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High-flying Apple stock hit yet another record high Monday on a day when stocks were generally under pressure due to uncertainty about the European debt crisis.

Groupon is going to wait at least a couple of weeks before launching the final phase of its initial public offering because regulators still have questions for the daily deals website and the stock market is too volatile, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

China-based video site Tudou has stumbled out of the gate on the company's first day of trading on the U.S. stock market. Tudou went public today with an offering of 6 million American depositary shares at $29, raising $174 million.

AOL had a record decline in New York trading after reducing its annual earnings forecast, raising concerns that the company may not be able to turn itself around following the 2009 spinoff from Time Warner. AOL fell $3.88, or 26 percent, to close at $11.19 in New York Stock Exchange trading, the biggest drop and the lowest level since the spinoff. Earlier, the slump prompted a so-called circuit breaker that temporarily halted trading.

Apple Inc briefly edged past oil major Exxon Mobil to become the most valuable company in the United States after days of volatile stock market action.

Google recently announced its Q2 2011 earnings on July 14, 2011. [1] For the quarter, total advertising revenues surged by about 33% over Q2 2010 values driven by increased paid clicks as well as higher cost-per-click rates over the same quarter last year.

Jim Cramer got really angry on CNBC yesterday. The LinkedIn (LNKD) IPO got him in a tizzy. Why? Because he said that the underwriters for the offering (Morgan Stanley (MS), B of A Merrill (BAC), and JP Morgan Chase (JPM)) decided to play the old “dot com” games of only releasing an artificially small amount of shares on the market, in hopes of creating a feeding frenzy.

The online travel website has seen better quarters, with higher taxes, increased spending on technology and content, and a push and pull between airlines and global distribution systems that took a toll in the last quarter of 2010. The stock was down more than 18% Friday at $21.06.

Shares in eBay jump almost 8% after the online auction site's Paypal unit said its revenues would double by 2013.

Hackers have repeatedly breached the systems of the company that runs the Nasdaq, according to several law enforcement officials.