zynga will be the lead tech company on the jobs initiative. we have already

the 100%. we are partnering closely with code for america. we would not be a tech organization without a website. our url is sfciti.com. with the headquarters city of twitter, it would be heresy not to have a twitter handle. #sfciti. with that, i want to introduce our great mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you for that very detailed explanation. first of all, i want to thank the board of supervisors. they are my partners here. president david chiu, you and i, jane kim, have spoken, mark farrell, christine olague, have spoken in depth about what our future holds for us. i want you to know that i am sharing this excitement with them. we have a constituent that is in great need. i am going to take a page from what willie brown has always represented to me. he said as good advice, if you feel passionate about something, don't did there. move on it fast. i cannot think of an initiative -- it has not even been one week since i took the oath of this elected office, and here we are on the first friday, moving this and what the technology really like, an accelerated

for sure, today, we have set a record for any city in the country that has rallied and united the tech community to support collective, civic action. this never happened before. we are in the perfect storm with the election of mayor ed lee, to make this happen and to accomplish a lot. ed lee, as interim mayor, stepped up for the tech community, he kept twitter in san francisco, got private stock option tech abolished, with the help of david chiu, and convened last april the ad hoc council, which i know he plans to reconvene as mayor. it was not easy to get ed lee to run for mayor. warren hellman and myself, and i know dianne feinstein and mayer brown as well, helped convince the end lead to run. it is one of the best meetings that warren and i have had, when we sat in his office for one hour, and we felt like we meant some headway, and we must have, because he is here. it is not a coincidence -- it is a coincidence, that the tech community it is following the example that warren hellman has set for this community. warren hellman and i were very close friends, and i think upstairs right

zynga will be the lead tech company on the jobs initiative. we have already started work on that. we know there is a skills gap, and an experience gap with the implied base in san francisco, but with training, we can fill those gaps and employ more san franciscans in san francisco. all of our member companies will get their h.r. departments involved and analyze their hiring for the next year, give that to the zynga jobs team, we will aggregate those, and develop programs to employ and educate the job force to fill those positions. san francisco already has a great web site, hiresf, it's akin to monster.com, and the tech community will be going to the website to try to fill positions posted there. ed lee said in his inauguration is the year of the dragon. that represents confronting challenges and embracing innovation. that is what we are going to do. we are the city of the 100%. we are partnering closely with code for america.

the 100%. we are partnering closely with code for america. we would not be a tech organization without a website. our url is sfciti.com. with the headquarters city of twitter, it would be heresy not to have a twitter handle. #sfciti. with that, i want to introduce our great mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you for that very detailed explanation. first of all, i want to thank the board of supervisors. they are my partners here. president david chiu, you and i, jane kim, have spoken, mark farrell, christine olague, have spoken in depth about what our future holds for us. i want you to know that i am sharing this excitement

at the same time that we are recruiting those high-tech companies in san francisco, we need to make sure that our young people, as well of those in the middle of their career who are out of work and looking for change, to get the skills and jobs that those companies are creating right here at home. we can do it by working with people like the thing that -- like zynga to partner for nonprofits and city college. through the diversity of our people and geographic locations on the pacific, san francisco is uniquely positioned to be the preeminent gateway for goods and visitors from latin america and beyond. growing our international trade and tourism generates jobs for san franciscans at home and abroad. with organizations like sfmade, from bike messenger bags to ceramic tiles, a new market is being created around the world for local goods made right here in san francisco. [applause] clearly, i can go on and on about jobs. i will. jobs will remain the top priority of the administration. you should care about jobs, the economy, and innovation. if you care about muni, like i do, you should car

if he ran, the tech community would support him. what you are seeing today is just the initial launch of the activities where the tech community will organize and partner with the city of san francisco. one week from today, the tech community will announce what it is going to do, in an organized fashion, to support what is happening in san francisco in the city, and with the efforts that code for america isn't leading. we are truly going to bring had a tech culture to san francisco. it will be very exciting. san francisco is lucky to have a code for america, ed lee, and especially our new chief innovation officer, jay knapf, who will speak now. >> thank you, mayor for the opportunity to serve as the chief innovation officer in the city. in my role, i plan on strengthening the partnership with our technology community and city hall to rediscover the digital age. we have discovered so much through our civic hack-a-thons and other things that we have done. this is a great example of harnessing the on deprenyl spirit in the city and real

