Here's Why All the People Freaking Out About Apple's Stock Crash Need to Take a Xanax

There has been an awful lot of angst and hyperventilating about Apple‘s (AAPL) stock price movements in the last few days.

“Apple has now entered BEAR Market territory. Down 11% from its high” was one tweet I saw yesterday.

It sort of goes with the territory, I guess, when you’re the biggest company in the world with a market cap in excess of $600 billion that even small percentage moves in the price of the stock get outsized attention from critics.

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RIM to Be Sold Within 24 Months, Jackson Says

My chat with @tomkeene & @scarletfu this morning about $RIMM and $YHOO



[Long YHOO]

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Lang & O'Leary: BlackBerry Service Outage

Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson talks about the impact of Friday's BlackBerry service outages

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RIM's New Marketing Chief Makes No Sense

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tuesday's shareholder meeting for Research In Motion(RIMM_)was dead boring, with no real news. As a result, the stock got hammered on Tuesday -- down 6%.

One of the strangest things I found had to do with RIM's new chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben. He did an interview with Canada's Globe and Mail on Monday and a TV interview Tuesday.

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins made a big deal on Tuesday during his remarks on his new management team that he'd personally assembled and was going to turn RIM into a "lean, mean hunting machine." (Seriously, he said that.)

Is there any other position on that team more critical than marketing? For years, RIM has emphasized engineering over marketing. Founder Mike Lazaridis believed that giving names to his devices was silly marketing fluff. So he decided all that was needed was a bunch of four digits for device names like 8900 or 9500.

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Can RIM Pull Out of Its Tailspin?

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Research In Motion(RIMM_) will report its latest quarter after the close on Thursday.


As Horace Dediu pointed out on his Asymco blog, last yea, RIM reported that it sold 13.2 million phones. Yet, in the prior quarter reported in April, RIM only reported selling 11.1 million phones.


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More Muddled Thinking From BlackBerry Management

This morning, shares of Research In Motion(RIMM) are up because investors think management waved the white flag and want to sell the company to the first bidder.

Therefore, bid up the shares now, before the acquisition premium gets put in.  Well, more on the potential for a RIM buyer in a later post.

I want to give people pause before jumping in to RIM shares here.

The new management – under CEO Thorsten Heins – still suffers from Balsillie-like muddled thinking.

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Likely Buyers for RIM? Amazon and Microsoft/Nokia

RIM (RIMM) now has the fear of the God in them it seems.

That’s good, although they’ve still got a tough road ahead of them — especially with a lot of their leadership walking out the door.

What’s juiced the stock this morning is that investors think there’s a glimmer of hope the board might consider a full buyout of the Canadian company.

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Reading the Tea Leaves in RIM Shakeup

Did Mike Lazaridis try to push out Jim Balsillie from RIM last year?  Did the board placate him with a more senior position in the new Thorsten Heins era?  We may never know.

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Roger Martin's Silly Defense of RIM: Opinion

Why Roger Martin's feisty defense of RIM over the weekend was pompous, simple-minded, and hypocritical.

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Why Every Company Needs A "No Bozo" Policy

Bozos kill companies.  Here's how to ensure your company operates by a strict "No Bozo" policy.

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RIMM's Collapse Was Predicted in 1993

Best Jim Balsillie quote ever contained within....

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Research In Motion's Co-CEOs are Brutal at Fortune Telling

RIM says it won't make its previously lowered full-year guidance. That's not a shocker but it just shows how bad these co-CEOs are at predicting the future.

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Erin Burnett's Asinine Apple Analysis

Erin Burnett has a history of making snap uninformed judgments and then inviting on guests or telling a narrative seeking to confirm her bias. She did it for years in her former business anchor role about the biggest company in the world: Apple. What will she do for "real news"?

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Steve Jobs' Own Words From His Last Earnings Call

Steve Jobs' comments from last October's earnings call - his last.

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Open Tuck Business School Class on Why Smart Executives Fail and RIMM

Here's how to participate in a live-streaming MBA class next Tuesday on the topic of Why Smart Executives Fail.

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How Jim Balsillie First Discussed the Competitive Threat of iPhone to the BlackBerry

Here is how Research In Motion's Jim Balsillie sized up the iPhone in 2007.

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No Questions Please for Research In Motion

Here's a "how to" guide from Jim Balsillie of Research In Motion on how to avoid tough questions from your research analysts

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Inside the Sausage Maker of Executive Compensation at RIMM

An inside look at how executive compensation gets paid out at Research in Motion.

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Why Do Canadians And Americans See Research In Motion So Differently?

Some Canadian money managers believe that "the pessimism of the big US bulge-bracket firms" are responsible for Research In Motion's low stock price. Really?

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Those 2000 RIMM Layoffs? 1500 of Them Were Hired Since February 28th

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction for Research In Motion.

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