The analyst Brian White at Topeka Capital Markets believes that China’s rapid growth in fast-mobile subscriptions, along with the growing mobile rivalry among the huge Chinese mobile carriers, will be crucial factors in propelling Apple’s stalled-out stock price to unknown levels at more than $800. With more than three  quarters of net new mobile growth in the emerging markets, Apple needs a cheaper and more carrier-inviting product suite, which White says should arrive this  summer. On Monday, the three top Chinese carriers posted subscriber growth for April, and wireless subscribers gained 13 percent year-over-year to 1.16 billion.

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UniPixel (NASDAQ:UNXL): Closing price $25.95

The provider of Performance Engineered Films to the touchscreen, electronics, and lighting and display markets, has received a $5-million payment pursuant to its recently- announced second preferred price and capacity license with a significant touch-screen ecosystem partner. UniPixel recruited the licensee to make easier the development, debut and output of products that sport next-generation touch screens based on UniPixel’s UniBoss” pro-cap, multi-touch sensor film. UniPixel will recognize the payment as deferred revenue in the second quarter, and apply the funds towards building out an additional 1 million square feet per month of UniBoss production capacity.

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Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN): Closing price $842.50

Shares have been upgraded at Deutsche Bank from Hold to Buy, alongside a price target of $900, up from $715.00. Analyst Ross Sandler said that margins should stabilize and the multiple could rise back to 20x. Sandler commented in part that ”PCLN is the clear global secular winner in the OTA space, owing to its unique supply footprint, industry-high growth rates and margins, and overexposure to our preferred international hotel bookings. We believe it should start to see margins stabilize in the second half as it comps the negative ROI period that began in mid-2012.”

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Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has been generating cash and analysts are expecting the company to increase its dividend. This past quarter, the Cisco paid out a dividend of 17 cents per share — $905 million in total. Currently, the company’s dividend yield is 3.2 percent. For comparison, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) dividend is 2.8 percent, Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) dividend is 2.1 percent and Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) dividend is 3.7 percent.

“Dividend has increasingly become larger, and we expect Cisco to be a dividend grower over time,” said Mark Sue, a RBC Capital Markets analyst, according to iStock Analyst. “With maturation of its top line, we expect earnings to outpace revenues with consistent cash flow returned to shareholders.” Cisco has committed to using at least 50 percent of its free cash flow to boost returns for shareholders in the form of stock buybacks and dividends.

The company’s network switch and router business is serving a now mature market and revenue growth is expected to be in the 5-6 percent range this year and next. Dividend Channel has recently named Cisco the top dividend stock of the NASDAQ 100, Forbes reported. Keeping investors happy while it looks to shift its product offerings to better fit into the “cloud” is key for Cisco’s future. Both Intel and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) have recently announced projects that will ultimately exert great pressure on the company’s core business of high-end network equipment.

Keeping its yield high is important for Cisco but it brings into question when the company is going to make a big move to establish itself as a key player in the software side of networking — the future of the networking industry. Top-end network switching hardware is moving towards open, non-proprietary standards and Cisco will have to stay on top of its game to brave the transition. What happens to Cisco once Intel and Facebook’s initiatives render top-of-the-rack network routing equipment something that Intel processors already inside servers can handle themselves?

The network equipment market is still huge and growing but becoming less profitable as it matures. Investors have to wonder when Cisco will finally make good on its plans to shift its focus elsewhere. The future is still bright for Cisco as long as it anticipates changes in its core markets.

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The board of United States Cellular has declared a special cash dividend of $5.75 per common share and Series A common share, coming to a total amount of roughly $481 million. Payment will be made on June 25 to shareholders of record as of June 11. The firm’s previously reported transaction to divest its Chicago, St. Louis, central Illinois and three other markets to Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) has closed and U.S. Cellular has received $480 million.

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Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW): Current price $16.14

On Friday, Corning announced the commercial intro of Corning Lotus™ XT Glass, which is a second-generation glass substrate specially devised for high-performance displays. The firm will highlight its most recent specialty glass innovation, alongside its other advanced glass technologies, in its booth at the Society for Information Display’s Display Week in Vancouver, May 21-23. Lotus XT Glass sports the best-in-class total pitch variation, which is crucial to efficient panel manufacturing.

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NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP): Current price $37.84

Elliott Management Corp. acquired a significant interest in the data storage firm NetApp, pressuring the latter to change its board and examine options to increase shareholder value, according to knowledgeable sources. In reaction, NetApp shares jumped by 6.2 percent, marking the largest gain since November 15. The hedge-fund firm founded by the billionaire Paul Singer, has been in discussions with NetApp for some weeks regarding its proposals, which include a return of cash to shareholders, said the sources, who added that Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) is collaborating with NetApp to help it examine its options.

