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Wunderlich Has Hold On VASCO Data Security International (VDSI)
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 7:29am | 156Wunderlich Securities has a Hold rating and a $9.25 price target on shares of VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (NASDAQ: VDSI). In a note to clients, Wunderlich writes, "HSBC Holdings (HBC-NR), historically Vasco's (VDSI) largest customer, is rolling out new tokens to all of its online...
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The Companies to Watch in the Profitable World of Mobile Gaming
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 12:59pm | 732By Stephanie Taylor Christensen The high-tech gaming market used to be dominated by a few major players: Nintendo, Sony (SNE), and Microsoft (MSFT). Thanks to the uprise in smartphones (Nielsen estimates by the end of 2011, one in two Americans will have one), mobile gaming on a smartphone has...
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BMO Capital Opens ORCL With Outperform
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 8:16am | 56Analysts at BMO Capital initiate coverage of Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) with an “outperform” rating. The target price for ORCL is set to $42. ORCL shares fell 3.02% to close at $31.80 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Zings Of The Day (GMCR, MSFT, HRB)
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 5:00pm | 174Green Mountain Coffee (NASDAQ: GMCR) and Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) will team up to sell Starbucks coffee and Tazo brand tea via Green Mountain's K-Cup portion packs for use in the Keurig single-cup brewing system. As if Starbucks needed even more access to take over the world. H&R Block...
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Piper Jaffray Comments On RHT Survey
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 10:12am | 108Piper Jaffray surveyed 46 Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) partners “for an early assessment of the flagship product cycle, RHEL 6, and walk away with greater conviction that RHEL 6 extends RHT's competitive lead and will drive strong bookings growth in 2011.” “35% of partners view RHEL 6 as more meaningful...
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Oppenheimer Says Microsoft Sold 10 Million Kinects (MSFT)
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8:31am | 129Oppenheimer & Co. is out with a research report on Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). It has an Outperform rating and a $25 price target. In a note to clients, Oppenheimer writes, "Yesterday, MSFT announced demand for Kinect Xbox 360 remained healthy in 2011. The company disclosed it has sold over 10...
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Puts Bought on Symantec Corporation (SYMC)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 2:24pm | 156Shares of Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) are higher on the session by 1.93%, currently trading at $18.22. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today...
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What Happens When QE2 Ends?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 1:36pm | 748By Josh Lipton Tomorrow, on March 9, the S&P 500 is scheduled to celebrate its second bull-market birthday. The historic rally has been dramatic and, for many strategists and analysts, unexpected. Two years ago, how many of your friends and neighbors would have bet that the US stock market...
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Puts Purchased on Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 11:43am | 145Shares of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) are higher on the session by 1.19%, currently trading at $40.83. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months and is currently consolidating between the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today...
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Cruising Around The World Of Test Drive Unlimited 2
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 6:02pm | 595If Take-Two Interactive's (NASDAQ: TTWO) Grand Theft Auto series was the inventor of the open-world action/driving game, then Test Drive Unlimited was the inventor of the first open-world racer. Several game publishers have tried to use that moniker, “open-world,” in their marketing materials. But...
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How To Trade The IBM Analyst Day Tomorrow (IBM, EMC, SVVS, FFIV, DLR)
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 4:07pm | 445IBM (NYSE: IBM) is set to host its analyst day tomorrow which will likely to focus on the roadmap to 2015. Barclays believes the day will be focused on stuff the company talked about at its last analyst day, such as "growth markets", "analytics", "next-generation data center and cloud", and a "...
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comScore Reports January Mobile Subscriber Market Share
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 2:21pm | 354comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending January 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset...
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The Dollar Index: High Risk of Unraveling
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 12:44pm | 1181I am sure that you are aware that the Dollar Index can't get a bid. This isn't news but a fact. The Dollar Index is in a down trend, and the question to ponder is: how low can it go? Looking at the price patterns, I believe the Dollar is at significant risk of unraveling. Figure 1 is a weekly...
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The Dollar Index: High Risk of Unraveling
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 12:44pm | 1181I am sure that you are aware that the Dollar Index can't get a bid. This isn't news but a fact. The Dollar Index is in a down trend, and the question to ponder is: how low can it go? Looking at the price patterns, I believe the Dollar is at significant risk of unraveling. Figure 1 is a weekly...
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UPDATE: Oppenheimer Upgrades CA Inc. To Outperform With a $29 PT
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 9:44am | 194Oppenheimer is upgrading the shares of CA Inc. (NYSE: CA) to Outperform from Perform and establishing a price target of $29, based on the following: Attractive valuation; Continued solid execution; CA's Mainframe business's install base, while growing low single digit, provides the platform for non...