Cramer’s New ‘Four Horsemen of Technology’

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On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer has some names to fall back on after you have two bad tape days like this.  His idea and concept is the NEW 4-Horsemen of Technology: Apple (AAPL), Research-in-Motion (RIMM), Google (GOOG), and surprisingly Amazon.com (AMZN).  These are all the names you’ll want to buy as the end of summer gets here and the techs start running.  Cramer said you aren’t necessarily supposed to buy them all here.

The ‘Four Retiring Horsemen of Tech are Microsoft (MSFT) Intel (INTC), Dell (DELL), and Cisco Systems (CSCO).  These were the leaders of the 1990’s but are still down huge from their highs back in the bubble-days and are no longer leading the tech rally days like they used to.

Cramer said he likes Dell (DELL) still and he still likes Cisco Systems (CSCO).  He thinks Microsoft (MSFT) is sort of a ‘don’t buy" and he thinks Intel (INTC) has lost its way.  It was a bit surprising to see Amazon.com (AMZN) here since Cramer has only been re-endorsing it again after a long long time of bludgeoning it as overvalued.  All of these others are technology plays that Cramer keeps talking about almost day in and day out.  So whatever he says from here on these are calls that maybe he’s got something new and maybe he doesn’t, but you’ve heard some variation of it at some point lately.

Jon C. Ogg
June 6, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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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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