business songs, we weren't sure if he was serious because andrew mason is rarely serious. but it would appear this time he is telling the truth. the album "hardly working" is supposed to be released tomorrow with songs like "my door is always open" and "rising above the pack." unless this a giant hoax but somehow i think this time he is serious. >>> today is the first day of the back half of 2013. the beginning of the third financial quarter. looking back on the markets over the past half year, you might expect they were terrible. but, in fact, they had their fastest rise since the dot.com boom. they were so good at the beginning of the year, that's more than made up for all those losses. >> very good. thank you, scott. >> all right. we continue to follow breaking news. we're all talking about it. b.a.r.t. workers walking off the job. and on to the picket lines this morning. got a live look at the roads for you. that commute congestion certainly starting to build. going to be a long day out there on the roads. >>> and we have team coverage of the b.a.r.t. strike and how to

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. >> a drop for andrew mason. getting dropped by groupon, andrew mason has dropped something of his own, an album which features songs about business, life and is appropriately titled hardly working. includes gems like the way to work and my door is always open, now available on itunes in time for july 4. >> i just got a groupon e-mail on this. >> coming up in the next hour of mad money cramer is getting a real on jobs. plus he's talking to the man behind the wheel at nascar to find out what the logos on the cars say about the speed of recovery. all that and more at the top of the hour. our viewer tweets on everything from high yield and high quality, where's trading your tweets rights after this. vo: i've always thought the best part about this country is that we get to create our future. you get to take ownership of the choices you make. the person you become. i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved and staying engaged. they're not sitting by as

today, andrew mason unveiled an album. it's called hardly working which to me sounds down right autobiographical. i like that irony. that switch told you it was time to buy! which leads me to zynga. last time we learned that the former head of microsoft's entertainment division is taking over the troubled gaming company from mark pincus, who couldn't lead. hey, by the way, how clued was he in? i did trounce him a couple of times at words with friends, although in a degree of candor, my daughter was actually running the game. she's a facile anonymous, she was at the controls there. anyway, that's how i won. when we dissected it on "squawk on the street" this morning, my colleague gave it favor. asked if it was too early to buy zynga. see, that's been a long-running joke with me. too early to buy zynga. well i said no, it was time. i thought he'd fall out of his chair, but the new ceo is at the top of the game. microsoft's entertainment division is a huge success and the only reason you don't know that is that because the re

earlier this year, groupon ousted founder and ceo andrew mason, offering a nosedive in the company's stock price and increased competition in the daily deal market that groupon helped create in the first place. mason is keeping busy. he has released a seven song album about his business knowledge with tracks such as "the way to work" and "my door is always open." and of course, the king of all tech giants, steve jobs long before he change the world. he was pushed out of his own company in the mid-1980s. he made a big comeback to apple and as we know, his career worked out just rate. apple is running into trouble again in europe. french regulators raided several of the company's stores and distributors last week. they are being accused of unfair retail practices. investigators said the company prioritized supplying its own stores with its newest rod ochs while limiting supply for retailers. french officials are probing developers hoping to sell their apps on the company's website. apple has refused to comment on the raids. internet entrepreneurs cameron and tyler winklevoss, best-know

monday we were talking about former group on ceo andrew mason who moved from chicago to palo alto after being fired from the company he founded. he said he recorded an album of business songs. that album was released this morning. ♪ if you are seeking business wisdom ♪ ♪ you don't need no mba ♪ >> it is available on spotify and ituness. fantastic. >> got a good beat. >> i just heard it soaring to number one. >> the album cover, the brick wall there. keeping it sexy businesswise. >> you don't need no mba. >> i think you actually sing it better than him. >>> let's check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning. we are singing a whole other song in the weather department. pick your favorite hot weather song. mine is "the heat is on." 107 degrees in livermore. 77 in san francisco. 97 degrees, one degree away from anthony slaughter's favorite band and you know what that is, 98 degrees. >> i was thinking traffic. >> your favorite band. >> i wasn't focused on the weather. i have so much going on. i don't have time to think about songs. 5:56. you see the bay brid

