even yahoo!n growing user numbers that the quality of the user experience may not be very good. >> that's different. engagement and monetization don't always go hand-in-hand. on what type of value you can derive from use -- your user base. does not mean there is not a lag between getting engaged users in creating that value. we don't havetme a revenue model in place. ishave a clear sense but now not the right time. the right time is probably at the end of the this year. >> you had patients. >> thank u so much. slappy birds is gone and fans are furious. we will talk about pulling the app coming up. ♪ >> flappy birds fans are furious after the mobile game was pulled from the apple and google app stores over the weekend. the vietnamese developer removed it himself -- cliff edwardsn who covers gaming. now i want to play because it is not available. it was the top app in the apple app store. it was again where you navigated and it was similar to super mario brothers. a simple game and very easy graphi

was yahoo web cams. well no yahoo have come out haven't they and said that they are extremely annoyed about this i mean the guardian reports that they are fevered in their in their denial of this kind of thing because of course this is massively damaging to yahoo and the previously in the trust between yahoo's users and the organization and i would think you will find i mean they've already been fighting in some ways these internet companies the n.s.a. and in the courts but this will make things even more it's me even more important for yahoo to be to defend their reputation by stopping this kind of thing going on but a lot of people are saying why does it matter surely you know if you've done nothing wrong you should have nothing to hold but i'll tell you why it matters going to get a warrant their own laws in place to stop these mass data trolls and why does it matter this is why it matters is a book by edwin black here which recounts the way that the nazis used these massive databases helped with the

chris you called yahoo!. -- >> you called yahoo!. >> my colleague, spencer ackerman, called yahoo!. they were alarmed. if they were more secure, they would have encrypted people's chats. they could have prevented this. people were saying at the time that they should do it. it is not just hindsight, but now they have come out strongly come calling for reform of surveillance laws. they have been one of the companies that has pushed for reforms. now! invited yahoo!, but they did send a statement saying we were not aware nor would we condone this reported activity. this report, if true, represents a whole new level of violation of our users privacy and it is completely unacceptable and we strongly call in world's governments to reform --veillance law consistent that is what they said. there deals being made with these huge, multinational web giants and the government to continue to argue -- operate? rocks that are two sets of problems. the internet companies, and the degree to which they are working with law enforcement, and this is a prison program that is now a household name. that wa

yahoo! webcam images for millions of internet users that aren't even suspected of any wrongdoing. to 2010, a from 2008 shocking stat of 1.8 million users targeted. yahoo! says they were not aware --nor would we condone walking dead keeping amc network very much alive. we will be talking to jon erlichman. but first, our lead. google has built its empire by selling ads on its search engine. chasingcompany is not driverless cars or mobile maps. homespeed internet in your leaves competitors in the dust. we are taking an in-depth look at google fiber. our internet at large is in utah. i'm so curious how much better google fiber really is. >> i have not used it yet. moore is the right number. we talked to a guy who is one of the early users, a big tech user. we asked him about his experience. check it out. the company they found was just losing it in the process. the are starting to roll this thing out over the country. it is just the right town for you. now google is rolling out new equipment. go

yahoo!r twitter, they have all had issues with hacking? >> we look at it from a markets perspective. there are so many ways to come into the system that again, you're only as strong as your weakest link. what has happened in the case of target and neiman marcus that there are risks. that is why we think this needs to be a top priority for the administration, for the congress. it is a top priority for our members and our organization. >> so here is my question. is it really the responsibility of the government, the federal government, to give a company like target incentives to make their network more secure? shouldn't they as a company make that a priority? >> you would think they have enough incentive. other companies look at what happened to target and neiman market as well over the holidays, they have plenty of incentives right now but maybe they might need some guidance from the white house. >> how are companies like target different from utilities and financial services companies? >> it

yahoo!ebcam images from users who are not suspected of doing any wrong doing. the program dated from 2008 to 2010. 1.8 million users were targeted in a six-month period alone. yahoo! is saying they were outraged, not were they aware of nor would we condone this reported activity. shows like "walking dead" kee ping networks alive. we will talk with jon erlichman. first, our lead. its empire bylt selling ads on its search engine. there's hardly a business and technology the company is not changing. one of its newest businesses is google cyber, high-speed internet in your home that leaves competitors in the dust. were taking an in-depth look at google fiber. the only other place other than kansas city where the service is already online. this town?ogle pick >> it already had fiber. the.comft over from $30 when the city borrowed million to wire houses. they found the way they were running it was losing money on the process. went tor of provo google and said, you are starting to roll this out all

