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of google, larry page. did he give any sense of whether this momentum is going to continue for 2013, of strong earnings and revenues? >> yeah, well, i mean, typically google is somewhat circumspect in terms of their outlook, but in terms of their fourth quarter terms, they were happy with them. geographically they beat my expectations in all of their major geographies, and there was nothing they pointed to in the call that would indicate that momentum is changing as we starter the year. >> susie: how about in terms of ad sales. on the call, they said that google is running on -- firing on all cylinders, to quote them. can google build on that momentum? >> yes. i mean if you look at their positions and other major geographies, and the fact that they're handling the transition to mobile search fairly well, it seems like they're in pretty good shape. one thing i point out is that the cost per click, which is metric, which a lot of investors have focused on, was down again in the fourth quarter, but the decline

google's settlement with the commission requires google to abandon its claim for injunctive relief on any of its standard essential patents with a friend commitment. and offer a license on fran terms to any company that wants to license these patents in the future. today's landmark and force an action will become we hope a template for resolution of sep licensing disputes across many industries and builds on more than 15 years of work bipartisan work at the federal trade commission from patent reports to workshops to enforcement actions like this one aimed at protecting the integrity of the patent system, and even more important, protecting american consumers. today's action makes clear that the commitments to make patents available on reasonable terms matters, and that companies cannot make these commitments when it suits them, that is, to the patent include any standard and then behave opportunistically later once the standard is in place. and those relying on it are vulnerable to extortion. today's commission action will also relieve companies of some of the costly and inefficient

>> google does it, too. what google is looking at is xwo google is trying to get you a link to their page and get you off their site as fast as possible. more and more they are trying to get you an answer and develop that content experience themselves. you have a lot of engagement on facebook. now they are adding search. you have very little engagement on google. ask is trying to be a place where you can get a question answered and stay there and get the whole picture. >> who should i believe, my friends or your experts? >> yes. it depends on the question. it depends -- look, you might ask your friend what's a good restaurant to go to. you may not just take their word for it and go. you may then go and see what an expert thinks about it or a community of people you don't even know. it's all those signals we talk about in the search world that are really important. combine people you know from facebook or linkedin or other places. or real experts. >> what are you doing specifically to incorporate social signa

but google isn't doing that. and because of that -- >> rose: does larry page see applications, apps, as his competition? >> i don't know how they look at because they've entered into apps. they're manifestly good at them. apple took out google's map product and replaced it with their own and it caused a big problem. >> rose: and they had to go back and fix it. >> and the google map problem -- >> rose: and fired their executive. >> google makes great application but they're up against goliath in the apple world and in my mind it's not smart to come neat a way that doesn't emphasize your own strengths. and i think the way they look at android there was this experiment that's been run before and it worked this way with unix, the open rating source operating system in the '80s. and why they would expect it to be different this time i don't know. but now android is samsung there's one guy half of all the units in north america. samsung. >> one company, a south korea company is one half of all the android operating sys

google invests in their people and technology and a lot of the google technology. spot an analyst at the company as all, with you the end of the day they have a real idea of what things are going. >> ibm revenue number, 29.36 billion so it looks like the revenue is coming in slightly above expectations and now the numbers 539 versus an estimate of 525 so that's looking like a solid beat. >> another 3% gain for that stock now, too. >> a very nice move in the after hours. >> bodes very well for global growth. that's what ibm is about, their services contract and how much they are able to increasing gdp around the world. >> i like it a lot and one of the rens i do such. the revenue number. always buy ems because they buy back shares. today we see it beaten. >> witch seen, 47 of the 74 tops companies that reported had beaten consensus estimates. this only adds to that beat rate. again, it shows you corporate america is endeavoring to make profits in a very challenging environment. you heard yesterday the lack of any talk of fiscal restraint. we know regulations, taxes