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Industry sources report that Microsoft will release a 7.9-inch Surface tablet at the end of next month, featuring displays from Samsung Display, but LG Display and Taiwan-based firms have not thus far been included in the panel supplier list for the new product. However, the sources also said that panel suppliers hold ‘conservative views’ for the upcoming 7.9-inch unit in 2013, even in the face of rising popularity for similar sized tablets. Samsung and LGD have each been panel providers for Microsoft’s 10.6-inch Surface, but IDC says that Microsoft sold a mere 900,000 Surface tablets in the first quarter, comprising 1.8 percent of the tablet market. Due to the results, tablets of around 8 inches are forecast to hold a 12 percent market share this year, largely because of expected sales for Apple’s 7.85-inch iPad mini, according to the sources.

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG): Closing price $903.87

Thursday was a big day for YouTube’s live offering, with the announcement that access to it will be available soon to several of its partners. YouTube Live was prior to now only available to a few hand-picked channels and partners, the feature will be introduced to any YouTube channel in good standing with over 1,000 subscribers. The availability of YouTube Live to more creators comes two years after it first reported the feature, but it also is being launched after YouTube ran  serious stress testing on the product, including live streaming of the 2012 London Olympics.

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SAP (NYSE:SAP): Closing price $80.75

SAP on Thursday unveiled new breakthroughs in the in-memory SAP HANA platform, among which were the most recent innovations in Service Pack 6. SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform that transforms analytics, transactions, predictive and text sentiment processing in order for businesses to operate in real time. And, with this service pack, SAP is launching new SAP HANA smart data access tech to assist enterprises in dynamically deriving real-time insights across heterogeneous sources like Hadoop.

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InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC): Closing price $47.69

On Thursday, the wireless research and development firm said that it presently expects its second quarter 2013 revenue to come to between $67.5 and $74 million. This guidance is calculated on royalty reports and a payment because of an arbitration decision received to date, and does not include the potential effect of any new patent license, tech solutions or patent sale agreements that may be reached — or any additional payments from the arbitration decision or other dispute settlements that may occur during the remainder of the second quarter.

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Yahoo!’s Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Goldman said that his company needs to be “cool” once more if it wants to entice younger users to help balance out its “aging demographic.”  On Tuesday, Goldman said at J.P. Morgan’s Global Technology, Media and Telecom conference that Yahoo intends to boost its advertising, marketing and potentially update its content so as to reach a younger base, reaching this under-35 group is one of his firm’s key goals.

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DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ:DISH): Closing price $38.84

On Tuesday, DISH reported that its subsidiary, DISH DBS Corporation will offer around $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior notes, with the net proceeds of the offering to be placed into escrow. The net proceeds will be released from escrow to make a cash distribution to DISH Network so as to finance a portion of the cash consideration for DISH Networks’ proposed merger with Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S). If the proposed merger with Sprint fails to occur on or prior to the escrow end date, or if DISH DBS elects at any time on or prior to the escrow end date, then DISH DBS will redeem all of the notes.

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eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY): Closing price $56.27

PayPal is offering free credit, debit, check, and PayPal processing to domestic firms that qualify and adopt its PayPal Here solution, for the remainder of 2013. PayPal Here, which offers a triangle dongle through which to compete with Square, offers a mobile dongle that can be attached to smartphones or tablets to take payments on the go. However, it is also now a pre-integrated solution for  existing point-of-sale machines from multiple vendors likeERPLY, Leaf,  Leapset, NCR Silver, ShopKeep, and Vend.

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Shares were set for a higher open on Monday, reacting to positive comments from Danske Bank that were issued earlier. At the same time, Danske upgraded shares by two gradations from Sell to Buy,  and raised its price target by 80 percent to 3.60 euros. The firm’s analysts commented that “investors are becoming more positive on Nokia’s ability to raise debt as well as solve its problems. In addition, performance from its Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture is improving ahead of a potential deal, meaning a dramatic re-rating on Nokia’s share price is likely.”

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG): Current price $877.53

Google is continuing to lengthen the range of its Google+ platform, and on Monday the firm is introducing a new mobile content recommendation service run by Google+. These recommendations will surface as small widgets at the bottom of the screen, as users browse a news site that has made this service possible. Forbes is Google’s launch partner for this service, but others can implement these recommendations by simply adding a single line of code to their mobile sites. Google says that recommendations may appear regardless of whether users are signed in to Google+.

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BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY): Current price $15.88

It is expected that the firm will promote the latest version of its IT software, BES 10, this week at its BlackBerry World user event this week. This year, BlackBerry is expected to garner roughly one third of its $13 billion in forecast revenue from mobile-device network services. Presently, Good Technology, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is widely thought the market leader, and other rivals include AirWatch and MobileIron. Gartner calculates that the cross-platform mobile-device management market was probably $784 million in 2012, but that it could rise to over $1.3 billion this year.

