UPDATE 2-ProQuest buying education company, stock jumps
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Electronic publisher ProQuest Co. (PQE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Voyager Expanded Learning, a reading curriculum provider, for $360
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Stocks moved higher late in the session on Thursday after Procter &amp; Gamble (NYSE: PG) released a positive forecast for sales and profits.
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Revenues and profits up - except in UK Computacenter shares jumped over five per cent this morning after the reseller posted better than expected interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007.â¦
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Multiple bids could drive the company's stock even higher.
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Shares of Google jumped today after the Web search leader posted its first results as a public company, and one broker said the stock could hit $200, rekindling dot.com-era fervor.  -Reuters
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Shares for Google slip for the first time since its public offering.  Also: FDA under fire for its slow Vioxx reaction & hellip;. Yahoo and SBC stay friends through new deal & hellip;. and more.
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Google Stock Gobbled by Fidelity Investments  Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual fund manager, bought $549 million of stock in search engine Google's IPO, about 23 percent of the shares offered during the initial public offering. Fidelity reported in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it now ...
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(InfoWorld) - Mergers and acquisitions and several strong financial reports excited IT investors this week, even as concerns about the U.S. economy continue to roil the stock market. The U.S. Federal Reserve Board decision Tuesday to cut interest rates gave a temporary boost to stock exchanges and benefitted bellwether IT companies, such as Google, Research in Motion, and Dell, which all posted share gains after the Fed's move. Since mid-quarter, investors have dumped shares, including those of IT vendors, as concerns about the faltering U.S. housing sector, mortgage payment failures, and related worries about the credit market have grown.The Fed's move was meant to allay worries about a potential tightening of credit, which is often expected to dampen business and consumer spending. But economic concerns have not appeared to slow the pace of M&A among IT vendors themselves. For example, to expand its foothold in the U.S.,Â T-Mobile announced Monday that it will buy SunCom WirelessÂ for $2.4 billion. SunCom Wireless jumped $3.65 to close at $25.65 after the announcement. Yahoo also helped the week start off with a bang, announcing a $350 million acquisition in the hot software-as-a-service market.Â Yahoo is buying Zimbra, which offers a hosted collaboration and messaging software suite. Yahoo shares closed Monday at $24.95, up by $0.22. There were a host of other M&A news, including Monday's announcement by InfoSpace, that it would sell its Switchboard.com online directory business for $225 million to Idearc, a print and online directory publisher. InfoSpace shares soared $4.13 to close at $17.38 on the news. Meanwhile Leap WirelessÂ rejected an unsolicited buyout offer from cell phone rival MetroPCS, saying the $4.7 billion bid underestimates Leap's growth potential. Generally, M&A news boosts investor confidence because it is taken as a sign that the vendors themselves are certain enough about new technology to bet big on it. Other good news this week came from software bellwetherÂ Oracle, which Thursday announced that strong database, middleware and services revenue helped bring net income for its first fiscal quarter to $840 million, a 25 percent jump from the year-earlier period. In the hardware arena, Best BuyÂ reported Tuesday that due in part to strong sales of computers, net income rose to $250 million for the quarter ended Sept. 1, compared with $230 million a year earlier. Gartner offered more good news for hardware, predicting in a report Thursday that lower prices and the improved performance of laptops will fuel continued growth in PC sales. Worldwide PC shipments will grow 12.3 percent this year, Gartner said.
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High-flying Internet retailer Overstock.com (OSTK:Nasdaq - news - research) continues to find believers, drumming up enough demand to sell a bigger-than-expected slug of new stock and convertible bonds in separate offerings.
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Shares in the internet company rise further after it says Â£21bn unsolicited offer is too low
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FDA clearance sends stock skyrocketing.
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First, let me gloat.  I bought $49,761 of AAPL on Oct 8.  My investment is now worth $54,933. That's 10.5 percent growth in less than a month. Hah! I bought the stock because I was going to buy everything Apple sold from now until forever. The last product I had yet to purchase was the company's stock. That was a mistake. The beauty of owning the stock is that you can use the increase in value to fund the hardware habit. So far so good.  My very dear friend Sylvia Paull bought an iPod a month ago. In a blog post today she calls it a gateway drug. Having read early reviews of the new operating system, she's ready to buy a 24 inch iMac.  I recognize the signs.  It's like a virus I tell you.
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Blog: Stock photo site continues its push into the digital media market by purchasing the independent music licensing company for $42 million.
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A larger dividend, more stock buybacks, and a new CEO -- oh my!
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Google, the world&#39;s most popular Web search engine, has slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from between $108 and $135 per share.
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(240 sec.) Why this is a blip for stocks and where to invest now.
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By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe  Feb. 16--Shares of Salary.com surged 19.05 percent in its opening day of  trading yesterday after the Waltham compensation software and consulting firm  raised $60 million in an initial public offering.