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Monday October 12, 2009

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AAPL, PWRM, GOOG, CSRH, C, CVAT, INTC, AQNM, IBM

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AAPL, Apple Inc. and GOOG, Google Inc.

AAPL and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, and sell various related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions.

GOOG, a technology company, maintains index of Websites and other online content for users, advertisers, Google network members, and other content providers.

Arthur Levinson has resigned from GOOG’s board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker

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The market (and internet) is buzzing with talk of the Yahoo!-Microsoft search deal. The deals are pretty simple and somewhat more beneficial than the deal which AOL signed with Google a few years back. Basically, Microsoft will power Yahoo’s search and Yahoo will become the ad platform across both search properties. Yahoo is granting Microsoft a 10-year license on its search technologies and transferring much of their search development team to Microsoft. What becomes of Microsoft AdCenter seems hazy, but without access to a legitimate search destination, it will likely be phased out as advertisers prefer to deal with ad networks that have broader reach.

Implications for Yahoo! Yahoo is finally embracing the fact that it is not a true tech firm or development shop. The Company started as a web directory when the internet was in its nascence. It’s only innovation was that prior to Yahoo, no one had

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Google, Inc. (GOOG) stepped up once again and beat the Street, posting earnings of $4.66 per share, 31 cents better than the consensus of $4.35. Revenue was also ahead of the mark, coming in at $5.52 billion against the expected $4.05 billion.

The solid performance builds on the recent trend of strong second-quarter earnings, giving the market a nice boost over the last 4 days and setting the stage for the first winning week for the major averages in the last month.

Google noted that it was able to expand its margins during the quarter, with operating income increasing to 34% of revenue from 29% last year. Paid clicks, another closely watched Google and search engine performance metric, were up 15%.

CEO Eric Schmidt also chimed in and added some bullish sentiment, saying that, "Google's business appears to have stabilized, despite the still weak economic environment."

Shares of

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Google Inc. (GOOG) could be in negotiations to acquire Internet startup Twitter, according to reports that are citing a post on the technology news blog TechCrunch.

Shares of the search engine giant gained more than 2% today.

According to the reports, GOOG would pay cash, stock or a combination of both for the takeover.

Twitter, a popular social messaging utility, declined a $500 million offer from Facebook a few months ago.

Earlier this week GOOG launched a VC arm, named Google Ventures, aimed at investing in startup companies.

GOOG is a Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold") stock.

"GOOG" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?Zacks Investment Research

Google Inc. (GOOG) has announced the launch of a venture capital arm that will invest up to $100 million in startup companies. The stock has gained over 2% since this morning, although volumes are at lower-than-usual levels.

The arm, named Google Ventures, will be "focusing on early-stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care" and others.

Google Ventures has already invested in two companies, Silver Spring Networks, which provides technology to manage power grids, and Pixazza, a company engaged in online photo-based marketing.

Last week, the Mountain View-based search giant had announced the planned reduction of 200 employees in its sales and marketing operations amid a deepening recession.

Earnings estimates for this year have been cut by 65 cents over the past month and by 78 cents over the past 60 days.

GOOG is a Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold") stock.

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A reader of my last post on Google’s current stock performance, took issue with my statement:

It is interesting to note that, in the area marked in the above graph, all short term indicators were overwhelmingly positive just before Google’s swift and violent correction over the last month.

The reader was clearly a technical analysis skeptic and questioned whether or not one should use indicators at all. While I admit that technical analysis has its limitations (particularly for long term investors), I’d like to write a quick response to this reader’s contention and share it here.

When I noted that Google’s near short term indicators were overwhelmingly positive, I was speaking in reference to the following Google chart:

In the marked area, you’ll see that

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Google’s stock fell decidedly below the psychologically significant mark of $300 per share today. The stock has fallen 60% overall from its high near $720 and sits near its 2004-2005 prices. Despite this, Google remains a global leader in search, internet advertising, and has its finger on the pulse of innovative web services. The bull cases for Google, which I’ve written about several times (Google’s earnings power and Google’s search share), remain intact in the long.  Does that mean the shares necessarily imply a great risk-reward tradeoff now? 

For perspective, let’s take a look at Google’s performance and its stock performance over a similar period. 

Special thanks to GridStone Research for the graph and data

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Like 2 dinosaurs running to hug each other - just go away. Both of you. Gosh the media act as if this is a fertilizer and coal company or something sexy like that...Shares of Yahoo!(YHOO) slumped after reports that talks with Microsoft(MSFT - ) have not brought about any agreement, and instead Yahoo! will announce a search partnership later Thursday with Google(GOOG).The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft is saying it is no longer willing to buy Yahoo for $33 a share, and that talks between the two have ended without a deal.The blog TechCrunch, citing a "reliable source close to one of the companies" said an announcement coming from Yahoo! at 4:30 p.m. EDT likely involves "a search partnership between the two companies that outsources all or part of ...

Google (GOOG) again increased market share in search engine results. Currently 68,3% all searches come from Google's sites. One year ago it was 65,1%. Yahoo (YHOO) already dropped below 20% and with 19,9% it is still second most used engine. Microsoft (MSFT) with MSN fell to 5,9%. Ask (IACI) improved and gained 4,2% market share.This is the situation in for US searches. Domain May-08 Apr-08 May-07 Google 68.29% 67.90% 65.13% Yahoo 19.95% 20.28% 20.89% Msn 5.89% 6.26% 7.61% Ask 4.23% 4.17% 3.92% In UK, Google is even more dominant and has increased share almost by 10%. All other ...

I need help - I want to create some technology exposure as I can see this being an area that is not subject (highly) to increasingly priced commodities, and would be an area the hedge funds move their money as they panic flee in a sector rotation.What I'm looking for is something not named Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM) or Google (GOOG).... with the following featuresNot some tiny $500M market cap company that relies on 1 huge customer who in the blink of the eye can destroy the future with 1 decision to switch to a new vendor - I'd prefer something in the $1B to $30B sizeNot a "giant" like Hewlett Packard (HPQ)Not VMWare (VMW) - I know the story and know the risksNot Garmin (GRMN) - I know the story and know the risksNot Nokia (NOK) - I know the story and ...