam lasinski, charlie gasperino, i don't know, charles payne, i think we're having a little bit of an at this ti tit for ta what they'd done is put 100%

. >> there's a story floating around about linkedin and how hackers are using information on linkedin? >> yeah. so this is interesting. so hackers go where many people go and we're talking millions of users on linkedin, a phenomenal site. i recommend it for people trying to broaden their careers, make good networks. we have people out of jobs in america looking to find their job or find that connection and linkedin is a source to do that. however, people are setting up fake linkedin accounts, they're setting up fake identities and people giving them friend requests and access, once you say i accept you as a friend, they're getting in to not all of your information, the school you graduated from, what jobs you used to have and work and also potential access to your friends, as well, that you have in there. your rolodex information contacts. they can set up fake profiles and within them they can put links that if you click on the links could send you to sites to farm out or phish for personal information from you. >> what's smart way to handle this? how do you protect yourself? >> numbe

so modernization remains fairly low, if you look at yelp compared to other sites like linkedin. it's a wait-and-see. they're in the early phases as jeremy said. >> you would rather buy, what, group groupon? >> groupon is an early model as well. but i think linkedin has shown they're the dominant player in the social media arena. >> porter, would you buy any of these? >> i think social media as a category is very but owant and is only going to get bigger. the problem i have with some of the individual stocks, look at yelp. they turned down an offer from google last year. google goes out and buys zaggot. zaggot is going to crush yelp when they make up its mind. they've got all the means to do that. yelp is getting 50% of their traffic from google right now. that's their vulnerability. >> am i any evnaive that a comp like yelp or linkedin or groupon that you would find it difficult to monetize these social media companies there? >> you're right on the money. that's where they will end up. >> so i'm a future investment banker here, i guess, that's what's going on. aaron, what do you

it seems those getting professionally social on linkedin that are credible resonates.ording to the associated press, researchers say people are less likely to lie about big things on the resume posted on linkedin compared with traditional resumes because it is more public, social networking site and to be more easily verified in an online setting. that is business news. back to you. >> thank you so much. all the talk in washington are the cherry blossoms. they are expected to reach their peak bloom even earlier than predicted. >> the blooming expected to begin on sunday, this sunday march 18. it is it expected to peak between march 20-23. the earlier prediction was between march 24-31. expected early bloom is being attributed to the warm weather. the problems are the parade will not be for another three weeks. >> those poor organizers. they have been organizing this for so long. perhaps they have locked out the past couple of years. -- >> they have locked out the past couple of years. it has been between march 29- april 1. this does a seller the blooming, for sure. >>

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in february, they drove more people to retell sites then twitter, google, linkedin combined. still ahead, a two-time hero local teenager is honored for coming to the rescue twice. and steve >> big change from yesterday. >> yes all good things must come to an end. we are early on, though, those 80 degree readings will come back. >> but the cherry blossoms. >> something to look forward to next year. the washington monument, 555 feet high, the cloud deck fairly low. the clouds will increase through the early morning hours visibility about a half mile or so. no advisory right now in terms of fog but be prepared when you go to church or sunday school in the morning. 57 the high today felt cool, yesterday we were in the low 80's. the average this day 59, a record 85, 1907. 55 at this hour at the airport of the wind at about 10. children's hospital 52 degrees. they were just short of a quarter inch of rain earlier in the day. about a half-inch of rain in germantown. herndon, a quarter inch of rain, 52 daytime high of 65. the temperatures across the board, annapolis 57, baltimore 55.

apps like bump and linkedin and facebook are helping force them out. >> the latest ipad is now on sale. when you bump doesn't make that noise? it hit store shelves today. people waited for their chance to grab an ipad 3. it features a sharper scream, a faster processor, and a five mega pixel cameras. there are six different models starting at $499. >> the weather was not bad to be sitting outside. >> the forecast is not what s said it would be. will you forgive me? >> there is a little rain. >> you will hear about it later. >> a cool easterly breeze kept temperatures well below levels of the past few days. in the past half hour or so we get a little bit of sunshine. let's take you to weatherbug. bob ryan can bail me out at 11:00 if i get it wrong. 50 degrees at the boardwalk plaza hotel. take a look and laurel. 62 degrees and some breaks in the overcast as well. our ford board, 59 and 51 high and low. we have not had a low that low in a long time. things are going to be back on track for this very warm weather we have had all this week. doppler radar right now some showers in southern

it says linkedin is boosting through 2014. how is the volume looking on lincoln? not too bad considering linkedin less than a year ago in may the stock is trading near $100 a share meanwhile, we've been talking about the rise in apple shares. it looks flat and can they keep up the momentum? julia, this stock has been up on fire. it's up over 5%. >> and it's a big weekend for lionsgate. it's the opening weekend of "the hunger games" and they are expecting over $100 million. and madman has been gone for 17 months. thises did not seem to have diminished it at all. it's such a great analysis. what are they saying? >> they are upgrading the stock and two analysts would have a 17 and $17.50 price target for the stock. they think there is more room to go. and the big question is, will we see "the hunger games" live up to the hype? how many franchises can they expect? another big franchise for them. they are trying to develop three other young adult book stories into movies. those can be promising as well. maria, back to you. >> julia, thank you so much. we have the closi

