can you watch these all on yahoo now. in terms of traffic, the one thing i am happy to anount today is that we have actually passed 800 million monthly active users in terms of yahoo's global audience. that's core growth. that growth actually represents 20% since july of -- >> so that does include tumbler? >> it does not. >> so where are these people coming from? >> we are seeing a lot of use annual on mobile, 350 million monthly users on mobile him we are seeing a lot of usage on home page, mail, search, or core properties. you know, my strategy has really been to be focused on the daily habits, the things that people use every day, search, maim, the home page, news, sports, finance, et cetera, and we really have been seeing people responding to the way we have been strengthening and redesigning those products and investing in them. >> can i apologize? there is 40 people here taking pith. they follow me around all the time. that annoying, i don't want that to distract you. >> i know they're setting up for who is next? >>

we talked about the ali baba effect and yahoo. and the only reason to own yahoo was for this.nk the halo effects around the entire chinese internet space is something you have to be careful of. i look at getting near 10 a lot of momentum started before the ipo chatter, because earnings were very good. they are monetizing. but at some point you run into technical resistance, 160 this stock can't get through. be careful. this is a stock with a major run. and we talked about -- all of the other names, anything that has exposure to china twitter, china you tube these are places people want to play the same place. i am taking profits here. >> new tech did well today. but the buzz kill today was old technology. you take a look at intel, ibm, cisco, all weighing heavily on the dow. the story with ibm is the soft guidance that accenture gave. >> last quarter it was a little better. not great by ibm standards. and although the stock bounced to 192, it traded lousy ever since that report two quarters ago. i think yeah it is. i'm not sure when ibm reports, but i'm not expecting anything

i think yahoo! is going to be getting into mobile in that big way and that's why this is going to be a winner. >> i want to go to stephanie link for the verdict on this one. i think josh made an interesting point in terms of dan loeb. why does one think one can make money when dan loeb has already exited the trid? >> i think when you look at the enterprise value for this company, it's actually their assets. they're yahoo! japan and alibaba. so if they do something to monetize that, the stock is going to go higher. i agree with josh in that display revenue is down 11%, that's 40% of their -- >> and that's in a raging bull market for google and other players in the space. >> it's been a very competitive market in display. >> they're losing. >> they may be losing, i'm not defending the name. i'm just saying the way you can make money in the stock is if you have a long-term horizon and you believe they are going to monetize these assets, that's where there is value in this story, but the near-term funda

yahoo ceo marisa mayer says the internet company now has 800 million worldwide users. that's a 20 percent increase since she was lured away from google 51 to go to steer a turnaround. the gate is closed yesterday is the latest evidence of the progress yahoo is making under her leadership she says the figure for the 800 million yahoo users doesn't include the traffic of the company has picked up from its tumblr acquisition earlier this year. wal-mart has released the holiday season's hot toys. about 1000 boys and girls aged 81 to 10 years old cents a week at last month's plane with 52 is in choosing their favors. -spent. the result is a top 20 list that includes a new robotic pat verbeek, a hugging elmo and a barbie dream house. wal-mart plans to promote the top 20 toys with dedicated shelf space and with prominent positions on its web site and in circulars. we will be right back. --pet furby. >>james: we are back at 445. let's get right over to the weather center with erica. >>dan: you got it. good morning james. we are starting off with temperatures warmer than 24 hou

this week, yahoo! and facebook filed lawsuits are that the foreign intelligence surveillance court detailing they be allowed to reveal more data that they receive from the nsa. both google and microsoft have filed similar suits. what prompted yahoo! and facebook to file these suits and do you expect others to follow in their footsteps? >> a lot of the companies that were named in these leaked documents from edward snowden had been working behind the scenes negotiating with the government to see what they could get in terms of getting permission to have documents released. they can't release them or really speak about them because they're classified. so google and microsoft sued in june. negotiations went back and forth with the government and they failed. and so yahoo! and facebook joined this week. so that's what kind of prompted yahoo! and facebook to join. >> how are they framing their arguments? is this a first amendment issue for them? >> that's exactly right. they argue that they already have the

