pin. >> exactly. >> to make a pinterest friendly page, what you can do, you go straight to theç pinterestnd you can download a pin it button and put it on your website. what you can get, eye balls on the page, they're going to click pin it and it will go directly to their pinterest page. you don't have to do anything other than putting the pin there. it's driving eye balls to your site. >> that's so easy. >> right. >> you have access to get your stuff all over pinterest. if you're going to pin something, create something that you hope will become viral on pinterest and will draw people back to your site, what's something you can do? >> there's a couple things you can do. one is to take a -- you can make a coupon. put a coupon on your site. $10 off of a dress. they can come in, print it, show it and show it on their smart phone. incentivize a pin. again, like you said, you want this to become viral and interact with your pins. you can do repin to win type of promoti promotion. we've seen a jean manufacturer, you ask them to repin a photo and you win a pair of jeans. it's a standard giveawa

. >>> in the fast-moving world of social networking, there is a new place to be, pinterest has become the third biggest site behind facebook and twitter and the fastest growing right now, and seemingly out of nowhere. our report tonight from kristen dahlgren. >> jenny jackson could be a poster child for pinterest. >> pinterest became an obsession. >> the 28-year-old hairstylist and photographer uses beuse s pin board for everything from recipes to decorating ideas. >> i think a good way to describe it is it's folders of things you collect and do and want to do, inspirations. >> she was recently inspired to form a group with other fanatics to try out their pinned projects. >> that looks great. i'm going to take a picture. pinned. >> the growth has been phenomenal. from 3.3 million users to almost 19 million in just six months. making it one of the fastest growing internet companies ever. >> with millions of visitors and all of those images, you might expect pinterest to have a huge high-tech headquarters. you would be wrong. this is it, a small, quiet room in palo alto with about 30 em

what is pinterest. >> well, you're interested in pinning. pinning is putting pictures up on a virtual photo board. it's a new social media web site and you pin the pictures you like and they could be food. >> so it's popular. >> very popular. 17.8 million users, look at the graphic here. most of them, margaret, are female. more than 90%. i saw one statistic say it was 97%. >> that explains why i don't quite get it. (laughter) >> warner: just now or all the time. >> it's been around about three years but look at the growth rate, 52%. >> and that was in february alone. >> warner: explain how this works. >> well anne romney has a picture of mitt with the grandchildren, there are lots of other pictures of him very casual to get rid of the stiff image that he's had. >> reading to grandchildren and the kind of behind-the-scenes family photos easy for those of us in the news business to dismiss as hokey but i think does serve to show us a different side of mitt romney and who better to provide that than his life. >> and another board she has, recip

it's called pinterest.ere's how the site could translate into a huge moneymaker. >> reporter: jenny jackson could be a poster child for pinterest. >> pinterest became an obsession. >> reporter: the hair stylest and photographer uses it from everything from recipes to decorating ideas. >> describe it as folders of things you collect and want to do. >> reporter: she was inspired to join a group to try out other pinned products. >> pinned. >> reporter: the growth has been phenomenal. from 3.3 million users to almost 19 million in just six months making it one of the fastest growing internet companies ever. with millions of visitors and all of those images, you might expect pinterest to have a huge high-tech headquarters. you'd be wrong. this is it. with about 30 employees. >> as a kid i was really into nature and science. >> reporter: cofounder ben silberman had the idea to take it online. it paid off. the company could be worth over $7 billion. >> pinterest has the limit and the buyers and the money. and they

pinterest is becoming more and more popular.ite lets you save random pictures of stuff you find online and share it with your friends. christen dahlgren shows us how it's also becoming a big moneymaker. >> reporter: debbie jackson could be a poster child for pinterest. >> pinterest became an obsession. >> reporter: the hair stylist and photographer using the sleek pin board for everything from recipes to decorating ideas. >> a good way to describe it is it's folders of things you collect and do and want to do. inspirations. >> reporter: she was recently inspired to form a group with other fanatics to try out their pinned progts. >> i'm going to take a picture. pinned. >> reporter: the growth has been phenomenal. from 3.3 million users to almost 19 million in just six months. making it one of the fastest growing internet companies ever. with millions of visitors and all of those aim js with you might expect pinterest to have a huge high-tech headquarters. you'd be wrong. this is it in palo al toe with about 30 employees. >> as a