i think it's very favorable for yahoo. i still think yahoo is a $44 stock no problem. >> what about twitter? that number i read you from the journal story today is pretty compelling. four of five of americans who have internet access don't use it regularly? >> the thing with twitter is part of its charm and part of the reason why hard core users like it is because of those quirks and that weirdness. and it's really tough for them to crossover and become as mainstream as facebook. it was a stat that 750 million people in the last seven years have tried the twitter service and abandoned it. that is dick costello's challenge. he has to figure out how to bridge the gap between remaining quirky. if this were on the s&p right now, it would be the 150th largest company. bigger than delta and netflix in terms of ranking there. they have to find a way to get more people using the service. >> let's do a market flash now, a look at what's moving. morgan brennan, what do you see? >> check out oil trading back above $100 a barrel level

the founders of yahoo! -- of whatsapp who come from yahoo!, i heard that yahoo!as aggressively trying to buy them as well. >> we are getting more headlines out of this conference call. mark zuckerberg first proposed this acquisition last sunday night. i want to ask you, what makes you think this is going to be more successful than some major deals that have failed in the past? >> facebook is really in this business already. it was completely baffling, ebay buying skype. people are going to want to talk to each other before they buy things. the whole reason people use ebay is because they do not have to talk to each other. the difference here is facebook has demonstrated they will do everything in their power to make sure they do not get disrupted by someone growing faster, and make sure those platforms do not go to their largest competitors. they know exactly where their market is. people are holding smartphones in their hands to access and communicate with their friends. they will outbid anyone to get it. >> does it matter that they are buying versus building in

it's pretty scary. >> why isn't yahoo telling us?ping the information close to the vest for a particular reason or because they don't want to be embarrassed business wise or why aren't they giving us the information? >> you know, maybe they are still trying to find the perpetrator and they don't want to disclose too much information. i can't speculate there. >> all right. now in terms of the 20 some some -- 200 and some million. obviously you want to change your password tonight if you have a yahoo email account. how do you know you have been hacked unless a month from now credit card was used and number was in an email. >> supposedly yahoo has said that they are contacting you. but, no matter what, you should not only have changed your password, but this is a good reminder to change your passwords on all of your accounts. you should be changing pass words every three to six months. they should be what we call in the industry strong pass words and not just password, 123 or russ reader password. you have to have a very strong password

report reveals that britain's intelligence agency intercepted and stored webcam images from millions of yahoo users with a little help of course from the n.s.a. the latest on that just ahead and another member of the cuban five group is released from u.s. custody the five men were convicted back in two thousand and one on spying charges back home they've been hailed as heroes a look at the history of the cuban five coming up. and in california kings city officers face charges of car theft six of the city's top officers have been arrested for their involvement in a car impounding scheme more on the police corruption later in the show. it's thursday february twenty seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm near a david and you're watching our team america. we begin today with the news that britain's intelligence agency the g.c. h.q. has been collecting images from webcam conversations conducted by yahoo users this is all according to documents released by former government contractor edward snowden and obtained by the guardian the report reveals the details of a surveillance program called optic n

the founders of yahoo! -- of whatsapp who come from yahoo!, i heard that yahoo!as aggressively trying to buy them as well. >> we are getting more headlines out of this conference call. mark zuckerberg first proposed this acquisition last sunday night. i want to ask you, what makes you think this is going to be more successful than some major deals that have failed in the past? >> facebook is really in this business already. it was completely baffling, ebay buying skype. people are going to want to talk to each other before they buy things. the whole reason people use ebay is because they do not have to talk to each other. the difference here is facebook has demonstrated they will do everything in their power to make sure they do not get disrupted by someone growing faster, and make sure those platforms do not go to their largest competitors. they know exactly where their market is. people are holding smartphones in their hands to access and communicate with their friends. they will outbid anyone to get it. >> does it matter that they are buying versus building in

