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marissa mayer faces off with fed up investors.ome are saying when you get paid $115 million over five years you should probably be able to fix the company but meyer has risked not succeeding. the struggling tech giant is down for the count. stock today down 1.5% so let's get to robert gray in california at santa clara with a preview of the meeting tonight and with the foxbusiness tech minute we are dying to know what performance we have seen and what could possibly happen? >> we are 90 minutes from the start of the meeting. shareholders want to know what is yahoo's next move and when will the company unlock the value in its investments, take a look at the stock chart, it took off when marissa mayer took off with the promise of potential of yahoo which is in turn around mode for the next day or so but performed quite well, 148%. over the year or so it languished, it is down during that time period, the activist investor taking 1.5% stake and agitating for change, spinning, rising revenues come a falling, last fiscal year, posted a

could be marissa mayer's last stand at ceo and may be the last meeting as public company.ction off core businesses and sell other assets. it she has been under pressure from stand value, a hedge fund and individual investors are here at meeting for first time because they're worried about their investments. stock came out roaring out of the gate and outperformed broader market for four years but last year is languishing. revenue slipping. yahoo! post ad fiscal year loss last year and parts worth more than the sum of the whole if you take a look at this, mobile site, market cap, $35 billion but its stakes in alibaba and yahoo! japan worth more than it. we'll see who bidders may be. verizon, at&t, microsoft as mentioned as possible suitors. bid between 3 and $5 billion. back to you. deirdre: robert, thank you so much for that, does it for us. have a wonderful evening. risk and reward starts right now. deirdre: terror takedown in turkey after the recent attack on istanbul airport as a record number of americans travel this july 4th weekend. this is "risk & reward." i'm deirdr

few women ceo's of big technology companies, and you often get lumped into the same category as marissa mayerumped in big turnarounds. do you think there is still a different standard for women in business especially at the top? whitman: i look at the positives of this, which is the progress we have made since i came out of college is really amazing. more work to do, but there are more leaders today because we have made a lot of progress, but there is still more work to do. my counsel to young women is science, technology, engineering, and math. those areas of study, if you think that could be of interest to you, i encourage people to go into the hard sciences and computer science because we are at the inn and really at the beginning of another phase of big technology information. the opportunities are going to be as great as they were the mean, i.t.30 -- i was the defining industry of our generation, my generation. i think it will be the defining industry of the next generation as well. i think i was asked the other day what i would tell my 17-year-old l, and i would tell my 17-year-old self

you often get lumped in the same how dos marissa mayer -- you feel about that characterization?o think there is still a different standard for women in business, especially at the top? i look at the positive of this. progress we have made is really amazing. there is more work to do, but .here are more leaders there is still more work to do. in the areas of technologygineering, , and thus, i encourage women to go into those areas because we are at the end of the beginning of another phase of technology innovation. big opportunities will be as great as they were. i.t. was the defining industry of my generation and think it will be for the next generation as well. i was asked the other day, what 17-year-oldll your self? i would tell myself to be an engineer. emily: you have done well for yourself. can hp itself become a target? >> you never know. off, therewe spent will still be a $33 billion business with 55 employees all globe.e you never know what happens in this industry. really excited about the future of hewlett-packard enterprise. edge., branch, and, of course, software comp

few women ceo's of big technology companies, and you often get lumped into the same category as marissa mayer lumped in big turnarounds. do you think there is still a different standard for women in business especially at the top? whitman: i look at the positives of this, which is the progress we have made since i came out of college is really amazing. more work to do, but there are more leaders today because we have made a lot of progress, but there is still more work to do. my counsel to young women is science, technology, engineering, and math. if you like those areas of study, if you think that could be of interest to you, i encourage people to go into the hard sciences and computer science because we are at the inn and really at the beginning of another phase of big technology information. the opportunities are going to be as great as they were the last 20 or 30 -- i mean, i.t. was the defining industry of our generation, my generation. i think it will be the defining industry of the next generation as well. i think i was asked the other day what i would tell my 17-year-old l, and i woul

maria: all eyes on yahoo, marissa mayer, investors and analysts waiting for the company's core assetsppening today. fighting sluggish sales, serial companies are trying t get customers back. markets this morning have reversed course. were seeing a lower opening in the quarter averages, today marking the final trading day of the month, and we have seen strong market earlier today, stimulus during europe, take look amarket to their, we saw a big rally earlier today, given up on europe this rning, s&p 100 down 6 points, well off of the highs and the nasdaq down 7 points. boris johnson announced will not run to replace david cameron as prime minister of the uk. deutsche bank ighing in on the markets. stock hitting a 30 year low. the bank fails the stress test, when issue for european markets and in asia marke mostly higher witthe exception of the shanghai composite. hillary clinton will be getting support on the campaign ail by president obama. the president will join her in north carolina on tuesday for the first time in the election cycle. e president is getting more political as he wra

