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Freeserve posts £17.5m loss, shares drop
News The company's shares fell steadily through the day, ending down nearly 17 percent, or 73.8, at 365p. The results, for the year ended April 29, were brought forward by a day to coincide with the announcement that Dixons -- whose shares also fell 8.5...
[June 26, 2000, 16:35]
Softbank sells Yahoo! shares
News Softbank said on Thursday its US unit had completed the sale of 3.16m shares in Internet portal Yahoo, generating a $336m (£224m) profit for the Japanese Internet investor. Yahoo shares closed at 113 1/16 Wednesday.
[June 1, 2000, 14:11]
NetSuite IPO: Shares hit double the forecast price
News The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of $26 (£13) a share — double the original forecasts. About 6.2 million shares were sold. NetSuite announced its intention in July to go public with...
[December 20, 2007, 15:53]
PeopleSoft mops up J.D. Edwards shares
News Business software maker PeopleSoft announced Friday that it has purchased all the remaining shares of J.D. PeopleSoft said it bought about 105 million shares of J.D. Edwards. Edwards when it acquired the company on 18 July.
[September 1, 2003, 9:35]
Analysts: Judge's decision won't hurt Microsoft shares
News None of this is new but ahead of the official decision, Microsoft shares plunged 15 3/8, or 15 percent, to 90 7/8, dragging the rest of the Nasdaq with it. In the midst of all the carnage Monday, several analysts reiterated their "strong buy...
[April 4, 2000, 10:00]
BT shares hit by Moody's 3G gloom
News BT's (quote: BT) shares took a plunge on Wednesday after a report claimed that it could take many years for the company to make money from third-generation (3G or UMTS) networks. BT's shares fell by almost 2.5 percent in trading on Wednesday -- a...
[April 12, 2001, 15:03]
The Day Ahead: Dump those tech shares, make a trader's day
News Go ahead; sell your shares of those quality tech companies. For every guy who has to dump shares to pay his taxes, there's someone to take his shares. The institutional types and opportunists are just waiting to buy up your discarded shares.
[April 17, 2000, 12:30]
Deadline extended for selling PeopleSoft shares
News Oracle has extended the deadline for tendering shares in its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. As of Thursday, 34.7 million PeopleSoft shares had been tendered to Oracle, the Oracle said. That's less than 11 percent of our shares, and that's...
[July 4, 2003, 8:06]
AMD coup pushes shares to 52-week high
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares hustled up 5 13/16, or 14 percent, to a 52-week high of 47 5/16 on Monday after rolling out the first 1GHz microprocessor, a chip capable of executing one billion instructions a second.
[March 6, 2000, 16:43]
US Report: CA shares in free fall
News Even though the company managed to beat Q1 earnings estimates by one cent, shares of CA, which closed at 57 on Tuesday, opened down more than 18 points after being delayed for nearly one half hour. At the time the bonus plan was announced, the...
[July 23, 1998, 6:59]
ARM shares tumble as Transmeta readies Crusoe
News Shares in mobile microchip manufacturer ARM (quote: ARM) have fallen dramatically in anticipation of the launch of the much-talked-about new Crusoe processor from silicon start-up Transmeta. At 11.32 am GMT ARM Holdings shares were down 215 pence...
[January 19, 2000, 15:44]
Viglen sees Field Of Dreams as shares fail to soar
News Viglen shares failed to soar on the UK PC vendor's first day of trading as a separate entity to Amstrad. The company stressed that less than one million shares of a potential 120 million had been traded, suggesting shareholders have faith in the...
[August 4, 1997, 17:08]
Google shares make strong start
News Shares in Google rose $15.01 or 17.7 percent, to open at $100 its public debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The jump was a surprise, given the initial $85 price of the shares and the unusual style of the sale.
[August 19, 2004, 17:30]
MP3.com shares explode
News MP3.com shares rose from the ashes on Thursday, rallying up 15 5/8, or 95 percent, to 32 in late trading after chief executive Michael Robertson told analysts that the company has little to fear from a pending a lawsuit with the Record Industry...
[March 3, 2000, 10:53]
Psion shares rise on Bluetooth deal
News Psion (quote: PON) shares got a boost from Bluetooth Thursday, surging 5 percent by midday after the UK computer company said it will supply Bluetooth technology to NEC Computers International. Psion shares were up as high as 5 percent during the...
[February 15, 2001, 11:44]
Free Android sat-nav hits TomTom, Garmin shares
Blog Shares in sat-nav firms TomTom and Garmin plummeted on Wednesday, after Google announced free turn-by-turn navigation software for Android 2.0 handsets. By late afternoon, UK time, TomTom's shares had fallen by 21.9 percent.
[October 28, 2009, 16:30]
Yahoo insiders take profits as shares hit high
News That doesn't mean that stockholders are holding all their shares in hopes of a sustained rise. SBC in January 2002 acquired about 17.5 million shares of Yahoo for $17.13 a share. It filed to sell 6.5 million shares on June 9 for about $27.23 a share.
[June 27, 2003, 9:14]
Microsoft shares jump on outlook
News Shares of Microsoft rose to $70.57 in after-hours activity on the Island ECN following the announcement. Some Wall Street analysts have been cautious about the immediate future for Microsoft, especially because its stock price is up more than 25...
[July 12, 2001, 9:47]
lastminute.com shares continue to slide
News British e-tailer lastminute.com dropped below its flotation price for the first time Tuesday as shares began official trading on the London Stock Exchange. Short-term investors who signed up for the flotation hoping to make a quick return only...
[March 21, 2000, 10:02]
A Year Ago: Apple shares slump 20 per cent on shock loss
News Apple shares slumped 20 per cent yesterday morning on the back of news that the beleaguered Californians will lose between $100 million and $150 million for its first fiscal quarter, due to be reported January 15.
[March 3, 1999, 5:57]