reid hoffman is here and known as the co-founder of linkedin with 150 million members and was an early backer of successful companies including facebook and has offered lesson from his success called the start-up of you and pleased to have him back with his co-author. he's a san francisco based entrepreneur writer and blogger. what is it you want us to know about starting up? >> in the modern world which is globalization and increasing competition and disruption of technology and it goes to individuals and they need to learn how to invest in themselves and navigate this world and the best is entrepreneurship and it's every individual acting entrepreneurial. >> rose: how do you act with the skillset and mindset of an entrepreneur. >> you take intelligent risk and presume the world's changing and don't think i'm on one life course like a career escalator. you presume change and we talked about being in a state of permanent beta. you're never finish and always adapting and you use business relationships and reading and knowing human ecosystems which products would appeal to people and whi

let's talk about linkedin. the stock getting a pop today. 8%. >> we talk about that all the time. it annoys me because on an evaluation basis, linkedin continues to trade higher and i've tried to short it in the past and it hasn't worked that well. i try to stay away from the name. >> laker hughes? >> you're going to see it drop from 19% to grass drilling being minimized. 08 bucks in july. >> drop for chesapeake, 1% decline today. >> talk about a fast money trade. yesterday on the 5:00 prk .m. i was my final trade. at this point there are other ways to leverage it with crzo. >> deutsch bank? >> scott, european financials are very weak today. i continue to like the idea of honing u.s. financials on goldman sachs and shorting europe bean once again. i did that. >> and a pop for vibrating tattoos. ever miss a call because you can't feel your phone buzz? a patent for a vibrating tattoo, using implanted magnetic ink that responds to incoming calls. >>> next up on "the half time report," how the european close could impact our trading day here in the states. we'll be right back. looking

reid hoffman is the co-founder of linkedin and founding owner of paypal and silicon famous startups,e anyone heard of them. his new book is titled "the start up of you." welcome, reid. >> great to be here. >> now, you talk about in this book, really you think of yourself as an entrepreneur. what do you think is different? >> two things. the first thing is everyone should think of themselves as the interpreter of their own life, as the ceo of their own all the things that apply to businesses, you should apply to yourself. career. not just brand but how do you infest in yourself and how do you use business intelligence in order to navigate? what this means in terms of technology is you should be deploying technologies and study using the internet, using linkedin to try to figure out how to invest yourself, build your skills, the connections with people, learn what is going on in industries, and be able to navigate the new world of work. it's changing. globalization and technology is disrupting industries. how do you navigate that to protect the downside, not get laid off in a bad indus

it is like linkedin announcing -- translin -- lincoln announcing the transcontinental route but only leaving at halftime. -- leaving the afghan. -- leaving it half done. >> what is good for oklahoma is good for america. we're talking about two states that are deeply red, nebraska and oklahoma, but the politics go beyond that. i was confused by the message of the white house this week. what the message was about the pipeline i missed. gasoline, quite frankly -- i heard republicans say the best and it cannot do anything until summer 2008, and now here -- now i hear the democrats say they cannot do anything in 2012. >> on the message, i was against the pipeline until i was in favor of that. [laughter] >> mr. obama's health-care law before the supreme court next week. >> if that the supreme court finds it unconstitutional, barack obama will not be reelected. they will have to vote him out of office to repeal it. column, he says that if it is upheld, in what what change the nature of the social contract. you will be out there, nina. what will they do? >> [laughter] i do not make predictio

. >> linkedin. >> it's exploding to the upside. it's up 5%. look at this thing on a valuation, you can't get your arms around. you're talking about a multiple. 73 cents. you're talking about well poeov 100. this is too hot for me. i'd stay away. >> world whiskey day, an idea dreamt up by a 21-year-old scottish student. kudos to him. in the u.s., two kentucky legislators got a head start on the festivities. mayors of lexington and louisville exchanged battles of bourbon in anticipation of saturday's final 4 matchup between the cardinals and wildcats. >>> as we head to break, take a look at nat gas hitting its lowest level since 2002. we're all over the story. dig deeper into it when the "halftime report" comes right back. how do you know which ones to follow? the equity summary score consolidates the ratings of up to 10 independent research providers into a single score that's weighted based on how accurate they've been in the past. i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious inve

