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Susquehanna Financial upgraded graphics chip maker Nvidia to neutral from negative and raised the price target to $23 from $9.

With all the buzz surrounding the HP and Palm Topaz Tablet, it's easy to forget the Slate 500, HP's previous tablet offering.

Morgan Keegan upgraded Qualcomm Inc. to outperform from market perform, a day after the CDMA chip maker reported strong quarterly results and boosted its fiscal 2011 outlook.

The Silicon Valley giant will invest $100 million to support research in US universities over the next 5 years to drive innovation in computing and communications.

Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am has taken a job at Intel (INTC.O) to help innovate how music and other multimedia are used with smartphones and tablets.

Intel hires Black Eyed Peas' front man will.i.am as director of creative innovation.

U.S. stocks advanced on restructuring news, strong economic forecast

Technology and retail stocks continue to drive market

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Nvidia, First Solar, Sara Lee, Micron Technology, Halliburton, Radioshack, Salesforce.com and Carnival Corp.

FBR Capital Markets lowered its 2011 profit view of Advanced Micro Devices, after the company ousted its Chief Executive Dirk Meyer.

HP is weighing options to take its bit of share in the tablet market with two upcoming tablets

Apple Inc smashed Wall Street's sales forecasts for the holiday quarter, the day after announcing its Chief Executive Steve Jobs would take leave for medical reasons.

Rusnano will invest $700 million in British Plastic technology firm Plastic Logic to produce basic plastic computer components in Russia.

'Boardwalk' and 'Glee' were the winners this season

Stocks rose modestly, boosted by strong corporate earnings from J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), allowing the S&P 500 index to score its seventh consecutive week of gains.

Steve Ballmer mentioned it and Paul Otellini now addresses it: Windows OS without x86 and Intel.

US futures are set to open lower on Friday after a disappointing jobless claims data, which could weigh on sentiment.

Taiwan stocks opened up 0.11 percent on Friday, with semiconductors trading flat even though Intel Corp

Hong Kong stocks are set to ease on Friday morning as investors take profits after three days of strong gains, and shares of materials-related companies could decline due to falling commodity prices.

Intel Corp posted an 8 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue and forecast revenue of $11.1 billion to $11.9 billion in the first three months of 2011, riding an upswing in corporate technology spending.

Two companies looking to create next generation semiconductor technology for future mobile devices.