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2 Top Chip Stocks That Funds Are Buying As M&A Heats Up

Investors who track where mutual funds and other big investing firms are putting their money have insight into which stocks will be moving up. Today’s Screen Of The Day is Accelerating Mutual Fund Ownership, spotlighting stocks that mutual funds have been scooping up for the past three quarters. Today’s screen focuses on Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) and Inphi (IPHI), a pair of chip stocks that mutual funds are buying as M&A activity heats up in

Programmatic Ad ‘Growing Pains’ Trip LinkedIn, Others

It’s a steady theme echoed by a host of Internet companies in Q1: The shift to computer-assisted ad buying, intended to boost efficiencies and raise revenue, is for now succeeding only in the former. Ad sales conducted by machines rather than ad salespeople — so-called programmatic ads — take less time to execute but also cost advertisers less, for now resulting in lower sales for online ad platforms. It’s become a prickly learning experience as

Splunk Soundly Beats Q1 Analyst Estimates

Splunk is still a high-growth technology company, but its latest earnings left some investors wanting more. Shares of the enterprise software company slipped by more than 3% late Thursday, even after it reported first-quarter earnings that soundly beat analyst estimates. Splunk (SPLK) continues to cash in on helping companies sift through and examine increasing loads of information coming from mobile phones, PCs and other devices. The company’s