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Ed butowsky, why is microsoft having a hard time filling the top slot, tell me . I dont know exactly why. Theres a question about are you going to take somebody from the inside of microsoft and the gross strategy in place or somebody from the outside. If they bring someone from outside, the general concensus is theyre going to be a cost saver and looking for efficiencies and not growing the business. Thats why theres a lot of controversy to exactly the direction they want to go with that ceo. Its a great position to be in, but theyre never going to recapture the growth they had when they started that company so a lot of ceos are shying away from it. I know you own the stock, what do you want to see microsoft do, grow the business and try to get back to where it was as a Growth Company or shrink it and be more profitable . Yeah, i dont think theyre ever i think they need to shrink it and grow it differently. Because the tablet business is taking away from the pc business, which is the growth engine. In pc sales grow, thats good for microsoft. There are Software Plays on the new ones. What i like to see, see them shrink it a little bit and bring someone from the outside and quite frankly, the management has become stale and they need something new. Stuart got it. Now look at yahoo stock, please. It was up big yesterday even before new chief marisa mayer spoke at the electronics show. She said that yahoo is a media company, got it. What do you make of the transformed yahoo . I love it. I think shes an absolute star and exactly what i hope microsoft does is kind of reengineer what theyre doing in a lot of cases and they are a media company. You see, you know, shows going there now and advertising thats kind of fallen off because its hard to make advertising dollars. It has worldwide reach. I love yahoo why own yahoo but i wouldnt be surprised if we look at it strongly now. Stuart of course, yahoo has a piece of alibaba and that doesnt hurt now, does it . And twitter, the horse race, its always wildly swinging. Today Cantor Fitzgerald says sell it. Nicole, ive got to bet the stock is down. Nicole i have to say its to the down side. Down 4 , trois it was down 5 earlier. And some of the analysts have been cautious on twitter and its run up fast, a 26 ipo and its pulled back since, but you have susquahanna raising the price target. Most of the analysts say look, its a niche stock and run up fast. Take a break. Stuart take a break, 59 from 26. All right, next one is netflix and youve got the news here, more original programming coming. Whats going on . How about nine new shows. If youre hot on house of cards, season two starts on the love way, february 14th. You can watch that. And what theyve been doing with some of the movies, some expire and relicense and flash dance, top gun, brave heart, those are out, not relicensing those, but bringing in a bunch of new ones, west side story, when youre a jet,youre a jet all the way. Spaceball, grape of wrath, and nine new shows. Stuart we call it chinas amazon, alibaba. It will no longer allow bitcoin use on its site. Liz macdonald is here. The Chinese Government says, i had a, knock it off, get rid of this bitcoin bit. Thats exactly right. The central bank in china says you, Financial Institutions operating in our borders, cannot trade in bitcoin. So, alibaba is following on the heels of what China Central bank is saying. Theyre worried about Money Laundering and this is a hit to bitcoin, the second largest economy, you cannot do any sales in bitcoin. Stuart its a hit to bitcoin, not a hit to alibaba or yahoo who owns a piece of yahoo . Charles i think that alibaba is the biggest Commerce Company in the world. Stuart in the world. Charles it might be ranked up there for that to happen, bitcoin is going to trade in volatile territory. Stuart quick news alert. Latest numbers for shopper track, not good for retailers. 14. 6 during the and mortar holiday season. Liz, thats either the surge in Online Shopping or its weather or both. What is it . Its a surge in Online Shopping which overwhelmed ups in the weeks leading up to christmas. And the Retail Companies, the traffic fell off the map in the brick and Mortar Stores for Retail Companies and youre right, there was a lot more Online Shopping. Stuart we did call that. Charles yes. Stuart we really did call that and said it was the year of Online Shopping and i really believe it was. Ed, before we let you go. Youve always liked utilities. Everybody knows weve got extreme weather right now and much of the country after some time. Does that make you like utility stocks even more . Well, i always like utility stocks because they should play a role in every portfolio because you want to have that income and you want that there and also the potential for growth. Whats hurt utilities recently has been really obamas war on the coal industry because they had to go out and get materials to create that energy and thats why your gas bills and electric bills are up so much. On average theyre up 10 to 12 . Do i like utilities . All day long. Its a rare moment where i dont like utilities. Stuart you just like milking that dividend, dont you . Well, look. Stuart yeah. Everything has a place in a portfolio. I like the dividend and potential for growth and when the markets are going down they tend to go down less so i really like utilities. Yeah, i do. Stuart yeah, you do. Ed, thank you very much. Now, were talking Game Changers on the show today and ive got another one for you. Valve valve. A private Company Public publishes games and could be plugged into your tv. This could give sony and microsoft a run for their money, they make the consoles, the steam box is Something Different altogether. And rush is here with more on this. You better sort me out. Valve is a private as you said and essentially reaching out to the companies that make computers and theyre like, hey, we have our own software and our own operating system. Throw