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of google, larry page. did he give any sense of whether this momentum is going to continue for 2013, of strong earnings and revenues? >> yeah, well, i mean, typically google is somewhat circumspect in terms of their outlook, but in terms of their fourth quarter terms, they were happy with them. geographically they beat my expeations in all of their major geographies, and there was nothing they pointed to in the call that would indicate that momentum is changing as we starter the year. >> susie: how about in terms of ad sales. on the call, they said that google is running on -- firing on all cylinders, to quote them. can google build on that momentum? >> yes. i mean if you look at their positions and other major geographies, and the fact that they're handling the transition to mobile search fairly well, it seems like they're in pretty good shape. one thing i point out is that the cost per click, which is metric, which a lot of investors have focused on, was down again in the fourth quarter, but the declines

larry, you've been looking at it very care friday at google. of course -- carefully at google. a lot of questions because they sold motorola cable, because motorola mobile isn't really into the mix. a lot of questions about how to figure out these numbers. >> it's very confusing. i think the street was expecting them to beat revenue and not beat on earnings per share, so it's been vice versa right now, but you're right. cpc is something everybody's worried about right now, cost per click. that has gone down given the new use of smartphones and tablet devices, etc. so that's put a negative bent on google. that said, there's been more traffic, so it's a kind of balancing act. nobody knows what to make of it, and that's really the long and short of it. but let's describe some of the headwinds. they've had taxation issues, accounting issues. that's something that's weighing heavily on the stock. but going forward i think people are bullish on google thinking that there's going to be a tremendous, exponential rise in the use of tablets, and that's going to be beneficial to google's

if you take a look at google news, many of you use google news, it does a pretty good job news, it does a pretty good job of assembling the obvious stuff.

google steered people to google sites because the offerings were superior. google argued. the ftc agreed. and apple tried to switch to the o-maps and had to bring back the google app. no, no. they didn't go out for boat drinks after the case that i know of. this was a benign outcome. second b advertisements have gotten weaker in. could be getting stronger now. the european business has turned a bit. it's possible that a head wind could be a tail wind. maybe not this quarter but they could reference it possibly. finally google has just begun to monetize or lever the tremendous smartphone operating system. it could be in 2013. that could happen this year. at the same time they did manage to shed the albatross that was the hardware portion of the motorola mobility acquisition. we don't know how well google is doing with mobile but the apps it offers blessed but the ftc could lead to revenue streams and facebook is blazing toward better mobile revenue. that's a path google could follow. normally i put google in the penalty box for at least one quarter after the terrible miss.

>> well, i'm long google, i like google here. i don't think the valuation is particularly expensive. it makes me wonder if this is positive, negative for facebook, do they look at it as market share gains, potentially? or is it a -- ability to monetize -- >> that would be my read through. my read through would be that suddenly facebook can say, look, they are monetizing mobile. we already showed you we were able to do it last quarter. we can show you something more this quarter. >> yeah. facebook shares are slightly higher but this is after a 3.6% gain in the regular session. we are awaiting house speaker john boehner to deliver his first news conference. when that happens, we will bring that to you live. we're on the google conference call, also the ibm conference call. all the developments. we are watching both shares pop afterhours. and apple's new numbers less than 24 hours away. a look if they can reassure the street. plus, the biggest movers in today's session. more "fast" straight ahead. if you think running a restaurant i

. >> susie: and a win for google. the web's 800 pound gorilla is cleared of anti-trust charges when it comes to its online search business. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> susie: congress is back to work in washington, after a one day break. new members of the 113th congress were sworn in today, including 100 freshmen. they face huge challenges: fights over the sequester and the debt ceiling coming around march first. and as sylvia hall reports, there are low expectations lawmakers can get the job done peacefully. >> reporter: returning lawmakers didn't get much of a break after that bruising fiscal cliff battle. they're back in washington today, swearing in the new congress. demographically, it's the most diverse group ever sworn in. but politically, this congress is expected to deliver the same gridlock as the last one. >> the problem is that the congress is very divided, not only are the two houses divided, but each party is further away from the middle than has been in the past, and the public- the a

but google isn't doing that. and because of that -- >> rose: does larry page see applications, apps, as his competition? >> i don't know how they look at because they've entered into apps. they're manifestly good at them. apple took out google's map product and replaced it with their own and it caused a big problem. >> rose: and they had to go back and fix it. >> and the google map problem -- >> rose: and fired their executive. >> google makes great application but they're up against goliath in the apple world and in my mind it's not smart to come neat a way that doesn't emphasize your own strengths. and i think the way they look at android there was this experiment that's been run before and it worked this way with unix, the open rating sourceopering system in the '80s. and why they would expect it to be different this time i don't know. but now android is samsung there's one guy half of all the units in north america. samsung. >> one company, a south korea company is one half of all the android operating system