>> this organization is going to represent the tech community in a unified fashion. the first agenda, which we are taking the lead from ed lee on is job creation. if we can create 500 to 1000 new jobs this year, we can have a significant impact on the economy of san francisco. ouster -- our support for code for america, another nonprofit, to go into the city of san francisco, fined projects like david chiu just talked about, projects that volunteer hackers from the tech community can go in and solve problems for the city of san francisco, to eradicate bureaucracy. applying for a business license in san francisco is not a pleasant experience. we need to apply technology to problems like that. >> [inaudible] >> initially, it is about the economy and jobs. many of us in s.f. citi are very active already philanthropic way. the mayor keeps talking about the philanthropic efforts. funny enough, i am tied to ask him what is in his mind. we have not discussed that yet because we are focused on jobs. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> sopa is a bill in the congress. there is a bill

well aside from the fact that i'm a big cheerleader for new york tech. i think it is much bigger than just silicon valley in fact i would repeat this unit as a battle of sort of government as usual lobbying dollars dictating policy vs american the electorate dictating policy and when you actually look at the numbers last year ninety four million dollars from hollywood went into government in order to basically get this bill written or these bills written and it's frustrating because we have a congress that can't solve any of the important use of the day things like unemployment things like the deficit they are gridlocked on but yet as soon as a lobbyist shows up ninety four million dollars you've got democrats and republicans lining up to co-sponsor bad legislation written by lobbyists not technologists that would lead to the wholesale destruction of one of the all these parts the u.s. economy so what i what i'm seeing now is not just the tech community up in arms it's americans up in arms and it's great to see it because that after all is the promise of

and how and we'll speak with alexis ohanian founder of reddit about whether online activism and the tech industry are going to be able to beat the entertainment industry on this legislation then there's feverish debate amongst the left over president obama's record and his policies so will they still choose him in two thousand and twelve in order to keep republicans out of executive power or will the president find himself in trouble come november how sparks is going to be with us and then rolling stone's michael hastings had the rare opportunity to sit down with wiki leaks founder julian assange for a one on one interview so hastings is going to join us to tell us about songes regrets his take on the u.s. government's case against him and the future of wiki leaks and also the big news tonight the state department and the obama administration announce that they will not be supporting the keystone x.l. pipeline so we're going to have all of that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. it so today january eighte

and on the other side, as gautham mentioned, are the tech industry, a lot of the big tech companies oppose both the house and the senate bills, twitter, facebook, google are lined up against it along with internet engineers, civil libertarians, other folks. >> host: paul kirby, do you see piracy passing -- piracy legislation pass anything 2012? >> guest: i think it will. the house will probably get something through. the problem always will be in the senate which is controlled by the democrats. so it's going to be, it's kind of going to be messy as we get down to crunch time if house passes something, what will the senate do. and once the senate f they do pass something because the rules are different in the senate, what would a conference look like? so i think it's going to be some time, and as we get closer through the year even though this is an election issue, if you will, we get closer to the election, people want to get out of town, so it's going to get messy. >> host: gautham nagesh s there a lot of money being thrown at these pirate bills. >> guest: absolutely. in the house it's ca

