Stocks In News: Freescale Semiconductor(NYSE:FSL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD), STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), Toshiba (OTCMKTS:TOSYY)

Broadcom Corp. (BRCM:US), struggling to make a dent in Qualcomm Inc.’s lead in chips that connect smartphones to mobile networks, said it’s giving up on that business. Broadcom is the latest company to say it won’t try to compete in baseband with Qualcomm, whose chips connect the majority of smartphones to high-speed, Internet-capable networks. Texas…

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Active Movers: Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOXA), Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS)

The U.S. drug maker offered Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:IDIX) shareholders $24.50 a share, or $3.85 billion, for the developer of hepatitis C drugs. That’s almost quadruple the stock’s average unaffected price over the previous 20 days, the highest premium on record for any health care deal of at least $100 million, according to data compiled…

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Watch List: The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX), BK, United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX), LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD), Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU)

Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) agreed to sell the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas NV hotel & casino to Blackstone Group LP (NYSE:BX) for $1.73 billion in cash, ending a six-year money-losing venture in to casino development. “The bank is committed to reducing its non-core legacy positions in a capital-efficient manner which benefits shareholders,” The Blackstone Group…

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Biotech Bullish stocks: Oragenics (NYSEMKT:OGEN), Kindred Biosciences (NASDAQ:KIN), Revance Therapeutics (NASDAQ:RVNC), Stemline Therapeutics (NASDAQ:STML), Aastrom Biosciences (NASDAQ:ASTM)

On May 30, 2014 Oragenics Inc (NYSEMKT:OGEN) held its Annual meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”), at which Meeting, the Company’s shareholders authorized the amendment to our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Amendment”) to increase the number of authorized common stock to 100,000,000 shares, upon a determination by our Board of Directors that such…

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Stocks to watch: Cavium Inc (NASDAQ:CAVM), Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ:OMER), EDAP (NASDAQ:EDAP), BGC Partners (NASDAQ:BGCP), Intersil Corp (NASDAQ:ISIL)

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, on 03 June 2014 announced the introduction of a new game changing category of processors that are workload optimized for a range of applications in the cloud and data center. The 2.5GHz 48…

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