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Regeneron Longer-Term Growth Prospects Boosts Stock

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals beat analysts’ Q4 estimates and guided this year’s drug sales in line with views Tuesday, and also said it’s building a new facility in low-tax Ireland. The stock popped to a new high, closing up 7.4% at 326.52. Regeneron’s (REGN) sales in the quarter totaled $610 million, up 47% from the year-earlier quarter and $29 million more than analysts’ consensus. Non-GAAP net income rose 52% to $2.24 a share. Analysts’ estimates

Will Vodafone Slim Down Or Bulk Up Post-Verizon?

Soon to be cash-rich, Vodafone Group seems to be facing an immediate future that could go in opposite directions: making acquisitions to beef up or shedding assets to attract AT&T or another suitor. Either way, industry speculation is rife over the post-U.S. makeover of U.K.-based Vodafone (VOD), the world’s No. 1 wireless firm by revenue. Verizon Communications’ (VZ) $130 billion buyout of Vodafone’s 45% stake in their U.S. wireless joint

‘Second Screens’ Elevated For Sochi Winter Olympics

With the 2014 Winter Olympics, tablets and smartphones could go from “second screens” for following the games to primary screens for watching them. Adobe Systems (ADBE) has teamed with Comcast (CMCSA)-owned NBC Sports Group to bring the TV Everywhere experience to viewers of the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, which run through Feb. 23. TV Everywhere is an industry effort to make viewing options relatively seamless across PCs, tablets and other