one is google glass so the idea of wearable computing. is that going to be available next year and beyond that? >> if you look at google glass, it's sort of glasses that they don't put it right in your eye. they put it right above. they can show a video. we have been experimenting what this could be used for. there are obvious uses in your daily lives. we never had a device that records or could record what you saw contemporaneously. think about it. >> so how will we use it? we don't know. not crashing into doors because we're looking at our glasses. >> hopefully there will be telemetry that will tell you you're about to trip. when you have the digital world that tells what the analog world is doing. people fixing eyeglasses and medical applications to more interesting ones involving performers who show the audience what they say in addition to when the audience sees at a performance. there are many, many creative things. you just saw at the new york fashion show where some of the models were wearing this. you looked at what -- one of the

that schmidt can be seen separate from google. google stocks this morning up ever so slightly. dow industrials down 42 points after a terrific day yesterday. back to you. >> what a way to start the new year. >> good rally. jump-start for us. thank you very much. 6:56. let's see what's jumping if our weather. christina loren, one final look. >> you may have so jump to stay warm out there and get that heart going this morning. it's frigid yet again. this is the last morning where we expect the 20s at this hour. we should be more in the 40s and upper 30s tomorrow morning. 27 degrees is very cold in fairfield and napa. same for santa rosa. 29 in gilroy. right here in beautiful san jose 34 degrees. 38 in the city. some north bay cities are expected to drop to 26 degrees. as we progress through the next half hour. you round out the day at 61. lots of sunshine. tomorrow morning we wake up and that fog returns. mild conditions as a result to start. we do have a chance for rain in the forecast. if you missed the seven day, we'll have it ev

. >> susie: and a win for google. the web's 800 pound gorilla is cleared of anti-trust charges when it comes to its online search business. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> susie: congress is back to work in washington, after a one day break. new members of the 113th congress were sworn in today, including 100 freshmen. they face huge challenges: fights over the sequester and the debt ceiling coming around march first. and as sylvia hall reports, there are low expectations lawmakers can get the job done peacefully. >> reporter: returning lawmakers didn't get much of a break after that bruising fiscal cliff battle. they're back in washington today, swearing in the new congress. demographically, it's the most diverse group ever sworn in. but politically, this congress is expected to deliver the same gridlock as the last one. >> the problem is that the congress is very vided, not only are the two houses divided, but each party is further away from the middle than has been in the past, and the public- the ame

we lost ryan talking about google. britain is rejecting calls over the top -- over the falkland islands. the prime minister david cameron -- christina kirschner urged the u.k. to end. president claims handling of the falkland islands is a cause supported worldwide. 108 years ago on the same day in a blatant exercise of 19th century colonialism, argentina was stripped of the islands which are situated 14,000 kilometers away from london. since then, the colonial power has refused to return the territories to the argentine republic, preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity. she called on britain to abide by resolution inviting both sides to negotiate a solution over the islands. >> my reaction is the future of the falkland islands should be determined by the falkland islanders themselves. the people live there. when i have been asked their opinion they want to maintain their current status with the -- they have been asked their opinion, they want to maintain their curr itent status. last year marked -- their

so google a 10% off the recent highs and i think there's more downside on google. but i think the bar is set so low for apple it can clear and start to rally into the mid 500. >>'s move -- let's move and get to a developing story. shares of apple trading near the lows of the day. got us wondering if the comments from the cfos comments. >> i tweeted out this morning, so cfo sha mow was asked about subsidies in the earnings call. as we get more and more fl platforms into the mix, now we have rim out there again there's the incremental competition. there will be subsidy reduction as there was in the basic phone history in the ecosystem. he's saying there will be more mix. the subsidies are down. you can say he's basically telling you here, as the smartphone becomes a bigger part of the market and more competition, no one is going to be able to command a higher subsidy than someone else. let the market duke it out if that's the case. >> you have to wonder though if something dramatic on scale is going to happen with subsidies. i want to listen to an interview we did a

