Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) has sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) for patent and copyright infringement Friday. Oracle spokesman Karen Tillman commented, “In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property, This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement.” SmarTrend is bullish on shares of Google andour subscribers were alerted to buy on July 12, 2010 at 5.26. The stock has risen 3.5% since the alert was issued. Google is currently above its 50-day moving average (MA) of 2.05 and should find resistance at its 200-day MA of 7.41. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day MA has climbed 0.27% while the 200-day MA has slid 0.25%. Shares of the global technology company closed Friday’s trading session at 2.01.

According to Bloomberg, Bank of America Corp. (BAC) plans to acquire more direct stakes in companies in an effort to boost profits as it faces new rules in the United States over where it can invest. The report goes on to say, the bank is going to pass up on private equity firms in its investment plans. Already, the bank has sold about billion of private equity fund investments this year. Bank of America shares are up 1.4%, or {video_description}.19, to .25.

Singer Fantasia Barrino’s family frantically thrust her into a shower to revive her after she attempted suicide by swallowing pills. In a panicked 911 call, the singer’s manager told the operator that they plunged the “”American Idol”" star into running water to wake her up after she swallowed a bottle of aspirin in her North Carolina home. The operator urged Dickens to tell Barrino’s family to take the 26-year-old singer out of the shower until help arrived. Paramedics later found Barrino slumped in a closet, reported local television station, WBTV. Barrino’s father, Joseph, said Wednesday that his daughter was “”doing fine,”" and was set to be released from the hospital soon. The stunning suicide attempt Monday came in the wake of reports that Barrino had an affair with a married man and broke up his marriage. Sordid details of the affair — including allegations that the pair had filmed several sex tapes — emerged when Paula Cook filed for child custody last week. Barrino won “”American Idol”" in 2004. Her first single, “”I Believe”" when to number and she has been nominated for seven Grammy awards.

Former Alaska senator Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. Stevens with his friends, including the former head of NASA Sean O’Keefe, were on their way to a fishing camp when the plane hit the side of a mountain outside Dillingham, Alaska, about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. The crash killed 86-year-old Stevens along with four others, and left its four survivors stranded overnight until they were rescued Tuesday morning. Alaska State Troopers said the survivors including O’Keefe and his teenaged son are now at Providence Hospital in Anchorage with “varying degrees of injuries.” The National Transporation Safety Board is investigating the crash to determine the cause, but weather has been named a possibility. Known affectionately as Uncle Ted by many in his state, Stevens was a decorated World War II veteran and the longest serving GOP senator in US history. He is survived by his wife Catherine and his six children.

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) are trading 3% higher after Bloomberg reported that the company is in the process of launching a table-style computer this Fall. Dubbed the “Blackpad”, this new tablet is RIM’s attempt at taking on the widely-successful iPad from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Research in Motion has fallen somewhat behind in the latest round of the smartphone war as it struggles to compete with the fast growing Android-based phones and Apple’s iPhone. However, RIM is expected to launch an updated version of its mobile operating system at an event in New York next week, which is expected to enhance certain consumer-oriented features such as media playback and web browsing. The new Blackpad device is reported to be similar to the iPad in size, include WiFi and Bluetooth, and allow tethering to BlackBerries. Also, it supposedly has a front-facing video camera – a feature many iPad owners wish were included in their device. There has been no official statement from the company at this point so how much truth there is to the story remains to be seen. Nevertheless, the technology world will be closely watching to see if the iPad will start to get some serious competition.

An Airblue Airbus 321 plane crashed in the dense, forest-laden Margalla Hills near Islamabad, Pakistan Wednesday, taking the lives of the 152 passengers and crew on board, marking the tragedy as the worst air crash in the country’s history. Heavy rains were reportedly a factor in the crash, along with the heavy clouds set on top of the hills where the crash occurred. The plane was en route from Karachi and a control tower reportedly kept the Airbus from landing; investigators are working on piecing together what exactly happened. Some officials told the press that the plane’s nine-and-a-half mile distance from the airport seemed unusual. Air Vice-Marshall Riazul Haq, deputy chief of the Civil Aviation Authority, told the Guardian that the plane “…should not have gone so far.” News of the crash was slow to travel and Imtiaz Elahi, chairman of the Capital Development Authority, told the Guardian, “It is a great tragedy, and I confirm with pain that there are no survivors.” Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told press today that 115 bodies have been removed from the crash site, and that only 12 of those bodies have been correctly identified so far.

blog.accendotraders.com – Effective Video Technical Analysis Trading Plans delivered daily from AccendoTraders.com – Here is our Weekend Wrap Up Trading Plan for Saturday, July 17th. In this video, we discuss the market moving news of the past week. From Alcoa (AA) kicking off the 2nd quarter earnings season to Goldman Sachs (GS) settlement with the SEC regarding the CDS. We also look at charts to identify key short term and long term support and resistance. Finally, we look forward to the multiple of earnings to be released next week include Apple (AAPL) who held a news conference on Friday to discuss there iPhone 4 signal issues

(BP) is down in morning trade on the NYSE even though the company said it has stopped the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, nearly three months after the explosion of its rig. There is growing speculation that the energy giant could saddle potential buyers of its assets with lawsuits. Apache Corp (APA) may pay between billion to billion in cash for some of BP’s Alaskan assets, according to Bloomberg. Shares in the London-based company opened at .52, and have traded between .75 and .38 over the past 12 months.

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) said it stands to sustain a multi-billion dollar hit from the financial overhaul bill the US Senate passed yesterday, according to MarketWatch. Among other things, the bill places limits on debit-card interchange fees received or charged by issuers like Bank of America, the report said. Earlier, Bank of America reported second-quarter EPS of {video_description}.27, down from {video_description}.33 in the year ago quarter but ahead of the analyst mean of {video_description}.22 per share on Thomson Reuters. Revenue was .4 billion, down from .0 billion in the year ago quarter and about in line to just below the Street view of .7 billion. Bank of America shares are dow 8.1%, or .25, to .14.

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