Those dollars have helped fuel its effort to claw out a place in an industry dominated by giants such as Alcatel-Lucent (nyse: ALU - news - people ), Huawei and Nortel.
Within the last year, CFIUS's merger reviews have included the Alcatel-Lucent (nyse: ALU - news - people ) deal as well as the acquisition that created the oil and gas drilling company CGG Veritas (nyse: CGV - news - people ).
Those stocks were EMC Corp ( EMC), Alcatel-Lucent ( ALU), Rock-Tenn Company ( RKT), and Hormel Foods Corporation ( HRL).
In the early 2000, scores of investors lured by the advice of major investment firms invested in high tech stocks like Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU), Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN), EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), and Lucent Technologies now Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) trading near triple digits back then and in the middle-teens or single-digits ten years later.
In the early 2000s, scores of investors lured by the advice of financial analysts and brokers invested in high tech stocks like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), JDS Uniphase, Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN), EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), and Lucent Technologies now Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) trading near triple digits back then and in the middle-teens or single-digits ten years later, not to mention Nortel Networks, and Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy.
These include Ericsson (ERIC), Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Nokia Siemens Networks which is a joint venture of Nokia (NOK) and Siemens (SI), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), and Tellabs (TLAB).
After almost a decade of fast growth, the leadership of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Ciena Corp ( CIEN), JDS Uniphase ( JDSU), Corning ( GLW) and Ariba Inc. ( ARBA), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE: ALU) became complacent and arrogant with success, setting the stage for the eventual slow-down and downfall to irrelevance.
The carrier awarded contracts for the planned upgrade to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Ericsson (ERIC) and Samsung to implement the planned upgrades.
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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) shares rallied in European trading earlier today on speculation that the company could be a takeover target for a Chinese buyer.
Investors in Alcatel-Lucent ( NYSE: ALU) saw new options become available today, for the July expiration.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), and Citigroup (NYSE:C) may also be grouped together in this case.
By failing to focus on the end customer, Cisco has been losing market share to Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Alcatel-Lucent (nYSE:ALU), and Huawei Technologies.
Irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism is more pronounced in momentum investing whereby investors chase after popular stocks networking in the late 1990s like JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU), Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE:ALU) that now trade at a fraction of their 2001 highs.
Alu Alkhanov, the current president, may be hoping to fall victim to a non-fatal accident.
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