Earlybird Research Notes (FEB 12, 2007)

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ADBE raised to Buy at Oppenheimer.
ADSK started as Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
ALGN raised to Outperform at Piper Jaffray.
ARIA raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
BSX cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
BYD cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.
CIEN raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
DIS raised to Sector Perform at CIBC.
EQ cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
ESRX raised to Buy at Jefferies.
FWRD cut to Hold at AGEdwards.
JWN raised to Buy at AGEdwards.
KFT raised to Neutral at UBS.
LUV raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
MA raised to Mkt Perform at KBW.
MDTH cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.
PETM started as Neutral at UBS.
Q raised to Sector Perform at CIBC.
RHD raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
RPRX started as Outperform at CIBC.
STJ raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
TEN raised to Buy at Citigroup.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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