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By Andrew Tonner | More Articles
December 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

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Andrew Tonner and Brendan Byrnes own no shares of the companies mentioned here.The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com, Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and UPS and has the following options: long JAN 2013 $10.00 calls on Intel. Motley Fool newsletter services recommend Amazon.com and NVIDIA. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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