believe it or not, my husband and i went on the hunt for a new blackberry. i know.re only people out there. his stopped working. the a wouldn't work any longer. you know how many words use an a? let me tell you, it is a lot. a lot. no one had any in stock. we called people. in manhattan you can't get a blackberry. the ceo says we're glad we're having inventory issues. it shows people want the phone. no. it doesn't. you have a blackberry. they go what? oh, no. you want what? are you kidding? do you really want that? we're supposed to get a passport. we don't know when. do you have anything else, something old? do you have anything with an a, anything with an a blackberry makes? no haven't seen a blackberry forever. this is their retailer! whatever blackberry is saying about their sales figures right now i am telling you they are not selling any blackberries right now because no one has any. who wants to respond to that? simon, go ahead. >> sorry, they are spoofing. melissa: i guess. >> like asking for, i don't know, can i have a landline phone with a dial thing that

we have a quick news alert. blackberry soon town veil the new blackberry classic. looks just like the classic blackberry. and a lot more during our exclusive interview with john chen in a few minutes. >> stay tuned for that. meanwhile our next topic. shares of alibaba in the green today. as a host of firms have started initiating kovre ining coverage e-commerce giant. all rating the company a buy this morning. shares up more than 45 percent from ipo price in september. 97.66 down 2% interday despite the ratings. when you think about alibaba, we are about a week away for earnings for its most recent quarter. growth is undeniable. but do you think it's overvalued here? >> i don't. because they are playing in such massive markets. consumer e-commerce in china, b2b. >> i call this the cook effect. he can't wait to get in bed with these guys. he wants to do business. and apple is in a great place. but we know china is a super important market for apple. whatever they do together is going to be big. >> isn't there a problem that everybody seems to love alibaba. it's gone

our new blackberry, the old blackberry. i thought i was last blackberry user. i'm glad kim is there with me. >>> haters to the left, mcdonald's is getting ready to drop its gs and hang with cool kids. they have a new slogan, lovin' beats hatin. >> can't wait for jingle. this is kind of a conversation -- >> problem is not the advertising. the problem is the food and prices. they need to make better food and charge higher prices. wouldn't hurt by the way to pay workers more. i know you hate that idea. melissa: this is butt of every joke. now they're trying to say lovin' beats haters will hate. cool or tragic? charlie, you're so quiet. >> this is almost as absurd as like kim kardashian giving anybody any advice on their -- just thought it was funny. get back to the kim kardashian thing, seeing carol swisher, kara swisher is -- melissa: derail the program and move it back to totally different topic. >> respected journalist rolling her eyes. melissa: i'm going to interview kim kardashian. >> that is insane. kara is a friend of mine. >> kim kardashian is genius. got t

meanwhile, the new blackberry keeps driving by your house to see if you're home. [ laughter ] so sad. [ applause ] so sad. and the iphone can never drive by your house -- because of apple maps. [ laughter ] it would never have any idea -- where you live. it wouldn't know. i was surprised to hear this. on friday toronto mayor rob ford announced he's no longer -- he's no longer seeking re-election. [ audience aws ] he's still seeking some other things, though, if you've got any. if you've got any. and get this. rob ford's brother doug ford has announced that he will be running. he's going to be running in his brother's place. and i don't think it's a good sign that, in the ford family, doug is known as the crazy one. [ laughter ] this is odd. al qaeda's issued an online message denying allegations that their organization is in decline. although, i don't think it helped that they posted it on myspace. [ laughter ] although, i will be -- i'm surprised to say we do -- al qaeda and i like some of the same bands. just goes to show you -- we're so different and then, you know, there are a cou

news for the smartphone makers. blackberrydemand has expanded -- exceeded expectations. the passport was the first major new device sense chen took over at blackberry. they did not order to many of the phones. >> a big quarter for morgan stanley. they beat analysts estimates. morgan stanley was the last of the big thanks to show results. this helped bolster their trading results. goldman sachs cut the amount of money it set aside but the stocks fell anyway. we will analyze the weeks and. -- end it. went to the earnings from this week tell us about the ste of the economy? >> i think we saw that the third quarter, things were moving in the right direction. he hoped to the business life of the companies of that i cover are all tied to economic growth. the third quarter is seasonally a slow. . it came above expectations. things were good. we saw some volatility can go a long way. in the have seen so far past couple of weeks has been more extreme follow tillie. that is where some of the expectations are being put into question. >>

