Monday, June 18, 2007

Intel Among Wall Street Movers

Forbes - Monsanto Co., up $1.55 at $64.86. The world's largest seed company raised its full-year earnings forecast based on a preliminary review of third-quarter performance. Coinmach Service Corp., up $1.58 at $13.29. The supplier of coin-operated laundry details

Reuters UK - NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced for a third day on Friday on reassuring inflation news and fresh optimism about the tech sector after an upgrade of bellwether Intel. The Nasdaq climbed to its highest in more than six years. A jump details

Forbes - Shares of semiconductor maker Intel Corp. reached an a new 52-week high on Friday, rising to the largest midday gain on the Dow Jones industrial average. The index climbed 107.71, to 13,661.43. Only three of the 30 component stocks were down at details

TheState.com - Google and Intel are leading a consortium of major technology companies in an effort to sharply reduce the amount of power wasted by personal computers and servers. In a separate development, Intel is expected to cut prices on some of its higher-end details

Street.Com - A slew of chip stocks stretched to new 52-week highs Friday, after an analyst boosted his rating on Intel ( INTC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr ) and predicted that the PC microprocessor market is set to undergo a significant transformation. Goldman details

VNUnet - Intel is planning to skip the 45nm production process altogether with its forthcoming Poulson Itanium processors, jumping from 65nm to 32nm, the chipmaker revealed. The move is not the result of Intel's innovative powers. Delays in previous designs details

MSN UK News - Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive. Either way, your employer can now tunnel into your crippled machine remotely by communicating directly with the chips inside it details

Wall Street Journal - Intel shares advanced Friday on an analyst's upgrade, while the Nasdaq Composite Index marched ahead as tame core inflation data heartened investors. In morning trading, the Nasdaq Composite jumped 28.05 points, or 1.1%, to 2627.16, extending gains details

Manila Bulleting Online - Semiconductor giant Intel Corp. announced that it has donated 100 inexpensive laptops to a public school in the Philippines, as part of the US company’s global education program. The laptops are "scaled down" PCs, that can provide basic functions details

Information Week - Like an Old Testament prophet emerging from the wilderness, David Perlmutter came out of the Intel Research Center at Haifa, Israel, last summer to save the chipmaker's, um, bacon. One of the design brains behind both the Pentium and Centrino lines details

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