listen. >> in 2007, yahoo! filed a lawsuit in against the new -- the patriot act parts of person advisa. a lot of people wondered about that case and who it was. >> you lost? >> we lost. >> not you, you weren't there yet. >> right. but when you lose, the way you lose, we fought, we lost, if you don't comply, it's treason. >> she mentioned that treason can get you prison time. she also had more to say about microsoft's future comparing life to google and yahoo! and yahoo!'s monthly visit erts being up to 8 million. not a ton of kwevens about revenue to her, guys. >> you mentioned two words. you didn't mention revenue and that is the big issue and the other piece is the relationship with microsoft. >> about tumblr, interesting on microsoft, she was making the case that its strengths are in the enterprise. i wonder if that was a fray towards getting microsoft to spin off some of its online properties to yahoo!. we saw in that business insider piece a couple weeks ago that mayer's predecessor wanted yahoo! to spin

news continues here in yahoo's c.e.o. who says internet companies have been put under serious pressure by the u.s. government not to talk about what information intelligence agencies are requesting she even said that talking about the prism splay program could see her face charges of treason marina joins me live now with more from new york so made a big corporations are speaking out only to tell us more about what's been said so far. for yahoo and facebook are among the big data companies that have faced mounting criticism for violating users' privacy by complying with the n.s.a. surveillance program but according to yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer her hands were tied and rejecting government requests would have amounted to treason mr mayor made her comments at a san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg were told the audience that they were obliged to comply with washington's spy programs this mayor told those in the crowd that it makes more sense for big tech companies such as y

listen to what yahoo's ceo marissa mayer had to say. >> at yahoo on each request we review it, we scrutinize it we push back on a lot, we push back on a lot of local government. we push back on requests in terms of the nsa. we can't talk about -- >> why? >> because they're classified. >> why?! >> and so -- i mean -- just -- >> let's just say look right now you were just to tell us the truth about what's going on the stuff that's classified. what do you think would happen to you? >> uhm, i mean, releasing classified information is treason. >> then what would happen. >> and you are incarcerated. >> well, that was yahoo. as for facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg he didn't mince words either. >> frankly, i think that the government blew it. i think that they blew it on communicating, uhm, what they were basically the balance of what they were going for. >> zuckerberg and mayer appeared at the techcrunch conference here in san francisco. yahoo and facebook are suing to try to force the government to let them reveal more details about the government's spying programs. >>> and let's take a look now int

. >> she's been running yahoo! for more than a year but ceo marissa mayer has spoke very little about her job until now. >> scott budman is joining us from san francisco. what was the occasion? >> reporter: well, it's the tech crunch disrupt conference, raj. a chance for a lot of startups with established ceos. among them, marissa mayer who talked about how yahoo! got its groove back and where the company goes from here. in a rare appearance, marissa mayer talked first about the growth. >> you have to get the right people there before you can build the right products and the products have to be good otherwise you don't actually use them and once you've got that usage you can use that especially in advertising business like what we run to actually attract advertisers and grow revenue. >> reporter: and how the once beaten down company will continue to grow. >> we now get 12,000 resumes a week. and the reason that's because we have 12,000 employees right now. for every job we have, we get a resume each week which is u

yahoo!. the people said you can't use use yahoo! by name. >> everybody got it. >> stewart, high level in the company itself, what is the wrinkle blue jeans brings. second question is why blue jeans. you don't make apparel. >> blinlgs is an inner operable conferencing service in the cloud. you can think about it as a video bridge in the cloud. the play on your bridge is closed yours ours makes a lot of since. only inner operable video company that can bring together people on a diverse range of traditional business, cisco and poly con, et cetera, as well as people on consumer solutions on their desktop or laptop. >> can i translate that for you. you bring face time and my corporate cisco systems into the same -- >> people at home and want to use skype or google or microsoft link can talk to people in the office and want to use cisco or poly con conference rooms with the all expensive equipment. >> traditionally video conferencing has been for the elite, heads of state, ceos, celebrities. it hasn't been for the every day person. releg

