marissa mayer comes to mind. >> marissa mayer was installed there by an activist let's not forget ifnd andrew pointed that out and said as well the activists he said were offended by the mere suggestion. the female ceos didn't want to address it. it's sort of a -- >> too small of a sample size. >> when you look at the companies you laid out whether it's yahoo! go through these lists these are high-profile companies led by women. i don't know necessarily that the attack is on the women side of it. they're going after companies that they think they have the power and leverage to be able to manhandle to push to the upside. >> stef, do you see a trend? >> i think it's too small of a sample. the companies they're going after yeah to pete and josh's point they had issues. what i think is interesting is in most of the cases, the ceoss have listened and they've actually put in bigger change. you know, i look at due popts because we own dupont before the activism came in. she was trying to change and splipts the company and getting more specialized instead of being a commodity type of chemica

marissa mayer has now spun out her alibaba shares into spin co.ld you have any interest in buying all or part of spinco? >> we don't anticipate buying into an agreement with yahoo! or spinco. this is their right to do. the board obvious. they decided to do the spin off. from our perspective operating , the business day today, we have a 15% shareholder in us. that's yahoo! after the spinoff, we will have another 15% shareholder, that is spin co.. it really does not change anything from our perspective. but i would like to just take this opportunity to thank mercer -- marissa mayer and also jackie greases. they have been great partners over the last couple of years. >> i know you are a great eel -- dealmaker and you have made lots of deals for ali baba. is yahoo! on your radar at all? can i just ask that? >> we are very focused on our business in china. if you look at the deals that we do in terms of investments and m&a activity, over 90% of them are focused on how we grow our user base, how we increase user engagement, and how we expand our categor

mark zuckerberg and yahoo marissa mayer and it is widely believed the executives turned down invitation because ongoing tensions between the obama administration and s develop over privacy marries. >> we have coverage of the visit of the president today with reporting new on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> a rare day of work at the port of oakland with long shoremen unloading containers today resuming a frustrating work stoppage that is keeping billions in merchandise trapped port side. here are the details. >>> labor disputes have been dragging on causing slow downs of the port and yesterday a shut down. today, though, they will be back open for when day. this is a look at the pork of oakland where this is movement and vessels are lined up ready to off load. the video is from long beach the busiest port in the country. year, 29 west coast ports from seattle to day oh shut down. there will be limited operations today and the welcome stoppage continues. the sand fill is part of a labor dispute between dock workers and employees with negotiations between the union and the pacific maritime ass

. >> you mention marissa mayer, what do you think her chances are of turning things around? >> she is by far the best ceo it has had in a decade. she should not be evaluated on whether she invents something new. that is setting her up for failure. the existing businesses are big, and if you can improve those and make those work, that is fantastic. >> other than what you have written in this book, what are some things you believe that very few people agree with you on? >> an issue i have spoken about is this idea that college education has become something of a bubble. a trillion dollars of student debt is not getting what we are paying for. it needs to be rethought in a fundamental way. >> if you could start education over again, what would you do? >> get rid of the word education. >> would there be no schools? >> they would be very different. they are stuck in the 19th century. you figure out ways to make them individuated, where different students learn at their own pace. >> you have the thiel fellowship. you give aspiring entrepreneurs money to not go to school. some of t

mark zuckerberg yahoo marissa mayer and it is believes the executives turned down invitations because of continuing tensions between the obama administration and s develop over privacy matters. >> we have complete coverage of the visit all day today on air and online with reporting continuing on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. police are investigating what happened to have a man end up dead on the campus of a chiropractic college just after 2:00 a.m. when employees found a u-haul truck and broken glass on the ground. they spotted the man's body near the truck. the victim is not identified or his connection to the college. classes are canceled. >> a person has been detained for driving with a suspicious device in the car that was found when the driver was stopped in novato around 8:00. right now the deputies have not said what the device is but they said berkeley police bomb squad has secured it and several homes were evacuated. >> a group of students in san francisco staged a protest of an issue of a morals clause for teachers to honor church teaching including opposing homosexuality. >>> st

