>> do you guys know about the samsung at&t opening act contest? >> no. >> we're from brooklyn. >> brooklyn! >> oh, well, unsigned artists and bands can submit their songs online for a chance to perform on the samsung at&t summer krush tour and have their performance broadcast here on our show. >> jimmy, are any of them from brooklyn? >> i don't know. maybe? >> yea, brooklyn! we're from brooklyn. we're from brooklyn! >> for more information about the summer krush tour and the opening act contest, go to www.samsungsummerkrush.com. >> hey, there's some people in ence from brooklyn. "jimmy kimmel live" back in two minutes with jamie-lynn sigler, music from sean patrick mcgraw and samuel l. jackson. dealer: during the autobahn for all ent, you can get great lease deals. i love it! i just want to know it's the right move. me? 13 days in the future. listen, you get a deal on the car you always wanted. scheduled maintenance is included. it's all good. what's the future ke? you love your new jetta. and the suit...? you like it? nah...i love it! real steame

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you probably know about the samsung at&t opening act contest where unsigned artists of bands submit for a chance to perform on the at&t summer krush tour and have their performance broadcast here on the show? >> are any of those bands from brooklyn? >> i don't know. they might be. >> well f you find out, can you let us know? >> let us know, because we're from brooklyn. >> we're from brooklyn. >> you're from brooklyn? >> for more information about the summer krush tour and the opening act contest go to the website. >> "jimmy kimmel live" back with jamie-lynn sigler, music from sean patrick mcgraw and samuel l. jackson. cchiato, light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos. make one a double. she's fiber focused! i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a lighhot chocolate, hold the whip, and two espressos, one with a double shot. gonna take more than coffee to stay this focused. stay full and focused through the morning... with a breakfast of kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats® cereal; an excellent source of fiber that helps you avoid..

samsung electronics, reports tomorrow. shares of au and its rivals are looking at this at this time. au up 0.4%. samsung down 1.5% and lg display up 0.3%. elsewhere, president obama says it's closely monitoring the standoff between china and australia over the detention of chinalco employees. meanwhile, action and transparency was called for in response to the case. >> it needs to be more open with what the reasons are and, in fact, if charges are to be laid, they should lay them. but, you know, the relationship

samsung last fall. even though its stock was at $13 before news that samsung was considering buying the company out.t went as high as $20 and change while the bid was being considered and then dropped to $10 after it rejected the bid and samsung withdrew its offer. i stuck sandisk ceo eli harari, hard to do, because he's been on the show and i like him. but i put him on the wall of shame that very day, october 22nd, and labeled him a complete destroyer of value. but i gave him a reprieve on june 1 when they cross-licensed with samsung and i because i thought the stock was too cheap at $16. the same price it is right now. so, you haven't missed anything. i think sang disc could report a huge upside surprise. people thought poip was bad. april not good, but june is better. business is very good right now and part because the expectations are too low. there had been a glut of nand flash chips people were talking about price cuts in april. all the players in the industry cut back on production and lowered supply. now with major increase for the demand for the devices that use flash memory, especially, a

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samsung electronics, reports tomorrow. shares of au and its rivals are looking at this at this time. au up 0.4%. samsung down 1.5% and lg display up 0.3%. elsewhere, president obama says it's closely monitoring the standoff between china and australia over the detention of chinalco employees. meanwhile, action and transparency was called for in response to the case. >> it needs to be more open with what the reasons are and, in fact, if charges are to be laid, they should lay them. but, you know, the relationship is robust enough not just because of the interdependentsy, but because we have been working at it for a long time. >> china is australia's largest trading partner. >> christine, here in the u.s., president obama is trying to rally support for health care reform. the president is saying he'd be willing to raise income taxes for wealthy families in order to help pay for the plan. on the state of the financial system, president obama urged congress to pass his proposed regulatory reform. he says it's good some banks are reporting profits again, but says wall street has not changed much of it

at the range of 60 points on the dow below fair value. nasdaq down by 13 points below. we had a pretty good outlook from samsung this morning. the s&p 500 futures are about 8 points below fair value. let's take a look at the ten-year yield. focus will be on treasuries around 10:00 a.m. eastern time. that's about that ism report comes out. 3.52% is where the ten-year yield currently sits. >> european stock markets have been trading to the downside and trading flat from that point. we've got losses of 1.5% for the german and french market. there are no sectors at the moment in positive territory. resources, auto and gas, oils, banks and construction are the biggest losers at the moment. because stock market res weak, so the yen and the dollar is firmer. the yen is firmer against the dollar and the dollar is up against most things. the currency markets are totally driven by what's happening on the equity markets. dollar/yen, 95.29. euro just hitting a session low, 1.39. sterling, 1.61 against the greenback and euro/sterlin euro/sterling, .8631. >>> ross, a lot of investors are covering the state of the global recovery. in terms

believe nokia faces a change in the competitive intensities, both in the low end where samsung is very aggressive at this point in time and clearly in the smart phone race. these are the competitive issues that are underpinning our stance for nokia. >> this is christine. you talked about the competitive land scaping and you brought in samsung. how much of a threat are these south koreanmakers, samsung and lg to nokia? >> samsung has not about the in the entry level space before the middle of last year. you may recall that new profit warningings last year hit the screens on the 5th of september, a weeks plus before the big financial crisis started in north america. and that was down to samsung attacking nokia in the low end. when you have a fairly astonishing 20% market, that is where the biggest disappointments will come in the coming years. >> we have nokia warning that the global hand set market will contract by 10% this year. are you as gloomy? >> what we look at is not the second quarter from sony ericsson or nokia. it's rather what are the earnings capacity of these companies, alcatel-lucent, n

