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IBM is buying another company.  International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of a company called Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) early this Friday.  The deal may...
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: CTSH) was featured this week in our daily version of the Top Day Trader Alerts due its price and volume spike after earnings.  The highs in the stock...
Manufacturing is not dead and growth is still alive.  The equity markets were already higher ahead of the Institute for Supply Management this morning, but the ISM data is one more report showing...
The preliminary figure for Q1-2010 GDP this morning from the Commerce Department came out at +3.2%.  While this is hot as it is above the 3.0% mark, this is south of the 3.3% estimate from Dow...
Reply! Inc., an operator of a proprietary auction marketplace that facilitates online locally targeted marketing, has filed today for an initial public offering.  While no financial terms were...
The 2010 Super Bowl is expected to be a return of bold advertising.  Whether you are a Colts or Saints fan or no fan at all, it seems that even the non-sports lovers enjoy the commercials running...
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) may have opened up a can of worms with its planned acquisition of Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG).  For starters, Air Products has a market cap of $14.5...
It has to sound like the recovery of the century when you hear that the first look at fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product rose to +5.7%.  Dow Jones had estimates of 4.8%, while we saw a Bloomberg...
The ongoing Telepresence effort made by Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has some new competition from a rival networking technology company as well as from a rival in the video communications...
Language Line Services Holdings, Inc. is the latest company which has filed to come public via an initial public offering.  The terms were not disclosed, but for filing purposes it listed a sale of...
The Institute of Supply Management has released its November data for the services sector this morning.  The ISM non-Manufacturing data had gotten back to growth briefly in October and September. ...
Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) has been freed up to become SearchMedia, as expected.  The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, issued a release noting that its shareholders approved...
The Labor Department has released the September Producer Price Index, the measure of wholesale inflation.  We did see a slightly raised Consumer Price Index last week and that had many of the...
China Real Estate Information Corporation (NASDAQ: CRIC) has priced its 18 million share initial public offering at $12.00 per share.  While this is not an easy structure, this IPO has ramifications...
Last night there was an initial public offering filing from a company called BJB Career Education Company, Limited.  This is a Chinese IT training company and it plans to list its ADS’s on the...