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this is so nice. >> you got me started on pinterest yesterday.or those at home who are not familiar with it, how does it work. >> you're sharing your life through images, are posting images of things you love. i'll pull-up my account and show you all you need to do to add a pin, and pins are photos, or you can add it from the web, from the computer or right from your cell phone. so you have your own bulletin board. >> favorite places, i'm a vegan, so i like this cafe, maybe other people would like this cafe. >> here it is. nothing quite yet. >> we could do something here behind the scenes, but i did put a picture of my cat up. you just post whatever you like. but why sign up? there's facebook, there's twitter, there's all these other things. >> because facebook is a community, they have photos, they have texts. >> his name is browser. >> a techie cat, i like this. good thing you don't have a firefox running around on your browser. that's a techie joke for those of you who didn't follow. >> twitter is about text. you can send images, you can send

what's the interest behind pinterest. users can pin. it edged out linkedin, google plus. it's the pin board. that's where people pin photos of products they like to buy. they include home decor and food. pinterest is showing no signs of slowing down. >>> a local nonprofit making a big difference in the lives of some of the areas children. coming up, how they're making some wishes come true. >>> and doing your taxes can be tough and expensive. a look at some of the resources that you could be taking advantage of. >>> she could bearly stand. she's practicing her moves for the next round of "dancing with the stars." Ñ[= >>> how many times have we said it "i wish." one nonprofit makes wishes come true. it's changing lives. >> a sniper and a launcher to create this guy because -- >> reporter: it won't take long to realize this kid has a rich imagination. you can see it on paper and by listening to the stories as well. much of that creativity is inspired by video games, something this 14-year-old is passionate about. help spends time -- he spends time working on it. >> monsters

. >>> you've heard of facebook and twitter by now, but notice there is pinterest.works like a virtual pinboard where users post images from everything for wedding planning to travel to do it yourself projects. tech experts say it could be collecting valuable information on buying habits which could translate into big dollars for the company down the line. here ace kristen dahlgren with our report. >> reporter: jenny jackson could be a poster child for pinterest. >> it became an object section. >> the hairstylist and photographer using it sleek pinboard for everything. >> think a way to describe it is it's a holder of things you collect, want to do. >> she was recently inspired to hold a group to try out the projects. >> that was great. i'm going to take a picture. >> the growth has phenomenal. to almost 19 million users in just six months, making it one of the fastest-growing internet companies every. with millions of visitors and all of those images, you might expect a huge high-tech headquarters. you would be wrong. this is it, a small quiet room in palo alto wit

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the question -- pinterest. the question is this the flavor of the month? do people want to join and continue to use it every day like twitter and facebook. >> are you on it? >> i'm on it. >> does it reinvent itself like facebook? facebook continues to evolve. >> let me state my interest in it this way because i don't want to offend the pinterest people. i haven't set up my wall because i don't even care and people are following me and i don't even have anything to follow. so i kind of don't get what's going on. >> interesting. >> thanks, jess. >> honest perspective. >>> virginia, it has the most personalized plates in the country but recently took one man's plates back. damon hamm got plates reading fosama. recently the dmv realized it probably stood for another word. it recalled the plates. it issued him new ones with 6668up. hamm says to him it means the devil ate him up so he's fighting to get his fosama plates back. >> took them seven years to figure out what's what the plates said in. >> they had other things to do. we have the computer breakdown at o

experts say the move could be to stay ahead of one of facebook's competitors, that being pinterest, i'mure that news will have an effect on the stock market and let's get a check of them this morning and for that we turn to jackie deangelis, good morning, jackie. >> good morning, john. the futures are a little lower after stocks sold off on monday. investors were reacting to friday's disappointing jobs report using it to pull money off the table. it was the worst day in more than a month. the asian markets were lower overnight and european markets were which off for easter monday were in the red. this morning we'll get data on trade and earnings season kicks off tonight with alcoa reporting after the bell. the dow dropped to 12,029 and the nasdaq was at 347. >>> and homeowners getting a better accounting of their monthly payment. the new regulations would require that lenders give people a standardized statement and warn them of any changes in interest rates or insurance fees. banks would also have to make a good faith effort to contact borrowers who were at risk of foreclosure and give

sephora also using social media, 400,000 twitter followers, 3 million fans on facebook, and it's got a pinterest and they communicate to their friends with those devices. >> i could learn some new makeup tips. >> just for the record, i use the sephora hd powder. >> so do i. maybe we should try something else. >>> let's bring in rob mayeda, our meteorologist. rob, the man of the hour here. what's happening and when is this all going to happen? >> what's interesting about the storm we've been seeing today, it's really moving 10 to 15 miles per hour across the bay area. almost like a bike ride that this particular storm is taking from san francisco to the east bay right now. around the golden gate bridge, you've got a drizzle storm out there. if you look closely, the windshield wipers are running. the rain falling, not really enough to wet the road. different story in the east bay. it is a mess. you can see rooster tails coming off the backs of those cars there. we've got ponding on the road around the 84 turnoff as you get over to livermore. some really heavy rain coming down right now. temperatur

