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Then wall street looked over here and didnt like it. theyre struggling right now. the tech sector is leading the decline, and it would appear that investors are concerned about value and how well these tec companies really are doing. were down on the session. so close to an all-time high earlier today but gone. the labor department report this economy added 192,000 jobs, slightly below the 200,000 jobs predicted. the fed says the nations unemployment rate did not change, held steady, 6.7, but en...

Companies through the 40 forward campaign. 40 companies will get funding as part of a challenge to increase female participation by 25% over the next year. now, the push comes as the so-called gender gap in the technology sector the technolog sector has gotten increased tension in the last year. according to "the new york times," women now make up half of the u.s. work force, they only hold about 24% of technology jobs. one organization leading the way in the effort to change this trend is the g...

What jobs do they create? how is that -- >> that is only the potential if they each have invested equal shares of 55 employees. they are still making out great. >> yeah. >> but youre talking about the grotesque amount to a small population. >> yeah. >> utilized by a continuously small population in the tech sector. >> you are our tech bureau chief. why dont you explain what exactly does it do on this thing? >> whats app will go through the context you already have. >> like the people you tweet. ...

Obamacare. despite the bustling tech sector and more than $160 million of taxpayer money, oregons exchange has yet to sign up a single person. sam is live in portland, oregon this morning with details. dan? >> yeah. the exchanges name is called cover oregon but the last five months its been more like duck and cover oregon. theres been non stop glitches and even now an allegation of fraud. officials here had lost the ambition. they set out to design a system from scratch that would be the envy of...

A great deal of the rest of the world is not willing to write that off. i think you do have to factor that in to your assessment of snowden, it is a little bit tricky to -- in parochial to say only the leaks about domestic surveillance are quote/unquote, legitimate leaks. there are open questions about the legitimate scope as a policy decision for the vast amount of information accumulated from all over the world. one other thing, something that also tends to get left out of political discussion...

Miles an hour. the report finds drugs and alcohol were not a factor. after months of issues on healthcare.gov, the obama administration reportedly planning to create a new federal unit to big tech projects, hopes to avoid more glitches and errors like the ones affecting users for months following the launch of the obama care website. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. >> reporter: hi, part of the problem is that the government is having difficulty attracting the best and brightes...

Operation. he is the founder of a company that started in 1981 with $250. now its worth billions with a sprawling campus in banglor, three times larger than googles headquarters. you were one of the founders of infosys, one of the most successful technology companies in india. why would you leave all of that to get involved in trying to create this huge and complex and bureaucratic system in india? >> the prime minister invited me to lead this project. i realize that this project had the kind of...

Time now for our hits and misses of the year. time now for our hits and misses of the year. s start on a high note with the hits. dan? >> all right. well, paul, im going to gave hit to the good old american economy. i mean, what has been the watch word around the economy for the past three years? uncertainty. and uncertainty has occurred because of obamacare, the fact weve only had about 2% growth for three years, dodd/frank was introduced. for all that, the economy has begun to push back towa...

Time now for our hits and misses of the year. lets start on a high note with the hits. dan. >> well, paul, im going to give a hit to the good old american economy. i mean, what has been the watch word around the economy for the past three years? uncertainty. uncertainty has occurred because of obama care, the fact weve only had about 2% growth for three years. dodd/frank was introduced. for all that, the economy has begun to push back to 3% growth. the tech sector is thriving. companies are well...

Collect some of its data. we are also told by a white house official they will be discussing healthcare.gov, the rather rocky rollout of the federal health care website, but also the bigger problem that that revealed, that the federal government, weve heard president obama say this, is not tech-savvy at this point, not really good at shepherding big tech projects like this. president obama will be talking about ways that the government and the tech sector can partner on things like this. you hav...