Today, GameStop acquired Kongregate. For anyone unfamiliar, Kongregate.com is a website that hosts thousands of games built in Adobe Flash, letting users the world over play the games right in their web browser.

The recent air show in Farnborough, England, put a lot of new planes on the order books for both Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (PINK: EADSY), makers of the Airbus family of planes. The two companies have booked more than $25 billion in new orders at international air shows so far this year, and both have submitted bids for a US Air Force tanker aircraft contract worth $35 billion.

This morning's earnings report from EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE: DD) continues the string of positive results from a Dow Jones component company. DuPont posted earnings per share of $1.26 on revenue of $8.62 billion, up from Dupont earnings of $0.61 and revenue of $6.86 billion in the same period last year.

Strong earnings for the first two weeks of this earnings season have pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average back into the black for the year. The Dow closed at 10,525.43 last night, up 100.81 points on the day. After falling to below 9,700 earlier this month, the benchmark index has risen 7.7% in July, some 4% of which occurred in the past three days.

. iPhone 4 sales goes on tour at the end of this week, launching in 17 countries on Friday. On the software front, Apple prepares to release iLife '11, the latest revision on the popular program suite.

This week, there are seven important metal and mining stocks set to report their quarterly earnings. Each one of these picks has the potential to make a big move – either up or down.

The U.S. Commerce Department reported today that new home sales in the U.S. rose 23.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 330,000. The report follows a dismal report last month of new home sales falling to a revised level of 267,000, down 36.7% from April.

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IBM's dominance is tailor-made for antitrust cases, and the company just collected two more. The European Commission has announced two investigations into IBM's alleged abuse of its dominant market position.

The story of Ford’s reinvention is most striking in its current relaunch of one of its most iconic brands: The Explorer SUV. This stylish, fuel-efficient crossover represents just how far the automaker has come, and the vision Ford has for the future.

Amazon and Netflix have climbed higher and higher as of late. However, they have finally disappointed the market with their earnings last week.

The Japanese Yen plays a unique role in the global financial markets: It's the funding currency of choice for hedge funds and other big time institutional traders. A combination of ultra-low interest rates and Japan's preference for a weak currency makes it the ideal currency in which to borrow.