just to step back quickly, yahoo! shareholders have put the company under pressure to try to do something with the significant stakes they feel has great value. the problem has been figuring out a way to do that in a tax advantage way, not losing so much of the gains to taxes, the capital gains. yahoo! has replaced much of its board recently. it's got a new ceo. the dynamic at the company has also changed significantly. nonetheless, this is a disappointment to yahoo! shareholders. that stock down sharply this afternoon. >> down about 6.5%. thank you, david. john, if you can take a stab at this. obviously there's disappointment in the talks breaking down. what do you think is going to happen to yahoo! now? what do you think is going to happen to the stock? >> well, i don't follow yahoo! closely. i do like microsoft if you want a competitor of theirs. but clearly the things that we would want to focus on are getting a fair price for any company. i'm not convinced that selling today for a yahoo! would actually be a good

this seems like the kind of thing that yahoo!makes needs to happen because of the value of some of its assets. at this point, it's got to get rid of these asian assets and generate cash from them. >> if they can't do it, people are going to lose confidence in the company and the management. >> investors are losing confidence right now because it's off 5%. john, julia, tom, thank you all very much. >>> straight ahead, alkermes develop a number of drugs, especially drugs for people with chronic conditions like diabetes. the stock up more than 35% in the last year. we'll talk to their ceo about their pipeline and more. >>> and in a few minutes, the "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition is a big business for time warner. it's on that basis and that basis alone that we show you this video, the cover model is in the house. she will be on the set of "power lunch." i wouldn't go away if i were you. >> no. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] offering four distinct driving modes and lexus' dynamic handling, the next generation of lexus will not be cont

so if i were yahoo! thinking a lot about mobile engagement right about now. >> jon, what is actually being measured here? when you say penetration, does that mean people are actually using yahoo! that frequently on their mobile devices? or that it's available to them on their mobile? or what? >> it doesn't have to do with frequency, just means how many people does yahoo! reach either through mobile sites or through apps. so in google's case people use youtube a lot. it's pre-installed on android devices and iphones, ios devices. its penetration is big. yahoo! is number three. time spent is going to facebook. people spending much more time with facebook than others. >> let's bring in chairman of media morph in new york. weigh in on this. i mean, i see from my notes you think yahoo! has a bit of an identity crisis and has a ways to go to try and make a big foothold in mobile. what more do they have to do? >> i think they're heading the right direction for a number of years they've had an identity crisis wh

restless in yahoo.y want to see a mobilization of this business. >> shep: what is the sense where this is going? >> it seems as if there will be settlement down the road. it's not the kind of think that could derail a facebook ipo. it's going to be about the fine print. there is no way of knowing without seeing all this how it plays out. like what happened before the google ipo yahoo made a similar move and they got a chunk of google stock. who knows, it goes that way. >> shep: yahoo is not doing well and facebook is doing well? >> we do criminal cases. there we have a motive. last time i checked, certainly facebook is a person of interest. what you have here is real interesting simple reality they have privacy settings. all of a sudden, yahoo, wait a minute you are infringing. yahoo, where you have been. maybe you need some money. the other interesting thing, you know you got to prove every claim. when you make a patent infringement claim, you have to prove a, b and c and this one we have nothing. >> s

>> yahoo!as incredibly powerful assets shall the general reach of the platform, its position as a leader within key media segments like news and finance and sports, and i think like a lot of yahoo! alumni that currently work in the valley, we're all rooting for yahoo!. >> jeff weiner, thank you for making time for us. >> thanks for having me. >>> grasso? >> i think the forward pe is the biggest concern amongst the investment community but as well as that lockup is a major issue for people watching the show, and traders across the whole space. i think he squashed those concerns. it's actually in the middle of its 52 week range high/low so real fork in the road i missed this trade. i wouldn't be a buyer here. >> let me point out certainly this stock was up quite substantially when this show began today but i think it has clearly moved a little bit higher on some of jeff weiner's comments here about linked in. >> i think this is something where to have to invest in this because you believe in the

