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Company Name: STEC, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:STEC)
 
Symbol: STEC

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STEC, Inc. (STEC) is a global provider of enterprise-class Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for enterprise-class hardware that companies use to retain and access their critical data. STEC’s products are designed specifically for storage systems and enterprise hardware that run applications requiring a input/output operations per second (IOPS) performance, capacity and reliability, as well as low latency. It sells its SSDs to global enterprise hardware original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), which integrate them into products used by enterprises in a range of industries, including cloud computing, financial services, virtualization, Web 2.0, government, transportation, defense and transaction processing. It also manufactures small form factor Flash-based SSDs, cards and modules, as well as custom high density dynamic random access memory (DRAM) modules for networking, communications and industrial applications. 
 
Company Name: Diana Shipping Inc. (Public, NYSE:DSX)
 
Symbol: DSX
 
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Diana Shipping Inc. is a holding company. The Company is a global provider of shipping transportation services. It specialize in transporting dry bulk cargoes, including such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and other materials along worldwide shipping routes. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consists of 22 dry bulk carriers, of which 14 are Panamax and eight are Capesize dry bulk carriers, having a combined carrying capacity of approximately 2.4 million dead weight tons (dwt). As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 13 modern Panamax dry bulk carriers and seven Capesize dry bulk carriers that had a combined carrying capacity of approximately 2.2 million dwt. Each of its vessels is owned through a separate wholly owned subsidiary. In January 2010, the Company established its wholly owned subsidiary Diana Containerships Inc. (DCI), with the purpose of acquiring containerships.