AMZN started as Buy at Soleil.ASH cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.ATRS raised to Buy at Jefferies.BBBY cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.BORL cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.CAKE raised to Outperform at FBR.CMVT cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.DAC started as Buy at Jefferies.DRIV started as Outperform at thomas Weisel.EIX raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.FL raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.GOOG started (renewed) coverage with Buy and $600 target.HD raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.MEL raised to Buy at B of A.MO raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.QCOM reitr Buy at Jefferies.RLH cut to Mkt Perform at FBR.SKS raised to Buy at merrill Lynch.SPLS started as Hold at Soleil.SYK added to Focus List at Merrill Lynch.TELK cut to Underweight at Lehman.TXU cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.VNO added to Goldman Sachs’ conviction buy list.VOD raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.