Apple (AAPL) Ousts Google (GOOG) Atop New Reputation Poll; Jobs Wins Grammy

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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) shares are flirting with the $500 level Monday morning as overall market sentiment moves higher on the Greek austerity package. Several unrelated items are moving Apple shares this morning.

First, Apple is taking a firmer approach to litigation in its new patent infringement suit against Samsung. According to data, Apple filed a preliminary injunction along with the initial suit. Apple said Samsung infringed on four patents and is now looking to block the sale of the new Nexus, the first smartphone running Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android 4.0 operating system.

Next, Apple founder Steve Jobs won a posthumous Grammy award for his work in digital music. Internet software SVP Eddy Cue accepted the award on Jobs' behalf.

Finally, Apple ousted Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) atop Harris Interactive's (Nasdaq: HPOL) 2012 Reputation Quotient poll with a score of 85.62 out of 100. Google's score was 82.82.

The survey from December was based on answers from 12,961 people. Six qualities were evaluated: leadership, financial performance, workplace environment, social responsibility, emotional appeal and the quality of products and services.

Companies not appearing on the list include names like 3M (NYSE: MMM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), and hot social networking giant Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)(NYSE: FB).

Apple shares are up about 1.2 percent pre-market Monday.

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