seagate employees are starting to hear now, a company employee sent me this statement, saying seagate has entered into an agreement to purchase the build. if and when the purchase is complete, we will provide our plans for use of the building. >> we know seagate. we like them. >> reporter: fremont mayor says in the company expands, he's looking forward to the jobs it could create. >> there's not a whole lot of revenue other than payroll taxes. it's just good for us to have these buildings built and have people working. >> reporter: and papers connected to the sale of the building expected to be filed tomorrow morning with the u.s. bankruptcy court. it is up to the court to approve the actual sale. the amount of the offer is not yet known. >>> in election news tonight, president obama continued a back-to-school push for education during a stop in nevada. he spoke inside a high school gym in lass vegas about the need to hire more teachers and he blasted mitt romney for describing educators as nameless bureaucrats. >>> mitt romney flew into iowa today to talk about the economy at an alum

seagate has 4% yield. not ready to buy it yet but maybe worth looking at if it goes down a little more. >> a drop at 2% in ak steel. grasso. >> i would not be a buy irof the steel space. obviously, ak steel, just because it's cheap doesn't mean you should buy it waiting for a pop. too early for me right now. >> another drop in joy global. stephanie. >> it was below 1 and guidants was actually lower. i think a stock under 50 is kind of an interesting play. just given that they've got an interesting strategy going toward more aftermarket and more services business and i think that's going to show up in the 2013 earnings. so you've got to be patient with it but i think it's interesting. >> a pop for warrant buffeen bu. he turns 82 today. join in, everybody, for "happy birthday." rave than lavishing himself with gifts he does what he does best, giving back to the community. he announced today he's doubling what he gives to kids' charities. they'll each receive about $100 million a year. holy smokes. that's fan

>> top tech pick is probably seagate. in general we like mobility, we like cloud, we like growth in data and we try to play that through device names. seagate giving a lot of cash back to shareholders is our top pick. >> mark, great having you on the show. another reason ipo having some trouble today. let's go the market flash desk for the details. >> good afternoon. we're watching manchester united down 2.24% on the day coming off it's intraday low. made its debut last friday closing flat at 14 where it priced. yesterday the club acquired a soccer star for $33 million. this was creating some buzz. bob pisani reporting earlier the drop because of the syndicate bid has been pulled. >> you bought this ipo also? i did. i was in and i didn't write it up, if you remember the stock rallied over 15 up to 15.30 was the high print. >> giant pop. >> compared to facebook it was phenomenal. >> facebook trade up to 40. >> looking at that -- >> or whatever. >> nobody wanted to be long on this thing when it came back down the cindy indi

seagate agreed to buy the facility. today a solyndra bankruptcy filing revealing they were the highest bidder at $90 million. they will get the land, the fixtures and some of the property. >>> move in day at san francisco state university. students showed up this morning to start hauling things up into the dorm rooms. classes start on monday and all are aware of tuition hikes and budget cuts. >> frustrating. disheartening to hear because having a college education is important. it will effect decisions to go to school. >> first day wraps up tonight with a movie on the law event. >>> at 6:00 p.m. back to school across the bay at university of california at berkeley. what is the status of the uc system? leaders have a different take on it than the students. >>> three people including a baby were killed in a crash on highway 101. this happened before noon on highway 101. the chp says a car went out of control and crossed the highway into traffic. an suv broad sided the car. two adults and a child was killed. a woman and tw

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california hard drive maker seagate technology reaching its ads a deal to buy the manufacturing planadquarters of solyndra paying $90 million for the building. the bankruptcy look company built the $300 million fremont facility in 2010 with $520 million of federal stimulus slums. if that sale is approved it is unclear how much my returns to the government. perhaps the taxpayer. no. prior restructuring deal allows private investors to be repaid before taxpayers. firstly michele obama credits her husband's policies for the climb in the number of unemployed veterans. she has left at a couple of key facts. this is the first lady at me port naval station in florida earlier this week. >> so far this year the number of unemployed veterans is nearly 20% lower than it was a year ago so we are moving in the right direction, but let's be very clear, we are nowhere near where we need to be. no where near. lou: diversity is absolutely correct, we are nowhere near where we ought to be. according to the bureau of labor statistics that show number of unemployed veterans is down 233,000 from last yea

