ZAGG Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes electronics accessories, such as protective clear coverings, targeting the mobile market. The company today announced it has received approval to begin trading on The Nasdaq Global Market November 10, 2009, under its current ticker, ZAGG.

“We are very excited to be approved for the Nasdaq Global Market, and see it as an exceptional milestone in ZAGG’s short history,” Robert G. Pedersen II, president and CEO of ZAGG stated in the press release. “Moving to the top level market on Nasdaq will add a great deal of value for our shareholders and introduce ZAGG to new investors and new opportunities.”

Not only will the advancement to Nasdaq generate shareholder benefit, it will also increase awareness of the company’s products to the marketplace. The company’s high-tech thin film coverings are applicable for iPods, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, watches, PDAs and other various electronic devices.

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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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AAPL, Apple 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.

AAPL beats Wall Street’s expectations with a fiscal Q4 report on Oct. 19 that showed profits surged 47% and revenues climbed 25% on lofty Mac computer sales.

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PSFT, Powersafe Technology Corp., PSFT.PK

POWERSAFE TECHNOLOGY’s Subsidiary Amplification Technologies has just patented a revolutionary solution for low-level signal detection: multichannel Discrete Amplification (DA).

DA photodetectors could function in both

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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 ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) is set to release its earnings on Oct. 19. We expect the company to report strong results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, and therefore raise our price target to $200. Apple has undergone a total turnaround. The first nine months of 2009 is evidence of this trend, as both revenue and earnings exhibited growth, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the company’s own guidance. For the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple expects revenue in the range of $8.7 – $8.9 billion. Earnings are expected to be in the range of $1.18 – $1.23 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.26 per share on sales of $7.9 billion during the fourth quarter of 2008.   Although the company provided a cautious guidance, we expect it to post upbeat results. The Zacks Consensus Estimate EPS of $1.42 on revenue of $9.2 billion ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has undergone a total turnaround. The first nine months of 2009 is evidence of this trend as both revenue and earnings exhibited growth, beating the Zacks Consensus estimate and the company’s own guidance.

The main growth driver for Apple is its increased Mac shipments and higher iPhone sales. The company’s Macintosh product continues to gain market share, with significant gains in portables, music players and smartphones.

We believe the strong growth at Apple is primarily driven by increased revenue contribution from iPhone, which has exceeded our estimates. Meanwhile, strong revenue growth has also driven margins and resulted in significantly higher earnings.

However, the company provided a cautious revenue outlook for the upcoming quarter due to the global crisis followed by lower consumer spending. A weak MP3 market has also led to lower iPod sales. Although demand for traditional MP3 players could continue to decline, it

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Is high-tech stalwart Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) bucking the worst downturn since the Great Depression?

It sure looks that way.

Despite a cautious veneer during Apple’s quarterly conference call Tuesday, company executives ended up painting a picture of a company that continues to elbow aside recessionary pressures – thanks chiefly to three key factors. Indeed, executives said that Apple:

Is gaining market share in its computer business, while PC rivals are losing ground.
Once again obliterated forecasts in its iPhone business.
And continues to see growth in its company-operated retail unit – at a time when many retailers are literally running on fumes.

Apple said earnings zoomed 15% in its fiscal third quarter – the best non-holiday quarter in the company’s history – at a time when virtually every other major …

div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)/span is getting lots of positive analyst commentary following results out last night.br /br /Here are some of the highlight:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"- Deutsche Bank is raising their target to $225 from $150 noting /spaniPhone shipments of 5.2M beat their model (DB at 5.0M) with robust demand outstripping supply. The iPhone remains immensely profitable (est. 60% GM) as it added an incremental $0.79 in EPS in the Q on a pro-forma basis (adjusting for subscription accounting). Further, Apple will extend the geographic reach of the iPhone from 18 to 80 countries by the end of the Sept Q, greatly expanding its addressable market. Further, the firm believes Apple is on track to partner with China Unicom as early as this Fall. As a result, they raise their CY09 iPhone unit estimate from 23M units to 26M (Sept Q increased from 6M to 8.5M).br /br ...

Apple's (AAPL) third-quarter numbers were well above both guidance and analyst's estimates. In fact, the results were above the high end of the range of estimates for EPS. However, the fourth-quarter guidance was below the consensus numbers as stated this morning. The company continues to gain market share in the three major hardware sectors: computers with very significant gains in portables, music players and smart phones. Overall computer unit sales increased 4% year over year in the face of an industry decline of 3%. Mac portable units were up 13%, a very significant gain. The mp3 market continues to be weak, and iPod volume declined from 11 million a year ago to 10.2 million this last quarter. The problem was the traditional mp3 market is still declining and the strength in more advanced produced, like the Shuffle, was not enough to offset the decline in ...

Innovative Developer to Launch AppSpace.com in July, Introduces New Mobile App

ZAGG Inc. (OTCBB: ZAGG), a leading producer of mobile electronics accessories including the popular invisibleSHIELDTM and award-winning ZAGGaudioTM brands, announces their foray into the fast-growing market for mobile applications. ZAGG’s initial developments include AppSpace.com, an online destination for mobile apps, as well their first app developed and published directly by ZAGG for the iPhone app platform.

ZAGG executives announced the development and scheduled July 2009 launch of AppSpace.com during their recent investor conference call. AppSpace.com will provide mobile app users with an industry-first app search engine with a social media component to ease the process of sorting through the exploding number of mobile titles. It will also give developers a platform to promote their apps.

“Entering the mobile application world is a strategic expansion for ZAGG, and I believe it will be a significant part of our business in the

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