one more from the world of high tech. tomorrow, apple is expected to announce a new strategy targeting the school textbook business. tonight, shares are at an all- time high. today's 1% gain was enough to put it over $429 per share. r.b.c. raised its target price to $525. from occupy wall street demonstrations to regulatory scrutiny, there has been plenty of debate over student loans. there's new speculation the obama white house may change how much a company's revenue may come from student financial aid. right now it's 90%, but it may be reduced. for-profit schools apollo group and devry fell on the rumors, down 6% and 3% respectively. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: europe may still be in trouble and earnings season has been mixed so far, but tonight's "street critique" guest is becoming more comfortable buying stocks. he's bryan perry, editor at cashmachine.com. bryan, welcome back, great to see you again. >> thanks, tom. good to be with you. >> tom: what gives you the comfort now to put new money to work i

the state. >> more skilled oriented high tech areas. that is why we have been on the leading edge. >> reporter: the valley has led it bay area in job growth. increasing 3.3% with 28,400 jobs added. the bulk of the hiring has been in the high tech industry. but he says other sectors are also seeing growth. >> it is spilling over to housing, retailing, personal services, creating other jobs, lower skilled jobs that are benefiting from the high tech industry. >> reporter: they have seen 1.6% job growths. 15,000 jobs added. >> software. mobile apes industry. south of market. -- mobile apps, industry. south of market. seeing job growth. in tourism as well. >>> the only sore spot is alameda and contra costa county, job growths of 3/10 of a%. adding 2800 jobs. >> reporter: construction spending in the east bay continues to decline. the tech sector isn't providing the same driver as in other parts of the bay area. dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> still ahead a four yearole boy in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. why his heritage is cautio

. >> this is a battle between not necessarily silicon valley, the tech industry and hollywood, but people who really understand the internet and how it works and the potential it has and how to actually solve a problem like

paul kirby's a senior editor with telecommunications reports, julieanna is the tech and telecom stultz writer and what we galtham nagesh. and you all for being on the reporters. once again, gautham, second session of the 100 of congress begins in just a couple of weeks. what is the biggest issue that the congress will be facing with regards to telecommunications? >> i think right now the hottest issue is obviously online piracy. that is a new development, but as we have discussed in the past there are two bills in front of the house right now and a bill in front of the senate that would take rather significant steps to increase the government's authority to to enforce online copyright. they also draw a very strong backlash from the technology community and i think that is the hottest topic right now because the state of the bills is still very much in doubt. >> gruenwald, who is on each side of the piracy bills? >> on one side of the supporters include the contant industry, the movie makers, the record industry publishers, people who make content, movies, music, and all the other side

the famous who are in their investor who are able to invest in high tech companies . or others take a look at the markets this is in the black you've got a major boost on a wednesday when the u.s. fed reserve kept interest rates at record lows and the low cost of borrowing is supporting the u.s. economy boosting oil demand service our light sweet as up over one hundred one dollars a barrel. optimism about the fact that interest rates will be held low is actually supporting the russian ruble versus the dollar that's up to fifty two. so the exchange rate is just thirty roubles twenty kopeks per dollar. let's move on to was stock markets now a dow jones is up on this again optimism that the dollar will remain cheap for another two years the dow jones is up half a percent nasdaq up point four percent second to what's going on in europe another two hours to go till the close the footsies up one point three percent the dax two percent still on that optimism about the state of the u.s. economy without further decision and russia also positive on a stronger ruble high. world p

not just hollywood, not just the tech industry. fact, tonight, as you mentioned, he is in new york, raising over $3 million tonight alone. so the bottom line is even if hollywood cuts off some money, is he going to have a lot of mullah for this campaign. >> all right. ed henry at the white house. thanks so much. the republic leaders today announcing that indiana republic governor mitch daniels will deliver the g.o.p. response to this year's state of the union address. as you may know governor damages has run indiana for 8 years. and in the past some have considered him a possible candidate for president himself. you can catch the president's address scheduled for next tuesday, the 24th of january, 9:00 eastern, right here on the fox news channel. unemployment numbers are heading in the right direction and how. but a legendary u.s. company just went bankrupt and america's future business leaders are apparently worried there is more trouble ahead. plus, the battle for the so-called values voters in south carolina. how's newt gingrich