New Enterprise Associates has added $1 billion to its latest fund, bringing the total amount raised for the fund to $2.2 billion. NEA’s goal is to raise $2.5 billion, according to VentureBeat. It had closed on the first $1.2 billion in January, and has since raised $150 million from Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and about $15 million each from the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System and the Indiana State Teacher’s Retirement Fund. The venture fund invests in companies across a range of sectors, from digital media to information technology to healthcare. Portfolio companies include Xoom, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) (which went public in 2007), and Advertising.com. It raised its last fund in 2006, also $2.5 billion.

New Enterprise Associates has added $1 billion to its latest fund, bringing the total amount raised for the fund to $2.2 billion. NEA’s goal is to raise $2.5 billion, according to VentureBeat. It had closed on the first $1.2 billion in January, and has since raised funds from Teacher Retirement System of Texas ($150 million), the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System and the Indiana State Teacher’s Retirement Fund. The venture fund invests in companies across a range of sectors, from digital media to information technology to healthcare. Portfolio companies include Xoom, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) (which went public in 2007), and Advertising.com. It raised its last fund in 2006, also $2.5 billion.

New Enterprise Associates has added $1 billion to its latest fund, bringing the total money raised for the fund to $2.2 billion. NEA’s goal is to raise $2.5 billion, according to VentureBeat. It had closed on the first $1.2 billion in January and has since raised funds from Teacher Retirement System of Texas ($150 million), the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System and the Indiana State Teacher’s Retirement Fund. The venture fund invests in companies across a range of sectors, from digital media to information technology to healthcare. Portfolio companies include Xoom, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) (which went public in 2007), and Advertising.com. It raised its last fund in 2006, also $2.5 billion.   

Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time now, and WSJ helps with the scouting with a longish story on its ambitions. It is looking at mobile game publishers and other kinds of mobile entertainment firms, with the intent to “exploit its expertise in telecom and get exposure to a segment of the cellphone industry that promises high growth, the story says. NO specific deals have been lined up yet, though one could expect companies like Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), Digital Chocolate (has been on the block for a long time now), and Hands-On Mobile (which has been disposing of international units to focus on U.S.) as targets. The deals are being explored Jump Games, Reliance’s mobile gaming unit. Besides these middlemen-type deals, the company is also looking to license content directly from major brands, which it can then distribute through its huge base in India, the reasoning goes. Will its experience be any better than the doomed Japanese and Korean mobile content forays into U.S. market starting five years ago? Index, For-Side and Cybird tried, and bought a slew of companies, only to end up selling them off or closing them a few years later. Reasons then were lack of common language and work culture, complexities of working with the walled-garden operators then, and the lack of consumer adoption with slower networks. Now, some of those issues have gone away.... Here’s a wilder thought, though: What about looking at bigger online deals in U.S.? Reliance has the money and the capability to raise a lot more...how about making a run at Yahoo? Better than Disney buying Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Wait, you haven’t heard about Dubai Government looking to buy Google? Settle down, just speculatin’..

Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time now, and WSJ helps with the scouting with a longish story on its ambitions. It is looking at mobile game publishers and other kinds of mobile entertainment firms, with the intent to “exploit its expertise in telecom and get exposure to a segment of the cellphone industry that promises high growth, the story says. NO specific deals have been lined up yet, though one could expect companies like Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), Digital Chocolate (has been on the block for a long time now), and Hands-On Mobile (which has been disposing of international units to focus on U.S.) as targets. The deals are being explored Jump Games, Reliance’s mobile gaming unit. Besides these middlemen-type deals, the company is also looking to license content directly from major brands, which it can then distribute through its huge base in India, the reasoning goes. Will its experience be any better than the doomed Japanese and Korean mobile content forays into U.S. market starting five years ago? Index, For-Side and Cybird tried, and bought a slew of companies, only to end up selling them off or closing them a few years later. Reasons then were lack of common language and work culture, complexities of working with the walled-garden operators then, and the lack of consumer adoption with slower networks. Now, some of those issues have gone away.... Now here’s a wilder thought: What about looking at bigger online deals in U.S.? Reliance has the money and the capability to raise a lot more...how about making a run at Yahoo? Better than Disney buying Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Wait, you haven’t heard about Dubai Government looking to buy Google? Settle down, just speculatin’..