then if you look at pinterest. photo, photo, photo. facebook's volume has a lot to do with photos.e are like a billion dollars for a site around for 500 days that makes no money? fine look at it that way or facebook takes a market cap and look at what has gone to 50 million users. and they take out the only competitor that actually has a shot of hurting them. >> so has zuckerberg done this because he sees this as a tool for facebook or to crush an opponent? >> i think much more number two than number one. if you look at twitter today, they said don't ruin instagram. they're not going to ruin it. this is like when google bought youtube. everybody snickered at the play. >> ken, you wrote the book about google. are we getting a slight sense of another dot-com boom here? >> boom or bubble. >> could it be a boom to a bubble burst? >> we saw that in 2000. and when you look at a company bought for a billion dollars that has no revenue, that's a free service. you have to step back and say whoa, wait a second. what's that about? i understand it's a defensive move. may be a brilliant move fo

others like pinterest and fantasy shoppers, it's literally like fantasy football, right? on and pick shoes and pick up an outfit virtually on harrod's, and propagate, this is what i like to do, this is what i would like to buy. think about it, that purchasing intent is already there. that's tapping into that $7 trillion market of commerce, not just advertising. >> i have a feeling we'll hear a lot more about that name in the years to come. >> you sure will. >> you'll come back. >> any time you want. >> great having you. >> thank you so much. >> when we come back today, bed bath & ber beyond outperform the broader markets today spiking in today's action making it the best performer on the s&p. we'll see if this retailer can keep delivering returns beyond expectations when we come back in two minutes. >>> bed bath & beyond bringing home the goods in its earnings report posting a 0% climb in its fourth-quarter profit. they beat earnings per share, revenue and same-store sales expectations. and as you can see, shares up 8.5%, the single best performer on the s&p today. chris

and like pinterest, that is one of the biggest things to use. >> and that is probably like 20 peopleike who cares. >> and good to see you again. >> and the show is starting at? >> 530 tool, and we're doing idol chat and that starts atry- - at 8. >> that is a wrap for today's hot topics, look at my choice and that -- voice. what is coming up for the news edge at 6. >>> every single sports program at howard university on hold tonight. the school suspends the athletic teams during an investigating. at 6, the students tell us what they think went wrong. >>> and why the at-large race could take weeks to clear up. >> and the big question in maryland where is the megamillions ticket? an employee claims she hid it in the store coming up. [ male announcer ] at green giant we know nature gives us the most nutritious of gifts. but only when they are ready to be given. that's why green giant picks vegetables at their peak. ...and freezes them fast, locking in nutrients ...for you to unwrap. ♪ ho, ho, ho. green giant this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? y

it doesn't hurt to have 3 million facebook fans, 400,000 twitter followers and a big pinterest following>> and i use sephora as well. thank you, scott. >>> buy, build and be american. that message sent by union leaders. during a news conference they urged b.a.r.t. to stick to its commitment to buy american. the b.a.r.t. board will make a decision on a multibillion dollar contract for a new fleet of train cars. the congressman says during c construction of the bay bridge a few years ago, cal trains -- he doesn't want history to repeat itself. >> i think it's our tax money. are we going to send to china or spend our tax money here in the united states? we're going to spend the united states with american workers and american jobs. >> but recently announced bombardier is the top scorer in the bid to build the cars but the can aid kwan-based company still has hurdles to clear. >>> butt out. joining more than 100 u.s. cities in extending smoking bans to outdoor dining areas and other places people gather. the city council's vote was unanimous. the law already banned smoking within 25 feet of

might be looking at is some of the hot companies out there that have big social footprints like pinterest or the cloud storage business chrks is very big right now. and microsoft has some efforts there. they could be looking at drop box or box, why not? >> rafe, thank you very much. sue. >> watch shares of monster beverage. they're soaring right now. a new 52-week high on reports that coca-cola is in talks to buy the energy drink maker. right now they're up better than 13%. darren rovell has been covering monster since before most people even heard of it. and he's live back at hq. hi, darren. >> sue, i want to show you how big energy drinks are and why coca-cola wants to buy monster potentially. let's look at the energy drink market overall. you see that 17% versus the rest sports drinks up almost 8%, then you see beer and bottled water. then take a look at the energy drink by dollar sales according to symphony iri in the past year, red bull, private, obviously. monster, rockstar and nos, coke brand, full throttle, burn, coca-cola and pepsi as well. they have not been able to crack throug

