Новости за 28.03.2016

Affymetrix Inc.'s stock slumped 5.2% in active afternoon trade Monday, after the biotechnology company said it determined that the buyout bid it received last week from Origin Technologies Corp. was not superior to the deal it made with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. .

Netflix 's business and its stock price are headed in opposite directions lately.

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Alphabet 's Google recently landed Apple as a cloud platform customer, dealing a nasty blow to its other two cloud providers, Amazon and Microsoft .

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At least one company in the U.S. is combining technology and weaponry to design a handgun that looks exactly like a smartphone.

Don’t count GameStop out just yet: That’s the message from the company’s CEO, who appeared on FOX Business Network's Varney & Co. Monday morning.

Own a home? Have kids? Saving for retirement? You should be getting these tax breaks.

Image source: The Motley Fool What: Shares of Pandora Media were down 10.1% as of 12:15 p.m. EST Monday after the music streaming specialist announced its CEO of two and a half years, Brian McAndrews, is leaving the company.

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Congress' Bipartisan Budget Bill of 2015 contains a drastic change to a popular Social Securityfiling strategy with major financial consequences for couples.It eliminates the option to file and suspend with a restricted application as of April 30, 2016.To change your tax-filing strategy and continue to maximize your Social Security benefits , you need to understand what the new restrictions mean for you.

China's Anbang Insurance Group Co has raised its offer for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc to almost $14 billion, in its latest challenge to the U.S. hotel operator's merger with Marriott International Inc.

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Though we'd all like to think that rising college tuition costs will eventually have to start tapering off, there's no indication that prices are about to start falling just yet.

The National Association of Realtors reports contracts to buy previously-owned homes rose 3.5% last month, higher than the 1.2% rise economists expected for the month.

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Online music streaming service Pandora Media Inc appointed founder Tim Westergren as its chief executive officer to replace Brian McAndrews.

Shares of Philip Morris International have rallied nearly 10% since the beginning of the year, easily outperforming the S&P 500's 1% decline.

Buyout buzz is once again pushing shares of Pandora Media higher.

California lawmakers and union leaders have reached a tentative deal to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 over six years that could avert a campaign to bring the issue to voters, two California newspapers reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” steamrolled past records, debuting to a gargantuan $170.1 million over Easter weekend despite being pilloried by critics.

Dell is set to announce an agreement on Monday to sell its non-core information technology consulting division to Japan's NTT Data for $3.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

China stocks gave up early gains as a late afternoon slide in property shares wiped out initial optimism triggered by encouraging industrial profit data released over the weekend.

The March U.S. employment report and other key economic numbers next week could help U.S. stocks resume their recent winning path as long as that data hits the sweet spot.