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...Investors who believe that Apple can still do well got a hand. Smart phone king Research In Motion (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry, posted strong earnings for the last quarter. The company did what Wall St. likes most of all. It did better than expected in the last reporting period and said it would do better than people anticipated in the future. Now Wall St. gets to re-evaluate Apple. RIMM, which is among the lesser branded competitors in the field, has done fine even in a downturn. Even if the recession has been deepening, businesses and consumers are willing...
...represents such a huge part of the national GDP and the market caps of companies like Microsoft (MSFT), HP (HPQ), Cisco (CSCO), and Intel (INTC) make up such a significant part of the weighting of the S&P. For the most part, tech has done as well or better than the broader market over the last month...
...give free medical care to locals. That care, along with a free school that will be built for local children, will come under Panthera's banner, and the hope is that Brazilians will learn to appreciate both the medical care and the conservation work for jaguars. "People are given better schools and better health care, and the connection between the two is made," says Rabinowitz. (See TIME's special report on extinction...
...billion a year in capital spending and required Harvard to issue $3 billion in new debt over the next three to four years, according to the report.Planned spending could revert to higher levels “if fundraising results or the economy’s growth is substantially better than expected,” said Moody’s, which expressed confidence in the University’s liquidity position and reaffirmed its top “Aaa” rating. Moody’s does not anticipate that Harvard’s long-term competitiveness will be affected...
...bright red link at the upper right hand corner of your inbox, Gmail created a page for a new "Autopilot" feature that would create automated replies to receive email based on the user's own personal writing style. FlyBy is disappointed by the relative obviousness of the joke. Better luck next year...