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ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:11 am

Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) Always Innovating and not A Chip off the Old Block

Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) is a semiconductor company which specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. Headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, they list on the NASDAQ as part of the Semiconductor-Integrated Circuits industry. Incorporated in 1971, the company's initial public offering was in November of 1980. Their semiconductor products provide connectivity, networking, or embedded control solutions to serve a variety of markets. These include the consumer electronics, automotive infotainment, computing, industrial, and high-speed communications markets. Standard Microsystems develops semi-custom, application specific, and standard products that allow their customers to access or transfer their digital…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:09 am

Thomas Weisel Partners Group (TWPG) Focuses on Growth Sectors

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Thomas Weisel Partners Group (TWPG) is an investment bank founded in 1998. Their corporate focus is to secure investment opportunities in growth sectors of the economy. As part of the Investment Brokerage-National industry, the company trades on the NASDAQ and has a current market capitalization of $187.39M. The company also has offices in Baltimore, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, New York City, Portland, Silicon Valley, and Toronto. In addition, they have offices in London, England; Mumbai, India; and Zurich, Switzerland. From these offices, the key growth areas they target are the consumer, energy, financial services,…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 5:31 am

Strategies for Sustaining Growth – Mid-Week Management Mantra

Business management as a discipline is more popular with large corporations than it is with small business owners and stock investors. This may be because a top business school education is so outrageously expensive. Students who invest to obtain MBAs need high salaries and extravagant perquisites to realize material returns. Business management, in an academic sense, can provide maximum impacts on small enterprises and individual stock portfolios. This new mid-week series seeks to apply new business management thinking to portfolios of retail investors. Growth is a self-destructive shark. A flash-in-the-pan disappoints as much as it delights. Information Technology and Telecommunication…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 5:28 am

All Healthcare Can Benefit from the Cardionet Inc. (BEAT) Business Model

Knowledgeable investors will be delighted to stumble on this stock. It is no mirage in the investment desert of July 2008. This corporation has embarked on a voyage that we can justifiably compare with the most legendary ventures of North America. This stock requires domain expertise for proper evaluation. Medical professionals of all genres and patients who use the company’s products and services are best positioned to appreciate the breakthroughs in healthcare that this business model provides. Irregular heartbeats can strike at any time. It is a significant factor of disease and death. A routine medical examination may not always…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:14 am

Axial Vector Engine Corp. (AXVC.PK) Receives $45 Million in Financing

Axial Vector Engine Corporation recently announced the receipt of $45 million in project financing from Emirates International Capital Advisory (EICA), a global hedge fund management firm. Axial is a U.S. based firm with a branch office in Dubai, focused on the development of a new, smaller and lighter internal combustion engine that produces significantly greater horsepower and three times more torque on less fuel than conventional engines of similar size. The $45 million in financing will be primarily used for Axial’s engine and generator technology rollout. Axial's engine technology is already in production for military use in a partnership venture…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:12 am

Stock Forum Destinations: BoardCentral.com

BoardCentral.com allows users to bypass individual on-line message boards. This service lets users read from and post to many of the top message boards, all from the BoardCentral Web site. Among the message boards covered are Yahoo! Finance, RagingBull, The Motley Fool, SiliconInvestor, and ClearStation. At the BoardCentral Web site, visitors can type in individual ticker symbols and Board-Central will scan the postings of 13 different on-line message boards and list the most recent posts from each board. You can then read the separate messages and post responses (most message board sites require some type of registration before being able…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:09 am

Stock Forum Destinations: Silicon Investor

Silicon Investor consists of more than 450,000 registered members and has a litany of message boards on a wide range of subjects. The site’s homepage contains a list of the “top 10 hot investment boards.” By choosing “forums” you can see lists of newly introduced boards, active subjects (investment and other) and the most popular subjects and posters. Silicon Investor allows members to “mark” favorite users and message boards and will send notification when recent activity by those marked has been posted. Individual stock data is provided by Quotemedia. You can also create WatchLists. The more posts you write, the…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:07 am

Stock Forum Destinations: Raging Bull

Raging Bull, provided by eSignal, offers the typical range of industry and stock message boards, in addition to a few non-financial boards like vacation and NFL boards. The site is linked to Quote.com where you can get data on individual securities and set up portfolios. The homepage lists the most active boards measured by current traffi c relative to activity over the past 30 days. This list is usually dominated by boards for the likes of Microsoft and General Electric or smaller companies with high trading volume. Raging Bull gives you the option to ignore specified users. The site does…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:04 am

Unsolicited Bid and Possible Proxy Fight Boost Asyst Technologies, Inc.’s (ASYT) Stock Price

Asyst Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASYT), a leading provider of standards-based factory automation solutions, customer-focused software products and formal systems integration processes, recently announced that the company received an unsolicited letter from Aquest Systems Corp. expressing an interest in exploring a potential acquisition of Asyst Technologies, Inc. for $6.50 per share. After conducting a thorough review of the proposed transaction, the board of directors determined that the acquisition contemplated in that expression of interest by Aquest Systems Corp. is not in the best interests of shareholders, and the expression of interest was subsequently withdrawn. Asyst’s management team also announced that it…

WednesdayJul 16, 2008 6:03 pm

OTCPicks Featured Company: Wincroft, Inc. (WCRF.OB) Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Apollo Solar Energy, Inc.

Wincroft, Inc. (OTCBB: WCRF) signed a letter of intent to acquire Apollo Solar Energy, Inc., which indirectly owns 100% of the equity of Sichuan Apollo Solar Science and Technology Co. Ltd., a wholly foreign-owned enterprise organized under the laws of the People's Republic of China. The closing of the acquisition is resting upon the execution of formal binding agreements, with approval from the board of directors of WCRF and ASE, as well as the satisfactory exchange of due diligence materials between the two parties. Wincroft runs no significant operations as they focus on acquiring either project financing or an operating…

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