MANILA (MarketWatch) — Metro Pacific Investments Corp. said Monday that Morgan Stanley Investment Management Co. nearly doubled its stake in the Philippine investment holding company to 6.5% from 3.3% via several stock purchases between May 11 and July 8. Metro Pacific said Morgan Stanley’s MS -0.24% Singapore-based investment management firm had informed the company that it had bought... 

Biopharmaceutical company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it plans to sell up to an estimated $172.5 million of common stock in an initial public offering, raising funds to study drug candidates and to develop new products. Initially focusing on cancer treatments, Merrimack is working to develop and sell “innovative medicines paired with companion diagnostics for the treatment of serious... 

NEW DELHI -(MarketWatch)- BT Group PLC BT -0.12% plans to add 60 staff in India during 2011 to offer sales and services support to its clients as part of the British telecommunications major’s strategy to expand its business in the Asia-Pacific, a senior executive said Tuesday. “About 80% of our customers are expanding into Asia-Pacific,” the company’s Asia-Pacific president,... 

SEOUL -(MarketWatch)- South Korea’s KT Corp. Monday said it agreed with Japan’s Softbank Corp. (9984.TO) to set up a cloud computing joint venture by the end of September. The joint venture, in which KT would take a 51% stake and Softbank would take the remaining 49%, will build a data center in South Korea and offer cloud computing services to Japanese companies, KT said in a joint statement. KT... 

Look for analysts to start pushing dividend stocks.  Many analysts look for 2011 to be a big year for dividend stocks due to a belief that U.S. stocks will trade within a narrow range.  Credit Suisse predicts a ceiling of 1200 on the S&P 500 and a floor of 1000 – and just released their list of 20 favorite dividend stocks. Here’s my list of 10 favorite dividend stocks divided into two categories:... 

LAKELAND, Fla., Oct 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Trans Global Group, Inc. (pinksheets:TGGI) is pleased to announce that the consolidated financials for its year ending June 30, 2010 have been completed. TGGI has to send them to its attorney for review and a legal opinion before it can renew its subscription to Pink Sheets and post them. The Company believes that it should have the financials posted... 

SPOOFEM.COM’s Hacker For Hire Service Booming With Spyware Installation Inquiries ATLANTA, GA, Aug 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — SPOOFEM.COM’s, (PINKSHEETS: SPFM) Hacker for Hire service received more inquiries about installing spyware or removing spyware on a spouses cell phone than any other service last week. Installing spyware on an individual’s cell phone or computer... 

$18.7M Revenue Project for First Year of Operation CLINTON, WA, Aug 04, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — (PINKSHEETS: SMPP) — Strategic Management & Opportunity Corporation today announced gross revenue projections for the quarters ending December 31, 2010, March 31, 2011, June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011. Utilizing their newly acquired integrated sales tool for print and web publishers... 

NEW YORK, NY, Jul 23, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Encounter Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ENTI) disclosed the quarterly financial statement reported on June 30, 2010. To review the latest financial information, go to www.pinksheets.com. Type in ENTI, and click on the “financials” tab. Encounter Technologies provided the financial statement to Pinksheets on July 22, 2010 as a... 

New Cable TV Campaign Introduced to Profile Innovative Technologies  NEW YORK, Jul 23, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — TIE Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TTCS), an information technology, smart logistics, and telemetrics company, today introduces its new “INNOVATION” series of multimedia corporate image advertisements, with placement on cable TV channels across the U.S. Gulf...