In the wake of Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs’s announcement that he will take a leave of absence from the company for health reasons, the Street pondered both the lack of a time-frame in Jobs’s break, but also the fact that COO Tim Cook, who will assume day-to-day operations, was [...]

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Lawrence Harris with C.L. King & Associates offers some thoughts this afternoon about Motorola Mobility (MMI), which he rates a Strong Buy, with a $40 price target, in the wake of Apple (AAPL) and Verizon Communications’s (VZ) iPhone announcement this morning.
In particular, Harris zeros in on the fact the iPhone [...]

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Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty today removed Apple (AAPL) shares from the firm’s “best ideas list,” based mostly on the fact the stock is up 28% in six months versus 14% for the S&P 500.
Huberty maintains the stock is still her top pick, and she reiterated a $375 price target on [...]

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Research In Motion (RIMM) shares are trading only modestly higher this morning after an impressive beat-and-raise quarter, as the strong report is offset by weaker-than-expected subscriber growth and continued competitive concerns. The Street’s reaction to the numbers has been mixed: while the bulls were exultant about the fact that RIMM’s [...]

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Research In Motion (RIMM) shares are trading only modestly higher this morning after an impressive beat-and-raise quarter, as the strong report is offset by weaker-than-expected subscriber growth and continued competitive concerns. The Street’s reaction to the numbers has been mixed: while the bulls were exultant about the fact that RIMM’s [...]

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Bobby Benmosche, celebrating the fact that he’s survived an entire year to the day at AIG, an achievement no one saw coming. [WSJ]

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The catch phrase of the day for Netflix (NFLX) analysts today was “priced for perfection” – at least three of them today used those precise words in their research notes to explain that the sell-off in the stock that started after-hours yesterday was simply a reflection of the fact that [...]

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Now, here’s a terrible idea, courtesy of the New York Times editorial page.
The Times takes note of the fact that Google (GOOG) handles two-thirds of Internet search queries, and points out that with the company moving into other online services like maps, videos, comparison shopping, it now has “pecuniary incentives [...]

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Jamie Dimon has only narrowed it down to three (Doug Braunstein, Mike Cavanagh, and Heidi Miller) but Miller is seen as a front runner, due to the fact that she takes no shit, or prisoners, especially from JD.

“This is someone who has the capability of staring Jamie Dimon down, so that’s obviously served her well,” said Duff McDonald, author of “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase.” “The fact that he’s chosen her to take on this new and expanded role should surprise nobody.”

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Yeah, Kirstie Alley, you are.  Did you really need to see yourself on a reality show for this revelation? The whole reason you got that show is due to the fact that you're a strange individual. Who the hell else do you know that has pet lemurs crawling around their home in L.A.? Or any type of prosimian pets for that matter. Welcome to planet earth.

[Photos via LATimes and Primatology at WashU]

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