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ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR): Current price $4.30

On Monday, the provider of unified communications platforms, among which include business phone systems, applications, and mobile UC solutions, announced that President and Chief Executive Peter Blackmore has informed the firm of his intention to retire as soon as a successor is announced.

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG): Current price $880.23

Chief Executive Elon Musk who leads Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA), says that his company is looking at adding driverless tech to its vehicles, and is discussing the possibilities for such systems with Google. Musk commented that technologies that can take over for drivers constitute a logical phase in the evolution of automobiles. He has talked with Google about the self-driving technology it’s been developing, although he would rather think of applications that are closer to an airplane’s autopilot system. In an interview, Musk remarked, “I like the word autopilot more than I like the word self- driving. Self-driving sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. Autopilot is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.”

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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL): Current price $452.97

The hedge fund manager David Einhorn announced that he has raised his bet on Apple, and that the firm made a “major step forward” by issuing debt so that it could return cash to investors. Additionally, Einhorn expects more innovations from the technology firm, according to a conference call Tuesday held by his Greenlight Capital reinsurer. Meanwhile, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook announced the biggest stock buyback program in history in April, during escalating pressure from Einhorn and other investors to return more cash to shareholders.

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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC): Current price $23.33

The storage and software major EMC and its subsidiary VMware (NYSE:VMW) intend to slash approximately 1,800 posts worldwide. EMC will remove positions in its Information Storage, RSA Information Security, and Information Intelligence units, and its workforce changes are projected to cost the firm $80 million. The move was indicated in EMC’s most recent 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which read: “In the first quarter of 2013, EMC implemented restructuring programs to create further operational efficiencies which will result in a workforce reduction of 1,004 positions.”

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Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.17 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $0.13. It missed the average revenue estimate of $157.01 million.

Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 83.33% to $0.01 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.06 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 10.23% to $325.7 million from the year-earlier quarter.

Cincinnati Bell Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.01 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $-0.02. It beat the average revenue estimate of $305.75 million.

CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 11.76% to $0.76 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.68 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 2.1% to $4.51 billion from the year-earlier quarter.

CenturyLink, Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.76 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $0.69. It beat the average revenue estimate of $4.51 billion.

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Boingo Wireless Inc reported adjusted EPS loss of $0.03 per share. By that measure, the company met the mean analyst estimate of $-0.03. It beat the average revenue estimate of $22.14 million.

Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ:WIN) delivered a profit and missed Wall Street’s expectations, AND came up short on beating the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 23.08% to $0.1 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.13 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 2.9% to $1.5 billion from the year-earlier quarter.

Windstream Corporation reported adjusted EPS income of $0.1 per share. By that measure, the company missed the mean analyst estimate of $0.11. It missed the average revenue estimate of $1.53 billion.

BCE, Inc. (NYSE:BCE) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, BUT came up short on beating the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 2.67% to $0.77 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.75 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Rose 0.05% to $4.92 billion from the year-earlier quarter.

BCE, Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.77 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $0.71. It missed the average revenue estimate of $4.97 billion.

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Google is poised to debut a new interface for Google Maps. This update will eliminate the sidebar and will display everything atop the full-screen map. One of the new features allows the restricting of local search results to places recommended by top reviews or Google+ circles. The update is a more immersive interface that will likely work well on mobile devices. Rather than concentrating upon navigational elements, buttons and sidebars, the new Google Maps centers on the map.

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T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS): Current price $17.75

The combined company resulting from the recently-concluded union of MetroPCS Communications and T-Mobile USA, on Wednesday posted first quarter results for T-Mobile USA, which showed significant, positive customer inertia throughout the quarter and also the first positive branded customer growth in four years. The new entity reported 3,000 branded net customer additions for the quarter, coming from a 61-percent year-over-year improvement in branded postpaid net customer losses due mostly to improved branded postpaid churn performance, reinforced with branded prepaid customer growth.

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3D Systems (NYSE:DDD): Current price $43.38

On Wednesday, 3D reported that it expects pricing of its previously announced offering to sell shares of its common stock after the close on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. On May 7, the company announced a proposed underwritten public offering of around $250 million. Along with the $250 million from 3D Systems, certain stockholders, among which include certain officers and directors and their affiliates, are offering a total amount of roughly 1.3 million shares in the offering.

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Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN): Current price $5.59

Faisal Masud, chief of the firm’s retail division will exit next week to lead Staples’ online and digital unit, after around a year at the Internet daily deals company. Masud came to Groupon in 2012 from eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) to manage “Groupon Goods”, intended to compete more directly with eBay and Amazon.com. Effective May 20, he will head development of e-commerce for Staples, according to a statement on Tuesday.

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