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This Morning: China Mobile Talks iPhone, Facebook for RIMM?

Some things going on in your world of tech this morning: China Mobile (CHL), the world’s largest cellular operator by subscriber count, is talking with Apple (AAPL) to reach an agreement to carry the iPhone in China, according to statements made by C...

peHUB First Read

With your coffee this morning First Read brings you news that Blackstone may have to sacrifice fee revenue to win CalPERS pledge; BlackBerry 7 has been approved for Pentagon use; the anti-Facebook is getting bought and shut down and Amazon moves into high fashion.

RIMM: UBS Heartened by Bloggers’ Enthusiasm

If you want to know which Research in Motion (RIMM) writers/pundits the street follows, keep an eye on Kevin Michaluk, founder of CrackBerry.com, and Ronen Halevy, founder of BerryReview.com, both of whom were lunch guests of UBS Securities’s Amitabh...

RIMM Analyst Round-Up: Wells, Sterne Agee, BMO, Wedge Unimpressed

It’s the second day of Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry World conference, but once again analysts remain skeptical of the stock. Below is a round-up of notes out today. Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer M. Fritzsche reiterated her Market Perform rating on the stock, as she saw some glimmers of hope for the company but noted...

RIMM Promises $10K Per App; Jefferies Says Sell

Research In Motion‘s (RIMM) BlackBerry World Conference continues for its second day today, and the company is promising $10,000 to developers. The company  has been giving away prototypes to juice app development for the new phone, as many prefer to create software for Apple‘s (AAPL) and Google‘s (GOOG) Android products. Now, it is directly addressing...

RIMM Analyst Round-Up: BB10 Fails To Wow

Research In Motion‘s (RIMM) BlackBerry World conference began today in Orlando, including the introduction of a prototype of the BlackBerry 10, widely expected later this year, and plenty of giveaways to developers in hopes that buzz and software will follow. However, analysts remained skeptical of the stock’s prospects leading up to the conference, and today...

RIMM Up 4% on Chatter of ‘BB10′ Time Frame, Fairfax Remarks

Shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) are up 54 cents, or 4%, at $14.19 today, and were as high as $14.43 at one point, a much better showng than the broader market’s 0.4% climb for the Nasdaq Composite, on no apparent news. The proximate source is a write-up today by TheBoyGeniusReport’s Zach Epstein, expanding on...

AAPL: iPhone Upside Possible Despite Qualcomm, Verizon Data, Says Raymond James

Raymond James’s Tavis McCourt this morning reiterates a Strong Buy rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) writing that his analysis of the scenario for the company’s iPhone suggests the company may have sold more than 34 million units last quarter, the fiscal Q2 ended in March, despite ominous signs yesterday from Verizon Communications (VZ) and...

Intel in a Hard Place Between ARM and Apple, Says Pac Crest

Pacific Crest analysts James Faucette, covering wireless technology, Michael McConnell, covering semiconductors, and Weston Twigg, covering the chip equipment market, today teamed up for a 27-page group note on the battle between "x86" processors of the sort Intel (INTC) produces, and competing chips based on designs licensing by Intel's nemesis, ARM Holdings (ARMH). Among the...

RIM: Pac Crest Sees Europe Sales Slip; Sub Losses a Risk

Pacific Crest’s James Faucette this morning writes that Research in Motion (RIMM) sales in the U.S. “continued to deteriorate” during March, with the company’s “days of inventory” now “well above 30 days, which we believe is more than 3x what the carriers would nor- mally target; they are the highest DOI levels we have ever...

RIMM Jumps 7%: Newfound ‘Frankness’ Vies with ‘Vagueness’

As I noted earlier today, there's substantial debate over the mixed signals from Research in Motion's (RIMM) fiscal Q4 report last night, and the subsequent conference call. One the one hand, the results disappointed expectations, the company has suspended financial forecasts, the prospect for a buyout of...

RIM: Bernstein Nixes Microsoft Buyout Considerations

Bernstein Research’s Mark Moerdler, who covers Microsoft (MSFT) and rates its shares Outperform, this morning weighs in on the perennial topic of whether Microsoft might buy Research in Motion (RIMM). The latter last night announced worse-than-expected fiscal Q4 results and said it faced “significant challenges” for the next several quarters as it restructures its business....