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On the first day the public could buy shares, Twitter stocks were priced more than 70 percent above their offering price Thursday.

Time has passed, things have changed, and people have been asking, what happened to the baby that made E-Trade a household name?

The fourth quarter figures are in for Groupon, and while their revenue exceeded projections, their stock prices still took a tumble this week. In fact, the stock dropped by as much as 15% during Wednesday's trading.

BP raises cash dividend by 14%. This is the first increase since it was reinstated last year, following the suspension after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

According to recent reports, the co-CEOs of BlackBerry creator Research in Motion, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, are stepping down from positions they've held for more than two decades. COO Thorsten Heins will now take over RIM.

Netflix announced late yesterday the company does not expect to be profitable next year. Recently the company had announced they did not expect to see a return in early 2012, but this projection has been extended to last the entire year.

Apple Inc. temporarily surpassed oil giant ExxonMobil as the world's most valuable company yesterday. Even though the technology company didn't finish on top, it is projected it will accomplish that task soon enough.

New York - Fear ran rampant on Wall Street on this first Monday after Standard & Poor's downgraded the US credit rating from AAA to AA+. All three major indexes plummeted between 5% and 7%, with the Dow landing below 11,000 for the first time since November.

An exposé of the ongoing rip off of the British public by the high street banks with particular reference to a BBC Television "Panorama" programme.

The Digital Journal reported yesterday, LinkedIn, the business oriented networking site, has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange and has seen its stock price increase by 130% since the market open.