and it could be the big push microsoft needs for the tablet market. unfortunately, it's also going to get undercut by the launch of ipad 3, which will get a lot of buzz and take some of their thunder away. >> tom: that ipad 3 launch is expected next week. in anticipation, apple's market value notops $500 billion. microsoft's is a little over half that. >> susie: general motors is da >> susie: general motors is saying bonjour to peujot citroen, buying a 7% stake in the french automaker. the detroit powerhouse says the alliance will help the companies cut annual costs by $2 billion without closing plants or cutting jobs in europe. in other stories we're following, the trial of alleged ponzi schemer allen stanford has gone to the jury tonight. the texas tycoon is accused of bilking investors out of more than $7 billion. a houston jury began deliberations a short while ago. if convicted, he faces more than 20 years behind bars. >> youment to correct the settlement price of gold mentioned earlier. the official settlement was $1711 an ouncement take a look

moving to our next trade, one stock hire, microsoft surging to a four-year high. morgan stanley saying rebalancing of the s & p 500 could lead to another catalyst for microsoft to move higher. very interesting call here. >> it is an interesting call. i think it is a little bit late, frankly, since -- i will go back and say, we have talked about microsoft since it was a $24 stock saying rick spoke to you, spoke to jim cramer, carl on that morning as well, stayed is probably the cheapest stock out there we piggybacked that, said it is worthy of a look, nothing else, here we are at 31 1/2. what does that mean? stock traded 100 million shares, up 4%. 4% in microsoft, given the move you have seen the last four moments is huge, market cap quarter of a billion dollars f you are thinking of rush nothing microsoft tomorrow on the back of this i think you are making a monumental mistake, no to the say it can't go higher from here, we have talked about it for a while, today is the day you should be getting out of the trade, not get nothing t. >> talk about that longer term c

microsoft being one.ing out with obviously apps for their own platform and also for apple's repurposing existing cloud development into mobile friendly terms which only makes sense because mobile devices are growing so quickly. >> jon fortt on the app economy. thank you very much. let's talk about another green shoot for the economy. record car exports bring in philip lebeau. phil, how many cars made here are being driven over there? >> about 1.5 million is the actual number. look, we're on a record pace right now, brian. this year we're probably going to export about 1.65 -- over 2 million by 2015. you see canada and mexico in there, that's what you would expect. but country that might surprise people number two being germany. number three china. and then number four saudi arabia where they love our suvs. the one that stands out to me in the top ten is nigeria where sales of u.s.-imported vehicles -- u.s.-made vehicles up 32%. almost 100,000 are being driven over there. those are vehicles imported to nig

microsoft is a money machine. microsoft comes back and they come back big. >> i'm going to disagree with you on terms of microsoft. it had a good run. not saying it can't move higher with the market, but nothing you said is anything new. we know all that. we know windows 8 is coming out at some point this year. by the way, they have always been able to compete because of the anti-trust lawsuits that we've seen lodged at them. >> let's spin this ahead. we'll look at hp -- hang on one second. hp will report next week. terra nova is sitting in the seat you are sitting. you're an owner of those shares. >> i went the other way. i bought the stock. i bought close to the bottom when we had the meg whitman interview on cnbc. that was the lowest interview i saw with a ceo. i bought it. i still have a position left. it's not as big as it was before. now it's not that cheap any more. $4 in earnings, get $8 to $9 multiple. >> let's talk about s&p again trading near its best levels since 2008. many investors are wondering if t

microsoft basically we're not seeing that same negative sentiment. >> in terms of the microsoft questionit's not a question if they can beat apple or catch apple. it's if they can capture any android customers out there and hold on to the customers. is this enough to keep the stock going? >> i think so. you're right. even if it's better, it doesn't matter in some ways because they're so far behind on the tablet space. but i still like the stock. still long. not selling. >>> coming up next on "fast," most liking off your radar. we have the "fast money" portfolio. stay tuned. >>> welcome back to "fast money." let's get to our "fast money" portfolio. where long-term investing meets the volatility of today's world. karen's making the bull case for a loser on the s&p 500 today. that is staples. blamed for weak international sales from europe. and yet you still see value in the stock here. >> when you put it like that, big loser today. that happens. i do like the staples store for a lot of reasons. i think there's a lot of ways to win here. you got a balance sheet that's in good shape. recover

