Manikandan Raman

The companies whose shares are actively trading in Friday's morning session include Bank of Ireland, Alexander & Baldwin, NYSE Euronext, SRA International, Logitech International, Office Depot, Ascent Solar and Omeros.

The amount of competitive new launches near-term is making it a little bit tougher for Motorola Mobility, especially for its Xoom tablet.

A new study by astronomers has shed light on new light on the evolution of stars, including our own sun.

Astronomers have found that a planet's rings can be affected by specific events that occurred decades, not millions of years, ago.

The companies whose shares are actively trading in Thursday's morning session include Ambassadors International, Tesla Motors, Rubicon Minerals, Meritor and CarMax.

General Motors Financial Co. Inc., a unit of automaker General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM), said it agreed to acquire FinanciaLinx Corp. to expand its product offerings in Canada.

ThinkEquity initiated coverage of Western Digital Corp. (NYSE:WDC) with a buy rating and $42 price target, saying accelerating growth of digital data will continue driving strong unit Hard Disk Drive (HDD) growth in the future.

Apple will deliver its iPhone 5 in its late fourth quarter ending Sept. 2011, according to an analyst from BMO Capital Markets.

The delay by the Federal Reserve Board in adopting final rules to limit debit-card interchange fees could benefit the largest banks.

Salesforce.com said it agreed to acquire Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for about $326 million in cash and stock deal a move that will help Salesforce to effectively market its cloud-based products.

ThinkEquity lowered its profit estimate of Nvidia Corp. citing lower PC graphics growth.

While a drop in public support for nuclear power would be expected after an incident like the Fukushima reactor crisis, the nuclear disaster in Japan has triggered a much stronger response among Americans.

The year 2011 will be the biggest period yet for graphics-enabled microprocessors (GEM), as the penetration of GEMs reaches 50 percent in notebook PCs and 45 percent in desktops, according to IHS iSuppli research.

Siemens Energy said it has been awarded another order from Minnesota Power for 35 3-megawatt SWT-3.0-101 direct drive wind turbines for its Bison 2 wind energy center near Center, North Dakota.

At its annual meeting, Starbucks Corp. (NYSE: SBUX) said it would offer its own value oriented single-serve machine with Courtesy Products.

Brown-Forman Corp. has authorized its Board to repurchase up to $250 million of its outstanding Class A and Class B common shares through November 30, 2011.

BHP Billiton Ltd., one of the world's largest mining companies, said it would invest about $10 billion in Australia to expand its iron ore coal mining operations.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia launched the GeForceGTX 590 and claims it as the world's fastest and quietest graphics card.

Imax Corp. plans to open 75 new theatres in China as part of joint revenue sharing deal with Wanda Cinema Line Corp., sending its shares up more than 10 percent in NYSE.

At least four US airlines have reduced their capacity plans for 2011 largely due to the high oil price.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has released the following update on the status of on Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

At least three brokerages have cut the profit forecasts of Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE), a day after the software company reduced its second quarter outlook by $50 million.

Apple said that Bertrand Serlet -- senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering -- will be leaving the company and would be replaced by Craig Federighi, who is currently the vice president of Mac Software Engineering.

A U.S. judge's ruling has rejected Google's deal with publishers that would have digitized every book and made them widely available.

Apple has released its new Apple TV software update 4.2.1 that addresses flickering and other issues associated with the earlier update 4.2.

Following is the update from Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant.

Amazon said the highly anticipated Angry Birds Rio for Android debuts today, exclusively in the Amazon Appstore and customers can even download it for free for a limited time.

Amazon.com, Inc. said it has launched the Amazon Appstore for Android at www.amazon.com/appstore where customers can by Android apps.

Babcock & Wilcox said it is in discussions with Toshiba Group to provide nuclear technical assistance and services to secure and maintain the safety of the nuclear power plants at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.