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Lucy MacDonald, who manages some $7.3 billion in assets in her position as CIO of Allianz Global Investors, has declared that BP (LSE:BP.) (NYSE:BP) is now “more investable” as a result of the company’s entering into an administrative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency four years past the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf […]

NAV of $28.32 per Share Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. (Nasdaq:SVVC), a publicly-traded venture capital fund that invests in technology and cleantech companies, has announced financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. As of December 31, 2013, the Fund’s net assets were approximately $256.9 million, or $28.32 per share, compared with net […]

Outsourced cardiac monitoring service for physicians and hospitals Digirad Corporation (Nasdaq:DRAD), a provider of diagnostic imaging services and technology has announced that it has acquired all the outstanding membership interest of Telerhythmics, LLC, a 24-hour cardiac event monitoring service used on an outsourced basis by hospitals and physician offices. Based in Memphis, Tennessee...

Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (Nasdaq:MMLP) have announced that it and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Martin Midstream Finance Corp., priced the offering of $150 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.250% senior unsecured notes due 2021 at an issue price of 103.000%, plus accrued interest from February 15, 2014. The additional notes are being sold as an […]

Contract for U.K. Apache Fire Control Systems LONGBOW International, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC), received a $96 million contract in 2013 from AgustaWestland to support LONGBOW Fire Control Radars on U.K. Apache AH Mk.1 aircraft. The five-year contract includes engineering services, integrated logistics support and an in-country repair...

Board and Preferred Holder Approved Funding Fully Subscribed Communication Intelligence Corporation (OTCQB:CICI), a supplier of electronic signature and business document work flow solutions, today announced that investors had fully subscribed to the previously announced round of funding. Subscriptions were made by a number of existing and new investors to provide working capital and to...

Opportunities to write stories like this one do not come along every day, so when an AIM listed stock like Plethora Solutions (LSE:PLE) rises to the occasion by leading the FTSE 250 with a 30% increase to 11.75, we should take a long, hard look to see what is going on and how long the […]

Is this cyberspace week or what? First we learned that Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has acquired TechCrunch. The next day we discovered that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is acquiring Auction.com. Now, for the third day in a row, another high-profile internet company has announced, not only a new acquisition, but a radical change it’s interface relationships. The share price […]

The share price of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is, at this very moment, up $6.78 and $1,221.69.  That’s an increase of 0.59%. One year ago, 05 March 2013, that would have represented an increase of 0.81% as the share price was at 838.60. In case you have not followed the Google charts lately, the search engine has […]

Two years ago everyone was atwitter over the impending Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) IPO that eventually consummated on 18 May 2012. Given the train wreck of that fiasco, Facebook continued to capture headlines for several months. People who had invested were falling all over themselves trying to ditch the shares they had acquired at the $38.00 asking […]