April 21-30

An April 24 story,

VeriSign Sinks on Name-Dropping and Rumors of a Miss, incorrectly reported that U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray has done banking business with VeriSign; in fact, it has not done any banking with VeriSign. (

corrected april 24

)

An April 27 story, "

Crackdown on Big Pharma May Result in More Generics" incorrectly reported that the patent on

Merck's

(MRK:NYSE) asthma fighter Singulair would expire in February 2003. The correct date should have been Nov. 10, 2010.