>> well, jon, remember marissa mayer has said that when she first got to yahoo!2012, the mobile business there was a hobby, not a job. meyer is working hard to change that. she wants yahoo! to be thought of as a mobile trendsetter. to do that, though, she's going to have to win over and excite the 1,000 developers at the conference today. >> if you're one of the leading internet assets out there, you have to have a good mobile strategy. that's why yahoo! needs to host a mobile developer conference and show it's got mobile chops. not only for consumers and advertisers but also for developers. >> now, meyer, of course, has put a lot of time, effort and resources into mobile. there's some evidence that hard work is paying off. in q4 yahoo!'s mobile ad revenues did jump 23% to more than $200 million. still, yahoo! has a ways to go before it's really thought of here as a true mobile ad leader. this year, yahoo!'s mobile ad revenues will account for just 4% of the overall market. you compare that to 35% for google, 17% for facebook, and yahoo!'s stock has struggled in

. >> marissa mayer's acquisition strategy has been criticized and tumblr is the biggest acquisition sheas made so far. critics said, tumblr was not making money or growing that fast. how do you respond? >> we were and are growing very fast. if she wanted to buy a profitable company at the time of acquisition, there were and are still plenty of them. she saw a path forward and something she thought could be not just a big business, but a business with a lot of alignments with yahoo! we are about to have a lot to brag about. >> what is tumblr's ad strategy? within yahoo!, what is the strategy for growing the business now you are within this bigger company? >> we have a novel ad platform. it's all about wide-open creative expression. it's trying to get the most creative parts of the industry, to give them a space, a digital space where they can tell those same stories. where they can inspire us to become customers of these brands. get us to aspire to drive the beamer. or drink the coke. yahoo! is building more and more content on top of tumblr. there are digital magazines you have heard of

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, why do we want marissa mayer the head of the company?sset and leaving yourself without a job are. charles: without a doubt, it's the two minute washing for her. -- warning for her. what do you think, darren? >> i would agree with the yahoo! call. she really has to produce something. i don't know if tumbler's going to get more involved, but now that you kind of carved out that equity into the side business, all eyes are on you. [laughter] charles: although she came, i mean, the red carpet was rolled out, everyone gave her the benefit of doubt, and i guess did she squander that goodwill so quickly? >> i actually think she listened to her investor base, and she did exactly what they told her to do, and she realized significant appreciation and value. now that that's carved out and on the side, she now has to figure out what's the second act. charles: what do you think, matt? >> fast eddie lampert over at sears holdings. [laughter] this guy's a disaster -- >> well, he was senator -- smart for years and years. charles: was he really smart? >>

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emily: you think marissa mayer is doing a good job? john: i think it is a reasonable job.on't know her very well. met a couple of times. yes. emily: you are also a father. you have four kids. what kind of a parent are you? john: i'm close to my children, and i always enjoy time with them. i do not spend a lot of time with them, unfortunately, because of the nature of the job, running around the world. thankfully, they all grew up pretty good. i feel good about it. emily: how do they feel about you living half here and half in canada? john: i think my wife loves it. we have been married 34 years. you know, i think she is, the time she does not want to see me every day. it is good. if i go home early, she always says, what's wrong? you are not feeling well? i say, i just want to come home early. i am serious. i am not making any of this up. anyway, they support me. if i'm happy, they're just fine. emily: what's an app you can't live without? john: e-mail. emily: facebook or twitter? john: neither. emily: why not? john: i tried it. i got so hooked on it. i'm spending an entir

marissa mayer also majored in symbolic systems. what is that?so, symbolic systems -- it's a unique major to stanford. and, it's -- the simple explanation is cognitive science and artificial intelligence -- although most people will think, 'that isn't simple.' but really, it's actually a step deeper, which is -- part of what is performing the world are these notions of systems of symbols. whether they're computer programs, whether it's mathematics and logic, whether it's models of how we think and psychology -- i think i was the eighth or ninth person to acquire the major. >> so while you are at stanford, you met peter thiel. >> yes. >> tell me how you met. >> peter and i had both been told about each other by people we knew. i was told he was this really right wing person, he was told i was this really left-wing person. we both went, 'wait a minute, i've heard about you.' and so we grabbed coffee, and i think we argued for eight hours. right, because we were like, 'oh, you can't believe that.' and then we were like, 'that was fun, let's do that

