Colin Pettis

Colin Pettis covers the senior semiconductor sector and is a managing director at Tech Insider, joining in 2012. Colin has 20 years of experience in equity research including 15 years in semiconductor components. Colin is currently responsible for the coverage of 18 large-cap and small-cap semiconductor companies.

Tech Insider Buying: Liquid Holdings Group Inc (NASDAQ:LIQD), KEYW Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:KEYW), Micrel, Incorporated (NASDAQ:MCRL), Orion Energy Systems (NYSEMKT:OESX)

Liquid Holdings Group (NASDAQ:LIQD) major shareholder Allmen Douglas J. Von purchased 6,400,000 shares of Liquid Holdings Group stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 15th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $1.25 per share, with a total value of $8,000,000.00. Liquid Holdings Group Inc (NASDAQ:LIQD) stock performance was 39.84% in last session…

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Volatile Stocks: FireEye Inc (NASDAQ:FEYE), Sify Technologies Limited (ADR) (NASDAQ:SIFY), Westell Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:WSTL), Overland Storage Inc (NASDAQ:OVRL)

FireEye Inc (NASDAQ:FEYE), on May 20, 2014 released the report “Cybersecurity’s Maginot Line: A Real-world Assessment of the Defense-in-Depth Model.” A first-of-its-kind study, the report examines attack data captured by FireEye security appliances from 1,217 organizations around the world. These organizations were testing, but were not yet protected by, the FireEye platform from October 2013…

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Stocks To Watch: Alcatel Lucent (NYSE:ALU), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), MRV Communications (NASDAQ:MRVC), Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL)

Alcatel-Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) has announced it has initiated a litigation claiming patent infringement in Federal Court in the District of Delaware against Sophos and its subsidiary Cyberoam. Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) stock performance was 1.05% in last session and finished the day at $3.86. Traded volume was 10.99million shares in the last session…

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Top Gainers: J.C. Penney Company (NYSE:JCP), Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG), NQ Mobile (NYSE:NQ), Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX)

J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP)’s CEO, Mike Ullman has turned the company around after the replacing former CEO Ron Johnson. His strategy has brought consumer back to its retail stores. The retailer is aiming to “go forward” at its third stage of its turnaround after completing “immediate stabilization” and rebuilding” in the last 10 months….

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Trader’s Alert: Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

Top hedge funds shed their stakes in high-profile Internet names such as Netflix Inc and Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) in the first quarter, moving to peers viewed as more mature and less volatile. High-growth Internet software and biotech companies were the darlings of 2013, but their shares started to fall sharply in early March. Groupon Inc…

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Healthcare ACtive Stocks: Rexahn Pharmaceuticals (NYSEMKT:RNN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARIA), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD), Gentiva Health Services (NASDAQ:GTIV)

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:RNN) said, “We continue to enroll patients in each of our three clinical trials as expected, and as planned for. By the end of 2014, we expect to achieve key milestones in each trial. In Q4 we expect to have data from our Phase I trial of Supinoxin in cancer patients with…

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