that microsoft.hich meant mike growing an was rolling in money which sounded great to the baroner. >> he said he wanted to remod tell restaurant and make it a model for a chain of restaurants he was about to open. >> growing an got to work getting the restaurant ready to open as grogan's irish steakhouse. he became a fixture at that time bar. it is not exactly a trendy bar. an ex-navy s.e.a.l. and pro-football player who also was a multimillionaire made quite an impression on the regular. >> a really cool guy. life of the party type of guy. find out how much money he has, down here with different cars every day fancy cars and big trucks and hot motorcycles mike grogan had them all. grogan took his new friends golfing at pricey clubs. always paying for lunch and dinner and everything in cash. soon the landlord and friend found out how wealthy mike grogan was. >> 23 million in microsoft stock. >> grogan was modest, too. when a woman named marina started dating him soon after he hired her to work at the

i could see microsoft versus salesforce. microsoft is an interesting moment in time.t's a company in which there is organic, major development going on. windows 8, we think, is going to be very interesting to the market. it's going to be a very credible tablet, operating system. we'll hear more about that next week at barcelona. you have them massively moving into the cloud. salesforce has grown to have approximately 100,000 customers as of the end of last year with approximately 3 million subscribers. they've done it over a ten-year period of time. microsoft with their office online ain approximately two years has grown to 100,000 customers and 2.8 million subscribers out there. you see a very different picture. microsoft, for the first time in many years, is being massively aggressive in the space and being organically creative. >> it was a real pleasure. thanks for coming on "fast money." >> my pleasure. >>> next on "halftime report"," is one of our traders throwing in the towel? the ecb's rescue plans, we'll get a trade update after the break. looking for a better

coming up next. >> microsoft unveiling new software.he tough titan. >>> coming up, top of the hour on "street signs," whether there are any real signs of life. and an exclusive interview with the ceo of e than allen. and what's the one stock that's worth half its current value? get the scoop from a big mutual fund manager. and, no, he's not shorting it. just minutes away on "street signs." now it's back to sue and tyler on "power lunch." >> thank you, mandy. see you at 2:00. we want to let you know the cme is out with a statement. you recall earlier this morning there was some talk in the market about a potential fat finger trade in treasuries that spiked the yield above the 2% mark. the cme is now saying there are no reports of error trades after that talk this morning. so apparently they're officially saying that was not the case. ty. >> new report out today showing which companies are ruling the mobile world right now. the answer may surprise you. jon fortt in silicon valley with the exclusive. jon. >> well, tyler, happening this wee

facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and paul allen, microsoft's cofounder. we begin with mark zuckerberg and facebook. if you have a facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read. but facebook has bigger plans. it wants to turn the entire web into one big social network. lesley stahl first talked with mark zuckerberg in 2008, and three years later, we sat down with mark again. he gave us a preview of his site's new profile page, a change that would affect the 500 million people who were then using facebook, an idea that zuckerberg had cooked up in his dorm room at harvard. >> when you first thought about this--19 years old--is this what you had in mind? did you see this far into the future, or is it way beyond what you dreamed? >> well, it's funny. i mean, when i was getting started, you know, with my roommates in college, you never think that you could build this company or anything like that, right? because, i mean--it just--and we were coll

