Pre-Market Stock Notes (DEC 22, 2006)

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(AIRN) Airspan CFO is leaving in 2007 and will be replaced in early 2007.
(APN) Applica’s tender by Nacco was hiked from $6.50 to $7.00.
(AQNT) Acquantive started as Buy/$30 target at Cantor Fitgerald.
(EMC) EMC gets pact from Social Security Admin.
(ESLR) Evergreen Solar get approval from German government over EverQ.
(GOOG) Google started as Buy at Cantor Fitgerald with a $650 target.
(IP) Int’l paper selling off 5 plants to Georgia Pacific for $237M.
(JSDA) Jones Soda ran more than 10% after Cramer touted the stock on MAD MONE&Y as the next HANS last night.
(MI) M&I announced CEO will retire in April 2007.
(MU) Micron traded up 4% after beating earnings at $0.25 EPS vs $0.21e.
(NVLS) Novellus announced Sasson Somek is retiring as President.
(RECN) Resource Connection $0.29 EPS vs $0.27e.
(RHT) Red Hat traded up 12% to $20+ after beating EPS with $0.14 vs $0.12e.
(RIG) Transocean won a $400+M pact over 3-years.
(RIMM) Research-in-Motion $0.95 EPS vs $0.94e; traded up 5% after beating earnings and offeirng guidance.
(RVBD) Riverbed traded up another 3% after Cramer said he doesn’t think it is done nor that it’s too late to get in.
(SHFL) Shuffle Master $0.24 EPS vs $0.19e, but was $0.14 after items; stock rose 6%.
(SLR) Solectron $0.05 EPS vs $0.05e; R$3B vs $2.8B(e).
(THQI) THQ Interactive amended its Xbox 360 license pact with Microsoft.
(TIBX) Tibco Software $0.14 EPS vs $0.13e.
(VCAT) Venture catalyst acquired by IGT for $2.58 per share, a no-premium deal.

Happy Holidays!

Jon C. Ogg
DEC 22, 2006

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

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.

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