Balasubramanyam Seshan

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Terremark Worldwide, Oplink Communications, TeleNav, Coherent, SAVVIS, Lattice Semiconductor, Internap Network Services, ScanSource, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, and Equinix.

The top companies trading higher in NASDAQ stock market during Thursday's early session are: Berkshire Bancorp, WSB Holdings, Bassett Furniture Industries, Arctic Cat, and Netflix. The top companies trading lower in NASDAQ stock market during Thursday's early session are: Hawkins, Princeton National Bancorp, Span-America Medical Systems, ShoreTel, and First Financial Bancorp.

The U.S. President Barack Obama’s the State of the Union speech on Jan. 25 avoided any toxic references to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, says Robert W. Baird.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: 1-800-Flowers.com, Netflix, Network Engines, Abington Bancorp, and Qualcomm. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Rex Energy, Starbucks, E*Trade Financial, China Natural Gas, and Research In Motion.

Shark populations continue to decline due to unregulated fishing, much of it to meet the high demand for fins. A new analysis finds that the international plan, which was approved by members of UNFAO in 2001, has yet to be fully implemented.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Netflix, Qualcomm, Tractor Supply, Integrated Silicon Solution, and Abington Bancorp. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Rex Energy, Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Starbucks, E*Trade Financial, and Verigy.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Ener1, Eagle Bulk Shipping, Sinovac Biotech, LM Ericsson Telephone, and Silicon Laboratories. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MIPS Technologies, RF Micro Devices, Pacific Sunwear of California, CIENA, Gilead Sciences, and Yahoo!.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Keynote Systems, Tekelec, LogMeIn, Internet Capital Group, and East West Bancorp. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MIPS Technologies, Signature Bank, RF Micro Devices, Hutchinson Technology, and Exar.

President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address for 2011 tonight at 9 pm ET in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. The president is expected to focus on 'competitiveness', and high energy costs are routinely a concern of U.S. businesses and consumers. Healthcare, taxes and the deficit tend to loom larger.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Harris & Harris Group, LM Ericsson Telephone, Savient Pharmaceuticals, and Skyworks Solutions. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Tellabs, Eagle Bulk Shipping, Rediff.com India, Randgold Resources, and DryShips.

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.

The companies that reported earnings after the markets close on Monday are: Texas Instruments, Amgen, VMware, CSX, American Express, STMicroelectronics, Crane, Sanmina-SCI, Jacobs Engineering, Albemarle...

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Tuesday Morning, Radvision, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Skyworks Solutions, and China Valves Technology. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Sify Technologies, Rediff.com India, Woodward Governor, Acacia Research, and Marshall Edwards.

Telecom services provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. filed a lawsuit on Monday against Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks for intellectual property infringement.

Robert W. Baird downgraded rating of OmniVision Technologies Inc. (OVTI) to 'neutral' from 'outperform' with a price target of $34, based on limited upside potential near-term.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Clinical Data, Genoptix, Optical Cable, NVIDIA, and ATP Oil & Gas. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MIPS Technologies, OmniVision Technologies, Veeco Instruments, MannKind, and ASML Holding.

Darling International Inc. (DAR), a provider of rendering and bakery waste recycling to food industry, announced earnings and revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2010, above analysts expectations.

The companies that are expected to report earnings for Monday before the market opens are: Bank of Hawaii, Halliburton, McDonald's, PetMed Express, Steel Dynamics, Sealed Air, Wintrust Financial, Sensata Technologies Holding, and Twin Disc.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Danvers Bancorp, Drugstore.com, Cytori Therapeutics, Glu Mobile, and Micron Technology. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Acorda Therapeutics, VIVUS, Synaptics, MannKind, and Biogen Idec.

Ambulatory surgery centers operator NovaMed Inc. (NOVA) said it agreed to go private and be acquired by an affiliate of Surgery Center Holdings, Inc. for $13.25 a share in cash.

The companies that reported earnings after the markets close on Thursday are: Google, AMD, Capital One, International Game Technology, Wipro, Consolidated Edison, Maxim Integrated, Flextronics, Intuitive Surgical, Polycom...

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Danvers Bancorp, Intuitive Surgical, Clinical Data, Polycom, SinoTech Energy, and Google. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Morgans Hotel Group, Seattle Genetics, Matrixx Initiatives, Synaptics, and DealerTrack Holdings.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Radvision, Cytori Therapeutics, Allos Therapeutics, Pharmaceutical Product Development, ICAgen, and eBay. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MannKind, F5 Networks, Riverbed Technology, Isle of Capri Casinos, and Skyworks Solutions.

Japan's largest glass maker Asahi Glass Co. has unveiled a super-tough, scratch-resistant glass cover Dragontrail for use in smartphones, tablet PCs, TVs, and similar devices, to compete with the biggest player in the market Corning Inc. (GLW) that makes Gorilla Glass.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Orthovita, Allos Therapeutics, ICAgen, Biodel, and eBay. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MannKind, F5 Networks, Westell Technologies, Internap Network Services, and Riverbed Technology.

Google Inc. on Wednesday kicked off the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, a competition that calls on K-12 students in the U.S. to think big and redesign Google's homepage logo, inspired by the theme 'What I'd like to do someday...'

Gardening in space has been part of the International Space Station (ISS) from the beginning. The latest experiment is Hydrotropism and Auxin-Inducible Gene expression in Roots Grown Under Microgravity Conditions, known as HydroTropi. HydroTropi is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)-run study that looks at directional root growth.

NASA's hubble space telescope captured two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy Messier 51 or M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.

For the first time since overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986, expatriated former dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, on Sunday unexpectedly returned to his Caribbean homeland. Duvalier's stunning arrival was as mysterious as it was unexpected.