david faber confirming talks breaking down over assets in yahoo. down 5%. other red, masco, first solar down 7 pairs. citi group down 3%. materials week, u.s. steel, down 5%. consumer names getting hit, sonic an example, i put it up there because i like their desserts. in terms of the s&p on top, hasbro 7%, guidance, that is why it's up. fidelity national big dividend, micron and netflix up. >> do they have lime-ade at sonic? >> their desserts are fantastic. >> good stuff. i know where the shactmans are going tone. >> happy valentine's day. >> treasury partners on the rise especially after the eu announcement but the january retail sales numbers didn't help the mood. rick santelli has details tchlt. >> before we go to the long where you can see the buying, something strange happened after the january fed meeting, look at august 1st start day on two year note yield, rising ever since, i know it's on the south side of operation twist but about ready to break out of the long term rain, pay close attention. if we look at what is going on in other parts of the c

the executive changes at yahoo began in early september when c.e.o. carol bartz was fired after failing to turn around yahoo's ad business. shares of yahoo were essentially unchanged today, and they haven't been able to trade much above $16 per share since last spring. and finally, it wasn't the chicken wings at your super bowl party, but buffalo wild wings saw profits take flight at the end of last year. quarterly profits jumped 34%. the stock has been trending higher over the past year, and after the close tonight, it shot up 15%. if that holds through to tomorrow's opening bell, it would put the stock around $80, a new high. hold the celery. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: it's been a sparkling start to the year for gold. gold posted its biggest gain for the year today, rising $23.50, settling at $1,748.40 in new york today. the metal's rally has been virtually unstoppable for years. erika miller reports on whether is still pays to buy gold if the economy is heating up. >> reporter: there are gold statues, gold's gym, even gold pretzel

yahoo has been trying to arrange a $17 billion deal for its ownership stakes in alibaba and yahoo japan in such a way as to avoid taxes while it revamps its business. another company in transition is avon. while the firm is looking for a replacement to long-time c.e.o. andrea jung, it had a disappointing fourth quarter. before unusual charges, earnings came in well shy of estimates. revenues also fell, and the company didn't give much guidance of what to expect financially this year. after seeing some morning selling, shares wound up with a gain of 1.5%. volume quadrupled as investors try to sort out avon's future. it announced layoffs as it tries to stabilize its business, and reassured investors its dividend will be maintained. we have more on a-v-p on nbr.com under the "blogs" tab. >> direct usa. shares ended down a session one percent but the stock gains in afterhours a action. they get 70 we mentioned zynga's earnings after the close tonight earlier. met-life also updated investors late today, reporting a big jump in earnings. after a 1% drop during the regular session, shares jump

yahoo is demanding facebook pay for the patents or it will sue. the timing of this coincides with facebook's expected ipo this spring. maybe yahoo is going to ask for some stock from the company in the settlement. >> sort of a bluffing thing. you don't need to bully us around, you big facebook. >>> he's been called by some people the mayor for life but some challenges are taking aim at marion berry's seat on the d.c. -- marion barry's seat on the d.c. city council. >>> 9news now returns in two minutes. >>> good morning. welcome to 9news now. don't forget your umbrella. >> we're going to have some showers, maybe thunderstorms. could be coming down pretty leftly midday. i think a break in the afternoon before another round of showers and storms is what i'm anticipating between now and 8:00, 9:00 preponderance tonight. -- 9:00 p.m. tonight. we had 30s and 40s. you definitely need something to keep you warm this morning and potentially dry. there will be some showers possible toward the tail end this morning. some stuff by 8:00, 9:00 moving in. later

and a staff shake-up at yahoo.he major departures at that struggling company. >>> and we have the market opening just about 10 minutes ago. let's see what's happening in new york. the dow just slightly down near 4 points. the nasdaq slightly up nearly 4 points. no real movement. we'll have kcbs moneywatch reporter jason brooks about what's going on. >> it's slow. >> it's slow today. released recordings of a 9- 1-1 call... placed right before a murder-suicide, involving a man and his two young sons. the call is from a social >>> washington authorities have released tapes of a 911 suicide involving a man and his two young boys from a social worker who brought the kids to josh powell's home in graham for a supervised visit: erward, there explosion and fire in the house. investigators say the boys suffered hatchet wounds before dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. investigators in utah are still trying to link powell with the 2009 disappearance of his wife who is believed to be dead, as well. >>> 6:43. we have a high su