has been collecting images from personal web cams conducted by yahoo users and often times this innocuous data gathering turned out to be a little dirtier than expected the report reveals that the program called optic nerve was collecting and storing sexually explicit images in large quantities all with the support of the u.s. national security agency needless to say yahoo was a little perturbed when i heard about this in a statement to r.t. the company said we were not aware of more would we condone this reported activity this report is true represents a whole new level of violation of our users privacy as completely unacceptable to talk a little bit more about how this program was carried out earlier i spoke with artie's sara firth in london and i first asked her how the agency was collecting that information well this was done via web cam the british intelligence agency key aided by the n.s.a. had the program code named. and they were essentially collecting still images from millions of accounts one point eight million accounts and saving them to agency databases and how was this infor

what will happen people stop using webcam, but if they're big yahoo! users they still use yahoo! would be scared away some portions of the application but not so much the stock. neil: what worries, keith to gary's point, we get used to, you don't have a webcam or built into monitor you don't think about it. i'm wondering if we get upset about this and forget about this? >> actually i think it is other way around, neil. i think we forget about it and upset we forgot about it an proof is right in our face of the time to really discuss all this 40 years ago when they first developed this technology. the genie is so far out bottle from usage standpoint it is not even funny. going forward from an investment standpoint the real meat on the bone is edges. it is around security companies. around who can manipulate the data. it will not be big guys like yahoo! because they have lost control of it. >> even if they lost control of it, there are very few guys do what they do, to the heft they do. gary b., might get a black eye or genuine surprise or feigning surprise but i don't see the hit

you that yahoo! ceo marissa mayer says that yahoo! is working to get all of its products in -- encrypted. this is a story that will not go away. >> this one has legs. it david, thank you very much indeed. our european editor joining us from berlin. how to direct its resources. bloomberg sat down with thompson in an exclusive interview. >> the issue for us is about focus. one of the reasons why we chose sasha renee dela as our new ceo is that she has a strong technology background -- is that he has a strong technology background. he knows how to move microsoft forward. the dela has significant challenges, as we have been hearing. his company owns proxies such as new york's lazo tells. the us has a stake in india's only formula one racing team. the have to winner for best film >> 2 years a slave," -- >> it wasn't referenced, it wasn't there. investigate.ort of i wanted to find out about that. >> you can watch charlie rose's special tonight. it comes on after 10 p.m. london time. yanukovych claims he is still the ukrainian leader. we wil

they intercepted visit owe chats of two million yahoo users. yahoo says if it's true it is a whole new level of violation. they say yahoo will encrypt all of the products by the end of march. >>> and confusion around the google mystery barge. the space where the barge has been docked says the ship has been moved to stockton. the port of stockton tells the chronicle they never agree todd that. they left treasure island because they didn't have the proper permits. >> it's about to get more expensive to cross the golden gate bridge. tolls are expecting to go up one full dollar. it rises by a quarter every year and will reach $8 by 2018. bridge officials are expected to vote on that proposal today. the added money will close an anticipated budget deficit in the next five years of $150 million. >>> the city of coopertino is not happy about plans to expand highway 5. their filing a letter with their concerns. they say it would discourage carpooling. those allow single occupancy vehicles to pay a toll to use that lane. if funding and project approval

. >>> internet giant yahoo is in damage control mode. the out age that outraged some users and had others calling it dejavou. >>> plus a first for the nfl as a college football player comes out of the closet ahead of the draft. the influential entity already expressing support. >>> an alaska airlines flight was forced to turnaround and make an emergency landing at the san jose airport a little more than an hour after departing for honolulu. the pilot of flight 837 which we've highlighted for you decided to turn around when the power went out on one of half a dozen navigation systems. the pilot landed the boeing 737 safely back at the airport at about 9:40 this morning no one was injured and the 132 passengers were rebooked on another flight and headed to hawaii again, about an hour later. >>> a meat processing plant is recalling more than 8 million pounds of beef. our noelle walker explains the issue that lead up to the plants second recall in less than a month. >> reporter: production is shutdown today at rancho feeding corporation in p

- generated reviews to yahoo's search engine results yahoo lags its competitors holding only 10.8% of the search market. yelp shares climbed to $91 dollars yesterday. aol's ceo tim armstrong is issuing a back track following a back lash. armstrong made controversial comments last week... citing two high-cost births of "distressed babies" by aol employees as the reason the company needs to cut expenses and would contribute only once a year to employees 401k plans. he also blamed president obama's health care reform. public backlash was swift and severe. "well, he just gave us the hook and it made him look bad -- high costs of births of our employees? that's a healthcare problem, not his problem, so why did he put his foot in his mouth? it was double-dumb" that was car-ee anderson -- a connective behavior expert and a former wall street journal reporter. armstrong issued a memo obtained by reuters to the aol staff over the weekend-- stating: i apologize for my comments. and the company will return to year around matching contributions aol recently reported its best growth in a decade. j