microsoft is basically in this spot. they have been in favor and dividend-paying stocks. >> i have been saying this since october. it was very, very inexpensive and when you look at the technology going on right now, irrespective of what's happening with that, there a lot of players benefiting. it was the golden age. microsoft has all the attitudes and it has been dead money for so long. pete was talking about this when it was $24 stock in october. up $6 as you mentioned and crossing into a tremendous surge and about 2-1 calls and 127,000 calls to 67,000 puts. strong activity and pushing to the upside. it goes to all three of the gentlemen have said. the belief for the first time in a long time. maybe the stock could break to the upside further. not just stall out when it hits. >> let's get the technical take on microsoft as well as technology in general. the technician at appen himer. what does the microsoft look like? does it look strong? >> exactly as articulated just now. it's 29.95. you put that in context and 50 bi

according to your survey, 3% of smartphone buyers are looking at a microsoft swap. 3%. >> microsoft'sff the map. they are planning to make a big bet, and have made a big bet on windows phone 7. nokia is rolling out an item with at&t in march. we'll see a push from nokia and microsoft and some of the carriers. ultimately it will benefit the carriers to have multiple operating systems. but it's going to be an uphill battle for them. >> there's only one thing to do, instead of all of us having two smartphones, we'll have ten to accommodate all these players. will power, thank you for joining us today. >>> up next, stock trouble in toyland. >> we're going to find out who the top dog is among carmakers. we're staying out of the shop, that is. still not sure how that cat won the dog show. >> and that cat was on "squawk on the street" this morning down at the nyse. at the nyse. meow. >>> down 26%, ouch. sales were down more than 5% last quarter. it will be unveiling a new store design that has been two years in the making. they'll close 15 to 20 stores in north america. but mattel is on a te

>> you do not want to buy microsoft here. microsoft is up 20% year-to-date. microsoft falls into a category i thought we could get through the whole segment without discussing apple, but microsoft falls into the category of companies competing with apple. >> hold it? >> if you own it, you can take some profits, a lot of profits. it's going to come in. and dividend, a lot of people talk dividend on microsoft, they're paying a 2.5% dividend. you can do better elsewhere. >> discovery, products up 76% in the quarter. still a problem with oprah but the stock at 45. buy, sell or hold? >> buy discovery. here's why. discovery was able to increase across all segments. so discovery's able to increase from ad revenue. they were able to increase internationally, which is very important. you buy discovery here. >> the dow closing in on 13,000. you've got a couple of picks here that you think might be buys if we get there beginning with stanley, black & decker? >> if we're going to continue through 13,000, not get there and just roll back over, it's going to be because of

. >> and how apple and microsoft responded to accusations of unfair work conditions. live, this is kron 4 news at 11:00. >>> tonight there is rain in the bay area. these pictures from san francisco an hour ago. light rain dampennic the votes. we will -- dampening the streets. there is heavy spots. >> there are areas of moderate rain. over the central bay. let's zoom in and see where it is the heaviest. moderate to heavy rain. oakland, rain is coming down an inch han hour. just under an inch an hour in oakland. to san francisco, we are seeing moderate rain, half of inch per hour there. in san leandro, fairly heavy rain. third of an inch of rain. heyward, lighter, 2/10 of an inch of rain. south san francisco, you can see there, quarter of an inch as well. more jumping and you can see orinda, quarter of an inch of rain. it is coming down right now. south more, redwood city, the rain is lighter. palo alto. san jose, not even reporting just yet but we have more rain in store. you see here on radar, heavy rain is over us now. more yellow off shore and that indicates more he

cisco systems, ibm or microsoft?he "dividend" pays off after the "dividend" pays off after the break. >>> just before the break, as part of the "dividend," we asked, which company's market cap has never exceeded $500 billion? cisco systems, ibm or microsoft? now, the payoff. ibm. >>> i'm bertha coombs at the nasdaq. a milestone 3,000 for the first time in over 11 years. the nasdaq easing off. we're seeing profit-taking this afternoon. microsoft was one of the drivers to the outside today. now is one of the drags. it hit $32 for the first time since april of 2008. we're also seeing selling in telecom and chips as well. amazon also a big drive today. apple easing off of a fresh all-time high. near 550. it hit 547 and change this morning. this afternoon, though, it is on track for yet another new all-time closing high. bill and maria. >> bertha, thank you very much. we've got about 15 minutes left in the trading session. time for a quick stat check on the nasdaq itself. looking less likely to set a five-day winning stre