yahoo! is like a sports team that hasn't won in a long time. trying to just about everything to come up with a way to win, succeed, but against competition like google and facebook, that is getting tougher and tougher. the company's latest move is an almost complete revamping of its board of directors on the heels of co-founder jerry yang leaving the board. today, four more director, including chairman roy bossto e "discover -- bossto bossock to step down. >>> the labor department says the 3 million jobs added in december matches the three-year high reached in september last year. not only is it a sign the economy is moving but a positive signal that employers are gaining confidence that growth will continue through this year. there's also more positive job numbers in the south bail. today, a new walmart announcing hiring 250 full and part-time workers. the new store on the expressway will open in the spring. >>> chips, gum and contraceptives? coming up at 5:00, a vending machine has a lot of people talking. >>> a science fair for the record bo

all day, down on yahoo. faber is on the telephone with new information about the possibility of new board members. over to you, david. >> has been a busy day for yahoo and now we learned late in the day a large shareholder will chaj challenge for four seats on the board of directors, wants to nominate himself, michael wolf, former mtv executive, jeff zucker our old boss, and harry wilson, well-known turnaround specialist, a frequent guest on "squawk box." two of the new directors who just were put on the board when the chairman last week said he was stepping down along with a number of others, interesting fight brewing here on a day whether we learned we told you earlier the plan to spin off the company's asian assets had fallen apart or negotiations toward that had fallen apart. this is another distraction for mr. thompson, and a fight on the hands of mr. loeb. >> david, do we know if those board members if in fact accepted on the board would make a change in terms of those asian assets? you reported today

why don't you ask mark about yahoo. ump i'll ask about yahoo. absolutely.ark, how do you stand right now? obviously, this is in your universe, yahoo. but after hearing about this loan and the potential here, what do you feel about yahoo at this point? are you still on hold or where do you stand on yahoo? >> strong hold. this is a company that's had a lot of supervision over the last five years and it hasn't done a lot for them. it really has hurt their business. i think they still have problems. you read in the "wall street journal" today that this company now wants to try focus more on subscription businesses. that's a tough ship. that's going to be -- if they really want to do that, that's a pretty big strategy shift that will take years to prove out one way or the other. it's a hold. >> mark, it's josh brown. what do we think about linkedin going into earnings tonight? it's a few ipo to have held its opening day pop, and they have a business that's not innovative but it like a business that we can understand. how should we be looking at that? >> yeah. by

. >>> and is yahoo! facing insurrection? plus oprah winfrey's twitter fail that's forced her to do something rare. >>> coming up, jeremy lin does it again. hockey history and man's best friend takes over madison square garden. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some top headlines this morning. we have some breaking news from honduras where several may notes are dead. a fire broke out and it was described as a hellish scene. many prisoners were trapped because the guard with keys to the cells couldn't be located. >>> the white house is reportedly considering dramatic cuts to the nation's nuclear arsenal. the proposals include an 80% reduction in deployed weapons to the lowest number since the cold war. no decision is expected until after the presidential election. >>> a warning from the maker of the cancer drug avastin. counterfeit versions are being distributed to u.s. health care facilities. they don't have the key ingredients needed. >>> one in eight

yahoo!ares sank by 4.7% late on tuesday's session amid media reports that negotiations for the chinese e-retailer ali baba had collapsed. yahoo! has been attempting to sell off most of its 40% stake in alibaba and its 35% share holding in yahoo! japan in a complex deal valued at no less than 17 billion u.s. dollars. let's look at how yahoo! share prices have been doing. it actually gained ground since the firing of its former ceo, carl bartz last year. it is still down over a 12 month period. on tuesday, one of its biggest investors announced plans to fight for control of the company's board and dan loeb says he will be seeking four seats on yahoo! board. >>> coming up next, the summit may be over, but china says its support for europe will continue. but what form will that actually take? >>> and china's vice president wraps up meetings in washington today before heading west. we'll tell you why the state of iowa is so excited to see him. whwhatat m makakeses t thehe r ststorore e didiffffer