in january and june of two thousand and thirteen google yahoo facebook and microsoft all report they receive between zero and nine hundred ninety nine pfizer requests for content e-mail messages photos address books and calendar entries google says those requests involve between nine thousand and nearly ten thousand users or accounts but yahoo was actually much worse with three times more yahoo user accounts affected by the content requests impacted over five thousand facebook user accounts and over fifteen thousand microsoft. the government only allows the companies to disclose data and broad ranges of one thousand or as linked in chose to do combine all of their national security requests and reports in ranges of two fifty the social networking company reports receiving between zero and two hundred forty nine national security related requests affecting that same number of user accounts the new data disclosures are the result of a legal battle over transparency between tech giants and the justice department and it's all a result of the revelations brought to light by former governm

>> bing has 18%, yahoo! has 11%. >> yahoo! is the largest web portal in the world.hat is a web portal? in search, tiny. 11%. >> why do we care? search ad revenue makes up 1/3 of yahoo!'s total sales. >> michael holland is with us. google goes and goes and goes. buy and hold google or buy-and-hold apple. how do you know when to finally get out of a dog that used to be buy-and-hold? >> you cannot always do it. two reasons, the company simply turns into something that you did not originally buy. codec, motorola, the names go on and on. the other is that it gets to a level -- google, when i bought it, years ago, they were a lot lower. not only in price but in valuation. the company has grown dramatically, i love companies whose name is also a verb. ha, ha. at the end of the day, for example, twitter and tesla -- >> did you buy off management? the microsoft ceo changes or mercer mayer -- or marissa meyer at yahoo!, do you buy off people. thebsolutely, if you have right person in charge. microsoft -- i don't think ballmer did a bad job if you look at cash flow. this looks

the question of the day, yahoo!ounding it will pay $16 billion in cash and stock for whatsapp. what's your take? 19% say a smart move. 46% say a bad idea and overvalued. 35% say it should focus more on its own innovation. there you have it. now let's see what's coming up on "street signs." over to sochi. >>> kayla, thank you very much. at the top of the hour on "street signs" giving you new developments in the european union's reaction to the escalating violence in ukraine. outside of that, the latest, also hear from the winter olympics in sochi as well as a look ahead and if you need comic relief, i'm going to squeeze into a four-man bobsled with three u.s. bop slbsledders and a skeleton lesson. from sochi, and the american women's hockey game as i speak. it is nearly 11:00 here in russia. for now, back to beautiful snowy inglewood fl inglewood cliffs, tyler? >> more snow than you do at sea level in sochi. >>> "power house" folks, what your money buys you in atlanta. a realtor with berkshire hathaway perimeter. wel

webcam chats images from one point eight million yahoo accounts to be exact and then storing them on databases now the the images were an experiment in what they call automated facial recognition and it was used to monitor not just d.c. cheese existing targets but also to discover new targets but it seems they were getting a little bit more than perhaps they'd bargained for because as they quite clearly put it it seems that a lot of people don't use the webcam chats just the conversation and so it seemed they had quite a large number of images of a sexually explicit nature in fact the documents revealed between three to eleven percent of the data they were receiving was of undesirable nudity as they call it now you are here you have responded furiously to this saying that they had no knowledge or involvement in this and if the report please true that it represents a whole new level of violation that's certainly something that's being echoed in a public sentiment in response to these latest revelations was one social media eloquently put it c.c.t.v. on the streets d.c.h. he in your sh

yahoo is expressing outrage in a statement to the "new york times" the company says and i quote, "thisrt if true represents a whole new legal of violation of our users' privacy that is unacceptable and we call on the world governments to reform surveillance law." >> on the heels of the failed anti-gay measure that stirred a backlash arizona is tackling another piece of social legislation. the arizona house of representatives is considering a bill that would allow surprise inspections of abortion clinics around the state. they now node a warrant. the measure would require clinics to report when an inpant is born alive after "a botched abortion." the conservative group backing this bill is the same bill that supported theant bay marriage vetoed this welcome by the governor brewer. >> newly obtained video shows oscar pistorius and murder suspect firing weapons at a gun range. it it is a photo showing him firing a pistol he used when he shot his girlfriend on valentine's day last year. curing to sky news the images were taken months before the killing. oscar pistorius pleaded not guilty sa

