yahoo was up 46% since marissa meyer took over in july.o stock doing really, really well. revenue for the company is growing and yahoo is dealing with the revenue, but she is turning things around. she is getting $1.1 million for six months of work. not bad pay. this year she will be eligible for a $2 million bonus. look at this. besides the $1 million salary and bonus, she has $57 million in stock and retention bonus, be keep in mind the portion of that stock will be able to sell for another to five years. it's an incentive to get her to stick around and do well and lift the stock price. look how she compares. her $1 million salary is not so unusual. a lot better than the $1 meg whitman took last year. she is hp's ceo. maybe that's all she should get. they are struggling and not doing well. >> good for these women. thank you very much. the elusive got particle can be within reach. scientists using a giant atom smasher discovered a new particle last year. physicists have been analyzing to see if it is a god particle. scientists say it's lo

s decision, since its new ceo, marissa meyer, made headlines as the first pregnant woman to take over a fortune 500 company. >> well, i have been a mom now for four and a half months and i have been ceo for seven months. i would say i wouldn't have missed a minute of either experience. >> reporter: but having the best of both worlds could become harder for her employees now. two-thirds of companies surveyed say they allow workers work remotely, nearly twice as many as in 2005. and advocates say it's with good reason. >> if employees have flexibility, they are in better physical and mental health. they are more engaged. they are more likely to want their organization to succeed. they are more likely to want to stay. >> reporter: melissa potvin says that's exactly how she feels. >> my company is telling me they trust me, they believe in me and they know, at the end of the day, i'm going to do my job and get the job done. >> reporter: and she hopes other companies give their workers the flexibility she's had. rehema ellis you nbc news, new york. >>> and when we come back, long overdue, t

. >>> yahoo's ceo marissa meyer got a $1.1 million bonus. 1.1million. despite being on the job for less than six months. this is on top of her $1 salary and $56 in yahoo stock. the 37-year-old has been at the center of controversy after she banned employees from working from home. but the company's stock is up 46% since she took over last july. >> if it was a billion i think she would be retiring like right now. >> no kidding. >>> in healthwatch, skyrocketing costs of diabetes. americans paid $245 billion last year in medical costs. that's 41% higher than just back in 2007. the american diabetes association says the jump is not because medicine and treatment are getting more expensive. it's because so many more people now have the disease. more than 22 million people have type 1 or type 2 diabetes. >>> coca-cola's answering a call to fight obesity. the company is switching to a low calorie sprite in england. it's already offered in france. coca-cola is now exploring whether to bring the new sprite here to the united states. >>> time now 4:51. coming up,

. >> it sure did, marissa meyer. but keep in mind, there is a trade-off.sold that put, dan is obligated to buy the stock for 18 bucks, even if it falls well below that level. it's all good, though, because since the time of the trade, yahoo! shares have added 12%, making this trade a winner. and now, the biggest fan of "options action." >> gives you all the information you want. >> just wants to know one more thing. what will dan do now? before we answer that, let's see how much money was made. had you bought yahoo! at the time of the trade, you would have made just over 10%. dan's trade required no premium and can be sold today for just over $95. so, technically, that is a return of a million percent or so. >> of course. >> should put a little smile on your face. a million dollar smile on your face. >> a smirk. >> smiles aside, dan what do you do now? >> we sold the put to buy call spread. and so, you do this in names where you have a lot of, you know, there was valuation support, these guys have a third of their market cap in cash when you put the trade

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ceo marissa meyer is taking heat from her own employees.ing practices keep them from getting top candidates. she said she only accepts applicants from prestigious universities. >> how horrible. accepting applicants from prestigious universities. >> i used to work at a police like that. >> nothing wrong with that. >> those people, not sure, maybe she needs to hire new people because they are all just poking at her. that place, let me till something, needs someone to come in and lead, maybe down the want it. i don't know if she is the one, they certainly don't want her there >> she has come in and led, if you look at the stock, marissa meyer's job is not to serve as a role model for women, her job to turn that company around it desperately needed it, they were very happy to have her there she has turned the stock around 30%. this hiring practicing, a famous way, bringing with hear lot of her google ways and google is famous for not only hiring from prestigious university bus use numbers to crunch everything, your gpa, everything and they are

right now yahoo is awarding marissa meyer with a million dollar bonus and that's in addition to her $1on a year salary and long-term stock compensation. yahoo is unlikely to be upset. yahoo's shares have written by -- risen by 40% since marissa became the boss last may. >>> why that sound could land that and in jail. >>> and in stamford, why there were not as many players at the game last night, stay tuned. . >>> the stamford rivalry really got intense last night. >> boy, this scuffle broke out during the game and two players and three assistant coaches were ejected when they left the -- because the left the bench and called 7 technical fouls. that may have ended cal's chances of winning the regular season title. >>> the man accused of destroying a muni bus is due back in court today. gregory is accused of torching a muni bus which happened during the celebration of the giants world series victory. he is facing charges of vandalism and tampering with a transit vehicle. >>> laughing out loud in his own house could cost a man in new york. >> that is robert, he says his neighbor called th

