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Search and media site Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO)  gains modestly Wednesday as its partner, China’s Alibaba Group, rolls out a beta version of a U.S. e-commerce site, Reuters reported. YHOO holds a significant stake in Alibaba, valued recently at about $26 billion.  Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) stock performance was 0.55% in last session and finished the day at…

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Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s resurgent stock may have as much to do with financial engineering as the company’s technological wizardry. In late April, the iPhone and iPad maker announced plans to split its stock for the first time in nine years. Since then, Apple’s stock has climbed 23 per cent, creating more than $100 billion in…

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Usmanov has sold most of his Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) shares and expects to benefit from investments in China’s Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. (JD), Ivan Streshinskiy, head of the billionaire’s asset-management company USM Advisors LLC, said in March. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was -1.09% in last session and finished the…

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Investor’s Alert: Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

Micron Technology, Inc (NYSE:MU) Director Robert L. Bailey sold 2,000 shares of the company stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $28.50, for a total transaction of $57,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns…

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Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIMX) shares dropped 13.58% after reports revealed that Renasas Eletronics plans to sell its stake in a unit that supplies display driver chips for the Apple iPhone. According to Reuters Renesas will sell its stake to Synaptics. The unit is the sole supplier to for display driver chips in the iPhone. Himax…

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Hot Stocks: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is close to finalizing an acquisition of video-streaming startup RayV Inc.to boost its web video technology. The paper says that an acquisition would be one of several web-video deals negotiated by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in recent months to turn Yahoo’s video site, Screen, into a…

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