Manikandan Raman

National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX) said that assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds and Exchange-Traded Notes touched a new record of about $1.02 trillion at the end of January 2011.

ThinkEquity has said that Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive and Changyou.com are its top gaming stock picks for 2011.

ThinkEquity has outlined its top technology stock picks for 2011. The stocks include AMD, Spansion, Entropic, Micron Technology, Nvidia, Aruba Networks, Mellanox, Stec, Google and Priceline.

NASA said its Near-Earth Object WISE mission has discovered 20 comets and more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, in addition to 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs).

A major winter storm is expected to develop over Texas tonight, and intensify rapidly as it moves northeast into the Ohio Valley Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Passenger train operator Amtrak said it launched Wi-Fi service on all Amtrak Cascades trains.

Market analysts are of the view that the Intel's chipset issue could hurt the personal computer (PC) shipments in the first quarter.

Amazon Web Services LLC plans to make Oracle Database 11g available through Amazon Relational Database Service during the second quarter of 2011.

Dow Jones Index was up 21.99 points, or 0.19 percent, to 11,845.69 and the S&P 500 index rose 4.54 points, or 0.36 percent, to trade at 1,280.88. Meanwhile, Nasdaq gained 0.39 points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,687.28.

Google would hire several software developers to create new applications (apps) for its Android operating system, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.

Moody's has downgraded Egypt's government bond ratings to Ba2 from Ba1 and has cut the outlook to negative from stable.

UBS Securities downgraded shares of carrier AT&T Inc. to neutral from buy, citing expectations for lower earnings and free cash flow growth in 2011 and 2012.

Apple has released new update of iTunes (iTunes 10.1.2) that allows syncing the new Verizon iPhone 4 with iTunes

Susquehanna Financial upgraded graphics chip maker Nvidia to neutral from negative and raised the price target to $23 from $9.

NASA will host a news briefing on Feb.2 at 10 a.m. PST 2 to announce the Kepler mission's latest findings about planets outside our solar system that may support life.

Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, aged 67, faces new charges of killing two New York women in 1970s.

President Obama declared a major disaster in the State of California that would pave way for federal emergency funds to be made available to local agencies.

Apple became the third largest PC vendor in the fourth quarter of 2010, helped by strong sales of iPad and Mac as well as fast growth in the Asia Pacific region, according to the latest report from Canalys.

Morgan Keegan upgraded Qualcomm Inc. to outperform from market perform, a day after the CDMA chip maker reported strong quarterly results and boosted its fiscal 2011 outlook.

Amtrak said, beginning Feb.1, it would temporarily relocate from Denver Union Station to another location to accommodate construction of the new commuter rail station at the Union Station.

The National Weather Service in Upton has issued a winter storm warning for portions of northeast New Jersey, New York City and Long Island.

ThinkEquity has listed out eleven stocks that could witness a near-term upside in their share prices based on upcoming catalysts.

American Small Business League (ASBL) said President Obama relied on the same tired rhetoric, while continuing to ignore billions of dollars in job killing abuse in small business contracting programs.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia launched a new chip in its GeForce GTX family - GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

PC maker Hewlett Packard launched a suite of new products and services for businesses and governments under the cloud computing platform.

Apple said to add Near Field Communication chips in to its upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 2thereby allowing a user to use those devices to pay for purchases.

Hitachi launched its new enterprise-class, 3.5-inch, 3 TeraByte (TB) Ultrastar 7K3000 hard disk drive family.

Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology have developed a satellite containing a smart phone payload that will be launched into orbit around the Earth later this year.

Search giant Google said it will award $100 million worth of equity to Eric Schmidt, who will step down as the company's chief executive in April to make way for co-founder Larry Page.