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dana you says this company needs to do something new and innovative and you admire marissa meyer for doing this. i get it too depending on the work of course. i don't think you can argue with the fact that as the yahoo! hr memo says some of the best insights come from cafeteria discussions and meeting new people,ett set raw. >> it is like how a lot of people have their best ideas in the shower. i think what they are saying is if you see people in the hallway you will have a great idea. i am like that. when i am walking down the hall i say i thought of something for you. if i am at home and looking at pictures of jasper i don't get as much done as i should. >> the only thing that happens at hallways in work is this. >> that's not true. we work in a hallway. and that's where we come up with the ideas for the show. >> that's true. people go by and they say what's up? >> he has an alcove in the hallway. >> and meyer did come from google. >> all of those things that make a billion dollars. >> it was google. she was employee number 20. >> that's why she has one of the early e-mails. >> and

ceo marissa meyers banned telecomputing for all yahoo! employees. weeks ago, she said she only needs two weeks of maternity leave. the backlash has been intense and brings us to familiar ground. the age-old question, can women really have it all? glamourous high-powered career, children, rock solid marriage and earlier i spoke with jill filopovic. >> having more women in leadership positions is quite valuable. it normalizes female authority. they get used to seeing powerful and assertive women and that perception gap will decrease hopefully. >> how do we get there? right. it's sort of a chicken and egg problem. >> right. >> we need both. we need women to be more assertive, to take individual steps to pull themselves up to positions of power. but we also need major institutional and cultural changes. we're the only country, developed country on earth that doesn't have federally mandated maternity leave, we don't have federally mandated sick days or federally mandated vacation days. that really makes us an outlyer. it's incredibly harmful to all women

business insider, the move came after ceo marissa meyer checked the company's virtual private networkse it to log into the network when they work from home. it shows employees were not logging in enough. that led to meyer's announcement last week that telecom pewter will end in june. they need a more collaborative community culture >>> ever wonder what your deputies are up to own a saturday night. there was a virtual ride along and detective rose enblat and smith took to it. and answered followers questions and documented stories of the night. >> it is all about a push to really interact with the community and show them that we are all on the same team. >> the more they know about the neighborhood and the people in the neighborhood. it is all for the better. >> now, you are looking at some tweets on the screen from last night's event. >> the virtual ride along lasted until midnight. why two new san jose firefighters will report to work this morning. they were hired after more than a year of station brownouts and layoffs and $8 million federal grant is paying for their salaries and ben

but the world went into shock that marissa meyer is requir is workers to come to work. >> i want themrs tell me maier is trying to shake up the culture. but this has ignited firestorm across the country. >> i think it's incredibly disappointing and backward thinking and they are shooting themselves in the foot as they limp themselves into the future. >> reporter: but for all the criticism, it turns out working from home is more of an exception among the rule among elite silicone valley companies according to missen. >> i would talk to yahoo! employees who would say these are great companies, but i want to be able to stay at home most of the time and they know that's not available to them at google. >> reporter: where did marissa mayer come from? google. she instituted a few perks. including free catered food and choice of smartphones. >> yahoo! is the grandfather of a lot of internet companies. with a large company around a long time. bureaucracy creeps in, and it's important to every now and then say, wait, why do we have turnstiles? why are we all carrying blackberries? >> reporter:

she's talking about marissa meyer ceo of yahoo!.happened there, talking specifically about the work from home policy that's been reversed. she says i think flexibility is important for women and for men but there are some jobs that are superflexible and some that aren't. regardless, she believes no man who ordered the same policies would come under fire the way meyer has. i agree. we pick apart meyer who has taken over a struggling company and so far has risen the stock price 46% instead of championing her, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick. >> that's right and sheryl is aware a lot of this also has to do with perception so she talks a lot about the ah-ha moment for her the 2003 case study about an entrepreneur who was very successful and in one version of the study the entrepreneur is named howard and in the other version of the study the entrepreneur is named heidi. when people were asked to evaluate the character of the person, would you like to work with this person, howard came off great, successful, heidi is like well, she seems ve

