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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) saw its stock surge in the after-hours session.  Jim Cramer changed his extremely negative stance he has had forever.  This has sent shares up in the after-hours trading session.  Shares closed up 1.6% at $14.76 in the regular session, and the shares rose by almost 4% to $15.34 (at 6:57 PM [...]

Genzyme Corp. (NASDAQ: GENZ) won a recommendation from the FDA advisory committee unanimously recommending approval of Genzyme’s Synvisc-one for osteoarthritis in the knee. Shares are indicated up almost 3% at $65.00. Just keep in mind that its market cap is now $17 billion.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ALXA) announced that its AZ-004, an inhalation [...]

Jerry Yang has stepped down as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO).  Some CEO departures are bad, but this is good.  He will Chief Yahoo! again, but everyone knows what a Yeah-hoo he is as a destroyer of shareholder value.  Shares are up 12% at $11.90 on over 1.8 million shares with under 5 minutes to [...]

This morning we put out an alert at 24/7 Wall St. showing how many new stocks were hitting 52-week lows.  What was shocking was how many major and key technology or Internet names were on the list.  You can see the full list of lows here, but here are some of those technology stocks hitting [...]

It is 9:25 AM and here are you most active gap-up and gap-down stocks this morning:

YHOO up 4.5% at $23.50 on 1.12 million shares.
Barr Pharma (BRL) up 17% at $54.80 on almost 400,000 shares.
E*TRADE (ETFC) up 11% at $3.50 on 1 million shares.
Huntington Bancshares Inc. (HBAN) up almost 20% at $6.85 on 188,000 shares.
ARM Holdings [...]

The NASDAQ Short Interest is out again and we are seeing some trends cropping up in many key tech names shares sold short in a number of tech and telecom companies rose from the prior June report:

The short interest in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was up 27.4 million to 89.1 million.
The short interest in Cisco Systems [...]

We are seeing a flurry of Call Options activity in shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) on renewed hopes that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) really may want to come back to the table…. IF Carl Icahn can get that board of directors fired. Here are the options snapshots for the near months (July and August) CALL [...]

Ok, you have to to be getting just as miserably sick and tired of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as we are.  Yahoo! shares are on the run in pre-market trading on word that Microsoft (reported by WSJ) has spoken with News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and others [...]

It is rather no large surprise that we are seeing a huge volume spike in the shares of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today.  Now that the company has walked away from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and declared its merger interest as dead it is getting relief buyers back in.  At 2:15 PM EST we have [...]