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Shares of Yahoo! was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Tuesday.

For its part, QuikIO has a farewell note up on its web site , thanking its users and saying the service will be shut down at the end of the year.

StockMarketIntel.com issues a special report on the following stocks: Alcatel Lucent SA , Groupon Inc , Yahoo! Inc. , Sirius XM Radio Inc Alcatel Lucent SA added 1.89% recently, while trading on 3.51 million shares at the price of $4.59.

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday December 6 through Sunday December 8. 2013: The Deal : Live streaming concert platform View EVNTLIVE, announced on its website Friday , it had been acquire by Yahoo .

Yahoo! CAO Aman Kothari unloaded 14,346 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd.

Market Buzz Report, a leading penny stock newsletters provider, issues major news alert for Facebook Inc , J.C. Penney Company, Inc. , Sirius XM Radio Inc , Yahoo! Inc. .

Market Buzz Report, a leading penny stock newsletters provider, issues major news alert for Hewlett-Packard Company , Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. , Yahoo! Inc. , Galena Biopharma Inc .

Trade-Alert data -- as traders paid additional premium for these in-the-money contracts to bet on Yahoo! staying north of the respective strike prices through March options expiration.

In this Thursday, July 11, 2013 photo, the Tumblr logo is displayed at Nasdaq, in New York.

Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing company that, like Siri and Google Now, makes it easier for computers to better understand and act on human language.

Last week was one of broadcast television shakeups. Cable business news saw industry veteran Maria Bartiromo depart from Comcast 's CNBC, whose ratings the business titan helped to build throughout her two-decade tenure, for Twenty-First Century Fox 's ABC is not expected to continue for a third season, dissolving a reported $40 million contract.

They were both once the darlings of the tech boom of the late 1990s. America Online was going to connect the world to the Internet and Yahoo! was going to help the world connect and find everything they were looking for on the Internet.

Yahoo! Inc. CFO Ken Goldman will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference in Scottsdale.

Katie Couric plans to anchor a news program for Yahoo to attract more viewers to the Internet.

's stock had its "positive" rating reiterated by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Monday, Analyst RN reports.

Reports say Katie Couric is negotiating a deal to leave ABC and move online, joining Yahoo to create news programming.

David Cowan, a partner Bessemer Venture Partners, has been investing in cybersecurity and technology startups since 1992.

Yahoo! today announced the pricing of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of its 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2018 .

Yahoo! Inc. has gathered its share of headlines over the last few days, recognizing the changes and transformations that the company has undergone in the year since former Google Inc executive Marissa Mayer took over as CEO.

There are a lot of security threats facing mobile device users, and there is a lot of money on the table for vendors that are trying to provide solutions for that problem.