this -pl cos one month after yahoo -- this comes one month after yahoo hired a new ceo. >>> in an areaof empty store fronts and business owners too scared to talk to the media, crime is the main concern. what oakland police want to do about it. >>> back here in 10 minutes, the rain is done, fog moves back in. we're going to look at how that's going to impact the wednesday morning commute. denny's new sizzlin' skillets are here for a limited time. so strike while the iron's hot. starting at $4.99. only at denny's. america's diner is always open. >>> firefighters faced heavy smoke firing a kitchen fire. our camera was the only one there as firefighters responded to the flames at the taco bell on alvardo niles road. it took crews 20 minutes to knock down the fire. the cause does not appear suspicious. >>> it's like a war zone, that's what a local church leader is describing parts of oakland tonight following a recent wave of killings. john sasaki talked about police about what's being done to stop the violence as many people who live and work in oakland worry who could be targeted next, j

yahoo's web life editor heather cabot has the details.$4 a gallon mark, web users are hot on the story. this week on yahoo searches for fuel prices soared up 929%. >> they just raised the prices right now. >> lookups for gas prices by zip code are huge right now as people hunt down cheap gas in their neighborhoods. the states searching most for deals are indiana, north dakota, minnesota, florida, and nebraska. and consumers are also looking for new cars with better gas mileage. in the last seven days we've seen increased interest in hybrid car models including the ford escape, ford fusion, honda civic, and toyota camry and highlander. queries for natural gas vehicles are also spiking too. in other news this week apple and china, while excitement builds around the possible release of the ipad 3 next month, apple customers are concerned about how the devices are made. "nightline's" report about foxconn, the chinese factory that manufactures ipads, generated huge interest this week. lookups for chinese apple ipad are up more than 3,000% righ

and yahoo added two new board members one is a former ibm executive. the other used to be ebay's coo this is just a month after hiring scott thompson. the struggling internet giant is struggling to search for more board members. and said yahoo has been considered -- considered all private he cannity investments but hasn't found any that are attractive. >> disney disappointed investors this afternoon. and we take a look and found business is still strong at disney. the company reporting results after the bell. profits are up 12%. and separately bloomberg lesh learned disney is in talks to launch an english cable news channel. the partnership targeting the growing hispanic demographic. disney is the parent company of abc 7 and numbers today, stocks rebound in fact, the dow back to its best level since 2008 that. is pre-recession levels. and in the valley ora cell's coe would rather fight than settle. they are making it official, they want a new trial against turning down $272 million to get yet another day in court. the trial is for copy right infringeme

this if one of yahoo!'s rebel investors gets his way. daniel lobe owns about 6% of yahoo!s enough for him to nominate several of his own men to the yahoo! board. zucker is an interesting choice. he was responsible for nbc's success in the early 2000s but its success ended there. the l.a. times called his reign at nbc the biggest debacle in tv history. "the new york times" columnist maureen dowd called it the most destructive in history but he's at least a candidate this morning for the board position at yahoo!. >> that's interesting. i'd like to know more about their relationship as well. >> long relationship. >>> 5:57 right now. still to come on "today in the bay," a bay area probation officer placed on administrative leave after accused of sexual assault. >>> new developments at a bay area high school where students were locked out of campus bathrooms. >>> and while you were sleeping, we had some showers roll through the bay area. for the most part they have subsided. now winds are what we're dealing with. we'll talk about that and when we'll get more rain in your full f