among them, facebook's mark zuckerberg, yahoo's marissa mayer, google's larry page and eric schmidt. it's reportedly because of a fight with the feds over data encryption. the tech companies want to protect consumers they say but that makes things harder for spies. >>> a record day on wall street today. the s&p closed at an all-time high. that's good news for your 401(k). the dow closed over 18,000 very close to its record high. and the nasdaq is now at a level not seen since 2000. we asked kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks where the boost is coming from. >> reporter: that's rising oil prices, crude up a dollar 50 almost at $53 a barrel. that lifted the energy sector and as a result lifted the stock market higher. >> in recent weeks, the stock market has followed the rise and fall of crude oil. >>> trapped at the bottom of a cliff for days. a woman's only hope, her will power and legs. >> i had to keep going step by step and i would stop and pray. >> the grueling climb that saved her life. >> a school bus out of control taking kids from a wild 15- minute ride. the quick th

they include facebook's mark zuckerberg, yahoo's marissa mayer and google's larry page. the snub reportedly is linked to the pressure from the government against those companies to scale back data encryption policies. tim cook is going to be there. the apple ceo will probably talk about apple security policy. the company recently changed the technology on the new iphone to encrypt data much to the government's chagrin. so after the president wraps up in stanford he will go to a fundraiser tonight in san francisco on russian hill. he will take off saturday morning. today traffic will likely be a bit a mess not only on the peninsula but here in the city, as well. >>> the west coast port slowdown is costing businesses millions of dollars. ports including oakland will be shut down for presidents day weekend. shipments have slowed to a crawl. the pacific maritime association and the international longshore and warehouse union are trying to agree on a new contract. perishables are starting rot as containers sit on the docks. >> in this yard we have had loads of oranges sat her

tomorrow, marissa mayer from yahoo!, dick costolo from twitter.e have got a great line up here on bloomberg tv. we have got matt maloney, the ceo of grub hub. his big competition yelp just acquired one of his competitors. stay tuned, we have a lot of good stuff coming from the conference. >> those are some big names. pandora finds itself in a big court case that could determine its future. they are facing off with bmi. they represent 650,000 songwriters and publishers. bmi says that they are trying to present themselves as a terrestrial radio station. they are even buying a radio station in south dakota. they argue that pandora's reach is much larger than any terrestrial radio station, the 81 million listeners, who are not most of them in south dakota. this comes after pandora one against its rival organization. joining us is the ceo of the future of music coalition. to me, this is existential for pandora. they cannot survive unless they can get lower rates of music. >> that might be the case but it is true that this is part of the process. the so

we've got tim cook, apple ceo, giving the keynote and tomorrow marissa mayer from yahoo!ostolo from twitter. we've got a great lineup here on bloomberg tv. we've got matt maloney, the ceo of grubhub. his big competition yelp, just acquired one of his big competitors. we also have the president of goldman sachs and he will talk about his interview with tim cook. >> those are some big names. we will see that in just a few minutes. pandora finds itself in a big court case in manhattan that could determine its future. pandora is raising off with emi -- the organization that represents 650 thousand songwriters and publishers. bmi says pandora is trying to present itself as a terrestrial radio station and paying royalty rates that are lower. there actually buying a radio station so they could actually make that claim. this comes after pandora one against as cap last year, holding on to its royalty rate. during this is the ceo of the future of music coalition. to me this is texas dental for pandora. they cannot survive in the long run unless they can get lower rates to compete w

but we start with marissa mayer. here's what she said about the company's push into the mobile space. >> this rein-vevention is perha the achievement i'm most proud of. and that investment has paid off. we've seen tremendous growth in terms of users, revenue and time spent. and not only have we seen that growth, we've seen an outpacing of our historical rate. we've also outpaced the industry rate. >> she admitted the company was falling short in terms of mobile messaging. >> i think small is an over estimation because right now we don't have a mobile messaging app. what are you doing about that? >> taking the afternoon off? some of us might argue that mail is actually part of our communications. but that's okay. >> but in all seriousness, i think that it's certainly something we're interested in because of yahoo! messenger pc platform. something that we have a lot of legacy knowledge in. and clearly an area that is really growing. >> yahoo! stock up nearly 2%, but still down 12 percent this year. it shows the challen