. >> susie: and a win for google. the web's 800 pound gorilla is cleared of anti-trust charges when it comes to its online search business. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> susie: congress is back to work in washington, after a one day break. new members of the 113th congress were sworn in today, including 100 freshmen. they face huge challenges: fights over the sequester and the debt ceiling coming around march first. and as sylvia hall reports, there are low expectations lawmakers can get the job done peacefully. >> reporter: returning lawmakers didn't get much of a break after that bruising fiscal cliff battle. they're back in washington today, swearing in the new congress. demographically, it's the most diverse group ever sworn in. but politically, this congress is expected to deliver the same gridlock as the last one. >> the problem is that the congress is very divided, not only are the two houses divided, but each party is further away from the middle than has been in the past, and the public- the a

this morning a first for google. after leaving china recently, we learned the tech company might be exploring new cyberspace frontiers. bob redell is live outside of company headquarters with details of its plans for north korea. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. no official comment yet from google headquarters here in mountain view behind me. the ap is reporting that google ceo eric schmidt will be traveling to north korea possibly by month's end on a trip that is private, humanitarian in nature and possibly led by former new mexico governor bill richardson. that would be significant for a number of reasons. first off, north korea is very secluded. cutoff from the rest of the world. the last frontier in cyberspace. the country doesn't allow citizens access to the world wide web. some can go on a local internet controlled by the government. they want to bring the internet to everyone. whether schmidt will push for that but allowing the google ceo to visit could be very symbolic. this is also

google's antitrust suit could without risk of hyperbole shape the landscape of the internet. because if google is not allowed to continue doing business as it does, it would change the understanding of the search market as it currently stands, and a sort of uninterested arbiter of links. it sees itself as an answers engine. essentially, they're offering consumers services they wallet. once the government starts defining markets on the internet, then they become again, you know, isolated, and there will be rules to them, and it will put barriers to entry for smaller companies, so it would have a far-reaching impact if they were to take some sort of action on the core question as brendan mentioned. what we saw, i think, was that a very sophisticated lobbying campaign by google, i think, on both sides of the aisle really had an impact, i think, on how regulators viewed the core question. and then at the same time we saw the fear on the the regulators' part of being seen to be less powerful or achieving less than their european counterparts. so it's very, there's a lot still up i

i thought google was bad. no, google was terrific. >> asking what to do with annie's today. recall on frozen pizza. metal shavings found in the dough, not the finished product. >> the metal shavings thing is a bummer. you never want to see that, whether it be a pharmaceutical product, or -- no. you don't want those iron filings, or iron flings -- when i was a little kid, when i had my first chemistry test. >> j & j -- >> 40% knew? this is almost -- >> difficult for a year or two? >> what do you do when you have a hip already inside you? >> cramer does. >> really? >> it's a shame. you have to sue them in a class action sue. j & j said they'll replace it. this is a really horrible thing that has happened here that's been perpetrated on people. many people went in and had these devices, they were supposed to last a lifetime. they lasted about as long as as that watch i bought on canal street. >> i do want to get back to apple. the call had just begun, and we did learn more during that call from verizon. the activations alone of apple products, apple phones did seem to be a posi

, the nation's anti- trust watchdog agreed with google, that when it comes to search, google follows its pledge "to do no evil." >> i think today's decisions show that in order for there to be antitrust enforcement you have to have clear evidence that consumers are harmed, and while there was certainly a threat of consumer harm on this patent issue, there was no consumer harm on the search related issues. >> reporter: today's settlements ends all of the f.t.c.'s competition related investigations into google. the company agreed to grant fair and reasonable patent licenses to its competitors in the cell phone industry. while it's u.s. troubles are over, google still faces heat from regulators in europe: >> if there's no evidence that google engaged in search bias in the united states, it seems to me entirely unlikely that there could be that kind of evidence in the e.u. so i think we're going to see a very similar result in europe. >> reporter: still, another issue has popped up to plague the search giant, the state department today called a planned humanitarian visit to north korea b

