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as the details come owl. talk about bang for your buck. if you followed the cause of dan niles on facebook you would have made money on the way down when it priced and even more recently on the way up. dan is now labeling the company his favorite considered for 2013, facebook is after shorting it at the highs at the $22 a share. john, i went from a huge wear on facebook to a huge bull. thanks for having me on. why facebook? we were very vocal about facebook when they went public and they had only one engine of growth and that was on desktop pcs. they didn't have any tablets and this is before they reported the prior quart. what was interesting is they had a mobile strategy. they just sponsored news feeds and you go to the september quarter. that got to 140 quarter in revenue and we be surprised and another initiative for growth for next year that's pretty interesting. that's the reason for the about face. it's gone from one horse pulling the train to now you've got or pulling the wagon, i should say, to multiple revenue drivers for next year. we all know that the possibility part of the business is really what happened you, and others, even os the root show they were talking about monetizing mobility because a pc is smaller and you're not able to monetize mobility the way you can on your pc. you think they have gotten that figured out? i think they really have and that's a little problem for a lot of vendors looking out over the next couple of years. if you look at facebook, their mobile users were i think about 604 million last quarter. it was up over 60 year over year, and so that's far outpacing the revenue growth of the company which is about 32%. so this is -- if you think about it this way. at $38 a share, there were no mobile revenues, and that's the price it came public at. next year i think they could do 20 billion in mobile revenues out of a total revenue stream of 7 billion, and so that's a much different worry. in addition to that, think about that next year. they have facebook ad exchange. if you're inside fake. they can advertise within the facebook platform. they are gifting and hints them getting into search. a lot of positive drivers next year just from the things we know about like mobile revenues and ad-exchange gifting, and next career there could be other things coming up. so you would -- so you would recommend buying facebook at these levels. i guess i want to know how high can it go, and also, i don't want to spend the whole interview on facebook. give me your other top picks for 2013. what do you like right here, dan? sure. in terms of other names that i like, quite honestly what makes me excited about next year is a lot of names that people have absolutely hated for two years and good reason, that's where we're most bullish. the specter index is down about 7% over the last two years, and the s&p is up about 13. we think that's basically started the bott tomorrow outside of the pc industry, let me correct that. semiconductors are more broadly based. we think they are going to get bert. a company that most people haven't heard of. it's called on smuktor, but they are one of the top 20 biggest semiconductor companies in the world, and they sell 42 billion units every year, and, you know, this is a business that's been put down for six quarters in a year. we think it's turning and a good reflection of what's going on there. i think the teleconspace as well, you saw spending really going down in the last year. this year you've had several deals, softbank for spread and deutsche telekom and you'll see a lot more spending next year in the u.s. coming out of those areas and a lot of it directed at wireless. cisco, which is a name we haven't been very bullish on for a long period of time, stock down 2% over the last two years, i think you'll see a big turnaround next year so that's where we're excited. a great list that we're looking at right now on facebook. sis doe. great to talk with you. i know we want to get into microsoft next and is on your buy line. dan, good to talk to you. good to talk with you. dan niles joining us on the

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