secretary reid, let's talk about the project you have with microsoft and facebook. do you want to come up here so the cameras can see your pretty face? >> i guess i could. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you secretary schultz, this is a nonannouncement actually. this week we were going to be making an announce ment regardig the state of oregon with facebook and microsoft, where you can register to vote on facebook and microsoft was going to be announcing it as well and showing you how it worked and everything. i have got all the way down to the end, working with both facebook and microsoft and when they are going to do the press release, the headquarters at facebook said wait a minute, one thing we are doing is violating the corporate policy so we have to go back and rethink and work it out. so in puerto, rico, i'll be able to do a show and tell, wouldn't you know it. but it's an exciting idea. what we will have is, in fact, i was going to hand out these flyers to show you as well. and what it is is, it's an app. and it's going to be in collaboration with facebook and

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and you've seen microsoft, it's remained strong. if we see windows 8, doesn't that translate to better pc market? better dell? >> well, the one thing i think the markets underestimating is that apple is $100 billion company in terms of revenue. and apple, you know as they get larger with the mac business, with the ipad business, it's going to start, it's already started eating into windows. you saw in q4, the windows, the overall pc market grew only, it was flat. whereas apple grew 20%. we think dell is going to feel the brunt of the pain of that. we think the market is grossly underestimating the impact. >> i'm saying going forward. if we're looking for you know, a windows expansion or windows multiple, if you will. wouldn't that translate to better pricing for dell? and i think the question is, not how much dell has run, but was it oversold at $14? >> yeah, i mean the thing is that windows 8, it's not clear when it's going to ship. there's a lot of speculation. it's going to ship in q4. it remains to be seen if it's even going to

we have taken microsoft to the wood shed. >> microsoft is one of the most underrated companies right>> and the connect on pc you will literally do this at home and, you know, i don't analyze or recommend stocks like you do, everybody thinks microsoft is dead. the numbers have been trending up. >> back in december, 20, guess what their stock with us? $29. what is it now? $30. >> plus you have got dividend. >> you know who they are taking to the wood shed? sales force.com. >> are they challenged? >> that's for next week's debate. >> fantastic job, guys. >> that was a good one. >> is that really it. my sunshine stock still enjoying the facebook efeblgt. >> what kind of phone do you have? an iphone, blackberry, an droid? what it says abyour love life. mornin'. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn't hurt that i'm a world-famous advertising icon. cheers! i mean, who wouldn't want a piece of that? geico. ah... fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent oh dear... or more on car insurance. most powerful trading app ? total access - to everything

>> couple reasons microsoft tried this a few years ago and didn't go anywhere.'s the only one that's done it so far successfully. i use apple wirelessly around the house. once you're into the apple ecosystem, you're in it. you're not going to go out and get a google -- so they may have their own market. i'm not saying it won't be successful, but i don't see it eating into apple because if you've already got a mac, you're going to keep the apple ecosystem. >> yeah. i think you make a great point there. i wouldn't necessarily bet against what google does. remember with motorola mobility you don't know what they can produce. i just, you know -- i just want to take the other side of your argument. >> just like you always do. a quick mention of microsoft. we talked earlier this week about how the stock gets no respect. somebody's listening. barclays analyst raised the price target today to $33. here's his reasons. i got the note, if you're listening, thanks to sending it to me. potential launch of office 15 in the first quarter of 2013, windows 8 launch and a multipl

but on microsoft, cisco and others set to fall back to earth. and i think we can forget the big boys for a minute. it's stock screener friday on "street signs." we have five mid cap names, low p/es and no debt. those names ahead, mandy. >> indeed they are. good afternoon, everybody. i'm mandy drury. happy friday. the house and the senate get it done two weeks ahead of the deadline. they've passed an extension of the payroll tax cut through the end of the year. the measure now goes to president obama for his signature. meantime, u.p.s. is trying for a $6.7 billion acquisition. the company botched by tnt express but discussions are still going on. and fresh from the collapse of a deutsche deal, sources say nyse next is among those to put in a bid to buy lme exchange. cme group also among bidders. >> we've been on a great run lately, but since it's almost friday the 13-k, we want to look at spooky similarities between this market and two other big runs and drops in the past. the s&p 500 hit a high of about 1552 in march of 2000. then got crushed as

