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Chicago, IL – November 16, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), Microsoft Corp (MSFT), Quality Systems Inc. (QSII), Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX) and Cerner Corp. (CERN).

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Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

Apple Opens New Store in New York

Apple Inc. (AAPL) will open its newest retail store with an 8,500 square feet retail space in New York tomorrow. The store will help Apple deliver more Macs, iPods and iPhones, taking advantage of the coming holiday

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Apple Inc. (AAPL) will open its newest retail store with an 8,500 square feet retail space in New York tomorrow. The store will help Apple deliver more Macs, iPods and iPhones, taking advantage of the coming holiday season. The new store is the fourth in Manhattan and fifteenth in New York.   To ensure a high-quality buying experience for its products, in which service and education are emphasized, the company has expanded and improved its distribution capabilities by opening its own retail stores in the U.S. and internationally.   The company operates a network of 280 retail stores in 10 countries across the world, including the U.S., U.K., Italy, Australia, Canada, Japan, China, Switzerland, Germany and France to drive the demand for its other products. Further, Apple is soon to open two new stores in Shanghai as well as London and Paris. The company further plans to ...

Xcellink International Inc. is a developer of patented mobile payments and banking platforms. The company’s unique process enables customers, rather than the merchants, to initiate, control and pay for all transactions without the need for any type of cards (credit, debit, etc.) in real-time anywhere, anytime and at a fraction of the cost of current transactions.

The company announced today that it has executed an agreement with 3i Infotech for the development and integration of its patented software with Apple’s iPhone technology. Xcellink is excited with this agreement because of the chance to work with a subsidiary of 3i Infotech – the Regulus Group. Regulus provides statement and bill presentment services to clients in the financial services, health care, insurance and utilities industries. They are also one of North America’s largest payment processors, handling about 2 billion paper and electronic transactions each year.

Work for Xcellink will be carried out

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LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwire) — 11/10/09 — Xcellink International Inc. (OTCBB: XCEL), a developer of a patented mobile payments & banking platforms, is pleased to announce that is has executed an agreement with 3i Infotech for the development and integration of its patented software with Apple’s iPhone technology.

Work will be carried out by 3i Infotech’s development team, and it is expected that the new technology will be ready for testing in early January 2010. The board of Xcellink is extremely excited by this relationship due in part to the 3i Infotech Group of Companies, which includes Regulus Group, a subsidiary of the global information technology company 3i Infotech, and one of North America’s largest payment processors.

Regulus Group is one of the brightest stars in the payment processing industry providing statement and bill presentment services to clients in the financial services, health care, insurance, telecommunications, and utilities industries.

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Artificial Life Inc., a leading provider of mobile gaming applications, today revealed its current iPhone sales numbers and key ranking statistics. The company announced that as of October 31, 2009, it has produced and released 21 games for the iPhone and iPod during the prior 12 months.

Despite the large number of games available on the Apple App Store, 20 (or 95%) of the company’s games were ranked among the top 100 most downloaded games. Of Artificial Life’s games, 17 games have been ranked in the top 50, 15 in the top 10 downloads, and 11 games have achieved top 5 or higher. So far, the best selling game for the company was downloaded close to 1.8 million times and the second best game was downloaded over 1.4 million times.

The number of iPhone game downloads is approximately equivalent to 37.8% of the overall number of games sold by Artificial Life so

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Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has experienced tremendous growth, driven by the success of its iPhone and increased Mac shipments. The company reported strong fiscal 2009 results with higher revenue (12.5% year over year) and earnings (17.4% year over year) growth despite the recession. The results beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the company's own guidance.

The company is currently benefiting from a positive mix shift to the higher-margin iPhone/iPod business from its traditional MP3 players. The Macintosh product continues to gain market share, with significant gains in portables, music players and smart phones.

Year-to-date, Apple share prices have more than doubled. Apple's valuation premium is justified, given the company's positive attributes and leaves room for further upside from the current levels. We have increased estimates for full-year 2010 and upgrade the stock to Outperform. We set a six-month price target of $225.Zacks Investment Research

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Chicago, IL – October 21, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), China Unicom (CHU), Nokia (NOK), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm Inc. (PALM).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s AnalystBlog:

Apple: 2nd Highest Growth Ever

Apple Inc. (AAPL) released Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to the Apple Mac operating system in the quarter. In addition, Apple announced new upgrades to its iTunes and the iPod digital media players at a media event in Sep. The company plans to

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Fourth-Quarter Results Beat Apple Inc. (AAPL) fourth-quarter beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.43 in earnings per share and $9.19 billion in revenue. Earnings in the quarter were $1.82 per share, which also surpassed the company’s own guidance. This increased 44% from $1.26 per share reported in the year-ago period. Strong earnings were due to higher sales in the quarter, which increased 25% to $9.87 billion, representing the second highest revenue growth in the company’s history. The tremendous revenue growth was due to higher iPhone sales and increased Mac shipments in the quarter. Apple continues to gain market share in the three major hardware sectors – computers (with very significant gains in portables), music players and smartphones. Apple's revenue increased in every region, including the U.S. and Europe. The company is currently benefiting from a positive mix shift to the higher-margin iPhones/iPod business from its ...

UDR Inc. (UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust (REIT), recently augmented its apartment search application for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone and iPod users, enabling consumers who are more reliant on smartphones than landlines or personal computers to find apartments in a more convenient way.   The upgraded technology utilizes smartphone’s built-in spatial awareness components such as GPS, accelerometer, and compass to create digitally enhanced pictures of apartments. Furthermore, the new application software enables users to point their smartphones in any direction to locate and view available apartments under the search parameters within a radius of 10 mile, by utilizing Layar – an augmented reality browser.   The demographic and technographic data for the mobile market strategically fits into UDR’s up-market customer segmentation. Users can search apartments on all possible parameters such as location, price, and number of bedrooms and bathrooms, which are updated daily. To ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 16, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm (PALM).

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Here are highlights from Thursday’s Analyst Blog:

Raising Price Target on Apple

Apple Inc. (AAPL) sold 5.2 million iPhones in the June quarter, representing a 626.0% unit growth over the year-ago quarter. In the current quarter the company released Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to Apple's OS X operating system. In addition, Apple announced new upgrades

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