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Appear to be a target of a coming premium

Cramer: Don't Hang Up on Motorola: Jim Cramer says the cell-phone maker's stock has been beaten up badly and must be nearing a bottom.

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Trying to figure out what is going on! How and why are they fending off Microsoft.

Apple's Steve Jobs Looking Frail: Kristin Bentz and Simon Constable dissect the news of growing chatter about Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose physical appearance at the Worldwide Developers Conference sparked a flurry of worried rumors.

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Playing the swings with it while it's in the news.

a strong maybe

Target Beats Estimates, Kinda
Kristin Bentz and Simon Constable explain how a stock buyback helped Target beat earnings expectations, plus more news on the Yahoo!-MSFT mating dance.

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In a recent post, Cramer warned that Carl Icahn should not be taken lightly by Yahoo.

“Yahoo! (YHOO), be prepared to get pantsed. Carl Icahn has spent much of his life working just on the kind of situations that CEO Jerry Yang just engineered -- a situation where entrenched management doesn't own a lot of stock but doesn't want to lose its job and is willing to screw all of the other shareholders.

I have believed from the beginning that Yahoo! did not deal in good faith with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft (MSFT). I believe that every time Ballmer tried to reach a deal, Yang went higher. He wasn't a seller because he believed he owned the company.

Now Icahn has put together a slate that I think can be a winner. I think he knows that you can buy the stock at $23-$25 and flip it to Microsoft after the election.

I think he is right. And I think he will have the support of a lot of shareholders, new and old alike, who feel like they've got a great opportunity or they have been wronged. I imagine that Capital World, which just disclosed a big holding, isn't a Yang supporter. The day this deal broke down, the stock should have broken to $22. It didn't, I believe, because Icahn saw this kind of hubris and wanted to get to work. I predicted it immediately on "Squawk Box" and on video because Icahn lives for these situations.

Icahn's a pro, Yang's an amateur. Any weakness down to $25-$26 and this is a buy. Why not here? Time value of money -- this is going to take some time, and if the deal ultimately gets done at $33-$34, you are going to have a long time waiting, and the spread needs to be bigger.”

Options Gave Icahn Yahoo! Edge
Activist investor Carl Icahn is preparing to wage a proxy fight against Yahoo! Options writer Steve Smith explains how Icahn stealthily used options to establish his position in the stock.

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The recent failure to hook up with microsoft shows a lack of understanding of market forces, potential areas of growth, and leads me to suspect that senior management cares more about keeping control than about making money.

Poor management

It's a poorly managed company.

bad mgt

They never looked in the rear-view mirror and stayed complacent

Unwilling to say Uncle and merge with Microsoft and admit defeat at the hands of the mighty Google.

because it should be at google price 500$ but they suck at what they do

They suck

burned me bad. got out with major loss courtesy of Jim Cramer Black Monday after purchasing Friday before.

so much potential so little direction