here is tech watcher shana with social radar.lain to me why you think that facebook paid 19 billion for a messaging company? >> hi, stu, it's good to be here. it's a great win for facebook, it's expanding their usage base in areas where they are looking to, you know, further increase users. they've seen some saturation in the u.s. and this is getting them the users abroad they've been trying to get and a lot of data about the usage patterns. stuart: so if your judgment, shana, this is a smart move? by the way, i've got to tell you when the move was announced facebook dropped 2% and new it's come back and on the upside ever so slightly. your conclusion, cheit's a smar move. >> it's going to drop a little because of the inherent risk of a deal. in general, this is getting more users, more abbictive users. something like 19.6 billion messages sent a day on whats app. it's getting the younger user facebook is looking to have. stuart: stay right there. i've got to bring everybody another technology story from google fiber service, twi

so that they could make the golden liberties to endure and shana so is part of the movement of the precious metal out of the west into asia sadly that's all the time we have for now please come back on the show very very san and enjoy the warm weather in florida. pleased to be with you. that was economist and former assistant secretary to the treasury paul craig roberts time now for today's big deal. edward harrison joins me now to talk a digital mobile payment systems on stuff now several days ago apple been the last remaining decline wallet from its. what is a big coin wallet you maybe well it's an app that allows big payments simply to conduct by scanning a q.r. code now the wallets are designed to be easy to use and reliable also being secure and fast however the move by apple to nix the out blocked chain one of the most popular big client wallet outs on the market has angered bitcoin supporters and with over one hundred twenty thousand downloads it's easy to see why now apple cited unresolved issues with the developer as their reason for banning the app however the makers of the op hav

just today in maine very competitive senate candidate shana bellows had a petition delivery and media event calling on susan collins to say she'll support the minimum wage. the same in the heartland in south dakota where rick wieland made an issue today. this week house candidates from wisconsin to lee rogers in california to tom guild in oklahoma to right here in pennsylvania, across the country people are saying we are going to make a campaign issue out of this, ed, and that is smart politics for democrats and progressives in 2014. >> this unemployment extension is going to be gong by the midterms. there will be a boatload of more people out there that will be unemployed and whether they're going to lose faith or lose hope and not ep gauge remains to be seen. but if you do something for worker, if you do something to get disposable income into the pockets of the american people, that's going to i think have an effect. the republicans are so out of touch with wage earners in this country, they don't realize what good favor they would have going home, e.j., if they said, you know what