NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of diabetes drug maker Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. jumped Monday after a report the company is reaching out to potential buyers about a possible sale. THE SPARK: Reuters reported the San Diego company is looking for buyers and has hired Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs as financial advisers. Amylin did not immediately respond to requests for comment. [...]
Apr 23
Mar 2
Nuance Communications, Inc. provides voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. It offers dictation and transcription solutions and services, which automate the input and management of medical information; and speech recognition solutions for radiology, cardiology, pathology, and related specialties that help healthcare providers dictate, edit, and sign reports without manual transcription. The company [...]
Dec 26
Verizon Communications Inc. provides communication services. The company operates through two segments, Domestic Wireless and Wireline. The Domestic Wireless segment offers wireless voice and data services; and sells equipment in the United States. The Wireline segment provides voice, Internet access, broadband video and data, Internet protocol network, network access, long distance, and other services in [...]
Dec 26
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and financial services in the United States and internationally. The company?s Property and Casualty Commercial segment provides workers? compensation, property, automobile, marine, livestock, liability, and umbrella coverages, as well as customized insurance products and risk management services, including professional liability, fidelity, surety, specialty casualty [...]
Jun 24
Molycorp, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the production and sale of rare earth oxides from stockpiled feedstocks in the western hemisphere. The company operates the Mountain Pass mine, a non-Chinese rare earth deposit located in San Bernardino County, California. Its rare earth products are used as inputs in various existing and emerging applications [...]
Apr 24
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shares of chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. rose Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that were better than analysts’ forecasts and it raised its guidance for the current quarter on the strength of demand for its mobile communications chips and patents. THE SPARK: Qualcomm said Wednesday that net income in the three [...]
Apr 1
The Market Vectors® Agribusiness ETF (MOO) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the DAXglobal® Agribusiness Index (DXAG). DXAG is a modified market capitalization-weighted index designed to track the movements of securities of companies involved in the agriculture business that are traded on leading global [...]
Mar 19
Cisco Systems, the world’s largest maker of computer networking gear, said on Friday that it would pay a cash dividend of 6 cents a share, its first dividend ever, on April 20. The company had announced last year that it would start paying a dividend equating to an annual yield of 1 to 2 percent, [...]
Jan 26
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – 01/25/11) – Last summer, NVIDIA astounded gamers with the introduction of the GeForce® GTX 460 GPU, which editors called “an incredible value”(i). Flash forward 5 months later, and NVIDIA is set to do it again with the immediate availability of the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU. With average performance that [...]
Jan 26
RTECC Santa Clara 27 January 2011 Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center Location: Santa Clara, CA Visit Keil™ at the Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference (RTECC) a single-day complimentary event with technical and educationally-focused seminars, workshops, keynotes and exhibits. All focused on the latest technologies from industry leaders, many with demonstrations in the exhibition hall and in breakout [...]
Jan 26
Goldman Sachs upgraded Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) from Neutral to Buy and raised their price target from $34 to $42, calling it their top large-cap pick across Comm Services. The firm said the Street estimates do not fully reflect the wireless opportunity in 2011 and they see continued share price outperformance. Specifically, the firm said Verizon can surprise [...]
Jan 15
Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock has skyrocketed recently as it has become apparent that the company could be a key player in the lucrative mobile processor market and has plans to make chips for personal computers, servers and supercomputers, challenging the monopoly of its large Silicon Valley rival, Intel (INTC). Eager investors have pushed Nvidia’s stock up [...]
Dec 18
Finisar Corporation Business Summary Internet video, high-definition television, Voice over Internet (VoIP), and the exploding volume and growth of enterprise data – these factors drive a global explosion in the world’s need for information and bandwidth. Optical communications are the foundation. For more than 20 years, Finisar has provided optical components and modules that enable [...]
Dec 15
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Nov 22
Verizon Wireless is throwing its hat in the FauxG marketing wars while also confirming a December launch date for its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. In what is sure to be the first of many commercials, Verizon aired an ad last night touting LTE as “coming December 2010.” The commercial played up the network’s lightening-fast speeds on [...]
Nov 18
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ – With the nation’s economy facing unprecedented challenges, policymakers must enact polices that incent broadband providers, software developers and the technology and communications sectors as a whole to continue investing in the nation’s vital communications networks. In calling for action, Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy and communications, said, [...]
Nov 4
* Q4 adj EPS $0.43 vs est $0.40 * Q4 rev $313.3 mln vs est $309.7 mln * Sees Q1 adj EPS $0.44 vs est $0.41 * Sees Q1 rev $330-$335 mln vs est $326.9 mln Nov 4 (Reuters) – Cellphone chipmaker Skyworks Solutions Inc (SWKS.O) posted better-than-expected quarterly results, primarily helped by strong growth [...]
Nov 4
* H1 results due on Nov. 9 * Investors keen for news about portfolio streamlining By Kate Holton LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Vodafone (VOD.L) investors will be looking for further signs that the group will dispose of minority stakes and return much of the proceeds to shareholders when it reports first-half results and updates its [...]
Oct 6
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to begin making a new iPhone by the end of the year, and Verizon Wireless will begin selling them in early 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. AT&T is the sole U.S. carrier for the popular smartphone, and investors and consumers alike have long speculated over [...]
Sep 25
Verizon Business Summary Verizon Communications Inc. provides communication services in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Wireline and Domestic Wireless. The Wireline segment provides voice, Internet access, broadband video and data, next generation Internet protocol (IP) network services, network access, and long distance services to consumers, carriers, businesses, and government customers. [...]
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