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Stocks rose 1 percent on Wednesday, advancing for a third straight session as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reaffirmed the central bank's commitment to keeping interest rates low and Yahoo rallied.

Yahoo! reported its first quarter earnings on April 15, 2014. Shares of the company are up about 6.55 percent or $2.24 per share.

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Young men walk past the corporate logo at the headquarters compound of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province in this May 21, 2012 file photo.

Shareholders will vote on the nominees at the company's Annual Meeting on June 25, 2014.

Midway through trading Wednesday, the Dow traded up 0.69 percent to 16,374.79 while the NASDAQ jumped 0.70 percent to 4,062.51.

In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Yahoo! topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 7.5%.

Today: Yahoo and Intel sate wary investors with first-quarter earnings reports that juiced their stock prices in after-hours trading.

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Wall Street expects Johnson & Johnson to report its Q1 earnings at $1.48 per share on revenue of $18.00 billion.

Don't look now, but suddenly the business of running software in the cloud doesn't look like as good an investment as it did as recently as six weeks ago.

In addition to analyst questions asked live during the event, Yahoo will accept questions in advance of the live stream sent via email to yhooearnings@yahoo.com .

A recently unearthed video showed a geeky Jon Hamm, looking nothing like the Don Draper lady-killer who returned to our TV screens last night, getting nowhere with the ladies in 1996 .

Yahoo! is set to post its Q114 quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 15th.

Techworld - Silicon Valley protests against lucrative technology companies continued over the weekend as campaigners visited the home of Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose, where they held up a sign calling him a "parasite" and distributed leaflets with the same message.

Well, that will have had chins-a-wagging in Silicon Valley . Nasdaq arrested its recent tech wreck, ably assisted by strong showings from northern Californian trio Facebook , Yahoo , and Google .

When Bruce Springsteen lamented back in 1992 about "57 Channels " none of us could have imagined a time when viewers were bombarded by hundreds of broadcast, cable and, now, Web-produced options.

WE'VE all heard about the titans of the silicon Valley venture capital industry.

Yahoo has made some aggressive moves in online video as CEO Marissa Mayer focuses on it as a key area of growth for the company.