Satya Nagendra Padala

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Wednesday are: Automatic Data Processing, Boeing, Sprint Nextel, Amazon.com, Ford Motor, Lockheed Martin, FMC Technologies, Akamai Technologies, CA, ConocoPhillips, Exelon Corp and General Dynamics Corp.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Fortinet, Solta Medical, TD Ameritrade Holding, Cathay General Bancorp and Hologic, Inc. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Netflix, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Saba Software, Ultra Clean Holdings and Healthways.

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Tuesday are: Xerox, Western Union, DuPont, Netflix, United Parcel Service, United States Steel, 3M, AK Steel Holding, Texas Instruments, Amazon.com, Cummins and FMC Technologies Inc.

The top after market NYSE gainers on Monday were: Unisys, Hexcel, Ethan Allen Interiors, Omnicare and Charles Schwab. The top after market NYSE Losers were: ResMed, Aaron's, Inc, Masco Corp, Fortress Investment Group and STMicroelectronics.

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Monday are: Caterpillar, Amgen, Invesco, Texas Instruments, Netflix, Eaton, Kimberly Clark, Masco, VF and Zions Bancorporation.

The top after market NYSE gainers on Friday were: Encana Corp, Green Dot, Yingli Green Energy Holding, Eaton and Signet Jewelers Ltd. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Royal Bank Scotland Group, Air Lease Corp, AMR Corp, Advantage Oil & Gas and Wuxi Pharma Tech.

U.S. stock futures point to a higher opening Friday on hopes that European leaders will come out with a grand plan to fight the region's debt crisis.

The top after market NYSE gainers on Thursday were: CoreLogic, Western Digital, Chipotle Mexican Grill, W&T Offshore and GNC Holdings. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Parker Drilling, Excel Maritime Carriers, Moneygram International, KKR & Co and Strategic Hotels & Resorts.

The companies which are expected to see active trade on Friday are: General Electric, Verizon Communications, Suntrust Banks, Microsoft, McDonalds, Altera, Air Products & Chemicals, Dover Corp, Honeywell International and Schlumberger.

U.S. stock futures point to a higher opening on Thursday, ahead of economic data, including key weekly U.S. jobs data from the government.

The companies which are expected to see active trade on Thursday are: Microsoft, AT&T, Altera, eBay, Sandisk, Wynn Resorts, Southwest Airlines, Boston Scientific, Capital One Financial, Eli Lilly, Key Corp and Philip Morris International.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday were: HNI Corp, Swift Transportation, Campus Crest Communities, Commercial Metals and WESCO International. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Astoria Financial Corp, Western Digital Corp, Fidelity National Financial, Fidelity National Financial and Alcatel Lucent.

U.S. stock futures point to lower opening on Tuesday after new data showed that Chinese economy has expanded at a slower rate in the third quarter and quarterly results from IBM failed to impress investors.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Human Genome Sciences, Tangoe, Conceptus, FreightCar America and GTx. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: TranS1, Crocs, Gulfport Energy Corp, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Sequenom, Inc.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday were: BlackRock International, AMR Corp, SuccessFactors, Community Health Systems and A.H. Belo Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were: STR Holdings, STR Holdings, AGL Resources, Vaalco Energy and GNC Holdings.

The battle between high-end smartphones got hotter still after the iPhone 4S became available in stores on Friday. While the iPhone 4S is not the iPhone 5 that was forecast by rumor mills, it is certainly not a lesser device. The phone has significant hardware upgrades even though it looks identical to the iPhone 4.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Enzo Biochem, Louisiana-Pacific, Halliburton, Superior Energy Services and Cambrex Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Gannett Co, Genco Shipping & Trading, Renesola, Sprint Nextel and Jaguar Mining Inc.

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on Oct. 4, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday.

Apple iPhone 4S (the 16GB version) was launched for pre-orders last Friday and recorded over 1 million pre-orders in a single day breaking the record of 600,000 set by iPhone 4. The 32 and 64 GB versions are also sold out at four sites and are only available at Sprint.

It took three years for NASA's Opportunity Rover to travel from Victoria Crater to the Endeavour Crater, on Mars. NASA's Mars Rover crossed 13 miles of Martian plains, at a glacial pace between Sept. 2008 and Aug. 2011.

It was thought that the 45-foot-long Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaur, an air-breathing sea monster larger than a school bus, was the king in the world of the prehistoric oceans But now Mount Holyoke College paleontologist Mark McMenamin believes that there was an even larger and more cunning sea monster - a huge Kraken or something like it. The sea monster, which preyed on ichthyosaurs, roamed the Triassic Seas.

An international team of scientists has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions from the Crab pulsar at far higher energies than expected.

After conducting a thorough re-analysis of decade-old images from the Hubble Space Telescope using new techniques, Scientists have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected in 1998.

Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli scientist, won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

Steve Jobs, who revolutionized personal computing, has passed away after at the age of 56 after years-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple Inc, passed away Wednesday at the age of 56, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, died Wednesday at the age of 56 after battled with pancreatic cancer for years.

Physicists at Rice University in Houston have created a tiny electron superhighway that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, which will use qubits or quantum bits to encode information, the university says.