monday we were talking about former group on ceo andrew mason and hoy he moved from chicago to palo alto after being fired from the company he founded. and we said he recorded an album of business songs. he really did. that album was released this morning. ♪ if you are seeking business wisdom ♪ ♪ now don't need no mba >> he really recorded an album. you can buy it on ituness or use spotify and it is free to try out just in case you don't want to invest a lot of money. >> what is your favorite song? >> it is a whole work together. i don't agree you can pick out one particular favorite. >> i can't stop tapping my foot. >> nice stuff. all right. >>> it's 6:55 right now. time to check the forecast. it's been a hot one lately. that is going to continue, as well. >> a lot of this. >> we like that good morning temperature-wise it is balmy out there. showers creeping up from the south. we will be tracking these for ayou every 15 minutes throughout the today show and tracking the temperatures as they sore to 107 degrees inland. bay side 92. 79 degrees at the coast today. let's check on the

andrew mason of groupon did that. you can buy it for $9.99 on i tunes. david: deal for groupon, they add ad new policy to compete with some restaurants that offer certificates online. they have a new program to compete with open table essentially, that will give them a leg up and they did extremely well today. but we're going to the s&p, find out what the s&p futures are doing right now. liz: liz: larry shoafer in the pits of the cme. what does it look on very low volume, we know? >> traders focused on ecb and jobs numbers on friday and earnings season next week. the big picture trade remembers worried about, why and how did they let the market get into a tailspin over tapering when they knew at some point it was going to happening? is there some secret bubble brigade we don't know about? is there communication chaos somehow the fed lost control of what is going on right now? or is the growth outlook so many different from the fed that the market implies, traders are worried about that, and that's why we're seeing knee-jerk reactions last couple days and

today, andrew mason unveiled an album. it's called "hardly working" which to me sounds downright autobiographical. i like that irony. leonsis was running the joint. that switch told you it was time to buy! which leads me to zynga. last time we learned that the former head of microsoft's entertainment division is taking over the troubled gaming company from mark pincus, another founder and ceo who couldn't lead. hey, by the way, how clued was he in? i did trounce him a couple of times at words with friends, although in a degree of candor, my daughter was actually running the game. she's a facile and anonymous, she was at the controls there. anyway, that's how i won. when we dissected zynga on "squawk on the street" this morning, my colleague david faber asked if it was too early to buy zynga. see, that's been a long-running joke with me. too early to buy zynga. well i said no, it was time. i thought he'd fall out of his chair, but the new ceo is at the top of the game. microsoft's entertainment division is a huge success an

i think it's very similar to andrew mason. also a very smart guy but just wasn't doing the job as the head of the company. i think this is a key strategic move. i think this stock sees $5 probably by the beginning of the fourth quarter, judge. >> do you think they overpaid them, doc, $50 million for the first year? >> not based on how much that stock has moved already, murph, no. >> this guy is not a-rod. they had to pay what they did to bring him into the house. >> now he has to perform. >> he adds another 500 million market cap, they haven't overpaid him. tweet us and we'll give you the results as we always do. today on big data download, what happens when hard work and performance aren't quite enough in courtney reagan and her special guest focus on a recent study that offers clues about the secrets to getting that big promotion. you can catch it all, bigdata.cnbc.com. up next, earnings season kicking off next week. alcoa reporting monday after the bell. hard to believe already. our traders give their earnings playbooks so

. >>> shares of groupon up nearly 50% since andrew mason was fired in february. somebody here says the daily deals website is still a bargain. we'll look at the charts next. >>> also, the s&p 500 up 14% through the first half of the year, while gold is down 25%. which is the better bet in the second half of the year? that's coming up on "closing bell." stay with us. ♪ the world is changing faster than ever, creating new opportunities for those who stand ready to seize them. in a time when the biggest risk is playing it safe, we believe outshining the competition tomorrow requires challenging your business inside and out today. at cognizant, our flexible, collaborative approach helps forward-looking companies not only run better, but run different... to give your customers every reason to keep looking for you. so if you're ready to see opportunities and see them through, we say: let's get to work. because now more than ever, the future belongs to those who challenge the present. ♪ honey, is he too into this car thing? [ mumbling ] definitely the quattro. ♪ h