Few minutes explaining some of the implications of all of this. But here i am trying to get across the notion that the data factory benefits from unpaid contributions from lots of people and hear, to give the sense that the data factory is actually selling a whole bunch of services, that most importantly allow the purchases of those services to make money for themselves. But you can see now how powerful the position of these data factories has become. So, here is one example in this is the only example that i will give you of unpaid contributions but think youtube, think yelp and think of a whole bunch of other services and at the same precise thing. Linked in about a year ago started to beef up its content effort and invited different people around the world to contribute content. If these werent ordinary people. Among the contributors are bill gates and the president and other people like jamie dimon, head of jpmorgan. They are all contributing content to linkedin for free. The resul
His visit. Nbc bay areas chase cain is at Santa Clara University. The dalai lama will be there tomorrow . Reporter he sure will. They are already getting things ready. May see some barriers out here. Inside they are rehearsing for tomorrow mornings talk. But this morning the dalai lama began at the Tibetan Community center in richmond bless blessing the Community Center thats been in the works for many years. Then off to Berkeley High school where the dalai lama gave a soldout talk on how to achieve happiness. Where he talked about love, compassion, selflessness. But while he was onstage inside, outside protesters had gathered. There were a large number of protesters. Some upset about the lavish lifestyle they say the dalai lama leads. Many years ago he banned a particular buddhist prayer, essentially a prayer to the buddha of wisdom or compassion, he said that prayer hurts them and shortens his life span. Those protesters did not accept that, thats why they showed up in force to get t
Performers on the dow this year. Can it continue to impress . We will get you the numbers and what they mean for shares first with the best analysis we can offer. And do you shop differently than you did five years ago . I know i sure do. What do you buy, how much do you spend, how do you spend it, what you acquire. We have interest data on what American Consumers are doing and how the retailers are reacting. Stay tuned for that just ahead. And heres where we stand in the markets with an hour to go. The dow up about 85 points, making a run back towards the highs of the session, when it was up 109. The s p 500 up about 11, 1,915 at present. Joining our closing bell exchange, Keith Fitzgerald from money map press, jack brujon from index financial partners, Abigail Doolittle from peak theories. David kudlow is from mainstay capital management, and our very own Rick Santelli is with us as well. Abigail, let me begin by asking you, the retail Sales Numbers, macys numbers are not particularl