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Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVLS) decreased -2.23%, currently trading at $31.19 and its overall traded volume was 646,567.00 shares while reporting, against its average volume of 1.54M. NVLS opened the day at $31.56, it made an intraday low of $31.11 and an intraday high of $31.61. The stock has a 52 week low of $20.57 and 52 week high of $33.24. NVLS’s market capitalization is 2.81B and it has 90.19M outstanding shares. Novellus Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and supports equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits, which are called chips or semiconductors. Customers manufacture chips for sale or for incorporation in their own products, or provide chip-manufacturing services to third parties. Novellus Systems, Inc., also develops, manufactures, sells and supports grinding, lapping and polishing equipment for a range of industrial applications. The Company operates in two segments: the Semiconductor Group and the Industrial Applications Group The Company’s advanced deposition systems use chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), and electrochemical deposition (ECD) processes to form transistor, capacitor, and interconnect layers in an integrated circuit. The Company’s High-Density Plasma CVD (HDP-CVD) and Plasma-Enhanced CVD (PECVD) systems employ chemical plasma to deposit dielectric material within the gaps formed by the etching of aluminum.

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT) decreased -0.53%, currently trading at $24.72 and its overall traded volume was 641,172.00 shares while reporting, against its average volume of 4.33M. MAT opened the day at $25.02, it made an intraday low of $24.72 and an intraday high of $25.13. The stock has a 52 week low of $19.07 and 52 week high of $26.70. MAT’s market capitalization is 8.87B and it has 358.83M outstanding shares. Mattel, Inc. (Mattel) designs, manufactures and markets toy products worldwide through sales to customers and directly to consumers. Mattel’s portfolio of brands and products are grouped in categories, such as Mattel Girls & Boys brands, including Barbie fashion dolls and accessories (Barbie), Polly Pocket, Little Mommy, Disney Classics, and High School Musical (collectively Other Girls Brands), Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Battle Force 5, Speed Racer and Tyco R/C vehicles and playsets (collectively, Wheels), and CARS, Radica, Toy Story, Max Steel, Batman, and Kung Fu Panda products, and games and puzzles (collectively Entertainment); Fisher-Price brands, including Fisher-Price, Little People, BabyGear and View-Master (collectively, Core Fisher-Price), Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, Go-Diego-Go!, and See ‘N Say (collectively, Fisher-Price Friends) and Power Wheels, and American Girl brands, including Just Like You, the historical collection and Bitty Baby.

OpenTable Inc (NASDAQ:OPEN) increased 1.00%, currently trading at $76.86 and its overall traded volume was 640,631.00 shares while reporting, against its average volume of 708,960.00. OPEN opened the day at $76.53, it made an intraday low of $76.22 and an intraday high of $79.15. The stock has a 52 week low of $24.50 and 52 week high of $79.15. OPEN’s market capitalization is 1.77B and it has 23.02M outstanding shares. OpenTable, Inc. (OpenTable) provides solution that forms an online network connecting reservation-taking restaurants and people who dine at those restaurants. Its solutions include its Electronic Reservation Book (ERB), for restaurant customers and www.opentable.com, a restaurant reservation Website for diners. The OpenTable network includes approximately 12,000 OpenTable restaurant customers spanning all 50 states, as well as select markets outside of the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company seated an average of approximately four million diners per month. Restaurants pays OpenTable an one-time installation fee for onsite installation and training, a monthly subscription fee for the use of its software and hardware and a fee for each restaurant guest seated through online reservations.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) increased 0.44%, currently trading at $616.22 and its overall traded volume was 618,234.00 shares while reporting, against its average volume of 2.16M. GOOG opened the day at $615.91, it made an intraday low of $614.08 and an intraday high of $618.25. The stock has a 52 week low of $433.63 and 52 week high of $630.85. GOOG’s market capitalization is 197.05B and it has 319.78M outstanding shares. Google Inc. maintains an index of Websites and other online content, and makes this information freely available through its search engine to anyone with an Internet connection. Its automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its online index. It generates revenue primarily by delivering online advertising. Businesses use its AdWords program to promote their products and services with targeted advertising. In addition, the thousands of third-party Websites that comprise the Google Network use its AdSense program to deliver relevant ads that generate revenue and enhance the user experience. In September 2009, the Company acquired ReCAPTCHA Inc., a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department. In February 2010, it acquired Aardvark. In February 2010, it acquired On2 Technologies, Inc. In August 2010, it acquired Slide, a social technology company. In August 2010, it acquired Angstro.

Qiagen NV (NASDAQ:QGEN) decreased -1.32%, currently trading at $19.44 and its overall traded volume was 611,496.00 shares while reporting, against its average volume of 910,849.00. QGEN opened the day at $19.47, it made an intraday low of $19.33 and an intraday high of $19.54. The stock has a 52 week low of $16.86 and 52 week high of $24.00. QGEN’s market capitalization is 4.53B and it has 232.83M outstanding shares. QIAGEN N.V. is a holding company, which provides technologies and products for preanalytical sample preparation and linked molecular assay solutions. The Company has developed a portfolio of more than 500 consumable products and automated solutions for sample collection, and nucleic acid and protein handling, separation, and purification, as well as open and target-specific assays. The Company also supplies diagnostic kits, tests, and assays for human and veterinary molecular diagnostics. Products are sold to academic research markets, to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, to applied testing customers, as well as to molecular diagnostics laboratories. In March 2009, the Company acquired a molecular diagnostics distribution business in China. In August 2009, the Company acquired Explera s.r.l. In September 2009, it acquired DxS Ltd. In December 2009, the Company acquired SABiosciences Corporation. In January 2010, the Company acquired ESE GmbH.