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. >> one i'm watching is tumbler and another is pinterest. now let's check in with scott wapner and see which stock is on his radar. scott. >> hey, julia. thanks so much. with financials leading the way im looking at bb&t. notes from the goldman commentary today. they say it's creating value in multiple ways. loan growth should grow above expectations. and finally one of the highlights is that it says it's positioned to add value by a creed of acquisitions. take a look at your chart here and up about 3% or so on an interesting day for the financials, guys, ahead of some pretty big earnings, tyler, tomorrow as well for this group. >> all right. scott, thank you very much. up next, brian is going to update the market action for you. we're going to go live to nymex for the closing metals prices. plus, don't look now, but shares of google are, yes, down for the year. it's been one year since larry page took over, little more than that. and the company reports earnings tomorrow. what should you expect and what is your best trade now on google? top

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pinterest, it's growing every day. my next guess is they go after pinterest at some point.facebook wants to be dominant. >> you said something that caught my attention, that facebook was scared. why should a company that's going to go public with $100 billion cap valuation be scared? >> you just made the point. >> as you were saying that, i was thinking that. >> is it that they themselves believe that the market is giving them a value -- this is a pinnacle valuation at the time -- that they need to be concerned. you mentioned something to me off camera that the venture capitalist who invested in this company a week ago had a certain mindset at the time. in fact, some of your reporting alluded to the fact that they've turned down facebook in the past. what has changed in eight days? >> well, it was probably less than eight days, by the way. it was literally probably, over the course of -- we reported this in our story, it was literally over the course of the weekend. >> what happenedover t over the weekend. >> mark zuckerberg made him an offer he couldn't refuse. he promised

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they'll probably do more small acquisitionas has been their history but i could see them go after pinterestit gert sold or go public? >> i think twitter has to get sold. they've really not developed a consistent business strategy. >> right. >> i mean if you look at what you see on cnbc, right, twitter handles everywhere, it has become such a part of our lives but they've not really sort of turned that into hard cash. and so at a certain point i see the investors getting frustrated and saying we can get a three, four, five, six, $7 billion valuation for twitter. let's sell it to a dumb buyer and that would be say microsoft or even yahoo. >> yeah. finally, guys, what do you make -- we've been tossing around the bing theory for a while here that facebook incorporates bing, makes search something you never have to leave facebook for. a huge dent into google's market share. paul, likely or not? >> likely? i think it would be brilliant. if they could take all the data on facebook and make your search that much better google would be terrified. it would keep you, make them -- facebook that much mo

>> also, ahead, david is lowering speculation that his company will make a bid for pinterest, callingaordinary in helping google. >> on to the banks, the consumer protection bureau is investigating nine leading banks over their overdraft protection programs and the justification for the size of their charges. jpmorgan, wells fargo, and bank of america is being looked at. >>> the first presidential elections for france are on sunday. to tilt away from austerity and more efforts on growth. this is going to be talking about a cliff hanger all around the world. people are going to be paying attention to paris. >> it's a potential huge negative and potentially you could buy and they have fallen very severely over the last month and they think could be outperformed by 17% moving forward. >> if sarkozy wins -- >> just generally, they've looked at the banks and the rest of the market and they believe it's a golden opportunity. >> but if france has a new leader -- >> yep. >> -- presumably he is going to win, what is that going to do? we think of merkel and sarkozy. >> the first issue is what i

the one they could look to buy is pinterest which would integrate well into google plus. >> doesn't iteve that there is some sort of technological silver bullet that can transform them in a social networking age? for example, i read in contrast that they can activating in the region of 850 android mobile devices every day for which they're getting no credit virtually at all. >> i don't think they believe that's a silver bullet. some of these acquisitions are largely defensive as the entsb r internet virn environment is rapidly evolving. the bigger companies need to keep up and google has done a lot of smaller deals to bring in new technologies to keep them competitive to try to keep them at the forefront. and yet obviously facebook maybe is at the forefront now. so a lot of this stuff is defensive. >> let's get back to the quarter. for whatever reason, a lot of investors like to play it even in the after market, you look at the press release, try to figure some things out. larry page will say something on the call that completely reverses your direction. what will you be looking at in

that's what's working now if you look at sites like pinterest and tumbler and facebook and instagram. feedback they get from family, friends, other people. >> hey, brett, last question. jay-z is one of your investors. how did that happen? >> we've been approached by quite a few people in the entertainment industry. we see this as the intersection of technology and interim. on the one hand we have the co-founder of twitter as an investor and on the other hand rock nation, will smith's company. it allows big artists like lincoln park, bill cosby to engage with their fans in a new way, instead of 140 characters and a picture we're bringing pictures to life so artists and celebrities can intimately connect with fans through our community via facebook and twitter. >> brett, very cool stuff. we hope to see -- if you sell your company for a billion or more to facebook please tell us first and come on. >> really appreciate it. thank you. >> good luck. >>> coming up in the next half hour of the show, more of our disruptors series. young minds behind second mark buzzfeed and business insider jo