john fortt, what's going on with yahoo!? >> yahoo!'s poked its head above 30 bucks a share quite a few times today. it's just below that now, touching highs last seen 5 1/2 years ago. this on the heels of yahoo! ceo marissa maier's comments last night when she talked about what kind of ceo she'd pick for microsoft. >> i think that i really admire what steve and bill have both done at microsoft in terms of what they have built. and i think that, you know, this is an interesting time for microsoft. and i think that, you know, i don't know what their board is considering, but when i look at their product line, i see a lot of strength in the enterprise area. windows, office and what the next expectations of those products look like. and so one of the things i have come to appreciate is i do think that consumer executives and enterprise executives have different traits and different instincts. >> in other words, leave the consumer business to us. may mayer also talked about why she's excited about the iphone 5s. hint, she doesn't have a pas

cnbc and yahoo!nce to share and editorial content. for more now, bill harris, former ceo of pay pal and intuit. bill, good morning. well. >> bill is a very brightly colored fellow today. extremely shrill voice. >> we will try to get bill back as soon as we can to ask him for his thought thoons logo. >> they call that, by the way, an epic fail in television. going to bars and tone, as that is known in as you noticed yahoo! stock as more than -- i don't want to say more than doubled.ivei double in 12 month? >> yes. >> the question for bill if we get them back is, operationally, different. new logo is similar to the old logo. maybe adding a whisker to the carolina panther's look, right? what operationally are they doing better? the stock has gun better. >> it's actually -- >> are the page views up, ad rate up? we don't know. >> remember, this just happening the other day when we found out that yahoo!'s services were attracting more web traffic than google's first for the time in several years. bill, apo

yahoo! is a really -- yahoo! is a really fun place to work. i really love the people there and i love the spirit of the place. >> now a 20,000-word unauthorized by yoking dwraw fee on business insider sparked a debate on whether the press treats mayer more harshly because she is a woman. look at what has been said and written about mayer over the last yeerk. sexism? >> of course. 21 of the fortune 500ceo's are women. people do not know how to cover women in the media. >> in 2013? >> in 2 have 13. in 2013. 21 out of 500, yes. women are in a double bind. one on how they look. if you look goodment if you are put -- if you look good, if you are put together people automatically assume are barbie and are stupid. >> that does president -- that doesn't happen on tv, does it? >> but if you don't look good and look from -- frumpy, it tran sends that you don't care about your job. >> mayer gets an enormous amount of coverage and she gets to bask in that. it is good for yahoo! and then if somebody criticizes her for doing her chief executive job, this is

surveillance program but according to yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer her hands were tied and rejecting government requests would have amounted to treason mr mayor made her comments at a san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg were told the audience that they were obliged to comply with washington's spy programs this mayor told those in the crowd that it makes more sense for big tech companies such as yahoo to work within the system and fighting the n.s.a. through lawsuits have so far proved unsuccessful she also said that she's only allowed to disclose a limited amount of data because releasing classified information surrounding n.s.a. programs is punishable with jail mr zuckerberg went on to say that the obama administration has done a bad job at balancing national security and citizens privacy rights the facebook c.e.o. said that the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s. tech firms that are operating abroad now this is th

of yahoo was saying what the c.e.o. of facebook is beginning to say but it looks as though these big data companies are beginning to speak publicly as you mentioned they have filed a lawsuit together to disclose classified information and maybe at the end of the day this will benefit users this will benefit citizens who feel that their privacy have been violated for so long. marina thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it. from. the on going leaks from ana say whistleblower edward snowden cools rule every time they manage people across the world being shown just how much their private lives and private being monitored by intelligence services and i discussed this issue with kevin mitnick one of the world's most renowned computer. according to revelations emails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government god i think have access to everything at least in the united states and probably britain great britain and now it's there's been some revelations that they've been pretty resourceful

yahoo is a really fun place to work. i love the people there. spirit of the place. >> now a 20,000 word unauthorized biography sparked whether she streets her more hashly -- harshly because she is a woman. sexism? >> of course. of course. look, 21 of the fortune 500 c.e.o.'s are women. people do not know how to cover women in the media. in 2013. 21 out of the 500? yes, in 2013 because women are in a double bind on several fronts. one, if you look good, and you are put together, people automatically assume you are a barbie and stupid. >> that doesn't happen on tv? >> never. if you don't look go and you look like you do not care, people think you do not care and that translates into not caring about your job. would you of say that about a man? >> marissa mayer especially being in the tech field gets enormous coverage so she basks in that and it is good for yahoo and if she is criticized, well, this is sexism. >> that is not true. people do not spend more time talking about the job of the look at the yahoo e-mail design. how many articles about tha

