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>> real nail biter on the basketball team. major league baseball has a major league headache. the official facebook pages of several ball clubs were hacked, phony information, some obscene and insulting got posted. probably the most widely seen prank pulled on the yankees who have almost six million fans on facebook. a post said derek jeter would miss the season undergoing a sex change operation. a post that was quickly deleted. >> facebook has some new headaches of its own. the stock in the soc...

Megyn: theyve been around since the 1800s, the late 1800s. weve got pictures for you to prove it. >> 130 years, thats right, 1313 years. megyn: what other industries are we talking about that may be in danger? >> its not so much industries, its big, iconic names. for example, sears. it is not close to bankruptcy, but theyre closing 120 stores this year, and thats a huge retailer in american history. megyn: yeah. >> american airlines is bankrupt. bankrupt. megyn: yeah. >> who would have thought? ...

Prove it. >> 130 years, thats right, 1313 years. megyn: what other industries are we talking about that may be in danger? >> its not so much industries, its big, iconic names. for example, sears. it is not close to bankruptcy, but theyre closing 120 stores this year, and thats a huge retailer in american history. megyn: yeah. >> american airlines is bankrupt. bankrupt. megyn: yeah. >> who would have thought? how about yahoo!? just ten years ago yahoo! was king of the hill, now its a takeover tar...

getting into southern somalia. the un declared a famine in two regions of southern somalia. they say nearly 3 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition. they say that this is hitting that benchmark, that nearly a third of the people could die if they dont receive food aid fast. the worst hit zain are the children. weve seen children here hungry, desperately in need of food aid and weve even seen children dieing here. one father told me they just came here to find help. they ...

There. the new devices from google and others, youll be able to pick up, log in, give it to somebody else, log off, it erases all your information and so forth. all of a sudden, the device becomes in disposable. when you drop or lose your computer, you wont lose everything because its stored in the cloud. >> you once told me mobile phones will be much more powerful than they are in ten years. that sounds difficult to imagine? >> think about mobile phones a decade ago and you can see it is faster...

googles executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistans military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a s...

Down, except ironically for shanghais, which is up b more than 0.25%. nina? >> seems as they theres no resounding theme in the markets there, pauline. lets move things along and talk about the tech knowledge sector. the name blackberry has long been associating with mobile computing. its maker, research in motion plans to bring blackberrys innovation to a tablet. it goes on sale next week in the u.s. it features video capabilities but crucially no e-mail function. still, rims ceo predicts the po...

Freedom and democracy turning around not really seeing the international support that they want to be seeing. many saying that it is now the time for global leaders to decide which side of the moral spectrum theyre going to lie on, not just here in libya, not just in bahrain but all of these places where were seeing these types of popular revolt, piers. >> arwa damon, thank you very much, indeed. coming up, what hillary clinton told wolf blitzer about her future in politics. [ crickets chirpin...

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