a attention. the reaction to these images underscore a remarkable political conflict that has emerged in iran where you have president ahmadinejad on one side and members of iran s clerical establishment and political elite on another. ahmadinejad s critics, many of them believe that during his two terms he overstepped his power. he became too prominent. ahmadinejad is not up for reelection in june, but he is hoping one of his aides can make a run for the precedencsidencpr. perhaps one of the intense fallouts is for his aides to run for presidency. as far as the picture goes, some of ahmadinejad s photos have tried claim the photo was doctored and changed, but clearly, many of the critics don t buy it. reza sayeh, cnn, cairo. a fascinating story. we ll see how much trouble ahmadinejad really is in once he
0 anything public, but still somehow you find it which tells me you can find others. well, yeah. it s basically information brokerage databases. they sell this information usually for investigations, to investigate fraud or for doing anything in the course of business and this information is bought and sold. so the information is already out there. it doesn t take much to gain access to these databases. usually access to the internet and a credit card and paying your bill on time. the searches are super cheap and it makes it really easy for identity thiefs to steal your identity and you have to be vigilant at checking your credit reports and checking your credit card statements and signing up for some sort of theft protection service and really being vigilant in protecting your identity because it is so easy for a fraudster to steal it. i m on twitter, and i m on facebook. i have two facebook accounts and how does social media factor into all of this? does it at all? it kind of d
women need every dollar in their paycheck. so worried that next paycheck may be smaller is not going over well among the troops. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr has the details. she s working the story. barbara, what s going on? wolf, in this town, there s nothing that causes more anxiety in budget politics than the concept of cutting the pay for the troops. but that is exactly what is on the table if congress and the president cannot reach an agreement on a spending plan. the troops usually are happy to see defense secretary leon panetta, smiles and handshakes all around. but days before he leaves office, panetta has bad news. he s proposing less money in their paycheck next year. panetta, a savvy washington operative in budget politics, is leaving it to congress to figure out how not to cut pay and keep thousands of defense employees on the job. we will furlough as many as 800,000 d.o.d. civilians around the country for up to 22 days. they could face a 20% cut
estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get that price. and it did. it did get that price. look where it ended today. but clearly, what the expectations is for the hype though for the hype when you see how these other social networking sites did in their ipo, linked dml, google, they have jumped tremendously since their ipo day. that s why that expectation to see facebook do much better than just ending a fraction of a percent higher, that s why that expectation is there. what about final numbers on the nasdaq and dow jones? how did they do? looks like it was pretty much a flat day overall, flat to lower nasdaq and the dow ending actually, the dow down 73 points. nasdaq down about 34 points. a tough day. it is a tough market and there s a lot going on for i
led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending pretty flat on the day. wolf? alison, the whole point is that that $38 number came in at the high end yesterday. that was a number earlier estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get t