yahoo's web life editor heather cabot has the details.e inside scoop on the most watched sporting event of the year. new england is running far ahead of new york when it comes to searches on yahoo. and that's especially the case for quarterback tom brady. he's getting twice the searches of giants' eli manning. but manning wins when it comes to the ladies. searches for eli are up 268% among women. and queries by women about eli's girlfriend are up 1200% this month. even with the main event just days away, some fans are still hoping to score seats in indianapolis. some are looking up contests to win tickets, and those searches are up more than 200% this week. the states with the most lookups for tickets are rhode island, indiana, and connecticut. and for those who will be watching on tv or online, that's most of us, we can tell that lots of people are preparing for super bowl parties, and they'll be serving lots of dips. and chips, the most popular right now on yahoo, buffalo chicken dip, spinach, and seven-layer dip. in other news this wee

yahoo!'s part on the past has been blamed for not passing the microsoft of good offer so they have to make sure they are not letting a good deal pass. alibaba's side they are very key to be rid of yahoo! so they have to come back with a better offer. >> interesting story. can't wait for it to unfold. thank you very much for your thoughts today. a columnist for reuters breaking views. >>> the other story focusing, of course, king fisher, india's cash strapped low-cost carrier has seen its shares plummet 20% in early asian trade today. more on troubling dissent live from new delhi. what can you tell us? >> reporter: thanks very much, christine. yes, it has been a troubling last couple of months for kingfisher airlines and things coming fast this weekend when they have to cancel a significant number of flights. in fact, they were summoned by the civil administration agency, the government of india, this morning to give a sense to the government about their flight restoration plan. we understand

the problem with yahoo!y never tried to involve the user and it's coming back to haunt them. >> jon fortt. >> there's absolutely that danger. what's happened to yahoo! is growth has been capped, attention is shrinking, that is what could happen here. google needs social data. and people's attention in order to grow. that's exactly what facebook is sucking up right now. >> john carney, let me ask you about amazon. you know, the stock's been hit hard in the last week. has amazon peaked? did they have to change the business model? they're warning of a possible first quarter operating loss. what do you think? >> i think there's a lot of competition. when you look at amazon, you want to know not just how is this company going to do this year and next year, but how is it going to do in the long-term? and as companies like facebook and google start to get to know us better, they're going to get better at selling us things. i don't know if anybody's ever going to sell more books than amazon, but remember amazon sell

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you were doing what for yahoo!? >> i am doing -- >> i don't want people to call me up and say how come you spent half an interview talking about george stephanopoulos? >> because you couldn't book him, right. >> rose: no, i could. >> oh, yeah. he's jellos i'm here. he's eating spaghetti and meat balls with the and i said he's not happy. >> rose: and you can tell him how much fun you had. >> what did you ask me? >> rose: yahoo! >> we're-- i'm on the-- i'm on a roller coaster of fun. i do this daily talk show -- >> twice a day and a roller coaster of fun. >> imagine. talk about an over-achiever. i do a daily show every day on yahoo! -- >> called the daily show? >> daily shot! daily shot! which is a 10-minute show where i basically-- it's for moms, for working women and moms where i tell you everything you need ton about what's going on in the world in five minutes in a funny way. >> rose: you comment on the news or tell them what the news is? >> i comment on the news. i'll say, "look, this is what happened. romney won

yahoo! accusing facebook of taking yahoo!'s ideas, one of those patent fights.his comes an awkward time for facebook. facebook can't launch a pr push to address the accusations because it's in its quiet period before its ipo. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a scene we remember all too well. a west coast tsunami triggered by a powerful japanese earthquake rolling into harbors in santa cruz and taking everything out in its path. but today, that tsunami warning system hangs in jeopardy. the white house considering a plan to cut more than $4.5 million from that program. $1 million in funding would be cut from a nationwide network of dozens of buoys secured to the ocean floor. the buoys tell us when and when they are and when they might hit land. safety won't be compromised but the buoys may take longer to replace and be repaired. >>> it is coming late but snow is finally packing a punch in the sierra. will it make any difference for the snowpack? today the state department of water resources will measure the amount of snow that's fallen. last month the snowpack was b