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Allstate, Activision Blizzard, and Prudential.

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Among the stocks expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are the smartphone producers and the brokerages as well as Apple, Cadbury, Koss, Mesa Air, Philips and Ruth’s Hospitality.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are those of Google, Ford, Toyota, Honda and Sonic.

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In this post is a list of 13 stocks that I'll be keeping an eye on for the week ahead. All of the stocks mentioned in this post are stocks which have broken out to the upside on unusually large volume. The table below shows the company, ticker, Friday's per share % increase, and Friday's volume increase (% increased compared to 50 day average).[More...]

Stocks mostly fell Friday as the market rally is showing signs of losing steam. Indeed investors seemed cautious on back-to-back bad news from consumer confidence falling to 65.7 from 66.0 in July and initial unemployment claims for last week were 570,000. The Dow ended the day at 9,544, down 36 points; the Nasdaq ...

Late on Tuesday, Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) announced that it swung to fiscal first-quarter net loss of $133 million, or 10 cents a share, compared with a net profit of $262 million, or 19 cents a share, in the prior year quarter.[More...]

Late on Tuesday, diversified agribusiness and retailing firm The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDE) announced its third quarter net income rose 22% to $12.8 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, from $10.6 million, or $0.58 per diluted share in the same quarte[More...]

UP
GMH Communities Trust (GCT)
DepoMed, Inc. (GLUU)
Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN)
99 Cents Only Stores (NDN)
Pacer International, Inc. (PACR)
DOWN
IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. (IMB)
Brooks Automation, Inc.(USA) (BRKS)
MasTec, Inc. (MTZ)
Ferro Corporation (FOE)
Masco Corporation (MAS)

This cast starts with a review of last week's IPOs and their performance. The following show: Company (ticker), IPO size, % change from IPO price, sector, grade, and score.

CastlePoint (CPHL) $89mm, +11%
property/casualty insurance/reinsurance: C+, 7

Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP) $283mm, +3.5%
LP for LNG terminal in Louisiana: C+, 7

Glu Mobile (GLUU) $84mm, flat
Publishes games for mobile telephones: C+, 7

And Blackstone filed a private equity IPO

This weeks IPOs include:

Aruba Networks (ARUN), $72mm
secure data wireless networking: C+, 8

Capital Products L.P (CPLP) $236mm
shipping vessel partnership: C+, 7

eTelecare Global (ETEL) $74mm
voice-based business outsourcing: C+, 7

Flagstone Reinsure (FSR) $175mm
property and casualty reinsurance: C+, 7

GSI Technology (GSIT) $58mm
SRAM integrated circuits: C+, 6

SenoRx (SENO) $66mm
medical devices: C, 8

Super Micro (SMCI) $84mm
high performance servers: B-, 7

Other companies mentioned in this cast are: (ARUN) (AXP) (BX) (CPHL) (CPLP) (CQP) (CSCO) (CY) (DELL) (ETEL) (EXLS) (GLUU) (GSIT) (HPQ) (IBM) (JNJ) (MOT) (SENO) (SMCI) (TWX) (WIT)

This week Mr Gaskins looks at CastlePoint (CPHL) is a Bermuda holding company organized to provide property and casualty insurance and reinsurance business solutions, products and services primarily to small insurance companies and program underwriting agents in the United States. Tower Group Inc. (TWGP) is the sponsor for Castle's IPO

Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP) is a limited partnership formed in November 2006 by Cheniere Energy, Inc (LNG) Cheniere Energy Partners has been authorized to list its common units on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol CQP. The partnership will develop, own and operate the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas receiving terminal under construction in western Cameron Parish, La. Other energy related IPOs so far this year include Duncan Energy Partner (DEP) Legacy Reserve (LGCY) MV Oil Trust (MVO) Targa Resources (NGLS)

Glu Mobile (GLUU) is a leading global publisher and developer of more than 100 casual and traditional games for the mobile market based on third-party licensed brands. Competitors include Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) and THQ Inc. (THQI)

Also hear comments about private equity firm Blackstone's potential IPO.

Data on last weeks IPOs are as follows: FCStone Group (FCSX) +30% BigBand Network (BBND) +28% Tongjitang Chinese Medicines (TCM) -2.5%