Carrier spending in markets such as the U.S. and Japan is cooling after a wave of investments in speedier, fourth-generation networks, leaving Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) and China’s Huawei Technologies Co. to compete for fewer deals. Last year, Nokia considered buying the wireless-equipment unit of France’s Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU), people familiar with the matter have said. Nokia can compete in all its three business areas and has no plan to focus on just networks, Suri said. Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) stock performance was -0.77% in last session and finished the day at $3.89. Traded volume was 3.84million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 9.13million shares. The beta of the stock remained 2.22.

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) CEO Dick Costolo was given the inaugural Digital Freedom Award and Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot spoke briefly, calling for attendees to send books to political prisoners. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) dropped -0.69 percent to $38.75 Monday on volume of 10.41million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $38.05 to $39.60. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has a market capitalization of $22.08billion.

Last month, Weatherford a US oil services giant said it would become an “Irish” company by switching its residency from Switzerland to Ireland. Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Pentair switched to Ireland in recent months. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s stock on May 5, 2014 reported a increase of 0.11% to the closing price of $36.91. Its fifty two weeks range is $23.82 -$41.72. The total market capitalization recorded $37.15billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 13.13million shares. In its share capital, YHOO has 1.01billion outstanding shares.

In early trading on Monday, shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) topped the list of the day’s best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 0.3%. Year to date, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) has lost about 3.8% of its value. On Monday, shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) advanced 0.57% to close the day at $47.39. Company return on investment (ROI) is 19.80% and its monthly performance is recorded as -0.42%. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) quarterly revenue growth is 3.25%.