ceo marissa mayer on stage talking about why there's so much focus on mobile business at yahoo.g statistics pointing out, for example, the average u.s. smart phone user now spends nearly three hours a day on their smart phone. that's a lot of time looking at the phone and looking at apps. the most popular being in the fields of gaming social and media. to meet that demand, there are now 500 people at yahoo! working in mobile working on rebuilding yahoo's apps offerings up from 50 people two years ago. listen to what she said about what yahoo is doing under her watch. >> this reinvention of the products for the mobile space is perhaps the achievement i'm most proud of during my ten year as ceo. and that investment paid off. we've seen tremendous growth in terms of users, revenue, and time spent. not only have we seen that growth but we've seen an outpacing of the historical rate, which, by the way, was not hard. we've outpaced the industry rate. >>. >> saying that the company generated mobile ad revenue of 1 preponderate 2 billion last year making it the third biggest mobile add

fought the government over a number of privacy issues, and we have noted in the past, the ceo marissa mayer was invited to the cybersecurity conference at stanford and turned the invitation down. it would appear the fcc is going to vote on net neutrality tomorrow. republicans leaders said they don't have the votes to stop it. republicans are against net neutrality but they don't like the way the obama administration is going about it. what will fcc commissioners being voting on tomorrow? we know the basics, but weirdly enough we don't know the details. the commissioners have been given a briefing paper but the public doesn't. >> we count on guys like you to make it simple once it does come out. >> once we know what we're talking about. >> the new port labor deal here in oakland may be too little too late when it comes to california fruit and nut farmers. the l.a. times reports it may take three months to clear that cargo backlog. losses for some exports may reach 50%. case in point, california grown citrus bound for chinese new year celebrations overseas and california almond farmers fear t

marissa mayer, who tweeted, so happy for walmart associates proud of walmart management. so we'll talk to doug about all of that. u.s. comps, guys positive once again, up 1.5% how much of an impact did gas prices have? for the sales guidance for 2061 simon, looking for 1 to 2, back in october they were saying 2 to 4. is that the strong dollar at work? that's probably the likely culprit. if they keep making investments like they are with training with neighborhood centers, we'll see what kind of impact that has on sales down the road. >> i'm really looking forward to your interview in an hour's time partly because all of this chatter about $9 an hour i read that the labor unions already think the average wage in walmart is $8.81. from what they're saying it's a 19 cents difference. but i guess a leveling out process and $10 becomes more important, i think, next february. >> reporter: it's the lowest wage you would make would be $9. the average wage of a full-time worker at walmart is $13. average wage of a part-time worker is $10. so we're talking about the least you could

i wonder why marissa mayer got such a bad rap. he's probably a very skilled ceo and she's going to have an opportunity to show people. >>> jon stewart retiring from hosting "the daily show" after 16 years on the job. after the break, we'll tell you the one stock traders are betting will get a boost from this news. stay tuned. news alert! message! email! calendar update! most of us admit to being overwhelmed by information at work. that's why ibm created verse. it uses powerful analytics to uncover hidden patterns in your email, calendars and social feeds. it continuously learns how you work. and helps you prioritize the people and projects you need to focus on. there's a new way to work and it's made with ibm. >>> panera sliding 9% after hours, while fourth quarter results were in with estimates. full year earnings growth would fall short. the company also cautioning that a number of moving pieces is making it difficult to provide precise guidance for the year. a number of moving pieces prevents it, pete, from giving guidance for

marissa mayer, larry page. none of them are there because there are a lot of issues that are unresolved about the surveillance aspect. >> mark zuckerberg runs and created facebook, of course. i look at facebook. i don't use it that much. it seems pretty secure. facebook, tom, probably has better firewalls than much of the us government. (?) we saw what happened on january 12th where centcom, central command's website and tbirtwitter accounts were hacked. isis was putting up signs on these sites. they had one person running it. nothing is encrypted. the president just issued that warning and said, if your password is password or your birthday or 12357, i mean, that's not really encrypting anything. >> true. we need to improve our security posture dramatically. we're dealing with terrorist groups that have migrated with the adoption of various cyber weapons. cyber weapons are available online that can bypass most traditional security defenses. everyone continues to see cyber security as an expense rather than a f