emily: there has been intense scrutiny on marissa mayer's own leadership and the turnaround, and now,w fighting for her job. do you sympathize with her at all? ms. huffington: absolutely, i feel that marissa is a working mother who chose to run yahoo! a certain way and, at the moment, clearly, shareholders are not happy with the way it's been run. when you are a public company, that's one of the dangers. you run. emily: do you think yahoo! can be revitalized with new leadership? ms. huffington: well, i think one of the great advantages of yahoo! is it is a hybrid. it is a journalistic enterprise, and it is a platform, and it owns tumblr. i think tumblr is an incredible asset. more and more people want to express their views in more than 140 characters. you have an incredible opportunity to use tumblr to allow people to express their views and also to use it as a native advertising place. now, we see this for us, definitely, and one of the most important monetization channels. you know, our relationship with goldman sachs which are different brands, sleep number, a mattress company, th

sources tell the new york post the twitter officials met with yahoo's management led by marissa mayer several weeks ago. twitter about out of the bidding process soon after the meeting. the next round of bids for yahoo's core internet business are due early next week. verizon is still considered the leader of the bidders. nicole: the golden state warriors took game one last night without a big night from the stars. stefan curry, the warriors beat lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers 104-89, stefan curry and clay thompson combined for 20 points but the bench came up big with 45. 's coach steve kerr said the team is always prepared. >> when i have them both playoff like that with their shooting the one thing we talked about all year is if we defend and take care of the ball we always have somebody score enough points for us. lauren: game 2 sunday in oakland. nicole: there is no i in team. let's look at the headlines in today's addition of the wall street journal, ceo pay shrank 4.6% with little coalition to investor returns, none of the year's 10 highest-paid ceos ran one of the bes

marissa mayer, how do you judge what she's doing.ooks like the company is going to be sold. >> we have marissa mayer coming and adam coming. i made the foolish mistake of being transparent. i talk about it on the show and sometimes i forget and model it. we had the ceo of your friend john ledger. they had all treasured each other. they saw that and everybody cancels. but it will be very interesting just to find out, i think, that aol could house google quite well. >> but marissa cancels on everybody. >> i think she's doing the right thing by focusing on short-term value. >> are you happy with this, if you can get 3 to 4 billion -- >> instead of the $8 billion? >> yeah. the activists saying this is the plan we're going ahead withy. >> the activists have so much egg on their face right now, valeant sold for more than it said. by pushing for the fire sale auctions you've seen what the data has been and they're marenally better than the start of the year. activist are having such difficulties putting together their fraternity in washingt

the possible the business do with yahoo, executive some twitter now with yahoo chief executive marissa mayer several weeks ago, the discuss a possible merger of the two companies that the twitter pulled out of the process shortly after the meeting, second round bits for yahoo business are due next week, verizon is believed to be the top hitter. >>> more than $127 million in tough some settlement money for over and lift drivers is in the hands of two federal judges in san francisco, they heard charges and -- in arguments yesterday, and settlements get preliminary approval thousands of current and former drivers for the two companies will get certain benefits including a right to get tips in the right to challenge being fired. however, the drivers will still be considered independent contractors rather than employees. >>> walmart is expanding its grocery business and going after amazon. they announced they will be partnering up with uber and lyft to the -- test send it saying they would -- letting customers order online and pick it up at a nearby store, under the program walmart will be expand

marissa mayer will host the annual shareholder meeting. the shareholders are eager to sell their internet properties. several companies including verizon and at&t are potential bidders. selling the core business can have larger ramifications for us in the bay area, and analyst say the new situation will cut jobs and local business are expected to take a hit in yahoo moves elsewhere. >> you will find more dew on the grass than the car. shear a hook at what is going on in san francisco, upper 40s to low 50s and we have mid-50s down the bay shore physical santa clara at 52 and historien is 235 a and pittsburg is 61 and american canyon is 54, and petaluma is 50, and pacifica is a cool spot at 49. the activity planner, north of the bay bridge we will have the fastest winds and dry this morning for walking the dog and not too hot, and if you kayak head to the south into the bay. our three day forecast, temperatures are warmer, than yesterday, because the breeze is slower, and look at friday, and warmer than today we shut it off completely headed

