. >> blackberry had its best day in five weeks as att said it will take orders, the first touch smart phone blackberry has been able to get to market. >> young brands set sales in china and that sent yum shares up more than 7%. yum's top market is china and the company is working to recover from last year's food safety scare in china. >> and good news tonight for your wallet. prices at the pump fell more than 5%. the lumberg survey said the national average price of self-serve regular gasoline was abo about. >> coming out of the really cold south by southwest conference. highlighting new technology from all fferent interaive industries. and we will show you why some are calling this year of the gadget. >>> people were talking about a controversial new book about women and leadership. women, work, and the world to lead. it's getting a lot of attention because it's written by the super successful facebook executive. she started a fresh debate about women in the woplace. even though women account for about half of the work force, there are only four female skaes in the fortune 500. a lot

blackberry managed just over 3%. the company hopes the z10 gets it back in the game, but there are bigger challenges. the new phones won't bring in the same highly profitable services revenue investors have come to expect and it's not yet clear whether blackberry will be able to sell new phones to make up the ground the old phones are losing. >> we don't deny that internationally this has bn a successful device, it sold out in the middle east, and sold out in asia. doing very well in europe and surprising a lot of critics and we don't expect the same response in the u.s., but a better-than-expected launch. >> have you ever had a blackberry? >> no. >> did you ever think you would get a blackberry? >> no. >> why not? what do you think a blackberry is for? >> nothing negative. i just wanted something unique. >> blackberry hopes that's what this phone will deliver with its corporate friendly security features and new software for sharing photos, videos and apps. >> by next month, t-mobile and verizon will be offering the

blackberry again the most active stock as it booked an order of more than a million new z-10 smartphones from an established partner company. netflix was the biggest gainer of the day, up 12%, as it goes social, giving users a tool to tell their facebook friends what they're watching, however dangerous that might be. and facebook itself was down more than 2%, as the ftc tells social media companies to make sure their ads on their screens are clear and truthful. >>> google announcing an executive change in its android division. andy reuben is stepping down. who's andy reuben? he's the guy who developed the android operating system now used on roughly two-thirds of all the world's smartphones. he's going to stay with google in a yet to be disclosed role. shares were down, closing at 825 and change. >>> amazon is trying to get more consumers to buy its large-screen kindle so it's cutting the price by $100, undercutting apple's ipad. the kindle fire, the hd version, with wireless capability will now start at $399. amazon shares gained slightly to $273. >>> well, a clear message to j.c. penne

the biggest loser has been nokia and blackberry. people just aren't carrying them as much as they used to. >> is apple your choice because it integrates your life? in other words, your photos you have, your music that you have? >> yes. >> why? >> i'd say that's probably the reason. you could say it dominates my life perhaps too much. but, you know, that's the criticism is that the apple executives made is that it's not truly seamlessly integrate ed i the way that apple is and a lot of people prefer apple. samsung is going to make a difference. we'll see tonight whether the hype lives up to the advanced billing. >> well, enjoy the launch. dennis berman from "the wall street journal." >> thank you. >>> coming up tomorrow, john fortt looks at the generational shift. why samsung might be replacing apple as the cool kid on the block. you know, i got an iphone -- it's not even a year yet. i thought i was cool. now i guess i'm not hip and cool. >> i'm hip and cool. this is a motorola. i'm 1 of 10% as our pie chart showed. i think there's a

and the big jump in shares of blackberry thanks to a morgan stanley upgrade. morgan stanley saying now there may be room in the smart phone market that's dominated by an droid and the iphone operating system for blackberry. the vote of confidence comes just two days before blackberry's make or break z-10 goes on sale at at&t stores. blackberry rose $16, that's a gain of almost 6.5%. >> and, suzie, one of the roadblocks to the using recovery has been tight mortgage credit. rates may be low, but they're only good if you can get them. as we look at the spring buying season, lenders are starting to ease up. not so much on their standards, but on the types of loans they can offer. >> after being turned down for a mortgage last year, leah harris has been renting in washington, d.c. now, she is finally moving into a home of her own. >> i tried last year at about the exact same time and nothing was different than it is now. same income, same assets, pretty much everything was identical. >> in time for spring, mortgage credit is beginning to thaw. specifically the retu

it's nothing to what's happening at dell and blackberry. both were stock market kings and must sfls many portfolios. today, dell is in the middle of a buyout battle and black berry is battling for its survival as an independent company. technology correspondent john ford is here along with andrew ross sorkin who wrote about dell's predicamt. drew, if i mht sta with you. in your column you reference criticism that michael dell has been receiving for the way he brought forth his buyout proposal. talk to me a little bit about that and whether you believe that if any outcome here with dell, michael dell will still abe part of the company or won't he? >> the second part of the company is still the question whether michael dell remains part of the company. he clearly wants to own the company. he tried to buy out the company and in the process has put it in play to the point where he may not ultimately be part of the futuref this company. to your first question, there are rarj issues around management-led buyout and there are questions among share

blackberry is going to report quarterly results. >>> u.s. air ways got the green light to merge from the bankruptcy judge this afternoon. the company will keep the american name and become the world's biggest airline if the justice department and u.s. air ways shareholders approve the deal. it's expected to close by the fall. the judge rejected a $19.9 million severance package for the out-going american ceo tom horton. and finally tonight, a week-long push to bring returning heroes from the wars in iraq and afghanistan closer to the jobs they need and they need and want. this week, the u.s. chamber of commerce is fighting for the receipt vets, setting up job fairs aimed at hiring the heroes. >> owenhas college and graduate degrees, still his return to civilian life was not easy. >> it was overwhelming, i didn't know what i was going to do next. >> at the home of the national guard unit, 100 employers are entertaining more than 1,000 veterans, men and women who fought in iraq and afghanistan, all of them looking for jobs. >> the u.s. chamber

shares of blackberry down nearly 1% today. >>> blackberry isn't the only company that will have to convince investors it's on the right path. from oracle to qualcomm. as john fortt reports, a number of tech giants have their work cut out for them. >> here's what to watch for in the technology sector in the quarter ahead. mobile ads and enterprise. contrast that with pcs from dell and hp. we know they'll sell less of everything than in the holiday quarter, but how much less is the question? over at google and yahoo!he display ad business has been under tremendous price pressure. well see if it can recover. and finally enterprise we'll have to watch cisco and emc to see whether it was oracle's salespeople or if customers had a reluctance to sign on the dotted line. that's your q2 check. i'm john fortt. >>> overseas news in cyprus today, a big sigh of relief. banks finally reopened after being closed for nearly two weeks. branches opened on time. lines were long. restrictions on how much money people could withdraw. and officials were prepared for the worst. but as michelle caruso-cabrera tell