VIASPACE Inc., a clean energy company providing products and technology for renewable and alternative energy, this morning reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.

Revenues totaled $1.23 million, including $1.06 million from the late-2008 strategic acquisition of Inter-Pacific Arts, Inc. (IPA), and $171,000 primarily from Ionfinity’s military contracts for monitoring and detection systems. Gross profit for the quarter was reported at $473,000, including $455,000 related to IPA. Comparatively, third-quarter 2008 revenues were $99,000 and gross profit was $23,000.

Operating expenses for the quarter declined to $1.05 million from $2.82 million as a result of lower research and development expense and lower selling, general and administrative expense. Stock-based compensation and stock-option expense for the quarter totaled $458,000, compared to $1.32 million in third-quarter 2008.

Operating loss for the quarter narrowed to $574,000 from operating losses of $2.8 million in third-quarter

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• Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) reported adjusted third quarter earnings of $3.45 a share, 55 cents above consensus estimates, on better-than-expected revenues of $730.7 million, ahead of estimates of $$693.97 million on strong summer season travel. The firm provided fourth quarter guidance at about $1.06-$1.16

• Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) said it plans to cut 1500 additional jobs. The firm reported second quarter adjusted earnings of 6 cents, a one penny miss, on revenues of $1.15 billion, which slightly topped Street projections of $1.12 billion. The firm forecast 2010 earnings of $0.70-$1.00, topping estimates of 89 cents on revenues of $4.2-$4.4 billion versus estimates of $4.26 billion

• Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) rejected the latest Kraft (NYSE:KFT) bid calling it "derisory"

• Moody's (NYSE:MCO) commented that AIG (NYSE:AIG) will be able to repay its Federal loans

• Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) lifted its growth expectations for the semiconductor group following release of third quarter numbers. Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) remained its first

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ZAGG Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes electronics accessories, such as protective clear coverings, targeting the mobile market. The company today announced it has received approval to begin trading on The Nasdaq Global Market November 10, 2009, under its current ticker, ZAGG.

“We are very excited to be approved for the Nasdaq Global Market, and see it as an exceptional milestone in ZAGG’s short history,” Robert G. Pedersen II, president and CEO of ZAGG stated in the press release. “Moving to the top level market on Nasdaq will add a great deal of value for our shareholders and introduce ZAGG to new investors and new opportunities.”

Not only will the advancement to Nasdaq generate shareholder benefit, it will also increase awareness of the company’s products to the marketplace. The company’s high-tech thin film coverings are applicable for iPods, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, watches, PDAs and other various electronic devices.

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Maxim Integrated Products Inc.’s (MXIM) first quarter earnings beat consensus estimates by a penny. Revenue was over the high-end of management’s guidance range of $415-445 million, or a sequential increase of 5-13%. Revenue Revenue of $449.2 million was up 13.9% sequentially and down 10.4% year over year. The sequential strength in demand was reflective of the rebound in the semiconductor sector and follows stronger results reported by other chip companies, such as Linear Technology (LLTC), Intel Corp. (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Texas Instruments (TXN). Revenue by End Market The computing market generated 25% of revenue, up 13.9% sequentially and down 20% year over year. Revenue benefited from sequential strength in the server, financial terminals and notebook segments. The consumer market generated 33% of revenue, up 17.4% sequentially and 5.6% year over year. ...

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Today, leading entertainment technology developer e.Digital Corporation announced that it has entered a cross licensing and settlement agreement with Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung obtained a license and release on e.Digital’s foreign and domestic patent rights, including the company’s Flash-R™ patent portfolio. e.Digital, meanwhile, obtained a license and release on certain Samsung patents; the company also received a one-time licensing fee.

e.Digital’s Flash-R patent portfolio incorporates flash memory in the large, growing portable electronic products market. In 1993, the company introduced the first portable recorder with removable flash memory. Today, many consumer electronics products use flash memory including cell phones, digital cameras, camcorders, PDAs and other popular devices, a testament to e.Digital’s innovative success.

Fred Falk, president and CEO of e.Digial, stated, “We are pleased to have successfully concluded the first round of our intellectual property (IP) licensing strategy by licensing and settling all seven

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 15, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Linear Technology (LLTC), Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM), Intersil Corporation (ISIL), Semtech (SMTC) and Altera Corporation (ALTR).

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:

Linear Tops, Guidance Conservative

Linear Technology’s (LLTC) first quarter earnings beat the Zacks consensus by 2 cents. Revenue beat the consensus by 9.4%. We currently expect the entire peer group, including Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM), Intersil Corporation (ISIL) and Semtech (SMTC)

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Fonix Corp., through its Fonix Speech Inc. wholly-owned subsidiary, is an innovative speech recognition and text-to-speech technology company providing voice solutions for mobile/wireless devices, interactive video games, computer telephony systems, toys and appliances, as well as automotive telematics.

The company announced today that nearly ten million electronic dictionaries and cell phones equipped with Fonix technology have been sold internationally through Asia’s largest OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) into China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

The e-dictionaries – handheld electronic dictionaries that enable users to speak a word in their native language and have the text read back to them in English – span well-known brands like Casio, Canon, Seiko, Inventec Besta and Brilliant Systems. Fonix implements either text-to-speech, voice recognition, voice compression or a combination of these technologies in the devices.

By far the longest running and most successful items, Casio e-dictionary devices have logged more than 4.9 million units sold in Japan, Korea

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