and that's something that microsoft is really trying to do with their windows phone. >> mike, you haveuence, right? people buy products based on what you say. but is it too little too late for nokia? >> they're also regarding some of the lower end phones, dumb phone customers as they call it. there's another phone called the 710, that is a $50 phone with a two-year contract that if you're not used to the whole smartphone market, you can try that out. so you can get into windows phone, if you've never had an iphone or android phone before. >> mike, thank you very much. cut it a little bit short because of what's going on. i'll go to scott sutherland. a stock that was $40 about five years ago. do you think lumia can turn around the stock price or is it too late? >> i don't think it's too late for nokia. i think them, as well as microsoft has positioned them to be the ecosystem in the mobile device environment. but they have a tough transition moving from sindian toward the smartphones. >> a lot of our viewers who tweeted to us about nokia make a good point, they sell the dumb phones, the

you say microsoft is a better buy than apple, why? >> it's a value play. looking at two names, look at apple with its market cap the largest listed company out there, it's only got, you know, room to fall. and if you look at what's happening in the landscape for tablets and for phones, all right, windows 8 is going to be an excellent product. it just got the consumer preview announced in barcelona and also the other fact we want to throw out there is that it's going -- my camera flipped off there. >> i can still hear you. let me ask you, do you think microsoft is finally turning the corner as a stock? >> well, it has, certainly. it's valuable play. it's trading 11 times earnings, it's got a dividend. the area people concerned about is that windows was -- microsoft was lacking in both tablets and phones. right? and they have been addressing both areas well. windows phone with the partnership with nokia addressing the phones and windows 8 addressing the tablet market and they have plenty of room to grow in the enterprise market. clearly the consumer market i

microsoft also soaring to multi-year highs.h, about these stock runs? market muten is chief technical analyst with gray wolf execution partners. mark, i want to start off with apple. that reversal day was a big one. some are saying that was an outside reversal because it reached a new high on the day and a lower low from the priest d -- previous day. >> a lot of people call this a key reversal. it's important to note that the stock has such momentum that on a longer term basis it's going to take a lot more to suggest that the stock is peaking. >> when the key when you say short term top, tuz that mean a top for that day? it seems like we are approaching that once again. we're on another upward move. >> yeah. oftentimes even if you're going to make a short term top it's going to take several attempts at stabbing towards the highs before you'll even peak out. 526 was the high on wednesday, i believe. if you get above that you could have a chance of getting to 540. i would use that day's low and suggest if it gets below there you

buy put spreads. >> like microsoft.r windows 8 to explode in the tablet market. >> is this michael jackson? wlk. >> cov. >> dan? >> consider stock replacement in the banks. >> you're so smart. i'm melissa lee. thanks for watching. >> you get him? >> that's rg something.

microsoft says that motorola is not playing fair. microsoft lodged a formal complaint with the european union trust regulators saying motorola is trying to block consoles that run microsoft softwsof softwa software. when the eu cleared the takeover, it expressed concerns about motorola's aggressive use against competitors. apple just last week launched a similar complaint against motorola. nokia is working with microsoft, preparing to unveil a cheaper smartphone using windows phone software. next week it will unveil the lumia 610, which at&t will sell in the united states. microsoft's share of the smartphone market has been falling, though. higher prices of phones using its software. check out this diamond in the rough. found in western australia. a rare argyle pink jubilee diamond, the biggest one ever uncovered at the argyle mine, weighing in at almost 13 carats. it will go through ten days of cutting and polishing. once it's sparkling, it will go on a world tour later on this year. it will go up for sale, and could bring in as muc

