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.

Healthcare Watch List: Oncothyreon (NASDAQ:ONTY), Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ:CORT), Aastrom Biosciences (NASDAQ:ASTM), Durata Therapeutics (NASDAQ:DRTX)

Corcept Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CORT) Director Longitude Venture Partners L.P sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock on the open market in a transaction dated Friday, May 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $4.11, for a total value of $1,027,500.00. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ:CORT) rose 5.06% percent to $ 4.15 yesterday on volume…

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Tech Stocks To Watch: BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), as a part of the plan to make the company profitable again is selling off the majority of its real estate holdings in Canada to the U.S.-based Spear Street Capital for around $278 million. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)stock performance was -2.70% in last session and finished the day at $ 7.93. Traded volume…

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Tech Movers: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE:SNE)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) rose Monday after RBC Capital Markets increased its price target on the stock for the second time in as many weeks. The firm increased its price target to $645 from $625. The firm had moved it to $625 from $590 after Apple released its second-quarter earnings on April 23. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)…

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Worth-Watching Stocks: AMERICAN RLTY (NASDAQ:HCT), Rubicon Technology (NASDAQ:RBCN), Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA), New Oriental Education (NYSE:EDU)

AMERICAN RLTY CAP HEALTHCARE TR INC (NASDAQ:HCT) announced the preliminary results of its tender offer for the purchase of up to 13,636,364 shares of its common stock, which expired at 12:00 Midnight, Eastern Time, on May 2, 2014. AMERICAN RLTY CAP HEALTHCARE TR INC (NASDAQ:HCT) stock performance was -6.32% in last session and finished the…

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NASDAQ Losers: ON Semiconductor Corp (NASDAQ:ONNN), Endocyte (NASDAQ:ECYT), Actuate Corp (NASDAQ:BIRT), Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MACK)

ON Semiconductor Corp (NASDAQ:ONNN)’s adjusted earnings totaled $75.2 million, or 17 cents a share, while revenue increased year over year to $706.5 million from $661 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to earn 15 cents a share on revenue of $711.67 million. The company issued second-quarter revenue guidance in the range of…

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NASDAQ Active Stocks: Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN)

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, andWilocity, the first chipset maker to launch and support WiGig/802.11ad products in volume production, recently announced that they are working together to develop 60 GHz enterprise networking products supporting transmission speeds of 5 Gbit/s. The new technology is based on the IEEE 802.11ad standard for ultra-fast in-building networks and…

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