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Google Continues to Dominate Market, Gobbling up Acquisitions and Deals

Google Inc. (NAPostsSDAQ: GOOG) and the Associated Press entered into a new licensing agreement yesterday, following months of negotiations; neither Google nor the Associated Press have disclosed the terms of the deal. The previous licensing deal between Google and Associated Press, which was signed in 2006, expired at the beginning of this year.Google recently acquired [...]

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Top Biopharma Stock in Focus – VVUS

VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is a biopharma company. The company develops and commercialises therapeutic products for underserved markets. It has two products under investigational pipeline at a late-stage. One of these products is Qnexa. It completed phase III clinical trials for obesity and phase II clinical trials for diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea.
The company submitted [...]

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Apple Sitting Pretty amidst Economy’s Double-Dip Concerns

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been in the limelight ever since the company entered into a deal with Liquidmetal Technologies (PINK: LQMT). As per the deal, Apple now has rights to Liquidmetal’s patented technology. Apple is likely to use the technology to make its future products more wear-and-tear resistant. Apple reportedly paid $11 million to [...]

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Amid Concerns of a Double-Dip Recession, Consumer Spending rises in July

Finally there was good news on the economic front as the U.S. government reported that consumer spending rose in the month of July by an unexpected amount. The news comes amid fears that the U.S. economy may be slipping into another recession. Certainly, the economic data that came out prior to today pointed towards a [...]

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Most Talked About Hot Stock: YRCW in a Crunch?

YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ:YRCW) offers a range of transportation services,  including global transportation, national transportation, regional transportation and also logistics services. Its subsidiaries are: YRC National Transportation, that provides transportation service focused on businesses in regional and international markets; YRC Regional Transportation, provides regional business transportation services; YRC Logistics plans and coordinates the movement of [...]

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Hottest Biotech Climbs 4% on Unsolicited Acquisition Offer from Sanofi-Aventis

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) today confirmed the receipt of an unsolicited, non-binding acquisition offer from Sanofi-Aventis. Sanofi-Aventis offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Genzyme Corporation for $69 per share in cash.
In response to the unsolicited offer, the Genzyme’s board of directors met on Sunday and asked the company to send a response letter to [...]

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Is it Time to Sell Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM)?

No matter the climate on Wall Street there’s always some action somewhere.
The latest action featured at center ring is the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) versus Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) slug fest over 3Par (NYSE: PAR). 3Par investors appear to have hit it big, with 200% gains expected for these lucky stockholders when all is done. [...]

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Hot Renewable Stock JASO Expects to Outperform Solar Sector in Next 5 Years

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ: JASO) is a Chinese manufacturer of high performance solar cells. The company manufactures and markets both multicrystalline and monocrystalline solar cells. The company does business primarily in the People’s Republic of China. The company has three wholly owned subsidaries, Shanghai JA Solar PV Technology Co., Ltd. (JA Zhabei), [...]

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Bidding War Between Dell and HP over 3Par Continues

In another move in the dog fight between HP and Dell over 3Par, Hewlett Packard boosted it’s bid for 3Par to $30.00 a share, or about $1.88 on today. This move comes directly after Dell, the other dog in this fight, matched HP’s previously increased bid to $27.00 a share, valued at $1.8 billion earlier [...]

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3 Reasons Cord Blood America is Today’s Top Penny Stock

Cord Blood America (OTC: CBAI) is a holding company of Cord Partners, CorCell Ltd., CorCell Co. Inc., CBA Professional Services, Inc. CBA Properties, Inc. (Properties), D/B/A BodyCells, Inc. (BodyCells) and Career Channel Inc, D/B/A Rainmakers International (Rain). It is segregated in four business segments of Cord, BodyCells, Properties and Rain. The Cord segment specializes in [...]

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