however we got all the way down to the end, working with both faceback and microsoft and when they're going to do the press release, the headquarters of facebook said, wait a minute, one thing we're doing violences the corporate policy. so we have to go back, we think, and work it out. in the puerto rico, i probably will be able to really do a show and tell. wouldn't you know it? but it is a really exciting idea and what it is that what we will have is -- in fact, i was going to hand out these flyers today to show you as well. and what it is, is it's an app and it's going to be in collaboration with facebook and microsoft that creates an easy link between facebook and our state of washington's online voter registration tool for ment personalized voter services. in my state and we have done presentations before, a system that we worked long and hard on, where once you're registered, you can give your name and birth day and all this specific information comes up about who are your elected representatives, congress, state representative and most counties, it goes down to city council, co

>> so the guys at microsoft secured resource center way on that heavily. so understanding if there's a vulnerability in the osi and components has been actively exploited, we weigh that. there's a lot of people dedicated to manila dedicated to manila soon as we issued a patch, a whole bunch of people say okay, what did they change. here is the dll and they changed these bits. they quickly look up a vulnerability was patched. so that is something that does go into the equation. so at the international task force meeting in virginia in 2008 when we announce the patch, i still remember the number, we said hey guys, let's start looking at this and we had the advantage of having security researchers from 45 countries in the ground. so we actually covered up the last session and spent about an hour and a half with everybody and that folks from the msr see in the room with us give it implosive bower and exploit code me started shifting it around, but we knew it was definitely a vulnerability and we need to get the patch out there and there were people there and p

microsoft learning as we go and there's the other element of cybercrime. criminals go where are where the money is. >> just a comment to mark. some of us who have been involved in other networks since then 19 -- 1980's have been squared guy con fixer and how to attack them without killing the network. another question. do you think the worm creation might have been funded by a terrorist group like al qaeda? >> no. and i think because we have never seen that level of sophistication from a terrorist organization, and also the way that it's been used, there's nothing to stop the authors of the conficker botnet from launching a massive cyberattack. on april 1, 2009, than they don't want to take down the internet. they want to use the internet to make money. so if it was terrorist organization we would probably know by now. >> if it was terrorist organization, probably be a little quieter. it comes back to how noisy the threat is. >> this is to t.j. what is microsoft doing to prevent worm/virus in the first place? os improvements? like unex? >> weren't the firs

but microsoft slow and steady wins the race. >> and it's a bond alternative. i mean, honestly, when you look at it now and look at ten pe. and you've got $50 billion in cash and by the way they've got the windows 8 coming out. there are catalysts that could push microsoft. the margins will get a lot better. every margin will go to the bottom line. that's why i think this goes higher. i've owned it since april. i'll continue to own it and sell upside calls. >> we want to continue with the facebook story. let's bring in a shareholder. cofounder of technology funds. facebook represents about 5% of the portfolio. kevin, great to have you with us. >> thanks. good to be with you. >> would you take an allocation at this point if given the opportunity? >> we are hoping to increase your position, that's right. and there's good reason it's the first position in our portfolio. we want to make it languager still. >> in terms of valuation, in terms of what the metrics are we know according to the s1. there are companies out there that may share metrics like an apple that h

cisco doesn't oppose the deal but it wants european regulators to force conditions on microsoft. it thinks skype users should to be able to connect with other web conferencing services like cisco's own web-ex system. cisco likens it to having a cell phone on one service and not being able to call users of a different service. >> susie: in the movie >> susie: in the movie "flashdance," jennifer beals' character wielded a blow torch during the day and danced at night. but what seemed like a novelty in that 1983 film could become more of the norm today. skilled welders are in high demand and that's attracting more women to the trade. diane eastabrook takes us to a program in chicago that is arming women with the skills to complete in what has been a field for men only. >> it's going to be $9.20. >> reporter: on tuesday and thursday nights, jasmine lopez works the cash register and makes sandwiches at a subway restaurant on chicago's south side. but on monday and wednesday nights, she lets the sparks fly. the 21-year-old is in training to become a welder. >> my grandfather was a weld

