BANKATLANTIC BANCORP (NYSE: BBX) "Up 118.99% in morning trading"
BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for BankAtlantic that provides retail and commercial banking services in Florida. It generates various deposit products, including commercial demand deposit accounts, retail demand deposit accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, various negotiable order of withdrawal accounts and individual retirement accounts, and Keogh retirement accounts. The company’s lending portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, standby letters of credit and commitments, consumer loans, small business loans, and residential loans. As of December 31, 2007, it offered its services through approximately 100 branches in southeast and central Florida and the Tampa Bay area, primarily in the Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
BFC FINANCIAL CORPORATION (OTC: BFCF) "Up 70.00% in morning trading"
BFC Financial Corporation is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments and acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in mergers and acquisition, add-on acquisitions, divestiture, taking public companies private and private companies public, leveraged buyout, partnership, recapitalization, and restructuring. It typically does not invest in industries or companies whose ultimate returns are event driven. The firm seeks to invest across a broad range of industries ranging from service to manufacturing businesses. The firm prefers to acquire controlling interests in its portfolio companies and can also consider minority investments. BFC Financial Corporation was founded in 1980 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
CORD BLOOD AMERICA INCORPORATED (OTCBB: CBAI) "Up 48.94% in morning trading"
Cord Blood America is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation for expectant parents and their children. Its mission is to be the most respected stem cell preservation company in the industry. Collected through a safe and non-invasive process, cord blood stem cells offer a powerful and potentially life-saving resource for treating a growing number of ailments, including cancer, leukemia, blood, and immune disorders.
LEAP WIRELESS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: LEAP) "Up 12.81% in morning trading"
Leap Wireless International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides digital wireless services under the ‘Cricket’ brand name in the United States. The company offers unlimited local and the U.S. long distance services from various Cricket service area and unlimited text messaging services, as well as mobile Web, 411 services, navigation, and data back-up. It also provides BridgePay, a flexible payment option for customers to use and pay for the company’s cricket wireless service; handsets and devices with various features; cricket broadband service, an unlimited mobile broadband service that allows customers to access the Internet through their computers; Cricket PAYGo Service, a pay-as-you-go unlimited prepaid wireless service designed for customers who prefer the flexibility and control offered by traditional prepaid services; and Muve Music Service, an unlimited music download service for mobile handsets in select cricket markets. In addition, the company offers voice and data roaming services. It markets its cricket handsets and services, primarily through company-owned retail stores and kiosks, as well as through authorized dealers and distributors, including premier dealers, local market authorized dealers, national mass-market retailers, and other indirect distributors. As of December 31, 2010, the company offered services in 35 states and the District of Columbia to approximately 5.5 million customers. Leap Wireless International, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
SHAKA INCORPORATED (OTC: SHKZ) "Up 84.21% in morning trading"
Shaka is comprised of globalization and corporate strategies consultants whose global reach can optimize and expedite powerful end-results with M&A, Global Alliance Building and Political Strategies. Shaka's diversified contact portfolio encompasses both International Economic and Legislative to open dialogue at any level and achieve the goals set forth by your Board of Directors, C-level staff or sole proprietor entrepreneur. BGS has the experience and alliances to take companies to the next level in IPO, International expansion or full corporate structuring.
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