why did they use yahoo!. what was wrong with their systems. >> yahoo!ncrypt the situation. it was plain flat blank easy to read. if i chopped it up and scattered it around, it would be hard to reconstitute. these images it goes out flat as it is toelgtly readable. that's why the nsa would do after it. they are looking for low hanging fruit, something easy because they cast a very wide net to see as much as possible. >> obviously we're supposed to assume that terrorists were communicating on their web cams potentially but in the meantime, we've got a bunch of nude people and nude foot oss. this probably goes to the top of the list with regard to a privacy invasion. >> the thing i keep telling people, if you don't want something to end up in the public, you probably don't want to do it online. unfortunately a lot of people use web cams to share private photos, allows you to broadcast to multiple people at the same time, which makes it a better platform for that kind of use if you're running an adult web cam. >> that will change as a result of that. >> yah

you mentioned the yelp-yahoo! deal. i think more beneficial to yelp than yahoo!here was a lot of olympic talk as well. there are pockets of stocks around the room, not necessarily sector specific. news-related items that happened over the weekend or announced this morning. melissa: bob what do you think of the market right here? >> well i think that, you know, there is a lot of crosswinds in the market. corporate profit growth has been steady and positive. the economy is growing but not really getting -- melissa: the economy is not really growing. i know what you're talking about. we'll be lucky to have 2 1/2% in the first quarter. >> that is positive. melissa: with the jobs market, i think the stock market is way ahead of what the economy is doing? >> part of reason we know interest rates will stay low for a long time even if the tapering continues despite the job numbers last week. the, rates, short rates will stay low for quite some time. that alongwith modest corporate growth, modest economic growth, i think at some point will help give a floor to stock price

yahoo says it had nothing t with it. president obama admits he w not a perfect kid. he opened up about his past at white house yesterday, duri speech about "my brother's keeper"... a new program to help reverse underachievement among young black & hispanic males. "i made bad choices, i got without always thinking abo the harm that it could do. i didn't always take school as seriously as i should have. made excuses. sometimes i sd myself short." the president told the younn his story is not much different from theirs. but cautioned them not to make excuses as he said he did is youth. the program aims to partner government and business... to connect younn of color with mentoring networks. oakland mayor jean quan waso at the white house. the city will soon launch the program locally. now there are more places f scientists to try to find "" nasa says it's discovered 7 new planets. it's the biggest single discovery of planets ever made. the ay used the kepler space telescope... and verified t planets using a new techniq. four of the planets could potentially support life.

nicole: yelp and yahoo versus google and the other guys. we are seeing up 1.8% or 91. worth noting yelp hit a new high today. over 300% in the last 52 weeks' there working closely with yahoo. melissa mayer to put these two companies together, this will give access to all of yelp listings and reviews for local businesses, that is why marissa mayer wants to do this. in the meantime, this will directly take on google and the other guys. when you talk about their program, it will be a direct competitor, google machine. it is also noted that he yelp has deals with microsoft and apple, so making his way around, but this one was yahoo a big deal today. liz: what are the traders saying about the very fact we got these numbers cross me unchanged line 52 times now. really indecisiveness right here. nicole: oh, my goodness, volatility. this is more crazy ride then great adventure. you are waiting for janet yell yellen, you have all the wildcards in 2014 that have been in place. it is crazy. liz: may turn positive in just a second. appreciate it. it is

it reportedly used facial recognition technology to help gchq to k tracdown targets who were known yahoo users but images of many innocent british and american citizens could have been collected and stored in the operation. >> there's a great potential that american citizens' web cam data has been intercepted under this program because gchq, the british intelligence service does not preselect out the images before it collected. >> reporter: the agency does not ask foreign partners to collect intelligence the agency could not legally collect itself and yahoo says it was completely unaware of the alleged operation telling cnn, this report is true represents a whole new violation of user's privacy that is completely unacceptable. >> that was pamela brown reporting. british intelligence refusing to comment on the guardian report other than to say it acts within the law. >>> the department of transportation is releasing a 400-page report today on the nation's aging infrastructure. it highlights a record setting $86 billion backlog of transit projects that need to be repaired. >> reporter: eve

