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Daily Archives: October 3, 2007

OSI Systems Wins More Cargo Inspection Orders (OSIS)

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 7:44 am

OSI Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS) announced this morning that it won two separate government contracts worth roughly a combined $30 million.  These are cargo screening orders for Rapiscan Eagle Mobile, Rapiscan ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (Oct. 3, 2007)

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 7:29 am

(AAI) AirTran load factor rose 6.7% to 68.5%.(BEAS) BEA Systems stake raised to 11% by Carl Icahn.(BOBE) Bob Evans s-s-s rose 0.4%.(CPST) Capstone Turbine received a microturbine order for for ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (Oct. 3, 2007)

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 7:06 am

AMD started as Underweight at Morgan Stanley.APH started as Buy at B of A.ARW started as Neutral at B of A.AVGN started as Neutral at Credit Suisse.AVT started as Neutral ...
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Citigroup’s (C) Prince: Fire Them All

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 6:42 am

The FT writes that Citigroup (C) is investigating why it had $3.3 billion of losses and writedowns in its markets and banking business. No one has lost a big job ...
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TechCrunch And Huffington: Who Will Buy The Big Blogs?

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 6:07 am

The name brand blogs. The big ones. Huffington. TechCrunch. GigaOm. Boing Boing. Ars Technica. SeekingAlpha.AOL has already bought Weblogsinc. It owns popular blogs including flagship Engadget. But, with the internet ...
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Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune: A Threat To The iPod

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 5:23 am

Apple (AAPL) has the high ground in multimedia players. With over 110 million iPods in the market and another 10 million sold each quarter, no one else can get close. ...
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Verizon Wireless Says It Will Kill The Apple (AAPL) iPhone

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 5:06 am

You have to love marketing guys. They're they best. Over at Verizon Wireless they're over the top. Describing a new Apple (AAPL) iPhone knock-off from LG,, Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing ...
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Countrywide’s (CFC) PR Blunder

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 4:53 am

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But, you cannot fool all of the people all of ...
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Deutsche Bank (DB) To Take $3.3 Billion Charge

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 4:03 am

Deutsche Bank (DB) will take a $3.3 billion write-off for leveraged loans and other fixed income products, according to several media reports.Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Medai Digest 10/3/2007

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 3:15 am

According to Reuters, Verizon (VZ) is launching three new phones for the holidays, One will compete directly with the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) is releasing a new ...
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Asia Markets 10/3/2007

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 2:51 am

Shares in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei was up .9% to 17,200. NTT (NTT) rose 2.3% to 555000. Softbank rose 3.5% to 2230. Yahoo! Jpanan rose 5.6% to 46350.The Hang Seng ...
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