Pre-Market Stock News (APR 5, 2007)

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(AAPL) Apple unveiled some discounting yesterday for its new widescreen cinema monitors.
(ABN) ABN AMRO now may get a bid from Royal Bank of Scotland according to overseas reports.
(ATRS) Altiris shareholders approved the Symantec buyout as expected.
(BKS) Barnes & Noble found numerous cases of options backdating from 1996 to 2006.
(BLUD) Immucor $0.21 EPS vs $0.20e.
(CMI) Cummins Engine noted as a buy on Cramer’s Mad Money.
(DELL) IN a filing Dell said it is delaying its annual report; puts EPS at $1.16 and revenues at $57 Billion for the year ended FEB 2.
(DMGI) Digital Music Group will offer content through Amazon.com’s Unbox.

(DSCP) Datascope said its CFO resigned to pursue another opportunity.
(EDA) Endeavor Acquisition will proceed with its acquisition of American Apparel after it met its EBITDA targets.
(GOOG) Google is allowing users to now do interactive maps.
(IEX) IDEX approved a dividend hike and a 3-2 stock split.
(MSFT) Microsoft has been ordered to open up its operating system data to competitors by the European Union.
(MU) Micron -$0.07 EPS vs -$0.01e.
(NPTH) Enpath Medical in long-term supply pact with Medtronic.
(OIIM) O2 Micro in settlement pact with Samsung.
(QCOM) Qualcomm has been paid $20 million by Nokia in Q2 over 3G patents, although discussions are still ongoing.
(RACK) Rackable Systems now sees a loss for the quarter after increased competition and an order cancellation.
(RDWR) Radware lowered guidance.
(RYL) Ryland now sees loss for the quarter of $0.50 to $0.60 EPS.
(STZ) Constellation Brands $0.35 EPS vs $0.34e.
(TMNG) TMNG Global found over 60% of options reviewed from 1999 to 2006 had improper dating.
(TTWO) Take-Two Interactive SEC Probe is now formal.
(VERZ) Veraz Networks priced a 9 million share IPO at $8.00; 2.25 million shares were being sold by parent ECI Telecom (ECIL).
(WEBM) Webmethods to be acquired for $9.15 per share by Software AG in an all cash offer.

Jon C. Ogg
April 5, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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