>> facebook. >> facebook. >> why not yahoo!? >> i think a lot of the story in yahoo! has to do with the pricing of ali baba and had a huge run. if you're talking the next two, three years out, facebook has more upside than yahoo!. >> she's done some things, but not big things. still the honeymoon period. you have to see some action here. >>> the s&p at session lows. crude, just hit above 109. not big moves on either side of the flat line today. again, going to the dow for its fourth consecutive triple-digit gain. something it's never done. coming up on "the half," a five-star portfolio manager lays out the retail stocks that should be on your shopping list. plus we warned you about lulu. >> the issue here, i think, is valuation. i mean, and they're eating their lunch, too, because what they couldn't get at lululemon, they went over, checked out -- >> you have a situation here where a company needs a rudder and they are rudderless in this environment. it's not a name to be in. you sell this one. >> good calls tl. find out what the next move is when we come back. [ bagp

yahoo stock today hitting a new high, up 3%.pany is growing steadily getting 12,000 resumes per day looking at the future, she is totally focused on the long game. >> it can take multiple years, probably three or more to get the company going in the direction we want to having the growth be at the rate we want it to be. for me it is a chain reaction. bring in the right people, have them build the right product, getting that traffic because traffic leads to revenue. online. >> she said traffic is already up over 20% in just the last year recently passing 800 million users. not including users and traffic from yahoo tumbler acquisition. liz: 12,000 resumes, that is unbelievable. how do you even go through them? that is called growth. thank you very much for the update on that. coming up, people work so many hours in their working startups, they all order in. chipotle has come out with a funky new video. they are trying to send a very interesting message. coming up. and motorola made in america. motorola is also talking it down say

thank, julia. >> yahoo!'a look at what she had to say about mobile growth and the new logo. >> yahoo! above 30 bucks a share this morning. meyer took some heat about the new yahoo! logo but she didn't apologize doing it in-house saying it hadn't been updated in 18 years. >> we kept it in house. we didn't have someone at an external firm. we didn't spend millions do it. we did it in a way that came from a very authentic place. for us what the brand is really about is about the products and having the best products and best user experience. that's what we want to shine through. that's what we're focused on. we're happy with the logo. >> on the question of her greatest weakness, meyer said an experienced ceo told her there are actually few decisions a ceo has to make herself but the big one she does make must be absolutely right. that's a balance she's still figuring out. >> i probably should be making fewer decisions and while i try and identify what those big decisions are and i don't think i've missed any yet

yahoo! one you cannot live without. 20% say apple, 27% google, 24% say coca-cola, only 4% ibm, 25% of you say microsoft. ty. >> i would say if i had to answer that it would be google for me. let's send it over to dominic chu for a market flash. shares of h&r block are get a boost after a bullish call from analysts over at red bush securities that believe that h&r block could benefit from the implementation of the affordable care act known as obama care. it's just all about the moving parts of the act that could drive more business concerns towards h&r block. they attached a $34 price target to the stock back to you. >> dom, thanks. new numbers on how many working americans are supporting retirees. now and in the near future. how can that system survive and how long can it survive? we'll talk about that coming up next. f you didn't know that it's smart to replace washing-machine hoses every five years? what if you didn't know that you might need extra coverage for more expensive items? and wh

s of facebook and yahoo are speaking out against the n.s.a. scandal mark zuckerberg and the rest of the mayor have voiced their concerns over the expansion of surveillance we'll hear their concerns later in our tech report. it stars day september twelfth in washington d.c. i'm vegan lopez and you are watching r t u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in geneva switzerland today participating in another round of talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about the chemical disarmament of syrian military forces the two day meeting will include a full diplomatic teams from both countries as well as chemical weapons experts will discuss the overarching question of how this disarmament will happen the goal is to have a resolution to present to the u.n. by the end of these negotiations and a speech secretary kerry delivered today he set some guidelines for this disarmament this is not a game that i should vote for a surrogate when we talked about it initially. it has to be real it has to be comprehensive it has to be verifiable it has to be cr

