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Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has just seen a massive jump on rumors that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is in talks “of an unknown nature” as per reports from the blog TechCrunch.  MarketWatch noted this is likely a licensing deal for its speech recognition software. For whatever this is worth, we have considered that Nuance [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE) is down 20.52% this morning to $26.18 in pre-market trading after the company announced that demand for its product from Japanese and U.S. education customers had been weaker than usual.  At 8:35 AM EST Adobe has traded 4,533,702 shares, compared with the company’s daily average of 9,209,300 shares.  This drop in [...]

Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) beat earnings expectations and said that its business is improving.  Shares are up over 5% at $37.10 despite a red market this morning.  At 9:04 AM EST we have seen 295,000 shares trade hands and the 52-week range is $20.39 to $38.20. Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) is down after reports [...]

We have many key movers, and many up by double-digit percentages.  These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks: Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE)  is trading up 3.5% at $33.45 on about 76,000 shares after two different analyst upgrades. Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHX) is trading up big after it received a [...]

Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) is seeing shares mostly flat on the day with implied volatility up 3% to 35% ahead of the 12/15 earnings date.  More than 9,000 puts have traded as of 11:30 AM EST, with 94% bought offer side in massive blocks of December $37 and $36 puts.  Shares have been rejected [...]

Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR) is the pre-market leader after getting acquired by Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE).  This one closed at $17.33 yesterday and is up almost 25% at $21.60 on pre-market volume of over 4 million shares as of 8:56 AM EST.  As this is a buyout, that is of little surprise.  But acquirer [...]