. >> we have great people like sheryl sandberg and marissa mayer and tech leading the way but, you knowr every one of them i could name 10 men who are equal equally as powerful. >> the white collar tribe made up of a yahoo executive. >> reporter: how will she translate her success in the tech world on the beaches of nicaragua? >> i studied computer science and very rigorous analytical background. i absolutely did math on the numbers to see, you know, in what scenarios will i think live in and what scenarios are dangerous for more. >> reporter: as it all plays out stay tuned. >> if you have never watched "survivor" before, this is a great season to get started on. >> the 30th season of "survivor" starts tonight at 8:00 right here on kpix 5. >> also looks so good too on the first episode all fresh and ready to go. >>> coming up in the next half- hour a bay area mystery. what's now becoming a troubling trend. men disappearing without a trace. >> and we continue to follow breaking news a reported double homicide in hercules. chopper 5 is overhead. a live report from the scene coming up. lif

ceo marissa mayer invited to the president's cyber security conference at stanford but turned the invitation down. >>> janet yellen appeared in front of the senate tuesday. she'll talk to the house today. semiannual briefing about the economy. she hinted an interest rate is ahead. but also hinted it's not coming any time soon. >> so basically we learned not necessarily a timeline. >> it depends, is it dovish or hawkish, yes. >> okay. cover all your bases. thank you very much. >>> an entrepreneurial massachusetts man cashing in on the recent snowstorm. >> kyle wearing has set up the website ship snow, yo. he'll ship a water bottle of snow. if you pay $89, you get six pounds of this stuff. he says he's already made more than 100 shipments so far. he came up with the idea while shoveling the yard with the wife and said hey, they should send the snow to family and friends because that's what they need. >> he's making money off of it. >> are they getting that desperate in the northeast? how can we get rid of these mounds of snow. i know, we'll package it and sell it to you guys. you guys could us

. >> but among the no shows of silicon valley, mark zuckerberg of facebook, marissa mayer of yahoo! and eric schmidt of google. they reportedly are still upset about the lack of reforms by the administration in washington of the government's surveillance programs that edward snowden leaked, leaked information about, but they did have top cybersecurity officials attending the conference, summit and participating in the panels. david and liz? liz: we have one of them. we had, dave dewalt of fireeye who ran out and called us who said he thought it was very supportive. exactly what tim cook talked about, don't sacrifice privacy. share ideas with the government but don't share actual stuff you have got on your customers. david: peter barnes in d.c. thank you very much. liz: thank you, peter. >> you bet. liz: u.s. stocks, what a day, entering the sixth year of the bull market. we want to know where is the next bull market lurking? is it in sector? overseas market? maybe alternative investment? our super smart panel has some answers. david: plus, we have a sneak-peek for you. blackrock's w

or yahoo ceo marissa mayer, who saw her stock price jump 1.25% the day her vogue magazine feature camemayer scores an 8.45 out of ten, just five hundredths of a point lower than angelina jolie on anaface.com's facial attractiveness index. that's the website two wisconsin researchers used to judge the hotness-- or not-ness-- of 682 c.e.o.'s. they found that the better looking the c.e.o., the bigger the boost to the company's stock price when he or she took over. >> attractiveness affects people's perceptions. >> reporter: crazy. or maybe not, says dan hamermesh, who's been studying the economics of beauty for over 20 years. >> if the c.e.o. is better looking, he or she is gonna generate more confidence by the co-workers, by the subordinates and that's gonna help the company make more sales, make more profits and those profits are gonna be reflected in the higher stock price. so it's completely comprehensible, very rational, given that you think we have a preference for good looking people, which i know we do. >> reporter: and it's rational to bet on beauty being more than skin-deep? >>

danger, just like in any sector is to point to one or two-- in this case i am assuming you mean marissa mayerheryl sandberg but it's easy to point to two and say, "well, they made it and why can't you?" there are things about their profiles, their education, their socioeconomic background that allowed them to do that and i don't knock them for that. for every one of them, there are thns of women who don't come close to that but are no less talented. i think any time we hold up anybody for a role model for all of us, it's very dangerous. it certainly doesn't bear to mind the struggles i see some of the women i was with yesterday with one of my clients, some of the engineers who are just trying to get good code out. they're not wanting to be on an executive track. they're not wanting to be managers. they want to be engineers and design really cool things, and still they are facing a set of micro-aggressions to harassment that cause them to not even be able to do that. so that would be my caution about holding up a couple of women as success stories and say the rest of cuss do it. >> brown: all