we have companies like apple, google, linkedin, facebook. we're working on having a meeting set up with the ceo for zynga but there is a lot of potential. especially when you are bringing in new companies and something we have done with the school district and construction companies working on job sites, the project labor agreements, we had another one with transbay terminal where any company they're working with on transbay terminal is required to do some amount of work with our students. i think as cities come into the city, companies come into the city, it is a fantastic way to lock that in as a guarantee and file them into the systems we already have going on in the city. -- dial the men to the systems we already have going on in the city. -- a dialed them in to the systems we already have going on in the city. -- dial athenthem into the systs we already h ave going on -- we have going ion in the city. >> we do have the gateway to college program. students who have dropped out and are coming back. in terms of command -- continuing educat

with websites, linkedin, update your status of where you're going to be because it's a small world ande all -- especially similar industries, you cross paths again. it's all the more reason why you don't want to reply all with your angry e-mail. >> thank you so much. great advice. if you know a notice is coming or you want to give notice, do it the right way. thanks a lot. >>> northern arizona needs to thaw out before it can ring in spring. just two days away. can you believe it? check out this heavy snow in flagstaff, of all places. we'll find out how much of that snow they are expecting to see. [♪...] >> i wish my patients could see what i see. that over time, having high cholesterol, plus diabetes or high blood pressure or family history of early heart disease, can put them at increased risk for plaque buildup. and they'd see that it's more important to get their cholesterol where their doctor wants. and why for these patients, when diet and exercise alone aren't enough, i prescribe crestor. adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol by up to 52%. and is also proven to slow plaque buildu

before zing apinkus ran a social network called prize and hoffman worked across the hall creating linkedinat the time the two bought a patent that subscribed the acceptance of friends on the social network. and when you think about it, that's one of the most powerful patents in silicon valley history. >> we bought it in 2003. praerl because we were coming up on aukction and were worried th industry might get shut down if they wanted dominant space that way, was going to take it over. it was a lot of money so mark and i said, why don't we split it and buy together -- >> buying the patent for -- >> he will be my guest this sunday morning. he wants you to help him spend a million dollars. we'll talk about that sunday morning at 9:00 right after "meet the press." >> glad the weekend's here. let's check the forecast. jeff? >> i wanted to enjoy today because i knew tomorrow wasn't going to be the kind of day -- >> you have been listening, yes. that storm system is on the way through the pacific. it's starting to wind up. but right now we're finding areas of clouds and sunshine in san francisco a

lower vacancies to single digits and will migrate into north of market commodity space such as the linkedin lease just completed at one montgomery. office rents were also split with rates dropping to $28 in oakland and rising to over $40 per square foot in san francisco. rents in san francisco will rise to the $60 or $70 per square foot levels, and it will trigger new office construction for the first time in over four years. oakland, are you listening? investment sales volume in the bay area continue to grow in all product types and rose to over $12 billion in 2011, an increase of 57% from the previous year. projections show an increase of 100% for 2012. the top office leases during the past 12 months in san francisco and oakland -- these experienced office -- rising office activity with many tenants rushing to lock in long-term rental rates prior to the big increases expected in 2012 and 2013. salesforce continues to be the market maker with a 400,000 square foot lease signed this past january. let's go back to this linen truck -- lenin -- lemon truck and turning lemons into lemonade. san

. >> three out of ten kids are living with parents now after college, come on, linkedin is the only wayg jobs. up 20% before the kids start moving out. >> brenda: gary b. bull or bear. >> bear.

competition from facebook and linkedin has hurt its traditional market. another company suffering from tough competition-- blackberry device maker research in motion. shares sank 4% after an analyst speculated the company will issue a warning about slower demand for its blackberries. the company's quarteends saturday. it's warned about profits twice in the past year. we mentioned some of the stronger february retail sales reports earlier, and those translated into stock gains. the gap jumped more than 7%. this is a new 52-week high. macy's is at a four and a half year high, up more than 2%. but kohl's stock fell more than 1.5% after its disappointing february. one more note from a retailer of sorts-- grocery store chain kroger. the stock shot up almost 3%. volume more than doubled as the company predicted higher earnings this year than wall street expected. the company reported steady sales volume in the fourth quarter, despite higher gasoline prices, higher food prices, and other grocery stores seeing a drop in sales volume. and that's tonight's "market

whether apple, amazon, newer companies like linkedin. i admire these companies and i think people love to work for them and they will return god money as shareholders over the years. >> yep david kelly, whether it is culture or uncertainty people have been afraid to go in to stocks but recently we are seeing money come out of bonds, bond funds. do you think the retail investor is coming back? are they losing their fear of stocks? that's why may have been putting money to fixed income, right? >> i think they are. the key thing is the unemployment numbers. we got that friday a week with ago. as unemployment begins to come down, as we create more jobs, that really acts as extraordinaries steroids for our consumer and investor confidence. i they will push people away from using bonds and back to equities and i think a lot of toward will be late to the party but good too see them move to be more balanced in this environment. >> david gardner, what do you think? >> the more that we as are investors stay focused stay focused on being invested o