what about americans who were using yahoo! web chat between 2008 and 2010, should they be conditioned there are images of them stored at the nha or gchq now? >> it's a major question. because gchq like the nsa does mott have the ability on the front end of its bulk collection programs to filter out data coming from the u.s. and coming from the u.k. we didn't get direct answers as to how many americans if any have been collected. but the rules that gchq is under on the search end, when be alyces can look through this database distinguish peerly between people believe to be in the u.k. and people not believe to be in the u.k. so americans imagery data that has been caught newspaper this could in fact be searched by gchq. the most partner of the nhs from surveillance purposes. >> so what did they do with all the purposes what is the facial recognition element. >> the facial recognition element is fascinating because it's an emerging technology that even the documents can see just really isn't precisely mature yet. the idea would

webcam sky iing sa that british spying has recorded thousands of images off of the yahoo! video chat. >> and it gives running for the office a whole new meaning as we >>> vice president biden and the president are helping the first lady celebrate the fourth anniversary of her let's move campaign. mrs. obama encourages everyone to be more physically active and eat healthier options. here is what gets the president and the vice president moving. >> mr. president, are you ready to move? >> absolutely. let's do this thing. let's move. ♪ >> man, you are hard to keep up with. >> after a good workout, got to break up. >> all right. >> otherwise, we are in trouble with jill and michelle. >> same time next week? >> all right. same time next week. >> i want to know how they got the dogs not to follow them. that was great when they both followed them. >> and we know that the first lady had them at the white house doing it anyway, right? >> yes. it seems to be working. and everybody is working good. and you see them everywhere you go these days, and thick bushy beards worn by men, and

another big move from yahoo!, marissa mayer, according to the wall street journal, partnering up with yelp. this is right up your street, olivia. >> trying to improve the local search. when you put in bergdorf goodman, normally what would, is bergdorf goodman.com, they are going to have the young local were a few -- they are going to have the yelp local review.

yahoo! teaming up with yelp to help boost. yahoo! will incorporate yelp listings. the feature should be available in the coming weeks. yahoo! has content partner ships. seems everybody works together. so much now. >> we all love each other in the silicon valley. yes. bertha coombs, thank you so much. >> we especially love christina loren. she has been working a lot of o.t. but giving us a great forecast. >> over 6 1/2 feet of fresh powder. here's what happened with the snow. we had really great totals at the lower levels on friday, but then we had warmer rainfall come in as we headed through saturday and sunday. so a lot of your totals are above 7,000 feet. kirkwood, 6 1/2 feet, over 6 feet sierra at tahoe. squaw over five feet of white powder. we're going to hold on to a lot of this into next week which is ski week. i know the kids are excited about that. and we have more rain on the way and snow to tahoe deeper into the week. the weather story of the day is showers are clearing out. you'll notice on the seven-day forecast we are going to see a good deal of cloud

yahoo! makes changes after the latest rememberlation by second leaker edwin snowden. what the company is promising. >> the rain continues over the bay area. inthis is earlier this morning, the wind really making those palm frons move. >>> welcome back everyone. take a look at the radar this morning. look it is a all of that red, green, yellow, all over the bay area. taking a live look outside in fremont. not just the rain but the wind you're going to need to watch for this morning. our team tracking the storm. we'll get an update in a few minutes. >> yahoo! promising changes after the latest revelations from edward snowden. the guardian newspaper reporting snowden, according to snowden, british intelligence has stolen screen shots from the webcam of yahoo! users. the effort called optic nerve reportedly intercepted video chats from almost two million users. but it's unknown how many images were actually taken. yahoo! is responding saying if this is indeed true, it represents, quote, a whole

that is why companies like yahoo! are struggling.spend and innovate very far ahead. >> was the ability of microsoft to move being forward? will they jettisoned being it? bing? >> they do like it. nice movesade some and others. we do not know what is going to happen. microsoft has spent a lot of investment on its search engine. >> what does this yelp and yahoo! partnership mean? how will it work? >> that is a great question. we are not a the moving parts will come together. if you look at bing, they have a partnership with yelp. if you do a search on a restaurant in long island, there will be a bunch of reviews on the right side of the screen. they provided by yelp. -- likeook some something like that. decidet the user which one they want? >> that is a great question. yahoo! is going to do what he can to get users like you back. that is the problem, not just of the desktop but smartphones. linehas a lot of a direct with users. it may have more users everyday. day, yelp is the making a lot of inroads. i know how to type www. i thank yo

