They include Alliant, Allegheny, Energy East, Empire District, OGE Energy, Pepco, DPL, Great Plains, Westar and Pinnacle West.
Alliant gets 20%, and Diamond takes a 12% stake for its strategic work.
Months later Alliant stunned Marvell with news it was being sold to Broadcom.
The 10 are Alliant Energy, CMS Energy, Con Edison, Southern Company, DTE Energy, Northeast Utilities, Progress Energy, PPL Corp.
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The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Alliant Energy Corp.
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Alliant Energy Corp. shares are currently trading off about 0.6% on the day.
Alliant Energy Corp. shares are currently trading down about 0.7% on the day.
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Other competitors in the utilities sector include: Integrys Energy Group (TEG), ALLETE Inc (ALE), and Alliant Energy (LNT).
In a convoluted countersuit Alliant says Marvell was trying to "grab" its software and also buy it with a lowball offer.
Alliant already had Web efforts for customer service and orders--faster, better, cheaper--but now comes a try at a killer app: Thesauce.com.
Such is the case in Alliant Tax Credit Fund 31-A, Ltd. v.
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Alliant will let rival vendors pitch wares on its site and allow users to rate the different suppliers, just as bidders do on Ebay.
Defense stocks have done OK, the largest six pure plays (General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, L-3 and Alliant Techsystems) averaging a 6% year-to-date gain.
In 2004 Marvell licensed chip designs and software to a firm called Alliant Networks that was designing a chip to handle both cellular and Wi-Fi signals.
Its members include Alliant Energy, Ameren, CMS Energy, Consolidated Edison, DTE Energy, Northwest Utilities, PPL, Progress Energy, Public Service Enterprise Group, SCANA, Southern Company and The United Illuminating Company.
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Marvell immediately sued Alliant, alleging theft of trade secrets.
On the earnings front, expect to hear from Acadia Healthcare (ACHC) on Tuesday, American Waterworks (AWK) on Wednesday, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (BAGL) on Thursday, and Alliant Energy (LNT) as well as Epoch Holding (IPHC) on Friday.
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