ECONOMY & MARKETS

US stocks have caught a break from its mid-year slump on Monday.

Montreal's Bombardier announced their new buyer, a major network carrier for their Cseries aircraft on the first day of the Paris Air Show.

Senior executives of Skype Technologies SA, the Internet-calling service being acquired by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), has departed following its $8.5 billion buyout.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Harbin Electric, Diana Containerships, Curis, Vodafone Group, and Marvell Technology Group. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Vitacost.com, GT Solar International, Level 3 Communications, Human Genome Sciences, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Research In Motion, and Apple.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: CF Industries Holdings, Peabody Energy, CONSOL Energy, Sprint Nextel, PNC Financial Services, Nabors Industries, Akamai Technologies, Carnival Corp, Nike and Sandisk Corp.

Barclays Capital said data storage company EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) will look to continue to acquire companies that focus on analytics and Big Data technology.

The ongoing frenzy for consumer tablets in the market will continue to grow like wildfire with Apple continuing to dominate the sector, according to an analyst.

Netflix users will have to wait for sometime before they can catch up its online streaming services. Users have been facing problems of accessing both the site and the company's streaming services for quite some time.

Facebook is getting closer to its eventual IPO, and speculations are rife that the offering could value the social networking giant at $100 billion. But considering reports on privacy issues that made Mark Zuckerberg put his foot in his mouth a few times, questions over his ability to manage the $100 billion Facebook seem to be logical.

Upgrading its recent lawsuit against Samsung, tech-leader Apple has included the recent Galaxy Tab 10.1 within the other range of Samsung products, of being a look-alike of Apple products in terms of innovative technology, distinctive user interface and even package designs.

Alternative asset managers are looking to escape the claws of mercurial institutional investors. As they jump into the hands of the general public, some of them may prove to be attractive investments for discerning buyers.

World’s largest semiconductor chip maker Intel’s new 710 and 720 series SSDs' (Solid State Drive) specifications have been leaked

Speculations have been made that Facebook's initial public offering, which is likely to hit capital market by the first quarter of 2012, could value the popular social networking site at worth of $100 billion.

American software and consulting services firm IBM celebrated its one hundredth anniversary.

Swedish DRM-based music streaming service Spotify is set to launch in the US in a few weeks.

A mysterious tweet post on Pottermore Tweeter account (@Pottermore) has many Harry Potter fans speculating about the secret features of the new Pottermore website launched by author JK Rowling.

The IMF downgraded its forecast for US economic growth in 2011 to 2.5 percent from its prior forecast of 2.7 percent. The 2012 growth forecast was cut to 2.7 percent from 2.9 percent.

Shares of Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) plunged more than 20 percent after the BlackBerry maker reported weaker-than-expected first quarter results and slashed full-year forecast.

Google is rumored to launch its new Nexus 4G phones which will compete with other high-end android smartphones in the markets

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The future of the Android operating platform looks promising. Here is a list of the top 10 forthcoming Android devices

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Warren Resources, MannKind Corp, Affymetrix, AutoNavi Holdings and Cathay General Bancorp. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Research in Motion, China Finance Online, Merit Medical Systems, Mitcham Industries and Motricity.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: ING Group, Companhia Brasileira, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding, EnergySolutions and American Reprographics. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Lender Processing Services, Cal Dive International, Pandora Media, TRC Companies and CarMax.

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The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: MediaMind Technologies, WPCS International, Melco Crown Entertainment, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals and Yahoo. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Finisar Corp, JDS Uniphase, Magic Software Enterprises, Ryanair Holdings and CIENA Corp.

Facebook is launching a new HTML5-based platform, Project Spartan, with the target of mobile Safari to work on the iPhone and iPad.

Some of the most astonishing details about tech giant, Apple, detailing its intensive work regulations and client-interaction training has come to light in a recent report.

If you want to take down a company’s website, Lulzsec, the hackers of Sony, PBS, FBI, the US senate, CIA, pornography and gaming websites, are taking up hack requests to help you.

German-based automotive industry Porsche is planning to discontinue their Panamera manual transmission variant due to fall in sales in the US