Hint: his profession prior to money managing made him uniquely qualified to offer commentary on the flick of choice, Major League.

Charlie says he assembled a crew [that included SF Giants pitcher Brian "The Beard" Wilson, Kenny Lofton, Todd Zeile, Eddie Murray, Lenny Dykstra and others] to screen his classic flick, “Major League” … and he even brought in the writer and director, David S. Ward, to give an introduction in Charlie’s private theater.

During the party, Charlie let some of the guys try on Babe Ruth’s 1927 World Series ring … which Sheen purchased at an auction more than a decade ago. Charlie called it, “The ultimate VIP baseball excursion.”

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Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White this morning asks if Apple (AAPL) is getting closer to closing a deal for the iPhone with China Telecom (CHA), citing material on NetEase’s (NTES) Web site last night stating that a branch of China Telecom is accepting pre-orders for the CDMA version of [...]

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During a conference call with analysts tonight, Dell (DELL) CFO Brian Gladden reiterated the company’s contention that it has no intention of going private, after pointing out that reported GAAP profit per share for the fiscal Q4 ending in January of 48 cents was the highest quarterly profit in the [...]

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Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White writes that Apple’s (AAPL) announcement today of a new subscription feature that publishers can offer for its iPad and iPhone and iPod is an “incremental positive” for the company that highlights the value of Apple’s “ecosystem.”
To recap, Apple said it is providing publishers with a [...]

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Interesting piece by Ari Levy and Brian Womack of Bloomberg today stating that private money trading in technology companies, including Groupon, Twitter, and Facebook could surge by 51% this year, to $7 billion, citing data from Nyppex.com, a research firm.
A need for liquidity is rising as startups stay private longer, [...]

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Bloomberg’s Brian Womack and Dina Bass this afternoon cite an email from Amit Singhal, listed as a “Fellow” with Google (GOOG), alleging that Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing search engine is copying some of Google’s search results.
Singhal is quoted as writing, “We look forward to competing with genuinely new search algorithms out [...]

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Bloomberg’s Brian Womack reports Yahoo! (YHOO) is planning to cut about 1% of its global workforce, or roughly 140 people, citing an internal email today. Yahoo! plans to continue to add staff to support “key priorities,” the memo said, according to Womack.
This latest cut follows a 4% cut announced back [...]

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Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White today reiterates a Buy rating on Apple (AAPL) shares and a $550 price target, and urges value investors to “take a good look.”
“We believe the risk-reward is becoming so favroable that even value investors should begin buying the stock.”
White writes Apple’s shares, backing out $64 [...]

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In a preview today of the Consumer Electronics Show, Brian Blair with Wedge Partners observes that flash memory chips will be coming to lots more notebook computers this year, following the success by Apple (AAPL) with its MacBook Air line of notebooks, which use flash memory in varying capacities and [...]

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Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall, who follows Apple (AAPL), today offers up his attempt to size up the iTunes move and TV rentals market compared to Netflix (NFLX).
He estimates Apple has 475,000 daily rentals on iTunes, versus 2.6 million daily rentals for Netflix’s streaming service. (Netflix has another 2.5 [...]

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