Opening Glance: Internet software, services stocks

By Associated Press May 21, 2008 Comments (0)

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Internet software and services stocks mostly rose Wednesday morning, with VeriSign Inc. gaining some ground after privately held Freedom Wireless Inc. said it settled a patent-infringement suit against the company.

Freedom Wireless said the companies intend to file a final consent judgment in favor of Freedom Wireless, which runs many of the Internet's core directory systems.

Here's how key Internet software and services stocks performed Wednesday morning:

VeriSign Inc. rose 66 cents to $40.65.

Yahoo Inc. fell 37 cents to $27.11.

Google Inc. rose 58 cents to $579.18.

EBay Inc. rose 26 cents to $30.88.

Akamai Technologies Inc. rose 92 cents to $40.78.

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