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Credit Suisse has upgraded VMware (NYSE: VMW) from Neutral to Outperform and has raised the price target from $100 to $115.

Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP), upgrading CHKP from Hold to Buy. In its report, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "We are upgrading shares of Check Point to Buy from Hold and establishing a target price of $65, which represents an EV/FCF...

Stifel Nicolaus has upgraded Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) from Hold to Buy and has established a $65 price target.

So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...

So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...

So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...

So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...

Day after day, the major stock indexes seem to give up the early gains in the final hour of the trading session. This afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading higher by 400.00 points to 11,118.00. This rally higher is broad based as every sector seems to catching a bid higher. All is...

Get your head in the clouds, and it could be very profitable. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced this morning that it would be launching a web-based version of its Kindle, the Kindle Cloud Reader. If you use Chrome or Safari on Mac, PC, Linux and Chromebook, you can access your Kindle e-book...

Congratulations, you've just lived through the sixth-worst day in the history of the U.S. stock market. The Dow Industrials fell 634 points on Monday in response to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating, and two days later the volatility continues. After a day like...

Finland-based phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to stop selling low-end phones and Symbian-based smartphones in North America, as the company goes all-in on Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) newest mobile Windows software. In interview with AllThingsD this week, the head of Nokia's U.S. subsidiary,...

Shares of BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) are higher on the session by 3.31%, trading at $39.35. Overall put volume is now running at 2.96x the daily average, with 74% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,752 contracts have traded on the session so far. BMC Software, Inc. is a software...

Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 344,930 contracts, 49.8% calls, 50.2% puts 2. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) 244,700 contracts, 46.8% calls, 53.2% puts 3. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 195,542 contracts, 60.9% calls, 39.1% puts 4. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT...

Radiant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RADS) announced today that it has acquired Texas Digital Systems, Inc. Texas Digital's solutions enable businesses to improve order accuracy, increase speed of service and influence sales at the point-of-purchase. “Order confirmation and digital signage is an...

Wunderlich Securities reiterated its Buy rating on Falconstor Software (NASDAQ: FALC). At the same time, the rating agency left its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $6. On Monday, FALC lost 9.79% of its value to end the day at $3.50.