. >>> blackberry wants to compete with a popular service, snap chat. a newersion of the app allowing you to unsend text messages or set a certain time when they disappear. the features are free the first three months and only available for customers with a bbm subscription. >>> serving his country for 13 years, a south jersey shoulder came home today for good. sergeant first class christopher bane arrived in summerdale. spending tours of duty in afghanistan, columbia and chile. and his wife jennifer and daughter, laura, are thrilled to have the fami >> time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. cecily tynan showing off some of the pumpkins that i carved. >> right, not. >> your pumpkins don't look anything like that. >> they are wilted. >> yeah, mine don't look like this either. these are carved by the "action news" editor, bob, every year. looking really nice and the weather not looking bad. a chill in the air but dry. 52 degrees in philadelphia. allentown 51. trenton 50. millville 52. sea isle city currently 55 degrees. not only is it halloween, i

jon fortt this blackberry merger speculation is something that's not new and circulating around for a while. something to take with a bit of a grain of salt. over to you. >> absolutely. lenovo has been buying up tech. we will esee what happens with that. back to my interview with satya nadella, he talked not just about his comments on women, but on the cloud and also about how he sees the global economy shaking up. take as listen. >> the economy, the markets, are going through a period of great volatility. how do you feel about the whole global economic picture and how that affects your plans going forward? >> i mean it's actually very interesting. when i look at where -- how we're doing at least currently, we seem to do be doing pretty well in some of the developed markets including the united states. our, you know, we have our quarterly results next week and we'll talk more about it but i feel good about what i'm seeing in the traditional markets where we've been strong. i would say the emerging markets have been a little more challenging for us and that's a place where we're also t

i i will give you a few specifics, if you would have opened the "new york times" would you have found a recipe for blackberry brandy for soldiers. i wanted to try to make it before i came so i could tell you how it was, but i didn't have time. could you have read about a baseball match between the athletics and brooklyn resolute. i'm a fill dell feeian. if any of you know, i would never see a score like that from my hometown boys. could you have read excerpts from college speeches. if you turned to the police blotter you would have read about the arrest of an irish immigrant named tom keen tp his poe offense was having two wives. if you turn to the harold, could you have gone to a concert at 4:30 at central park weather mer permitting, it said. you could have seen a list of musicals and plays going on on broadway. if music and theater isn't your thing, you could have gone to barnham's museum. which is promoting two giants and two dwarfs for your viewing pleasure. if you wanted to see the police log in the harold you would have read about a massive jewelry heist that took place not too far from here. if you t

if you opened up "new york times," you would have found a recipe for blackberry brandy for soldiers. and i wanted to try to make it before i came so i could tell you how it was, but i didn't have time. you could have read about a baseball match between the philadelphia athletics and the brooklyn resolute. the philadelphia team won 29-12. i'm a philadelphiian, and if any of you follow baseball, you know that i will never see a score like that in the near future from my hometown boys. you could have heard excerpts from college graduations fromaround new york and new england. and you would have read about the arrest of an irish immigrant named john keane. his offense was having two wives and his trial was set for september. if you turn to the pages of the new york herald, you could have come across a list of things to do on the evening of july 30th, 1864, you could have gone to a concert at 4:30 at central park, weather permitting, you could have seen a list of all the musicals and plays going on on broadway. if music and theater is not your thing, you could have gone to ba barnam's mus

to the results, apple which just release ad new line is by far the most popular on comment hill with 71% of lawmaker preferring to use the iphone. blackberryas a din second with 28% and 9% uses android. that number, 71% might not be a good omen for apple. however, since congress's approval ratings are at an all time low. >>> up next, big events around the world are affecting the mood of the voters. with less than a month before election day. you're watching "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." the headlines this election season are grim to say the least. isis rampaging with more and more towns beheading people as they dig their own graves. fears of ebola spreading in this country. there was the sad fact that thomas eric duncan, the ebola patient in dallas, died today. how is this affecting the mindset of the electorate? for that we are joined by the round table mother jones. gene cummings and clarence page, the pulitzer prize winning columnist and author of the great book, culture worier. >> some pal of his. you know, it is hard to get this. i got so mad today. i'll be madder when i think about it only the. that guy with the pistol