i just think, you know, the big names, mark zuckerberg from facebook, ma marissa mayer from yahoo! page from google, they are not here. but you might not expect them at a summit like this and at the same time, probably two years ago, they would have been here. >> yeah. maybe they'll -- hopefully save their energy for the re/code conference, a different story. >> we'll see. >> let's move on to xiaomi preparing to bring products to the united states. we're wondering if we need to start getting ready to cover some big xiaomi/apple trial. how will this work? >> yeah. you know they're not bringing the phones here yet and i think the patent issue is one of the reasons. they talked about a range of things including the community, they call themselves an internet company. they don't like being called a handset company. that said there's all kinds of issues around the patents and expanding in brazil and other fast-growing countries so we're not going to see handsets here but they're going to sell a lot of the accessories and different things like that. >> is there any anxiety you can pick u

heavyweights are missing from the table like mark zuckerberg larry page, and marissa mayer.eos are still reeling from the nsa scandal involving edward snowden. the president is expected to release a executive order about cyber security. joining me now from washington is republican congressman will hurd, a former undercover cia officer, now above cover. leo hindery is staying with me as my guest host. ok congressman, does your president have your support on this? >> there are some elements that do make sense. some elements are all going on but there are some elements that i disagree with. he is going to announce the creation of a new center. it is going to be additional bureaucracy. i think we should fix it by strengthening the existing elements. we need to increase cooperation through stronger liability protection for the private sector. that is missing, but i think there are opportunities for us to work together. there will be legislation that a think we can get to the president's desk that will be fine. i think this is one of those areas where i think we can work together.

for companies to share information about computer network threat. 4 big names decline, yahoos marissa mayer, facebook's mark zuckerberg, googles larry page and eric schmitt. apples tim cook is scheduled to speak. i send it back to stephanie ruhle. >> thank you, matt. normally we talk to steve pagliuca about bain. today we are talking about his true passion, he is co-owner of the boston celtics. why did you come this weekend? >> bain is actually a partnership. >> you do not have any players play, why is it so important to be here? >> this is when the whole nba comes here. we have a tech summit, we look at what is happening with all the sports and in media. it is a fantastic weekend celebrating the game midseason. >> the nba is flush with cash. >> when we bought the boston celtics the headline was, venture capitalist pay record price for team. the -- that did not help us raise money with other investors , they said, how is the price? you have seen an explosion of sports and he continues to go on . >> i wrote that story and i have written a lot of sales story since. i lot of people tell me the

marissa mayer? >> poor girl. >> really? >> it's not easy. she tried hard. >> we are not judging.asy job and people don't realize how hard it is and how hard she has been trying. >> do you think she's doing a good job? >> as a shareholder in yahoo!, she has doubled the stock she joined. >> so she's doing a good job? >> at least as a shareholder. >> is she doing a good job managing the alibaba stake were doing a good job managing yahoo! ? >> i would not want to do that job because it's difficult to turn yahoo! around. what has been mentioned is the alibaba assets and then potentially be acquired, that should be the best outcome. >> uber? >> i wish i had invested. i actually passed on it. i'm that idiot. >> vaccines? >> important. >> artificial intelligence? >> i love it and i hate it. i love it because it is really powerful and exciting in this is an area we are looking into, but the skynet concept is pre-scary. >> fcc chief tom wheeler? >> net neutrality is important please. thank you. >> smart watch? >> it will be a success but not a giant success as everyone hopes for. >> we've

mark zuckerberg yahoos marissa mayer, larry page and eric schmidt of google will not attend the conferencestanford. relations between silicon valley and the white house have been strained after clashes over online privacy. the departing cochairman of sony pictures has defended the studio for paying female stars less than men. amy pascal told a conference that the people should know what they are worth. >> people want to work for less money, i will pay them less money. i do not call them up and asked to give them more come a cause that is not what you do when you run a business. the truth is, what women have to do is not work for less money. stephanie: hackers exposed sony documents last year, that showed jennifer lawrence and amy adams were paid significantly less than male stars in the film "american hustle." matt: they were worth a lot more. stephanie: their wardrobes and here alone. matt: the one thing that bothers me about "american hustle," was looking at christian bale with that bald head and beer gut. i could not deal with it. stephanie: like bradley cooper's rollers. talk about amy

