jon fortt will talk to the ceo thorsten heins first on cnbc during power lunch. and thanks to those on twitterland, we just top 1 million follower online, on phone first in business worldwide. no matter how you get your news from us. we'll see you tomorrow. let's get to wapner and the fast money halftime. >>> welcome to the halftime. the dow is sort of in healeding patent as the march to 14,000 continues. 13,951 is where we currently sit. here's where we're currently following on halftime. what's under the hoodie. facebook reportings after tonight and with the stock on the street, what will the company deliver? a perfect ten? what does the real money think of blackberry's big bet? don yak min with more on the stock on where r.i.m. goes from here. but first the top story, the dow's posted its best month in 16 years. it sits only about 1.5% from its best level ever. will it get there or should you be prepared iffer a pullback. we're trading everywhere today. how about it, pete? are we going to get there or should we be prepping for a pullback? >> i'm prepping for a

thorsten heins is a german technology physicist.g of which, they're bringing on the man himself, thorsten heins, the president and ceo of r.i.m. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning. good day. good afternoon. good night. wherever you celebrate the launch of blackberry 10. thank you for joining us here from new york, to london, dubai, johannesburg, paris, jakarta, delhi and toronto. and i guess i hear some noise here right now, if i'm not mistaken. for sure, to all of our employees watching around the world, we have definitely been on a journey of transformation. a journey to not only conform our business and our brand, but one which i truly believe will transform communication into true mobile computing. it's been almost one year exactly since i was handed the reins at research in motion. and it has been easily the most challenging year of my career to date. but it has also been by far the most exhilarating and the most rewarding one. and i remember people asking me how i felt about taking over the role of ceo. and all i kept say

thorsten heins, thank you for joining us. want to start off with a question about investors.f the launch where there is positive buzz. what do you say about those giving up the stock for dead but now in the last few weeks hoping your market share would turn around next week. what do you say about the path ahead over the next couple quarters

thorsten heins, thank you for sitting down with us in the studio. if you have wild success with the blackberry 10, do you have production to meet demand? >> so what i did with my chief operating officer, i actually challenged a little bit and said, let's build a little bit more because the demand that we are seeing, coming in and having acceptance, is quite encouraging. so we have the supply in place and manufacturing in place and so we can fill the lines and keep them running. >> i would like to question you further on the market shares. three years ago you had shared market share of 20%. three years ago 40%. now both of those single digits. what kind of market share do you see in three years time from now? >> we have our plans that we want to achieve in terms of market share and units being sold. we run our business plans. but what we look at first is what frank and i have introduced as net promotor score. we want to understand is blackberry creating the wave of recommendation. is that dynamics that people move ton blackberry even from other syste

the ceo thorsten heins. melissa: and it turns out japan's two largest airlines have had problems with the dreamliner battery long before the issue. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes, let's head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole petallides. those gdp numbers keeping the dow away from 14,000. nicole: they certainly did throughout the morning. it brings concern when there is no good gdp numbers. there has been less on defense and concerns, let's take a look now, much like we have seen recently where the dow goes over that one change line over and over again. today seems to be no different as we are back in positive territory. we haven't taken out our highs we saw yesterday, five year highs for the s&p 500, dow jones the thrills, russell 2000. we have had a lot of names and a lot of these indexes hitting these highs we have not seen since 2007. that being said, still concerned about the economy and jobs. the market has been running up, lots of traders say it is time to take a little bit

the c.e.o., thorsten heins, told a german newspaper the firm continues thinking about strategies like licensing its blackberry software or selling its hardware business. shares of rimm have more than doubled since july. on our web site, www.nbr.com, there's more analysis of the stock chart. you will find it under the "blogs" tab. just look for michael kahn. three of the five most actively traded exchange-traded products were up. the japan index fund saw the heaviest selling, down 1%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: a big win for the keystone x.l. pipeline and transcanada's plan to connect canada's rich oil sands to refineries in southern texas. nebraska's governor today gave the thumbs up for that pipeline's new route through his state. it's one of the last hurdles the pipeline needed to clear before receiving final approval by the federal government. late today, the u.s. state department said its review of the pipeline project has been delayed and won't be ready until after march. >> tom: updates tonight in three high profile investment fraud cases. first up, rajat gup

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. >> people have compassion for thorsten heins, given a hospital pass by the founders when he took over has bought companies to make it trendier, the touch screen facility a big pet beth on the way people might use phones in the future, he has brought in to market ex7,000 apps with it -- 70,000, i beg you pardon, apps with it. what more could the man have done realistically against samsung sand apple? anything could have done yesterday to have held that stock up? >> to be very fair, you were right, he was dealt a very difficult hand when he stepped into this role. he has been -- he has done what he could with a very bad lot. however, however, i think the market is against him. you mention $70,000 apps, simon, but there are some that are missing and it becomes a chicken and egg type thing, people will come to them only if certain apps are there and if -- if those apps -- if people come, the apps probably will come. necessary a very tough position and i think he's done the best co-with a very difficult hand. >> last question, you know, some argue that maybe their best foot forward would h