Prior to serving as a VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester for enterprise apps strategy and contract negotiations, he headed up the customer relationship management (CRM) analyst relations program for PeopleSoft.

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The analyst notes that notebook contract manufacturer shipments in November were seasonal, but below plan, with shipments flat with October, below expectations of a 2% rise.

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The employment contract of former Salomon Smith Barney telecom analyst Jack Grubman granted him compensation both for bringing in specific investment banking deals and for generating stock trading volume in the issues he covered, according to an attorney familiar with the document.

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In a note to investors earlier this week, Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey wrote that his checks with contract manufacturers don't show any major new hardware platforms on the way.

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"The influx of data services, coupled with the traditional flexibility and value of no contract plans, has considerably increased consumer interest in the no annual contract wireless market" said John Weber, Associate Research Analyst at IDC.

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"If this deal were completely real, it would represent the largest wind contract in the world by multiple amounts, " says RBC analyst Stuart Bush.

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Citing concerns about softening tech hardware end demand, RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani this morning turned cautious on the IT supply chain, downgrading shares of the contract electronics manufacturers Benchmark Electronics and Sanmina, and reducing estimates and price targets for various other stocks.

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