she wrote about the decision to retain yahoo!'exclamation point, now tilted at 89 degrees, just to add a bit of whimsy, she said. that will do it for today. thank you for joining us, next week, my guest, pimco's founder, bill gross, talking about the interest rates, each week, keep it right here, have a great week, everybody. we'll see you next week. ensures support, a breakthrough. sooner than you'd think. you die from alzheimer's disease. we cure alzheimer's disease. every little click, call or donation adds up to something big. >> in this episode of "cnbc titans"... >> centuries from now, people will look at steve jobs as one of those people who changed the world. >> i'd like to let macintosh speak for itself. >> [ electronic voice ] hello. i am macintosh. >> he's a living embodiment of creativity and non-conformity and passion. >> no one personified silicon valley -- its culture, its personality -- better than steve jobs. >> we want to get even more aggressive. >> apple is not a democracy. there's only one vote that matters. >

melissa: just changed the font. >> like yahoo!. see the same thing happening with bp, for example. wasn't that the most costly logo ever been made, around 212 million dollars to rebrand that. but you have to think about the fact reason why they wanted to rebrand is get away from all that crisis that happened, the hurricane ha happened couple years ago. melissa: giant, explosion and oil spill disaster. >> that one. melissa: that big disaster. they want to get away from that. tropicana was not trying to distance themselves, right? >> no. they want ad fresher look. in the case of yahoo! i think with the new ceo, marisa mayer has a new outlook and more sleeker. maybe it will generate more interest. >> there are industries created around corporations that are scam industries. logo makers. management consultants. a big article i think in the "new york times" how mckenzie and company, you pay them 10 million bucks to do something that any, your 7-year-old son could have thought of. lawyers, lawyers. practically all lawyers are scam artist

and facebook. >> yahoo!'d mark zuckerberg are expected to speak at tech crunch conference in san francisco. we'll air that on cnbc. that's where would he find ju a julia. highly anticipated. >> that's right. marissa mayer and mark zuckerberg expected to take the stage an hour later. now, yahoo! shares are down a bit today, but the stock is up about 95% over the past year. so now attention is shifting to what mayer will buy next, with acquisitions of ten startup since she bought tumblr in may and what is coming as yahoo! unveils a new mobile look. facebook topping $45 for the first time since facebook's ipo days. investors want to hear how zuckerberg plans to keep this up, his vision for the next five years. topeka analyst hopes to hear zuckerberg talk about how he plans to drive the next billion users and ramp up video and deliver against last year's promises. last year's first public comments since the ipo, facebook shares shot higher in after-hour trading and stock closed higher the following day. we'll see

. >> in 2007, yahoo! filed a lawsuit in against the new -- the patriot act parts of person advisa. a lot of people wondered about that case and who it was. >> you lost? >> we lost. >> not you, you weren't there yet. >> right. but when you lose, the way you lose, we fought, we lost, if you don't comply, it's treason. >> she mentioned that treason

coming up, yahoo!er grabbed the spotlight at the tech crunch conference in san fran. she'll take the podium coming up and we'll take you there live. >>> get this -- the nfl may be making money on settlement with former players over concussion-related injuries. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] [ male announcer ] time and sales data. split-second stats. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ it's so close to the options floor... [ indistinct shouting, bell dinging ] ...you'll bust your brain box. ♪ all on thinkorswim from td ameritrade. ♪ >>> welcome back. a safety is only worth two points in an nfl game, but off the field safety may be worth millions to nfl owners. last week the league and players settled a lawsuit where former players sought damages from concussions they suffered while playing the game. the $765 million settlement will assist players in treating head injuries sustained while playing. now the sports business journal is reporting some clever financial maneuvering by the nfl could act