and marissa meyer, what she's doing at yahoo! stock has been on a tear, a straight line tear since she came in. hitting another 52-week high. up big. but remember what brought mayer to the job? activism. it was the canny investor dan loeb and that's how she came in to tame this company. cnbc for the record has a relationship with yahoo!. i have been flogging this yahoo! ever since mayer came in. i'm not done because the stock's not done. this is highly unusual not to see a takeover of some size when you come to work. admittedly when i talked to david faber, and it's a packaging company buying a materials company. think about it. all the lightning that has struck since this year began. there's liberty buying, version media, michael dell. it's just the first week of march. these deals matter. there are other ways that value keeps being brought out and i'm trying to keep that in front of you. the effort by david einhorn to do something failed miserably and the stock is in the own personal bear market. apple won't listen to the reaso

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. >>> funny thing happened amid marissa meyer's moves. does this rally continue in yahoo?a look at that cho rt. on the technical side is carter worth and steve cortez. good to see you. >> thank you. >> carter, what did the charts say about yahoo? how does it look? >> we love the setup you had a stock that was dormant. and only ten buys out of some 45 analysts, no one's paying attention. then it's off to the races here. it's got people caught offsides. stock is strong here. and it's only outperforming the market but big tech in general. if you look at the short-term chart. importantly from its high of up to 40 back in '06, '07. this has turned the corner. it's got all the hallmarks of a period of strength. it's not likely to be ending any time soon. >> so you think it goes from strength to strength? >> yeah. >> what do you think steve? >> in recent weeks we've had an incredible run. i think for long-term holders to get out of this. if we'd take that chart back further, we'd see this stock topped out at $125 more than a decade ago. >> as did every major tech stock. unlike a

ceo marissa meyer has taken some heat for banning telecommuting and new hiring practices, but a fellow says there never would have been an issue if mayer was a man. that's coming up later on the "closing bell." you're watching the "closing bell" on cnbc, first in business worldwide. stay with us. us. it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there's always more in the world to see. it's the all-new lincoln mkz. zap technology. 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 into your car. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ and his new bo

marissa meyers and her decision to end telecommuting, something many women to do to balance women andhe revolution? >> i don't know exactly what happened yahoo!. i think she's proving the point, too many too few female leaders, extrapolate from a female leader to all men ceos. not possible. men are allowed to be individuals. women need that freedom to be individuals as well. >> that looks amazing. >> this week, sanberg celebrates her five-year anniversary with facebook with the stock from last year's infamous ipo not reaching the original price, she says there is much work to do at the company. she won't rule out there may be a time when she leans back. what does your future look like? you dodge this question every time. have you been asked so many times and every time you dodge. what do you think down the road? when? when your children are preteen? what do you want to do? >> i really love my job. we're in the facebook office. look at this place? >> five years down the road, what will you be doing? >> my naive year five-year anni facebook is next week. >> ten years down the road? >> w

. >> before we let you go, marissa meyer sparked a huge debate about yahoo!.> i think marisa mayer is wrong. we're seeing the most innovative and forward-thinking companies move in the other direction. the war for talent is full on. i think flexible work policies are table staged for businesses that want to compete in this environment. >> gary, thanks for your time. good day to have you on. >> thanks, carl, thanks for having me. >>> after the break, a deeper dive into today's jobs numbers with jan hatzius. if you think there's a bubble in stocks, wait until you hear about the price people are paying for new ferraris. get your money in gear. back in two. the patient, presented with a hairline fracture to the mandible and contusions to the metacarpus. what do you see? um, i see a duck. be more specific. i see the aflac duck. i see the aflac duck out of work and not making any money. i see him moving in with his parents and selling bootleg dvds out of the back of a van. dude, that's your life. remember, aflac will give him cash to help cover his rent, car payment

ceo marissa meyer announced the end of the work-from-home option defended by some human resource expertsople at the office every day, working long hours, no empty parking lots is what you want. >> reporter: best buy was one of the first companies to champion working from home, launching results work only environment unveiled to some fanfare in 2005. >> i'm heartbroken because best buy is retreating. it was considered the beacon for people who believed we could finally drag the american workplace into the 21st century. this is going to look like, well, the beacon is out. >> reporter: the world's largest consumer electronics retailer vug ld to compete with online vendors like amazon. best buy now says it's all hands on deck, explaining that with roe, they had a right to work from home. we believe in employee flexibility but it needs to come in done text of a conversation, a conversation that is about both what results are and how the work gets done. >> i'm worried it's going to be seen as a failed experiment. >> reporter: best buy says managers will still be able to make decisions on telec