Lebron? $NKE

Lebron? $NKE

Is this real?  Not sure.

"LeBron is on vacation St. Tropez and you can’t have socks on in St. Tropez, but I don’t know if I can trust wearing NIKE if that are going to jack up my toes like this."

“(Syrian President Bashar) Al-Assad’s fascist regime is amassing activists and civilians in prisons in military locations that may be targets for foreign forces,” according to a statement of the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition.

“(Syrian President Bashar) Al-Assad’s fascist regime is amassing activists and civilians in prisons in military locations that may be targets for foreign forces,” according to a statement of the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition. $SPY

ZTE Quadruples Lobbying After U.S. House Blacklisting $VRNG $NOK

ZTE Quadruples Lobbying After U.S. House Blacklisting $VRNG $NOK

ZTE Corp. (000063) more than quadrupled its spending on lobbying after a House report warned that the telecommunications company’s products may help the Chinese government spy on the U.S.

China’s second-largest phone-equipment maker reported spending $330,000 to lobby Congress in the first six months of this year -- the most since it began lobbying in 2009, Senate records show. That compared with $80,000 during the same period a year earlier, according to company filings.

Microsoft Signs Pact to Cooperate With Activist ValueAct $MSFT

Microsoft Signs Pact to Cooperate With Activist ValueAct $MSFT

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) signed a pact to cooperate with ValueAct Holdings LP, an agreement that could bring an activist shareholder onto the board of the world’s largest software maker as it undergoes a leadership change.

Microsoft said yesterday that it will hold regular meetings with ValueAct Capital President Mason Morfit and “selected Microsoft directors and management to discuss a range of significant business issues.” The Redmond, Washington-based company said ValueAct has the option of having Morfit become a director beginning at the first quarterly board meeting of 2014.

Apple Begins IPhone Trade-In Program to Boost Sales

Apple Begins IPhone Trade-In Program to Boost Sales $AAPL

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has started an iPhone trade-in program in its stores, letting owners sell older handsets back to the company in exchange for credit toward a new model.

Apple’s U.S. retail outlets are now accepting devices, said Amy Bessette, a spokeswoman for Apple. The initiative is starting just before the next iPhone’s debut on Sept. 10.

Advisers for $VOD & $VX don't sleep

Advisers for $VOD & $VX don't sleep

Advisers to Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) won’t be getting much rest this Labor Day weekend as they push to put the finishing touches on the largest deal in more than a decade.

An agreement that would see Verizon buy Vodafone out of their U.S. wireless venture for as much as $130 billion could be announced as soon as Sept. 2, according to people with knowledge of the plans, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential deliberations. Last-minute details are being worked out by banks including UBS AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Splunk raises revenue forecast as it adds more customers $SPLK

Splunk raises revenue forecast as it adds more customers

data analytics software maker Splunk Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its revenue forecast for the year ending January as it adds new customers and expects more enterprise deals in the second half.

The company's shares were up 6 percent in extended trading

$CRM After Q2 Results, Everyone Likes Salesforce Again

$CRM After Q2 Results, Everyone Likes Salesforce Again

Brazil Growth Beats Estimates by All Analysts in Second Quarter $EWZ

Brazil Growth Beats Estimates by All Analysts in Second Quarter $EWZ

Consumer Spending in U.S. Increased in July for a Third Month $SPY $XLY $VCR $XRT

Consumer Spending in U.S. Increased in July for a Third Month $SPY $XLY $VCR $XRT

$NUAN Icahn Board SEAT

$NUAN Icahn Board SEAT

Gundlach on Ackman $JCP $HLF

Gundlach on Ackman $JCP $HLF

$KKD Dropping on BAD Outlook

$KKD Dropping on BAD Outlook

The company also forecast earnings of 59 cents to 63 cents a share for the full year. Analysts expect 64 cents a share. 

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$DSS 330 PM PST