. >> yahoo is announcing a big change. >> topping america's money, gas prices are headed up. the average price for a gallon is now $3.61. the biggest increase is in the midwest. the auto industry is anticipating strong numbers as sales surge. august figures for new car sales are expect to be the highest in seven years. spending on new vehicles in august may have hit the highest monthly record on report. on monday, chick-fil-a will give away breakfast items for free through next saturday. that is america >> breaking news, a body has been found inside a trailer after a fire at a trailer park. crews are on the scene east of interstate a 80. the fire broke out over an hour ago. no word if the opinion died in the fire or from something else. we have a news crew headed that way. >> a strong earthquake shook tokyo and eastern japan. the 6.5 earthquake was centered 370 miles south of tokyo. despite the distance, buildings swayed in the city. trains stopped as a precaution. no tsunami alert was issued. a 6.5 earthquake hit in the waters off alaska's remote islands, the same place wher

surveillance program but yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer now says that her hands are essentially tied and rejecting the agency's request would amount to treason mayer made her comments at a san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told the audience that they are obliged to comply with washington's spy programs miss mayer stated that it makes more sense for companies to work within the system of any big internet company big data company attempts to release classified information without the government's approval they could be punished with jail term put it be by essentially being put in prison now mr zuckerberg went on to say that he believes the obama administration has done a very bad job of balancing balancing our national security and citizens privacy rights the facebook c.e.o. said the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s. tech firms operating abroad now this is the first time we've heard from the heads of su

. >> facebook andrea hasn yahoo t essentially ordered them to release information about their users.arate but similar motions yesterday following in the foot steps of google and microsoft. all four of the companies were on the list of internet businesses identified as giving the nsa access to customer data under a program known as briss sim. they argue they have a free speech right to publish aggregate data on the national security orders. among other things facebook and microsoft or -- yahoo i should say how many orders they wanted to receive. facebook is arguing with more than 1 billion exposing that data would lead a user to infer he or she has been targeted. yahoo adds director of national intelligence says he's going to start disclosing how many letters and orders the agency issues from now on. if they can release that kind of information going forward how hue yahoo is saying if they release it going backward it shouldn't j jeopardize national security. google also filed its own amendment to it's version of the motion and google has reached an inpass to the government. >> die na

i think as core, yahoo!ously an advertising driven company, but we're a personalization company and we're about organizing the right content and the right advertising for each of our users. >> meanwhile, yahoo! is key for yahoo!. the stock up around 0.7% in frankfurt. >>> carl icahn buys more shares of apple. he told cnbc the purchase was a no-brainer the. >> we bought quite a bit today in the 4.65, 4 had.67 range, 4.66. that's not to say it won't go lower. i don't really look at it from day-to-day and we don't try to fix what the market is going to do. but i think if they do a big buyback, that's going to be a major plus. but i also think the products were pretty good and i think they're going to get a lot of business from china. >> and dell shareholders will once again gather at the company's headquarters to vote on the buyout offer from founder michael dell and partners. the vote takes place at 10:00 a.m. eastern. it's been suspended three times. last month, dell raised their bit to $13.55 a share. the bu

yahoo's ceo marissa mayer says it's supposed to show whimsy and evolution. but i always thought to evolve something had to change? apparently not always. >> slight touches there, huh? >> too subtle. >>> well, a triumph for the trout. the major project that will protect a threatened species in a bay area creek. >> it doesn't have tobacco but experts fear it's just as addictive. the alarming trend involving teenagers and those e cigarettes. today the u-s forest service an illegal fi >>> a hunter is to blame for parking the "rim" fire that burnt into yosemite national park. today the u.s. forest service says a hunter allowed an illegal fire to escape. the "rim" fire is now 80% contained. full containment is expected in a couple of weeks. fire burned 371 square miles destroyed 11 homes and about 100 other buildings. >>> a small change could make a big difference for a threatened species of fish. today a construction team removed a century old concrete barrier along the san fransesquito creek near the palo alto-menlo park border. kpix 5 reporter don ford reports

>> we are very excited about what's going on at core yahoo! yahoo!ey own a big piece of, and we love what's going on in alibaba. we're excited about that ipo and they own 24% of the company. >> everybody seems to be, steve, excited about alibaba and what it means for yahoo!. >> yeah. absolutely. you know, i'll defer to glen but seems like one of the fastest growing properties of that type out there with incredible potential as mobile makes more of inroads in that part of the world. >> they have roughly 90% market share in the e-commerce business in china and not losing a share. it's more popular today than it was a few years ago. >> don't they so importantly have the approval of the chinese government, given how big they are, the favorite son? sort of like an impreg nabl moat for others to get into. >> i think the whole chinese internet sector is really a crown jewel of china. it's a sector that has not needed any help from the chinese government to get going. and it's something that -- >> haven't they gotten all the help in the world given that chin

