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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (103)	12/28/2006 9:20:15 AM
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Apple news all over the press now... meanwhile the stock is holding up like a champ, at 80. finance.yahoo.com Apple's Rotten News, Google's Big Year by Harold Maass Utility Links Printable ViewEmail this PageThursday, December 28, 2006 NEWS AT A GLANCE Investors worry about Steve Jobs Apple Computer shares were rattled in Europe after the Financial Times reported that CEO Steve Jobs had received stock options in 2001 without his board's approval. Federal investigators are looking into whether Apple falsified documents to make it look like the board had signed off. Apple is one of the biggest names among more than 190 companies facing questions about the distribution of stock options. The new developments are the worst news yet for Apple, said Rob Enderle of the research firm Enderle Group, because they raise doubts about whether Jobs "can stay with the company." (Bloomberg) Apple's stock dipped but quickly recovered after another troubling article earlier this week. (BusinessWeek Online) UBS Investment Research Analyst Ben Reitzes said that since Jobs himself remains unscathed, investors' fears are "overblown." (AP in Yahoo! Finance) Google moves up Internet search giant could vault ahead of Microsoft and Yahoo! in 2007 to become the world's most visited Web site, according to experts. Microsoft is No. 1 worldwide -- largely because of downloads of updates to its ubiquitous software -- and Yahoo! is the most visited Internet property in the U.S., according to ComScore Media Metrix. But Google is growing fast, and its $1.7 billion purchase of video sensation YouTube will speed up its rise. "It's a matter of math," says Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. (USA Today)

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