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By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday August 23.

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Trefis submits: Apple’s (AAPL) iPad, which competes with Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s (BKS) Nook in the e-reader market, is continuing to see substantial growth in sales, and we expect this trend to continue.

Michael Tarsala submits: It barely matters who Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) finds to replace Marc Hurd as CEO. This stock is cheap on almost every measure, and should rally along with the rest of tech when his predecessor is named. Which, by the way, could be very