the redesigned look is part of a makeover that yahoo has been undergoing since the sunnyvale company hired google executive marissa mayer to become ceo 14 months ago. mayer has already spruced up yahoo's front page, email and flickr photo-sharing service, as well as engineered a series of acquisitions aimed at attracting more traffic on mobile devices. the shopping spree has been highlighted by yahoo's $1.1 billion purchase of tumblr, an internet blogging service where the company rolled out its new logo. new this morning. google is fighting to continue scanning the contents of people's g-mail accounts to help sell ads. a federal hearing is scheduled today in san jose. a class action lawsuit claims google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people's private email messages". even in e-mails from non g-mail users who never agreed to the company's terms. the lawsuit argues the practice violates the state's privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. the rim fire continues to burn in and around yosemite this morning. officials say it could take months to determine

after holding a 30 day contest yahoo revealed it's new logo meant to preree flekt yahoo's new image in, a post mayers says it has a more mathematical consistency with one coherent mark. larry, carolyn, back to you. >> emily, thank you. help for internet addicts is here. the country's first hospital-based treatment sent jer opening next week in pennsylvania. patients in the 10 day long program will undergo a digital detox prohibiting smart phone, tablets and internet use. officials say typical add yits are young, male, and intelligent. the majority are obsessed with games. >> a heavy blanket of fog being blamed for a pile up in england. 100 cars were involved in this wreck 60 people were hurt. teams had to use jaws of tloif free the people. we're used to fog but nothing like that. >> any time have you to drive in it you fear that is going to happen. >> it's true. we don't have to worry about fog here. of fog now. it's sunny skies across the bay area, mild to warm right now, western sky you can see it's sunny out as far as we can see. we're going to have 100 degree temperatures, plus, su

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yahoo filed a lawsuit against the prism program but but lost. >>> you've heard of blackmailing someone, but how about greenmailing? how it's tieing up bay area construction. >> and an inside job at two restaurants. the clues that led police to the suspected robber. >> and the deals that come along with a store's opening and why it could be too much of a good thing. >> some of you would argue we had too much cloud cover. a high of only 71 today. alamo, only 73, berkly, just 68. temperatures are goinggoing back up. find out when and how high, coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, what he... and many others.. consider to be abuse of california's >>> san jose mayor chuck reid is an even-keeled guy, but he's steamed about what he and many other consider the abuse of crease environmental laws. tonight, there's a raoul move to change the law was because of what he's about to show us. >> reporter: this is as fired up as we've seen mayor chuck reid in some full-time. >> it's an abuse of the process. >> reporter: he's talking about this 22 acre plot set aside for burrowing owls. a gorp wanted to temporarily

the most popular uses for yahoo, e-mail, news, sports.stock price doubled. >>> a $49 billion bond offering from verizon sparked a frenzy on wall street. investors rushed to take part in the largest bond sale in history. verizon will use the money to buy a stake in its wireless business. >>> finally some good news about the housing market. new data shows foreclosures fell to their lowest levels in august in almost 8 years. 56,000 homes were in foreclosure last month, but that is down 8% from july and 44% from august of last year. >> all right. time is 5:50. >>> jailing an airport security agent in los angeles. coming up in about 15 minutes, the plot allegedly hatched by a tsa agent and how it was connected to september 11th attacks. >>> plus who let the pigs out. the eastbound bay community where wild hogs are tearing up some property. what's next in the beef over the pigs. mom... yes honey? dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, an

i find super value in yahoo and in super valu stores. >> be sure to check us out tonight at 5:00. until then, "power lunch" begins right now. >> "power lunch" and the second half of the trading day start right now. >> and we welcome you to "power lunch." i'm sue herera. the american economy, the fed and stocks. ahead of the crucial jobs report, it could be make or break for the fed and its plans to begin tapering. what will be the scale of easing, and can stocks and interest rates both rise, really, at the same time? you know, forget the smartphone, because right now it's the smartwatch war which has begun. samsung firing the first shot with the device. qualcomm unveiling one, too, and then, of course, there is apple. that's one of the big players in the space. we're going to find out who is going to win the war. then a showdown between president obama and russia's vladimir putin as world leaders gather for the g-20 meeting. syria tensions dominating those talks. we are live at the summit in st. petersburg. simon hobbs is my pattern and he's at the new york stock exchange. hi, sim

