Pre-Market Stock News (June 28, 2007)

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(AAPL) Apple’s iPhone launches tomorrow.
(ABPI) Accentia Biopharma announced favorable interim blinded data on SinuNase in its fast-tracked pivotal Phase III clinical trial.
(ALVR) Alvarion in pact with Australian government over a WiMAX contract for rural and regional broadband.
(AMSC) American Superconductor won two new Dept of Energy superconductor power grid projects totaling $21.7 million.
(ATML) Atmel $0.06 EPS vs $0.05e.
(BBBY) Bed Bath & Beyond $0.38 EPS vs $0.37e.
(BZH) Beazer Homes fired chief accounting officer.
(CAMD) California Micro lowered guidance.
(CRMT) America’s Car-Mart $0.12 EPS vs $0.10e.
(D) Dominion will initiate a modified Dutch Auction for roughly 55 million shares of its own common stock.
(DRIV) Digital River traded down more than 10% after an earnings warning.
(F) Ford announced zero percent financing incentives for 3-years.
(GIS) General Mills $0.62 EPS vs $0.63e.
(GRB) Gerber Scientific $0.24 EPS vs $0.23e.
(IMA) Inverness Medical announces FDA clearance of the BinaxNOW malaria antigen detection rapid test.
(KBH) KB Homes -$1.93 EPS vs $0.07e; unsure if charges are in numbers.
(NVLS) Novellus guides orders and bookings toward lower-end of prior range.
(PALM) Palm announces earnings after the close.
(PAYX) Paychex $0.36 EPS vs $0.36e.
(PLA) Playboy is opening a Playboy Mansion in Macau in 2009 according to USA Today.
(RAD) Rite-Aid $0.04 EPS vs -$0.01 estimate; unsure if comparable.
(RHT) Red Hat $0.16 EPS & $118.9M revenues (estimates were $0.15/$117.15M).
(RIMM) R-I-M announces earnings after the close.
(STZ) Constellation Brands names Rob Sands CEO effective July 26.
(TASR) Taser formed an alliance with iRobot.
(VOD) Vodafone is in talks to get Apple’s iPhone exclusive in Europe.

Jon C. Ogg
June 28, 2007

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

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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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