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(TheStreet) -- Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) $12.5 billion all-cash deal for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) drew new battle lines Monday as the leading software shop jumped into phone making. Beyond the obvious boost in the patent arms race, Google's combination with Motorola creates a crucial hardware/software...

Credit Suisse is upgrading shares of VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) to Outperform and is raising its price target to $115 from $100. In a note to clients, Credit Suisse writes, "With the recent introduction of VMware vSphere 5, VMware changed vSphere's licensing to be based on consumption rather than...

The Benchmark Company has published a research report on Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) for 6% or Google's market capitalization and 35% of its net cash. In the report, Benchmark writes, "Google is doubling-down on mobile. Given the importance of this medium...

Analysts at Rodman & Renshaw upgraded Exact Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) from “market perform” to “market outperform.” EXAS' shares closed at $6.44 on Friday. Exact Sciences' trailing-twelve-month revenue is $4.81 million. Analysts at Goldman Sachs upgraded Family Dollar Stores Inc (...

Collins Stewart has upgraded VMware (NYSE: VMW) from Neutral to Buy and reiterates its $108 price target.

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...

By Michael Comeau Intel (INTC) founder Andy Grove famously said that “only the paranoid survive.” So if I imagine myself as an Intel executive, I'm forced to ask the question, what would keep me up at night? The answer is this: the arrival of Apple (AAPL) or Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PCs running...

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...