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yesterday yahoo! hit $30.27 in intraday trading, a day after meyer told the company that it increased 20% since she took over. now -- hi. i don't think -- thank goodness i did. christie smith talked about the twitter filing earlier. we'll take a deeper look at it coming up in a bit so to speak. let's check in with courtney reagan. good morning. >> hi, good morning. futures are higher after stocks took a breather thursday t dow failed to post its fourth straight triple digit gain. while it may be friday the 13th that's not unlucky for the markets. historically stocks close higher about half the time. we'll get data on retail sales, inflation and consumer sentiment. the dow falling 26 points yesterday to 15,300, the nasdaq slipping 9 to 3715. scott. >> thank you. have a great weekend, by the way. people have anniversaries, it's hard to pinpoint the precise anniversary of a problem, when it comes to the disaster that was the subprime credit crisis, sunday's going to be close. because that will be five ye

the yahoo ceo, ibm, hp. in silicon valley, women can reach the top, but not wall street. >> we used to say it was because they did not have the same education levels and that is not true anymore. women have come very far but also have a great tendency to leave this field pretty quickly. that is surrounding the time going from middle management to senior management. i don't think it has to do with family obligations, i think it has to do with the people that make their way up. if you think about the difference between technology and financial services, many of the places where women are running technology firms have a much shorter duration. companies are newer. for the finance companies, you have a bottleneck of men that have been groomed. >> so do you think the culture about new firms and a more progressive -- younger people are starting these companies. is that why? >> it has an awful lot to do with it, and there is also a perception issue that i think is quite fascinating to me. if i think about myself and

this comes after a 30-day build up where yahoo showed off the different designs online.y said, quote, while it was time for a change, it's not something that we do lightly. >>> actor betty white has racked up many accomplishments to her career, but now she can add longest female entertainer. she has worked for 74 years. she game the oldest host for saturda"saturday night live." next on al jazeera, 101 east. thank you so much for your time. don't go anywhere. china's one child policy has quoted controversy, from accusations of the state confiscating children, to forced abortions. today it is being blamed for a declining fertility rate and a major gender imbalance, with more than 30 million men, to women by 2020. i'm steve chow on this edition of 101 east, we ask if the days of china's one child polices is mi

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that she is at the end of her rope. >> in 2007, yahoo filed a lawsuit against the patriot act, and we lost. if you don't comply, it is treason. >> they can't fight back against the government, does anyone else stand a chance? today's tech report. are any of these comments surprising to you? >> facebook and microsoft, they have taken a line in that they don't like these requests from government agencies. we are trying very hard with litigation or negotiation. trying to disclose the actual amount of data. >> i am wondering if some of the reasons behind what they are doing, are these trying to save their own butts? >> they do have the save their own butts, with reputations of consumers. >> it is our global basis. so when these revelations about the -- disclosures. it is pretty much any law- enforcement agency, but the foreign intelligence surveillance act, they don't really have a choice. they can argue and minimize the impact of the request. they can't ignore it. it does not really happen all that often. >> what can the companies do at this point? >> they have recently said they will co

yahoo however does the same thing that gmail does.ail which is now outlook says they do an e-mail but just to filter out spam. you can log on here and join the conversation. >> a big warm up in store as we head into friday at the weekend and even out the door tomorrow morning you'll probably notice it. because temperatures will be burning in the 60's. quickly into the 70s by a clock in the morning and then by noon. temperatures in the 80's for much of the bay area except the immediate coastline and portions of the coastline. there is some bread on the screen and you see it expanding into the no-space. we will take a look at the numbers in your neighborhood and how long the heat wave will last. stanley roberts with people behaving badly. >> it's one thing to tail gate while driving a 4000-pound vehicle, but it's another to actually record the video with your mobile phone while driving. look mom, no brains. with the opening of the eastern span of the bay bridge people have been recording a drive across, often while they are driving. jus