Family and friends say they are glad she is home for good. ibm is under fire for the cooperation in the nsa spy scand scandal. lauren simonetti has the story. good monday morning. spying is not good for business. that is the message from tech companies after cooperating with the nsa specifically at ibm. shareholders with class action status for not disclosing the risk of business to china as ibm cooperated with the spy agency. as a result ibm reported a 22 years loss in china in the month of october. if is co and microsoft has lost business. many turning to home grown companies for tech needs instead. you may want to thank the mailm mailman. post offices across the nation are expected to process 607 million pieces of mail today alone. but the busiest delivery day for holiday cards and letters will
And in ohio, over 300 half nude santas braved the cold to run in the second annual sanda speedo dash for diabetes. did you see bill karins? right. there the f-k was slipper yes. they raised about $20,000. brave souls. and now for your first look at business, we turn to cnbc. time is running out to buy your christmas tree. demand has been very strong this year. partly due to fewer days between thanks giving and christmas. sales over black friday were up 17%. did you know that today is the busiest pickup day of the year for ups. some 34 million packages being picked up worldwide, it is also the busiest mailing day for the u.s. postal service which expects to process 607 million letters, packages and cards. lastly, ultra hd doesn t always mean a better value. tvs and smart phones boast more
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Super sunday is set to rake in super bucks. the host committee of the super bowl is expects the game to have an impact of $607 million on the local economy in dallas. i m joined by lee gallagher of fortune magazine. good morning to you. good morning, alex. if you look at how many visits are expected, 700,000, it includes all the out of state football fans. the nfl alone has booked some 24,000 hotel rooms. that s huge. true. put it all into perspective. how big is this game going to be? basically, previously, until we had the weather setback, this game was poised to set economic records. the estimates, which albeit is by the host committee, these numbers are soft at best and that estimate everyone probably agrees is a little high. it was establishmented it will bring about $200 million, even a record by its own tracking. but it s tourism, it s people in state, but most of it is people