so this is from seagate called the back-up plus and it backs up your data in three ways.verything. you can schedule an automated backup so say every other day you wanted to backup content to the drive at 3:00 p.m. and finally you get online or cloud storage for free and you can access those files in the cloud. this drive starts at $100 for 500 gigabytes. you always have to have some sort of backup, don't you? >> mark salzman. thanks so much. for more high tech ideas and reviews go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. >>> every saturday at this time we bring you information on new technology and how it just might impact your life. >>> all right. this is a big weekend at the box office and we want to help you decide which movies are worth your time and money. there she is grey drake in the house. she'll be reviewing "the expendables 2" and there she is, hello. and you'll take us behind the scenes how rotten tomatoes.com does it. [siri] yes i'm not allowed to be frivolous. ah ok, move my 4 o'clock today to tomorrow. change my 11am to 2. [siri] ok marty, i

tops in the nasdaq 100, seagate second too long, sirius xm radio and sandisk. and don't sleep on apple. after some stumbles, the stock is up 12% this summer. back at all-time highs.and if i be unstoppable. you have to love lightning the tortoise, everybody. we had to bring him back and here in march of 2010, the dow's up almost 24%. is it too late for you to get in? let's ask andre julian, president of -- i can't keep that up. scott ren sr. at wells fargo. got to have fun here, andre. trying to understand about the rally is why. >> i mean, if you look at it, we have a lot of bad news. obviously high unemployment. slow gdp. china's slowing. the's bad news. you have a little good news comes in now and again but looking at it it's a statements of draghi. he said -- pulled a bernanke. going to support the euro no what and then merkle out of the shadows today and support it and you have bernanke saying that the fed is going to support the economy no matter what and i think due to the stimulus. >> oh no. >> i know you hate that. >> i don't hate it. >> what else is th

here you go at number five, seagate technology up a cool 672%. >> and then apple, whole foods, wyndhamrformer during the obama era is priceline, up 883%. that's a lot. >>. >>> it's street talk time walking you through five stock stories. first of all, stock number one is publisher mcgraw hill really soaring on some buyout talk. >> the stock is up 3.3%. they have received several bids for its education business, including from bain capital, apollo and others. the reuters story saying this could value that business around $3 billion. last september mcgraw hill said that it would split into two businesses. that could still happen. but now apparently they are looking at a possible sale. "the new york post" did report earlier this month they have hired banks to explore a sale. >>> let's move on to stock number two. this is a canadian all star. do i have to put the rec wiz it eh at the edged nd of it? >> earnings well above estimates. mandy, this is a huge big building infrastructure consulting company. right now helping to build a new arena. >> huge big gains for that stock. moving on to st

seagate technology dropping 4% today. >> it had a furious run. a multiyear high., what, two weeks ago. i've not been in the name here, but it did sell off another 4% today. i think it pulls back probably another buck or two. >> that is the number one song of the summer, correct? "call me maybe." >> i was going to ask guy what it was. he wouldn't know. >> "call me maybe." >> he wouldn't know who carly jepsen is. not a lot of happiness with joy global. >> big reversal yesterday. got a lot of bulls excited. look at iron ore prices continuing to fall. this is a company that has an awful lot of head winds. stay away again. >> vacation in wisconsin and a wisconsin name. kohl's. >> up 3.4%. expectation was up 1.9. kohl's up today. you want to look to go into tjx. >> i don't know how much worse it can get for the solar names, but for first solar, that was a drop of 18% today. mike, this is just a disaster. >> yeah, the hits just keep coming for these guys. they halted deliveries to the largest power plant being built in arizona. that plant is almost 85% done. there's a su

. >> harddrives, seagate technologies. >> this has been remarkable ever since they disappointed. >> williams-somonago ahead of the quarter and say that they are going to make the quarter. i think that's too high risk. >> what else can you say about dell? >> it doesn't have it. i don't want to buy it. >> and wells fargo, weak earnings, i guess? >> yes, exactly right. >> have there been any other kind of earnings for dell recently? >> you have three seconds. >> priceline.com. >> people were saying there is hope to european sales. i'm not going there. >> we didn't get to zagg. >> i had the ceo on saying sell, sell, sell, he said don't worry about it. it's looking pretty good right now. >> ceo stepped down unexpectedly. >> it was one of the stocks that i used to get yield. i invited jeff gardener on to say, listen, this is a defend your life call. century link has been good, obviously verizon and at&t has been good. >> he'll tell a national audience. >> you can talk about zagg, right? >> we are. >>> coming up, the apple juggernaut. you heard simon talk about facebook. a lot more here on cnbc. sometimes