s marissa mayer, google's eric page and eric schmitt. they were all invited, they were busy sipping espresso or something else. out of egypt this morning, al jazeera television says a second journalist who was imprisoned has been set free. the release of baher mohamed calms. they spent more than 400 days behind bars. their third colleague, peter greste of australia, was deported three days ago. those are three journalists out of al jazeera free in egypt. that is certainly good news all around. let's look at the data check -- equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. green on the screen. it is an interesting friday sort of a non-news friday, still reacting off the news of greece. euro advances, crude oil, that is american crude, that is a nice it. $52.02. edward morse joining us in the next hour from citigroup. 15 point 34 is a remarkable number over the last few weeks. recruit at 60. sterling we will get to in a minute. that is euros sterling. ukrainian currency doing a little better at the first sign of hope and a good a 72 hours for st

yahoo's marissa mayer. all sending proxies instead.orters of the president, i thought, and cyber security is a very important subject. why aren't they there? >> it's an important topic. but these companies have positioned themselves against the kind of metacollection that -- you remember that scandal? we're against snooping and spying. which, of course, it isn't. instead of educating the public about that. they took a position sort of against the white house on this. now, look, they won't become republicans overnight. silicon valley overwhelmingly gives money on the democratic party. increasingly to my mind, that looks very shortsighted. a lot of the big regulatory things this president has done will be harmful for companies like google. >> that's asking a california techie to be a conservative. >> look what happened when the white house came out with a so-called plan to let bureaucrats set prices and run the pipes that make the internet. all of a sudden, google which had remained very very quiet about that, came out against that. why

i think, you know marissa mayer inherited a company. she was lucky to have that stock. to try to do the turnaround using that stock to keep the stock up. if that stock was down, she wouldn't be able to do anything. it was definitely a troubled company. it was attacked under scott thompson and attacked under jerry. you know the sale thing at gm. these issues were before mary was there. she haves obviously a top executive. meg is inheriting a company that's been in trouble forever. maybe women have their own choices in these companies, but that's -- who knows? i think this is -- it's a little soft in the idea of it but it's -- there's definitely an issue around not enough women ceos. >> thank you very much. good insight. good article. good discussion. appreciate it. hey, let's get to breaking news. sue her air wra. sue. >> it concerns halliburton. halliburton confirming to cnbc that they are going to have some layoffs in the range of 6.5% to 8% of their global head count of their global work force. although they say they value every person they have, unfortunately, we are

only had four there marissa mayer and kevin systrom on the board, that is going to change?> i don't know. alibaba. >> the cowan analyst assigning $33 billion valuation to instagram. brad myth, maker of turbotax overcoming the fallout. premarket, nasdaq's going for eight days up it would be the first such streak in a year but nowhere near 19 in a row we had in 1979 if you believe that. >> that was my -- my memories. ♪ >>> keep your eye on nat gas, up 3%, as much of the nation grapples with record cold temperatures. maria larosa with more on the arctic blast. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carl. yeah, it's another brutal start to the day here in nashville, temperatures close to single dij thes. tied a record low yesterday. you have to talk about the business aspect in a city like nashville, tourism, music city. and it has been put on ice. take a look at this. i'm on top of the rock bottom brewery here right on iconic broadway. this isn't going anywhere. still encased in ice. we talked to a business owner earlier and they were talking about how they had to shut down

those guys' ability to monetize that is different if you look at marissa mayer. >> i think one of the't have a well-developed advertising business before then mobile is all upside. but if you had a well-developed display business before mobile is a little threatening because the cpms or prices paid are lower than on display. i think they'll get higher. but if you could be looking at a pressure point if mobile is on top of what you've already got. >> referring specifically to google? >> no, no no i wasn't referring specifically to google. i'm referring to the large properties generated most of their revenue historically from display advertising. there it's trickier than somebody who is new to the advertising game where mobile is upside. >> curious your take on the traditional broadcast companies that are watching ratings come down significantly when measured by nielsen, cable networks and the like who argue, we're not getting credit for being watched as much as we are on mobile devices. do they have a point? >> no i think they do. i think what's happened if you look at total television