california on monday, kim kardashian said that blackberry devices are her heart and soul, while her butt is an iphone 6-plus. [ laughter and applause ] there's a new out. we get very excited about new studies here at "late night." there's a new study out. a new study found that heavy alcohol use in adolescents can cause lasting brain damage. i'm not sure i buy that. i drank a lot in college and turn how i looked out. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] wednesday, a florida man broke the record for biggest and most expensive starbucks drink by ordering 101-shot latte that cost him $83.75. but he doesn't care how expensive it is because he just passed away. [ laughter ] so, what's money to him? [ laughter ] this is amazing. a man in tennessee is recovering after he was struck by a train while huffing gold paint. [ light laughter ] his doctors see no reason why he won't make a full recovery back to the kind of person who huffs paint by the railroad track. [ laughter and applause ] and finally, google announced yesterday they're developing a wearable device that can tell people if they have a disease. it's called an ed hardy shirt. [ laughter ] ladie

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new york. trudy! >> caller: mr. cramer, thank you for your show. >> quite welcome. >> caller: i would like to know if you think blackberry would be a good long-term investment. >> if you want a good long-term investment, let's go with apple. best of breed, average rising price for the phones, pretty good number with the pcs. very inexpensive stock with ipay. let's not outthink these things. let's go to chris in new york. >> caller: hey, worldwide boo-yah! >> nice. i like that. and it's spirited. go ahead. >> caller: mgxg, what's your call? >> i don't know it. i have not heard of that one. hmm. what can i do? sometimes i just don't know them. that's one i do not know. let's go to mark in tennessee, please. mark? >> hi, jim. >> caller: how are you? >> pretty good. >> caller: my stock is vectren. >> very hot utility company. very good. i also like dominion, very similar high-quality utility. be careful, i think that the utilities are a little bit overbought right now. let's go to jill in california. jill? >> cramer! hey, hey, i'm jill. should i buy more pfizer or would my money be better invested in texas instruments? >> i don't want to snub pfizer,

blackberry? lie we get to that later? i have a new kindred spirit it turns out. so yes. $106 all-time high territory trading at close to 750 a share before the 7 for 1 split and it's as you see there having another big day up right now. >> and it's a big day, a big gets here on "closing bell." etna ceo, td amertrade ceo and john huntsman sr. giving away most of his wealth to fight cancer. so much to speak with him about. can't wait for that coming up. >> i love jon huntsman sr., such a charismatic figure. before that, facebook's earnings will be out at the top of the next hour. mark zuckerberg watching that stock rocket higher, nearly 50% this year alone. we will have the earnings, the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and the market reaction and analysis coming up. >> here's the markets. the dow up 130 as bill mentioned. top of the session here. the s&p adding 16 points. it moves back up towards 1980. nasdaq up 65 today. 1.5%. that's raising, bill, eyebrows as people try to figure out what's driving the strength after the high profile misses including twitter

new job with buzzfeed editor in chief. i'm hoping he asks her if she got president obama off his blackberry. spell run amok. this is quite a crowd. i may skip that question, steve. one thing i guess i did want to start on in the news, the white house was in the post today that the wireless network has been breached again. and i guess, maybe wonder, are the technologies here and their contractors, will they ever make products that are as good as gmail? or should they just give up and switch to the stuff getting built out of there? >> actually relates to specter m of the technology teams to our fabulous as -- i am aware the issues going on that attack not only folks can places like the white house but companies where i've worked before, et cetera. so the main thing there is a great team working on this and working through it, and we will see where that goes. >> you think the tradition of having government contractors and government officials building their own e-mail systems is something that makes sense at this point? >> one of the things that is exciting but we think the president and i think it comes somewa