Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic globe that displays the moun
A lot of cheeseburgers. Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic glob
We are Going Forward with our plans to accommodate if that agreement isnt met. Reporter the Port Administration is working on a back up plan. Part of it would open two terminals only open during the week to business on the weekends. We want to make sure we can get as much cargo moving as possible leading up to the work stop age. Reporter as issue are the usual wages and health care but one major Sticking Point is container rayalties. They were put in place in the 60s. Both sides are supposed to meet saturday to resolve the issues. Work interruptions happen nobody wins. Reporter that therewas an eight day work stop age over similar issues. That brings a hard reality to the port here in baltimore. At the port of baltimore. Don harrison. Abc 2news. This Labor Agreement affects ports all up and down the east coast and on the gulf. Maryland live casino opened this morning and doesnt plan to close them ever, ever again. They are now open 247 because of new state legislation it also plans to
Automakers to bring its Android Software to your dashboard. Is 30 seconds worth 4 million . We have the ad rates for this years super bowl and once again it is a record high. In the age of social media, the question is why . The Consumer Electronics show starts tomorrow. This is the biggest gathering in technology. More than 3300 companies expected to be there and samsung is starting the conference off early. With a bang. Staking out its territory. It is announced a giant tv with a bendable screen just a few minutes ago. I will just wing this. Tell us what you think. I try to take people on an emotional ride. The curve . That was michael bay. He ended up walking off stage. You sort of feel for him in my line of work. They did announce a huge tv. 105 inches. They signed content deals with netflix, fox, and more. Google is hitting the fast lane. Wearable tech will be huge at ces. Glasses, wristbands, also other quirky gadgets. The wristband has a Wearable Health tracker. I hate to say it
Cash. As soon as the macintosh came out, apple was the hottest company on the planet. And then pretty quickly thereafter started google, and its kind of been a rocketship ever since. Whats kind of interesting, and i sort of want to circle back to the whole apple example is that in some respects apple and google arguably started at the same time. Apple, obviously, started in the 1970s, but then steve jobs got fired from the company in the mid 1980s, and then apple went through sort of a period of, say, 10 or 15 years where its fortunes really declined steadily. And it wasnt really until 1997 when steve jobs returned that apples fortunes really began to rebound. In fact, its, i guess, pretty well known among people who Pay Attention to whats going on in the valley when steve jobs came back, apple had about 90 days of cash left before with it was going to auger in. And so in some respects, you could say both companies started right around the same time. Well, you write in your book, dogfi