(BCE) BCE reaches definitive agreement to be acquired by Teachers Private Capital led group for $40.13 per share in cash.
(BOT) CBOT urges stockholders to vote for CME merger.
(C) Citigroup confirms it will buy Automated Trading Desk for $680 million.
(DCEL) Dobson Communications being acquired by AT&T for $13 per share.
(FMCN) Focus Media delays 2006 annual report.
(FRZ) Reddy Ice being acquired by GSO Capital Partners LP for $1.1 Billion, a deal valued at $31.25 per share.
(LCRY) LeCroy lowered guidance.
(MOC) Command Security signed a $2.8 million contract.
(NPSI) North Pittsburgh Systems being acquired for $375.1 million in a deal valued at either $25 in cash or 1.1061947 shares of Consolidated common stock.
(NTES) Netease.com announced a $120 million share buyback.
(SPNC) Spectranetics received FDA clearance to market Turbo-booster for the treatment of arterial stenosis and occlusions
(VIAC) Viacell named a new CFO.
Pre-Market Stock News (July 2, 2007)
Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.
McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.