>> e-bay officers gave $213,000 and picked up $4.5 million in federal funding and yahoo officers gave $47,000 to federal politics. >> this gets access to the public officials to make your case. >> while there is no proof these contributions are direct payoffs for federal contracts, these big donations clearly buy access to politicians that regular citizens can't get. >> if this were illegal, then writing a check and having a lawmaker vote a certain way would be bribery, but it is legal, but in my view still bribery. >> about ten years ago, silicon valley ranked 53rd in the total amount of lobbying and spending in washington. now overall silicon valley companies as a group rank fourth nationally, more than $1 billion in all. an increase in some cases of more than 250%. and that, guys, does not count super pacs. as you know, they don't have to require or let us know how they get the money, who gives them the money. there's an estimate it could be tens of hundreds of millions of dollars there. >> that's a huge jump we saw. >> if you want to track it, go to our website and track everythin

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now, there's big business news, a massive shake up at yahoo, we will get the latest next up on kudlow> there's been a massive shake up in yahoo we have more on that and the late breaking headlines. good evening. >> good evening, a big shake up indeed. john ford has the latest. good evening, john. >> thank you, a broader board shake up at yahoo, three weeks after cofounder jerry yang left the board, three more members are stepping down as well. the company also named two new board members out are hp executive and investors arthur king and -- what does it mean? not much yet that it will spin off the asian asset or sell off the stocks, that is why the stock barely moved in the day. >> something has happened and minutes ago the new york attorney general cancelled a news conference and the deal forces wells fargo, jpmorgan chase to reduce loans for a million households, bankruptcy filings fell 11.5%. and auditors say the government agency rebuilding the world trade center has let costs go out of control, 35% more over the last four years the new price tag, almost $15 billion. and gas price

yahoo's web life editor heather cabot has the details on this.st, people are confirming when the big day actually is. searches for when is valentine's day are up more than 1,000%. by the way, february 14th is next tuesday. and it's not just women looking for ideas to express their affections. 40% of valentine's searches on yahoo are coming from men. and the top states, texas has the biggest heart followed by ohio, arizona, new york, and pennsylvania. puppy love is definitely in the air. lots of young people are curious about how to tell a crush how they feel. among 13 to 17-year-olds lookups for cute short love quotes are spiking more than 1,400%, and love horoscopes, love letters, and the query "first kiss" are also very popular searches among teens this week. lots of adults are looking for old-fashioned declarations of love. they're seeking out love poems, songs, and romantic love letters. and if you are still looking for love, don't despair. yahoo travel just released its list of the best cities for singles. austin, boston, and chicago are the

yahoo! is on the attack. scott joins us, facebook has been around for years. why did yahoo! wait?lar question, the theory is it's part of the new yahoo!'s ceo's strategy to find money where he can. the tech world let out a collective groan. patent fights are generally considered to be a low blow. just about anybody could claim they own an idea. that said just about every company engages in those fights. facebook can't launch a pr push to address these because it's in its quiet period before its ipo. the state of california tried to figure out how much it might make from the ipot best guess in half a billion for this fiscal year. all collected from the new facebook millionaire, not enough to make a dent in the state debt. where the government won't make money, is taxing profits. the company is profitable is going to transfer so much belt it may declare a loss. perfectly legal. haves and have nots. the picture of the 1% tip went viral. this bad tipper left 1.they $3 at a southern california restaurant, one of his customers posted it. the restaurant checked its roshds. what is posted

are they joined at the hip with this -- with yahoo on this poll?n't seen it but yahoo keeps posting this here and there. they had a contributor underlining the case that obama should win easily in november. they're obviously running with this. one of the headlines on cnet dom says obama has it in the bag. it's silly. >> but it did get widespread distribution, then. >> it's going around like a bad virus. >> tim graham from the media research center, thanks for joining us, sir. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the daily callers, in depth investigation into the media matter's web site has reportedly gotten the attention of members of capital hill. they're going to question the group's tax exempt status. here's the latest. >> the latest installment on the media matters for america details millions of dollars in contributions from left-wing organizations since its founding in 2003. it's collected $28.8 million from these foundations, among others. the tide foundation, the open society institute, the ford foundation, the sandler foundation, the human f