no one is forced it use google. there is bing, yahoo!. just go to some someone else if you don't like their searches. >> people don't realize their searches are manipulated. if i saw an ad with advertisement on top of it, i know it's an ad. but if i google something, i believe i get an organic search. in fact what i might get is a a manipulation of results that favors towards googles website and not competition. i think there is self-dealing going on. as google gets more and more involved in things such as mapping -- >> sorry to be tough on you, because i don't disagree fundamentally, but aren't you treating google like a public service rather than corporation. honda is going it steer me to use a civic. that is an surprise to me. i choose to use google. >> with honda, you have a sticker that tells you results. people believe that this is a fair result. that what they are getting outs of google is unbiassed search. maybe there is disclosure. i'm not calling for regulations. i think people need to be involved about it. what we have coming o

google's bread and butter. that's why they have largely been in the green, although off the best levels as you can see here. i want to take a look as well at other stocks moving. yelp is certainly one of them. a company that does a lot of localized searches if you will. it's down about 7% and that looks to my eye to be the low levels of the day for yelp. you have to consider shares of linkedin. having to deal with professional services, job searches and the like. as you can see from that pretty graphic there, it has recovered all of its worst levels of the day. again, we continue to follow the story. graph search. two terms you'd better get familiar with. >> let's go to nasdaq where see seema has more. >> continues to move lower. it's the worst performing stock on the nasdaq 100, tyler, not just for today but for the year. 2013. a strategic analyst tells me that 440 stands out as the next key long-term support level. it's about a 50-point move from where we're moving now. lastly, the big winner here, dell conti

and lastly, cheryl, we've got google after the bell tonight, all eyes on google. of course, the big thing there, the sales of motorola and home unit, the company warned on friday that will not be part of earnings, so analysts could be getting the forecasts wrong, so watch for that one after the bell. and ibm, this is going to be a big one to watch for i.t. spending. that, too, after the bell tonight. so, cheryl, the earnings parade continues, and it's really proven to be a big moving factor for the markets this week. cheryl: right. we've had a heck of a month so far. you were going through a lot of the big dow names, again just hitting session highs. but a lot of this is based, as you're saying, on earnings. there's your dow 30, everyone. >> very positive as a result of those we werings. cheryl: sandra,ing thank you very much. we're in the heart of earnings season right now. it's really seasons, but this is the one season with big names like google, ibm reporting after the bell today, but what should you look or for in terms of results before you invest in these n

google doesn't. google, on the other hand, has monetized search both on the desktop and on mobile better than anybody else yet. they've got that big risk that facebook, just as murphy said, somebody is going to be coming after them on search. well, we know who one of those somebodies is -- it's facebook. and it is in mobile which is how more and more of us are searching. so that's the risk to google at this level. i like both stocks. but if i had to pick one, yes, i'm going with apple because more revenue stream potential. >> i'll finish the conversation by going down the line. who will have a better percentage gain this year? >> apple and facebook will both outpace google. >> second that. agree. >> i own apple so i hope apple. >> doc? you want to weigh in on that quick? >> well, i have been short apple 2 of the 3 days of the year so i'm not a big fan right here. i think the same pressures that were on at the end of last year for some people continue to be there now. obviously look at how weak it is

another thing to consider about this issue is will google provide the same rule as corporate rabbis, if you will, to guide this issue forward. he was the top issue for them. >> host: there was talk of rewriting the telecom act of the 1990s. what do you think about this? >> guest: there has been a lot of talk for about a decade. i think some members are more inclined to try and just deal with specific issues and think it might be too difficult at this point in time. one has to remember that that law came here by 1934. it was kind of digging into all of the past. and i think that is a big thing that we have to talk about. roger wicker is likely to become the ranking member of the communications and internet pendulum. all of those things have yet to be solidified. >> guest: i think the broader communications is that we are any period of great destruction. things like netflix, apple, the itunes store, it is not yet clear how consumers will get their content when all available options are there. it needs more time to shake out before they try to set these boundaries. >> guest: they keep s