yahoo had modeled it well less. >> back then there were no multiples.ou cannot say 20 times revenue, you have to believe in the bigger picture of the future of where it could go. what people do off-line, how does that come online? we thought it would be very big. liz: back then, you taught to the head of yahoo and said get on the bandwagon. >> we were able to sync up afterwards. we knew they had seen our note and thought about this, but wasn't so much until later we got a chance to talk to them. liz: it has done xtraordinarily well over the past couple of months up 140% year-over-year. very low percentage being shorted. a sign people are believers, are you? >> what you saw was the mobile side. if you think back six quarters ago, no mobile revenue at all. about last year we saw an inflection point. a lot were painted have mobile ad installs. you can download apps to somebody's phone. a big hit, start a rocket ship of modernization with the company. liz: the founder of facebook is still running it, mark zuckerberg. he has managed to grow up very quickly a

shares of yahoo were also up 1.5% to 37 $.76. >>> and toy maker report add weak third quarter. investors slugged that off since the boys unit should turnover with spiderman and transformers coming up. the company upped the dividend. shares jumped up 4.5% to $52.36, ty? >>> green mountain coffee reached a deal with krispy kreme. they are going to launch a k-cup coffee line less than a week after news that coca-cola bought a 10% stake in green mountain and the two companies are making a cold drink machine together. shares of green mountain rose 3% to $110.92, krispy kreme up 3% finishing at $17.96. >>> reports on a restructuring plan. the casino operator is dealing with a hefty debt load. cesars struggled to recover since the recession and has not posted a profit since 2009. the stock fell 3.5% today. >>> aol's chief executive had better days, perhaps. armstrong found medical issues suffered by two employees' children and an unpopular change to the 401 k plan and this isn't the first time he's been the center of controversy. julia boorstin looks at the man at the top and whether

are you looking at it as ali baba plus yahoo!'s core business? >> i'm looking at yahoo! business as an option. an option that we saw last quarter, is not necessarily clicking on all cylinders. but to me, i have an open time value on that. i have an ali baba valuation i think is being undervalued here. >> karen, what are your thoughts on citigroup currently? >> citi has had a painful run the last few weeks. the markets traded down. but specifically emerging markets. they have more exposure than bank of america or a jpmorgan. all that being said, i like it here. we bought some as recently as today. we did call spreads. april 50, 55s. you can do them over a buck. and you get earnings release in there. i think that's an interesting risk/reward. >> coming up next hour on "mad money." cramer is looking at the business of finding mr. and mrs. on the web. he's getting player eharmony. tdd# 1-888-628-2419 searching for trade ideas that spark your curiosity tdd# 1-888-628-2419 can take you in many directions. tdd# 1-888-628-2419 you read this. watch that. tdd# 1-888-628-2419 you l

yahoo!lly i would be concerned if my user name and password were stolen because they use those for other products and fferent connections. it is very disturbing. charles: we're not sync when but people don't necessarily miss the be they will not go to target but they will use their credit card may be you don't use yobbo -- yahoo! we just marks those out that let us down. >> i agree to that point but the frequency that this is happening with the neiman-marcus, target, ya know -- yahoo! ands this information going to end up in somebody else's hands down the road? charles: i was in target last week they said cash or charge? i thought he was crazy. i said cash. [laughter] amazon now considering hiking the price of amazon prime. is that risky? >> i think it is but they also have to. look at this quarter with $200 million net profit over $25 billion of revenue but they will have to do something costs are increasing it is a natural probably overdue but it has to do. charles: but for the most part t

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yelp up 7 1/2%, yahoo! up 2.3%.tter understanding of this, you have to think how marisa mayer continues to have the wheels spinning and new ideas. in this case partnering with yelp and this is to beef up the local listings for yahoo!. when you're using yahoo! you'll get yelp listings. what are the terms of this deal? nobody knows. stuart: i thought you were asking me a question and that's one i don't have. and we're a minute and a half into the day, down 24. we look at mcdonald's, u.s. sales down 3%. the company blames the deep freeze for that drop and the stock is about 1/2% lower. by the way, mcdonald's opening up in vietnam for the first time, i believe it opens up today. and now, here is the big news on apple this morning, carl icahn is backing away from his demand that apple get out there and buy back a lot of its own stock. he sent a letter saying, he didn't think the company should persist with the stock buyback program, the stock is up nonetheless, nearly 3 points. 522 on apple. that's the reaction from wall