he's now working at microsoft in the heart of silicon valley. me start off by showing you a couple of things on our big board that happened today. first of all there were a couple of--there is a big poll out of michigan today. this poll is only a couple of hours old. it has santorum up 37% to romney's 34%. interestingly enough there is a synthesis of before that poll all of the polls between romney--and i just pulled out romney and santorum because i think that's most interesting you see this dramatic rise of santorum. this is just a few days ago. notice how much he has dipped, and this gap has narrowed. the question really is do you think romney has stopped the--has righted his ship, essentially n michigan? >> not yet. i think what you're seeing is momentum in general in the santorum campaign. romney has an organization. a national organization, state after state delivering. delivering. you see with santorum a pull finally for excitement in the g.o.p. base that is conservative, that's focused on conservative values, that's focusing on social is

microsoft is investigating what changes need to be made.ommented but says it removed the code tracking people on safari. >>> state sponsored program generating controversy and debate. california is delivering free condoms to teenagers in -- orders taken on lane. lilian kim has more. >> reporter: teens can buy condoms at the store or get them for free at certain clinics. now they have another option. 12 to 19-year-olds can go online at teensource.org and place an order to come to their home at no cost. >> research shows that barriers such as embarrassment or concerns around confidentiality or affordability are present for teens. we want to be able to break down those barriers. >> reporter: the teen pregnancy rate is down in california the number of cases of std's is up among 15 to 19-year-olds which is with why the mail order condom program is targeting the counties with the highest rate of stds. only teens in san francisco, alameda, sacramento are able to place an online or. >> the best way to prevent stds and unintended pregnancy is abstin

but our decision to go to microsoft cloud solution was based on several factors. one of which being availability, reliability, and performance of microsoft, the availability to have the actual e-mail application hosted in the cloud, took that burden off of our staffing resources. we have limited resources in the city to manage our user base. the yearly staffing costs and staffing time and resources in managing the e-mail application on side and on premise -- on- site and on premise, and our staffing provisions due to city budget cuts and deficits and reductions in force each year, we were less able to maintain the quality of service from an e-mail support perspective. so we did not want to impinge or degrade the level of e-mail service or the quality of service we were providing the city and county, so we had to look for a solution that would allow us to maintain a quality of service, maintain the availability and reliability of e-mail in the city and county, and also to get us all on one single solution for the city and county. prior to our decision to move to th

according to bloomberg, apple is now worth more than google and microsoft combined. we have a new survey that says president of alexandria are not as romantic as those in knoxville, tenn.. google has plans for the home entertainment business. those coming up in the next hour. that is business news like that headquarters. >> thank you. it is 33 degrees. >> still to come, new developments in the child sex abuse scandal at penn state. what jerry sandusky is requesting for a judge him why they are asking for the opposite. >> another check of traffic and weather every 10 minutes. things are moving smoothly. [ female announcer ] with swiffer wetjet, cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna... drink this... on the porch! ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] mops can be a hassle but swiffer wetjet's spray cleaner and absorbent pads can clean better in half the time so you don't miss a thing. hi mary! morning! gladys. gladys! [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. >> friday morning. we are h

it's funded by microsoft g.m. the koch brothers, some major players.engaged in this curriculum to engender climate skepticism and sell it and market it to kids is somebody who is a coal industry lobbyist, and now is being paid by the department of energy as a consultant, and he's using that reputation to get the authority and the credibility in an effort--basically prop propagandize to kids. >> why would the department of energy hire this guy? >> i think that's a great question. i think that this new revelation will cause the department of energy to reevaluate that relationship. i mean, he was getting paid $100,000 to put together a curriculum to sell to kids. it shows the incentive. if you're getting paid $100,000 by big energy polluters there is going to be a doubt on climate change. that's what we have to fight. >> in addition--so these documents that you guys got shows that they were going to develop a curriculum for kids. what were the other surprising facts revealed in these confidential internal documents? >> one of the things that the heartland

