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Steve Jobs On Medical Leave
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 10:30am | 122Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs announced today that he will take a medical leave of absence to focus on his health, but that he will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company. Steve Jobs said, "I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple's...
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Steve Jobs Leaving (AAPL)
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 10:20am | 442Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is leaving to take care of his health. I wrote about this two weeks ago. Here is the original text of the article. He is the P.T. Barnum of our time, the greatest showmen of the 21st century. But what happens if Steve Jobs were to leave Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)...
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Apple's Steve Jobs Back On Medical Leave
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 10:11am | 37Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Steve Jobs is back on medical leave. Steve Jobs has been on medical leave before as he went through treatment for a cancer scare 2.5 years ago.
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Apple's Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave of Absence
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 9:52am | 38Steve Jobs, the genius behind tech darling Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), revealed plans on Monday to take a medical leave of absence for the second time in two years.
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Not just GARP -- new Growth Stock screen captures some real winners
Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 10:44am | 847I have been playing with a new stock screen lately. The objective is to identify reasonably valued stocks with good growth potential. I look for stocks that have solid earnings, high Return-on-Equity, good earnings growth expectations based on PEG and a low Debt-to-Equity ratio. These...
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Nvidia's stock rises as it gains ground in battle with Intel
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 9:56pm | 1173Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has skyrocketed recently as it has become apparent that the company could be a key player in the lucrative mobile processor market and has plans to make chips for personal computers and servers, challenging the monopoly of its large Silicon Valley rival, Intel (NASDAQ...
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H-P Identifies New Growth Areas - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 7:31pm | 538The world's largest computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) has won a $30.0 million deal from Texas Health and Human Services Commission. As per the terms of the agreement, the technology major will create a state-wide Medicaid health information exchange. This is a 52-month...
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Ben said QE2 is Working
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 7:23pm | 301Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengren gave the bulls another reason to rally on Friday, saying expansion must become more stable and broad-based before the Fed reverses its current policy, and even more stimulus may be needed if the housing market hampers the rebound. Like it has...
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H-P Identifies New Growth Areas - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 6:46pm | 538The world's largest computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) has won a $30.0 million deal from Texas Health and Human Services Commission. As per the terms of the agreement, the technology major will create a state-wide Medicaid health information exchange. This is a 52-month...
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PC Sales Grow in 4Q - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 4:01pm | 369Personal computer (PC) shipments for the fourth quarter were disappointing, missing IDC estimates, although growing 2.7% during the quarter. As expected, Apple Inc's (AAPL) iPad was partially to blame, diverting dollars away from the more traditional desktop and notebook markets. Both market...
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PC Sales Grow in 4Q - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 3:19pm | 369Personal computer (PC) shipments for the fourth quarter were disappointing, missing IDC estimates, although growing 2.7% during the quarter. As expected, Apple Inc's (AAPL) iPad was partially to blame, diverting dollars away from the more traditional desktop and notebook markets. Both market...
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Anticipating Research In Motion's 2011 Lineup (RIMM, VZ, T, S, AAPL, NOK)
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 2:47pm | 226A sneak peak at Research in Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) new BlackBerry lineup is tantalizing the blogosphere. RIM displayed a 4G version of BlackBerry's PlayBook Tablet at last week's Consumer Electronics Show, but the company appears to prefer spreading news of the new BlackBerry 2011 devices virally...
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App Store: 9.7 Billion Downloads And Counting
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 2:08pm | 75The App Store is on the cusp of another milestone: with more than 9.7 billion apps already downloaded, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will soon be able to exclaim, “We've sold 10 billion apps!” According to Apple's own download counter, the person who downloads the 10 billionth app could win a $10,000 iTunes...
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Friday's Mid-day Options Volume Leaders (C, INTC, BAC, AAPL, JPM)
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 12:56pm | 105The market has pushed into positive territory this morning. Currently the S&P 500 (CBOE: SPX) is trading at $1,287.50, up by 3.74 points. Here are your mid-day options volume leaders… 1) Citigroup (NYSE: C) 358,508 contracts, 79.5% calls, 20.5% puts 2) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) 178,783...
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RBC Capital Adjusts Its Price Target on VMware, Transocean, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Global Payment, Emulex, Citrix Systems, IBM (VMW, RIG, JNJ, INTC, GPN, ELX, CTXS, IBM)
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 10:33am | 114RBC Capital adjusts its price target on: VMWare (NYSE: VMW) from $90 to $100. Transocean (NYSE: RIG) from $75 to $85. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) from $62 to $60. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) from $26 to $28. Global Payment (NYSE: GPN) from $52 to $55. Emulex (NYSE: ELX) from $11 to $13. Citrix...