the post says that twitter executives met with yahoo's ceo marissa mayer weeks ago to discuss a potential merger. >>> a new stroke treatment developed at stanford is being cold revolutionary after some patients who could barely move started talking and walking. doctors who led the clinical trials said stem cells are responsible. he inject human stem cells from bone marrow around the stroke area. >> from around the stroke, injected, that's where they do their thing to recover the function. >> though not all of the patients but most of them in the study saw a benefit that lasted. the neurosurgeon behind the clinical trial wants to replicate the findings in a larger trial. that study is now enrolling patients. >>> time now is 6:47. let's get a check of traffic with sandra. >> we made it to friday. we have slow conditions in some areas but no major incidents to report out there so great news as we kick off the day. let's go live outside right now. you can see the golden gate bridge has some slight visibility issues. you can see a few headlights coming through no delays on the golden gate brid

analysts are talking about numbers and one being $2.3 billion of the value of the deals that marissa mayersdone with the companies brought into the fold, and another is $4.4 million that verizon bought aol for and how important to keep the two goalposts in mind when you are valuing the company? >> yeah, the question is were these purchases anything of any value now? and a lot of people, yahoo! itself has wrote down the biggest thing they bought which is tumbler, and that is over $1 billion and maybe she spent this money on it, but it is not worth that, and it is less than what verizon bought aol for, and years ago, things were worth more, and aol is falling into the softer market where there is not as much interest for the things they are asking for price. >> and kara, what about a good outcome for people who want to see yahoo! sold? does it matter that the people are interested in the different pieces of yahoo! and is that a bad thing or matter that people are interested in the pieces at all? >> well, it feels like a house auction and it does not feel like it is an exciting property, and i

it also could be marissa mayer's last shareholder meeting as the ceo. she was brought to lead yahoo in 2012 but hasn't been able to stop the slide in the company's fortunes. many of the company's shareholders want yahoo to sell its assets but an outcome isn't expected until next month. yahoo started soliciting bids in mid-april. >>> in just a few hours, bart is showing off a sleek new train that will help connect the dots between pittsburg and antioch. this diesel motivated road is part of a $525 million project that involves 10 miles of track running between the east bay cities. the rains at today's media walk-through are set to take off in late 2017 or 2018. >>> two novato high school students are accused of murdering their classmate have yet to enter pleas. 17-year-old juan carlos martinez henriquez and 16-year- old oz waldo get vair row appeared in court yesterday. defense attorneys say that their clients are waiting for evidence to be released in the case as early as tomorrow. the teens are accused of killing 17 edwin ramirez guerra last month, the

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i hate to bring up marissa mayer and yahoo! question is what would you do if you inherited viacom, 25 cable networks where the media is going away from the big expanded basic bundle. >> okay. so much more we could talk about but that would be speculation. anthony, good to see you. >> thank you very much. >>> at goat man saldman sachs, to watch your ps and qs. they conduct surveillance of employees' e-mail and the list of watch words is enough to make you write a letter, as a matter of fact. we'll have that story coming up next. gain the freedom to fumble with the new water and shatter- resistant samsung galaxy s7 active. buy one now and get the samsung gear s2 for free. exclusively at at&t ♪ experience the thrill of the lexus gs f sport. because the ultimate expression of power, is control. this is the pursuit of perfection. [so i use quickbooks and run mye entire business from the cloud. i keep an eye on sales and expenses from anywhere. even down here in the dark i can still see we're having a great month. and celebrate accor

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s core operations have complained that marissa mayer has not been moving fast enough on the process.he extent that we get a more independent board and yahoo! and they will push for more immediate change, more action on some of those fronts. david: will there be any discussion about operational issues or will it all be sold in the board? the concern is the business continues to deteriorate, which impacts the value that they can actually get for the core operating business. we've got some buyers out there, but it is almost like every day that goes by, this becomes less valuable. i think that it pushes or creates more impetus to get this deal done as quickly as possible. david: thank you so much. coming up, what do you take banks and big oil companies have in common? ♪ david: this is bloomberg , it is time now for battles of the chart. julie hyman and alix steel having one last battle. julie: this top panel here, oil prices versus the dividend yield of big oil. dividend yield and big oil rose as the oil price came down as investors were thinking that big oil is going to cut their di

almost i hate to invoke yahoo and marissa mayer butter inheriting a tough deck of cards to play at theroducing cbs and via com back together again. does that make sense? >> for via com. cbs i think you have a very nimble company. where it is one must have broadcast network and showtime and you can go direct to consumer. via com you are salddled with 2 networks and a bundle. so why would they want to saddle themselves with that much freight and that much weight? >> i think the opposite argument was made when the two were split up. that cbs was going to be the old company, slow growth and via com had all the potential at that point. and the opposite has proven true. >> there was a 8, 9 years ago. i think a lot in media has really changed. the future of media looks to be lighter bundles, skinnier -- >> -- who is going to do the best job running this? >> here is what i would say, becky. if you are a cbs shareholder, the stock had draultically outperformed via comes. if you are les moonves do you want your legacy -- >> if i'm a shareholder what is the solution? >> i think the solution is yo