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Involves affordable housing PPP project Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has received a contract from Ithmar Development Co. to provide project management services in connection with the Bahrain Affordable Housing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project. The three-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of...

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) issued its first quarterly report since its mid-September IPO today.  Its share price increased by 4.19% to 106.07 from yesterday’s close of 101.80. The financial statement was one of those that can be reported at the polar opposites of positive or negative, depending on which aspect one prefers to tout. Investors are still […]

Long retention EEPROM semiconductor device Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed initial testing of a new nonvolatile memory semiconductor device that could be of significant benefit to the oil exploration field and other industries that require semiconductor devices capable of operating for long periods at high temperatures. The company’s new semiconductor...

Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) today announced that Ted W. Owen, has been named Chief Executive Officer, effective December 1, 2014. Mr. Owen was promoted to President of the Company in July 2014 and has been Chief Financial Officer since shortly after joining the Company in 1998. This action by Team’s Board of Directors is, the company […]

++Breaking News++ LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due in 2019 in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. LinkedIn also expects to grant […]

How did they do? Codexis, Inc. (Nasdaq:CDXS), a developer of biocatalysts for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, today announced financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2014. “I am pleased with the solid progress we are making towards our goals for 2014. All of our revenue categories showed significant […]

See you in court? Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, a national investor-rights law firm, alerts investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARCP). The suit is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and investors have until December 29, 2014 to […]

Down £0.7bn on Q3 2013 BP has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2014. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was $3.0 billion, compared with $3.7 billion for the same period in 2013. Operating cash flow for the quarter was $9.4 billion, compared with $6.3 billion in 3Q 2013. Total operating […]

Operations Update for Shoats Creek Field, Louisiana North American Petroleum Plc, a company focussed on developing its interests in proven US onshore oil and gas formations, has provided an update on its 1,670 gross acre Shoats Creek Project, in Louisiana where NAP holds a 35%/26.25% working/net revenue interest alongside Northcote Energy (35% WI), and Springer […]

Both MasterCard (NYSE:MA) and Visa (NYSE:V), the world’s largest processor of debit and credit card payments, released their quarterly earnings reports in the last 48 hours. I was tempted to write about Visa as its shares tried to carry the load on Wall Street on the same day as the Federal Reserve posted its latest, […]