i even looked at microsoft, intel or across the board. if you're looking at hewlett-packard it's been an absolute value trap. i think meg whitman is starting to get this turned the right way. she talked about spending. >> what makes you believe that? >> because she talked about r&d. they've just sat back and started to become this acquisition company without going out and actually spending on what they've acquired and actually producing what they needed to produce more. now she is talking about products. she is talking about r&d spent and i think that combination is 12 months out. >> talking about it and actually turning things around in your words are two different things. you could make the argument she is no closer to actually turning things around today than she was the day she sat in the chair. >> she has the strategy and i think they're going to implement that strategy. she talked about by the end of 2012 that is when you should start to expect to see something. >> take a look at the dow here holding near session highs. flirting wit

microsoft unveils a test version of its windows 8 operating system tomorrow.windows 8 is operate ti mized for touch computing. it will run on tablets as well as desktops and laptops. it could propel the president to microsoft ceo position when steve balmer eventually steps down. balmer has had that position since 1999. maria? >> let's stay on tech, because silver lake is the largest technology focus private equity firm known for its big payoffs. like skype in 2009, which of course later the firm sold to microsoft last year for more than $8 billion, which landed the firm a three-fold profit. joining me in a cnbc exclusive is silver lake co-founder glenn hutchins. great to see you again. >> hello, maria. i love your new set. >> it's high-tech. >> it's as elegant and cutting edge as you are. >> thank you very much. what's going on in the world. i want to get your interest and ideas in technology. how do you see the world in terms of the markets being up as much as they are in 2012 relative to the fundamentals of the economy? >> i'm really concerned about that. i

.  >>> welcome back 9:30 a.m., microsoft is pointing fingers at google the new blog post comes days after the wall street journal reported google was doing largely the same thing on apples safari web browser joining thus morning to discuss the latest neil spring associate professor computer science university of maryland and affiliate of maryland cyber security center you handle you deal with these types of issue s with the cyber security center. >> all the time. >> first we had google bypassing security settings on apples safari web server now microsoft says they are doing something similar although it is different. >> a different technique when google was trying to figure out how to enable one of their features on safari they were using a pretty elaborate trick to get past their blocking third party cookies what google and facebook and others have done with microsoft's internet explore roar said we are not going to play your protocol we don't thing that is aproly crate any more and they include a message -- appropriate any more and they include a message that says we don't re

your microsoft internet explorer. google, which says apple's claims misrepresented what it was actually doing, did not immediately comment on the latest charge from microsoft. there is comment from google's youtube division today about its future. the platform says it will spend money to hire top talent to create original programming as long as as many as 96 new original youtube channels. >>> you'll probably notice during the long weekend, gas prices spiking. a rise in oil prices is to blame. tensions with iran sending the price sharply higher, even over the next few days. but even gas prices won't stop people from recruiting the old fashioned way, getting behind the wheel and cruising for new employees. it's not the most modern recruiting tool, but it's persistent and it's working. the zscaler, a computer company, is trying to lure people away from bluecoat systems, another security company. bluecoat had a round of layoffs recently. zscaler, a much smaller company, is driving a van around the neighborhood chatting up

it's bigger than microsoft and google combined. the excitement is about a potential for a dividend announcement. heck. there's your dividend. you just got $50 billion fop me at these levels and there's a lot of excitement and whatever. i think it sets up for a potential disappointment that you head into this meeting. if you don't get that dividend announcement. >> let's go downstream a bit. i hope you did your valentine's shopping for me already. >> i'm done. yeah. >> i was done a long time ago. >> that means she didn't even start. excellent job. broadcom is a name we've talked about on the show. up for october. then had a drop into january. treaded down to 27.5. then here we come right back up against. post earnings, which were good, the stock again trading to 38.5. now you have to ask, has broadcom come too far too fast given this double top? again, the downstream names have worked, but you have to be concerned that broadcom seems to have trouble here. maybe it's time to take money off the table. >> other names when you look down