at abc news, good night, america. >>> hi, i'm jimmy kimmel. this is the samsung jack, a brand new crossover device in the tradition of the blackjack and blackjack ii. its qwerty keyboard makes it easy to text your friends about the summer krush concert series, it started last friday with daughtry from seattle and it was broadcast here on our show. >> we were there, jimmy! >> we were there, it was spectacular. >> oh, it's you guys, the father and son, don't tell me -- where aryou from? >> from brooklyn. >> you're following the summer krush series? >> yeah. we're going all around, but none are from brooklyn. samsung opening act contest where the bands submit their songs onlinefor a chance to perform at the summer krush tour and have their performance broadcast on the show? >> are any of the bands from brooklyn? >> i don't know. they might be. well, if you find out, can you let us know. >> yeah, let us know, because we're from brooklyn. >> we're from brooklyn! >> for more information about the summer krush tour and the opening act contest go to www.samsungsummerkrus

at the beginning 2007 to just over 6%his year. rt of the company's problem habeen under investment in research and developme. nokia and samsung arbringing new models io the market quickly, and motorola has d trouble followinup its success with the razr phone, launcd in 2004 one of the bigge challenges here for motorola keeping pace with demand. in china, bile phones are a status symbol and peop change their phonesrequently. clark sa motorola has been late to thmarket with chnology chinese consumers look for >> chinese consumersre keen to be seen to carry the most vanced technology. it's a projection ofho they are. it's a brand. it's very important tohem so if they're seen have sothing with slightly lower features or slightlylder, theye losing face. >> repter: ruey bin kao, chairman of motorola chi electronics,ays motorola will continue i investment in research to comb the company's deining sales. 3,00engineers work at the company'research and development center in beijg, wherphones are tested for sound quity and network liability. kao saysotorola's research will eventually pay off th more products like morola's ming sers. >>

at qualcomm numbers. down 90% on the profit side for the second quarter. >> there are differences out there. there are absolutely black and white. >> samsung reported today in korea, that does not trade over here, it trades in london. but they are the second number semi macher. they are huge. the second largest semiconductor producer in korea was also up, sending you a positive message going forward. i mean, it's not dire straits. >> quickly on this tech discussion here. before we have wrap this up. apple a major event. at what level would you recommend people get in if they have not been in the stock? if they have fresh money and they want to catch apple. at what level? >> apple is clearly running away from everyone right now. what i'm looking for right now is, again, going back to august unemployment, i think going into that you are going to see the market soften. i think it would be prudent for people to take names that have run up so much off the table, heading into august unemployment. august unemployment, though, that may just be your opportunity to jump back into all these and reload. >> that's the biggest point. that's what knocked

at least the weakness is helping to boost a lot of the stock. a big month for corporate earnings. next month we get big names coming up from japan. today hearing from samsung electronics, the world's largest lcd tv maker. a tape of what to expect, those numbers out about half hour ago. the operating loss number coming less than expected, clearly recovery in the chip sector. the big boost on nasdaq. back to you, michelle and dennis. >> green arrows across the board. >> some of those indices are up 30, 40, 50% this year. they're not taking profits, not looking at a retracement. they believe in their economy. >> how do you take some action on all of this? >> to tell us, we've got james officer, managing director of formula capital. buck conrad from kc research, john browne with euro pacific. john lekas and jamie cox, managing partner for harris financial group. james, you're the newcomer, give us a couple of specifics. you think we'll have the nice selloff. some stocks you want to put money into now. >> let's say it lasts a few days. we have another $700 billion in stimulus coming. let's start investing in companies that help the highways or are involved in h

at speed all the way to the beltway. no complications on the beltway near fedex field. the construction is complete. back to greta and alison. >> thank you. >>> samsung is teaming up with blockbuster. >> in tech bytes, microsoft office is going on-line. they are making their software suite available over the internet. the online version will be scaled down but it will be free. microsoft said it will be available in the first half of next year. blockbuster is hoping to gain ground on netflix. they are teaming up with samsung. hd tvs will have a feature that will allow people to rent movies with the push of a button. the maker of popular casual games have another hit on their hands, plants verses zombies. >> it sounds kind of dark, but it is a bright game. you are a gardener who has two plants plants in your yard to prevent zombies from coming into your yard. it mixes just the right level of the challenge and se of use. it becomes challenging. you did not get frustrated. >> you can download the game. using pedal power to overtake a car. this is the e-rocket. the electric bike is powered by peddling and can reach speeds of up to 50 miles an hour. it has

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samsung exclaim. - ( sizzles ) - ( gasps ) - just one of four iming, texting and twittering back-to-school phones you can get from sprint, starting ato the governor who got in trouble by leaving the state to spend time with a woman has chosen as his solution and his penance leaving the state to spend time with a woman. and the senator whose dalliance with an aide left him the victim of a religious quasi-cult thinks the best thing for everybody is if he gets re-elected. two political careers in the hands of the women wronged by the participants. first the luckiest governor in america is taking the rest of the week off. only this time we know it. mark sanford of south carolina hoping to patch things up with the mrs., quote, out of state. probably a safe bet argentina will not be on the itinerary. sanford's spokesman issuing this statement. the governor remains committed to repairing the damage he has done to his marriage so it shouldn't be any surprise spending personal time with his wife is part of that process. it might come as a surprise to his top economic advisor who had a meeting scheduled with sanford regarding the faltering ec

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