that on these boxes and it will just be designed just for games, you plug that into your tv and suddenly playing the games from a much cheaper console. Stuart its cheaper and i dont need the console, the xbox, playstation 4 or the wii, whatever its called. Right. Stuart dont need any of that. None of the money is going to microsoft because theyre not running on windows theyre running on linux, actually, which is much, much cheaper to produce. Stuart is it a game changer . I think it is. I think this is definitely something that microsoft and sony should be worried about. And they could really be pulling a lot of their audience away. Right now, valve has a game more popular than monday night football. Stuart how do you make in terms of a registered users and how many people are playing, theyre above 10 million registered users for a single game and monday night football, you know, maybe 8 or 9 million per game. Stuart okay. Youre saying, yes, game changer, steam box. They. Stuart potentially has the ability to he think cha change the gaming market. A huge deal. Apple says in 2013, the revenue from the app store were 10 billion. Yeah. Stuart and in december, it was 1 billion. A full billion just in december. Yep. Stuart does that make the app store a game changer . Have we reached that Critical Mass then . I think that apple has been smart. If you look at the computers, the newer computers dont come with disc drives. You cant put a disc in the drive. Theyre forcing people to go to the app store and cant go to another company and buy the software. People are going to the app stores and going to microsoft i mean, apple is getting a percentage of every sale in the App Store Even for software thats not theirs. Theyve been a smart decision in forcing people to the marketplaces theyve created and obviously, its making a ton of money for them. Stuart one or two Game Changers a day. Thank you very much. Check the big board, please, we were down 40, almost 50 points at one stage and now were down 31 points, just around 165. Two headlines for you after the break. Number one, the left hates walmart, but it turns out the Company OffersBetter Health plans than obamacare. Well explain that one next. And the socialists in france, theyre at it again. Two goodyear executives freed by police after Union Workers held them hostage. And the tire executive who reduced to do business in france because he says their workers are just plain lazy. Right now were heading further south and the dow industrials after that hour down 40 points. Where is the price of gold today, i tell you. 1220. 50. Were down 9 bucks. Where is the price of oil. 93 a barrel down 15 cents. Constellation brands they make modavi wines and draft beer, different brands. And they are reporting higher profits and a 11 gain, thats a big jump. Micron, a chip maker also hitting a new high up 11 on micron, look at them go. Now this, organized labor and the left have long targeted walmart saying the company doesnt treat the workers fairly. You can bet the lefties dont want to hear this. Walmart offers its workers better and cheaper coverage than obamacare. Liz macdonald, who says they offer better . Washington examiner, they did an analysis with the independent examination of the health underwriters, found that essentially lower deductibles, lower premiums, free screenings, free vaccinations, free Preventive Care at walmart versus better offerings at walmart versus Health Reforms exchanges. Stuart and i want you to comment on this report we had earlier that the democrats are going to run on the economy. Theyre going to say that the stock market rally shows that its a great recovery. What do you make of that . It seems like a Jedi Mind Trick. Theyve been saying its the economy, stupid. We have bad policies and we need better minimum wage policies and unemployment extension of benefits. I tell you something. Nancy pelosi and harry reid run the Congress Since january of 2007 and handing over to john boehner in 2011 and theyve been around since the reagan administration. It feels like a Jedi Mind Trick theyre trying to pull and basically saying they have nothing to do with the poor performance of the economy over the years. Stuart interesting, i wonder how that will play out . I dont know. Yesterday Union Workers at a Goodyear Tire plant in france, prevented two managers from leaving. And a shut down from titan ceo maurice taylor. Mr. Taylor blasted this same factory last year for having lazy workers and poor work habits and mr. Taylor joins us on the phone. Maurice, does this kind of prove your point . Were you right all along . First of all, happy new year, stuart, and same to liz. No, i think theyve been doing this for quite a while. Its kind of funny over there in france where those two men that were kept, as stated, kidnapping over here, i guess they dont have the same rights as some goofball in the union, so are you still trying to take over that plant . Well, what has happened is the minister and i have a secret meeting in august and i told him, you know, the truth. Youve got to turn around and come to some arrangements with cgt and goodyear. Theyre not my employees, not our factory. If you get them straightened out, then, yes. I mean, they have skilled men and women there that know how to make tires and weve had a specialty of turning things around all over the world. So im not afraid of it. Sorry if they kidnap me. Stuart and if they do straighten them out by that, work rules are changed and Staffing Levels are changed. Will you still buy that plant . I believe ive said that we are very interested and its knots something that i would run from. Stuart so these guys are reacting to the possibility that you will take over that plant . I dont think thats the case. I think whats happened over there is that, you know, you you see this in many, many facilities. Youve seen it im from detroit, okay . So ive watched what happened in the automotive. Nobodys ever mentioned when the uaw, they only have the big three an