"inside the google." >> people are treating google like their most trusted friend. should they be? >> i think judgment matters. >> eric schmidt is google's ceo. >> if you have something that you don't want anything to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, reality is that search engines, including google do, retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, we are all subject in the united states to the patriot act. it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities. >> so do we need google to protect our information from the government, or is the bigger threat what google does with our personal information? this is a huge story, skompt it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger which is why i think internet privacy companies securitizing all this data is probability biggest growth business of all. >> well, you don't want google to be giving your personal information to a third party. you don't want them to be doing anything that you would, i guess, deem

if you're one of google's competitors. an issue was does google change its search results to benefit itself. and the ftc says it does. but they decided there was little harm to consumers in what google is doing. the settlement announced just a short time ago does limit google but in the most specific of ways, and ways that as a consumer you simply won't notice. executive summary here, that's the way the antitrust investigation ends, not with a fine but with a whimper. >>> and in a related bit of news, google chairman eric schmidt will go to north korea. the "associated press" says schmidt will go as a private citizen, not representing the company. now, why, exactly is not cleerp, though the new leader the north korea, kim jong-un, has hinted as perhaps relaxing some of the internet restrictions. >> thank you so much. >>> looks like all the rain we got over christmas is paying off. rolling to an excellent start for the season, according to the department of water resources and more storms coulded a to that. what does this m

she's famous for her work at google. she came up through google. i think she was google employee number 20 which means she's fabulously wealthy. from writing google up. she's taken her google street smarts over to yahoo!. she wants it try to personalize your web experience and make yahoo! relevant again. >> do you know what fabulous wealthy means in real terms? i heard $300 million. that's her net worth. just like you. similar to you. >> wow. that's a lot of money. yeah, i drop a whole -- drop a bunch of zeros, couple of decimal points. whoa i'm telling you is, it's interesting when she came on and had her baby. people complain there aren't a lot of women in silicon valley. she took a couple of weeks of maternity leave. people, oh, what kind of a role model is she setting for women. wait, you can't complain that there aren't women in silicon valley and complain because somebody wants to be a powerful woman in silicon valley. i remember -- >> maybe her husband stayed home. >> i think he's a venture capitalist. he's got a big job, too. they're a big

that would help google plus or integrate that into google plus, that would be really good. >> shot across the bow of facebook because when facebook came out with the graph surge, could be a threat to linkedin. what do you think, rock? >> facebook is in a much better position to get into search than google into social even with linkedin. linkedin has a very different social graph than twitter or google does and i don't know how it helps to have the social graph which is professional oriented rather than search oriented. >> they had this split approved. i think it's been held up, right, delayed, but when you consider since their ipo back in 2004 their stock is up 728%, congratulations to those who got in early. should they split their stock? >> you know, i think it's something that is well worth considering given where the stock's gotten to this point. i would probably do it. >> really? >> why would you do it? why would they need to do that? what would be the big difference in the marketplace other than the smoke and mirrors of a stock price? why don't they just let it keep riding? what's i

you put a hold on google in the summer, google is up 15% in the past six months. were you wrong? >> google is in line with the index and google will continue to perform in line with the index and when you look at our technology universe we don't love everything. google still has some struggles the will be facing, tends to be a better second half of the year stock but still working through motorola. december quarter is google's quarter to shine. when you get a first that you still have to work through that motorola and we may not see cliff pricing rebound like everyone is expecting. i still don't quite get what they strayed from their core business of advertising to buy a mobile phonemaker. was that a bad deal? >> it is a millstone. if you look at the success of what they had with their instant tablet, next to seven tablet, nexus 44, did a really need to spend $12 billion for motorola and a company that is losing money and has been a drag? they got some patents and the answer is still to be seen. let's see what special hardware they make. dennis: competing against other mobile pho

we'll start with google. what do you expect with earnings from this stock? google google google. so i think that the last eight quarters google has sold off five of the last eight quarters. since its 740 top it is down to 705 so you can rationalize a lower high on the daily chart. it looked very strong and then facebook had their announcement. they said they were going to have search but they were going to have search in facebook only. it was good for google---friday and thursday it sold back off so it's currently trading 705. i want to be a buyer on a dip instead of buying it right here so i'm going to be looking for a pullback to the 670-675 level. we have some moving averages down there. i'm probably going to wait until after earnings. they disappointed so strongly last time on earnings. moving on to apple. this is your stock. or your old stock. you fell out of love with it. i've fallen out of love with apple. if you look at charts, i'm not a tech guy, but out of every single chart i've looked at in the last two months apple is the weakest chart. every rally has been sold in a