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Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Preview — Just Wait for Windows 8

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the release of its official preview version of Windows Office 365. Like competitor Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) with Google Apps, Office 365 is cloud- ...
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MSNBC.com Becomes NBCNews.com

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 9:51 am

NBC News, a division of Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), has acquired total ownership of the company’s jointly owned MSNBC.com website from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Microsoft and NBC, formerly owned ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 13, 2012: Market Jumps on Financials, Hopes for China

Posted: July 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following the release of Chinese GDP and other data. The Middle Kingdom’s GDP grew at a rate of 7.6% in ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 11, 2012: More Profit Warnings, No Easing Keep Shares Down

Posted: July 11, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened slightly lower this morning ahead of the release later today of the minutes of the last FOMC meeting. Asian markets were mixed overnight ...
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Nokia Goes After Pre-Kindergarten Market

Posted: July 9, 2012 at 11:52 am

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) hit a new 52-week low of $2.00 last Thursday and have continued to slide since then. Shares are down -8% just before noon this ...
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Tumbling Software Stocks Follow Informatica’s Warning

Posted: July 6, 2012 at 11:29 am

When data integration software maker Informatica Inc. (NASDAQ: INFA) warned on second quarter earnings after markets closed last night, the company’s share price fell by more than -25% and now ...
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How Low Can Nokia Go?

Posted: July 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) set a new 52-week low of $2.00 today. The one-time leader in sales of mobile phones did not have any news, but the company’s ...
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Samsung Leads Smartphone Market

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 3:01 pm

The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market ...
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Coming Soon — Mozilla’s Smartphone OS

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known ...
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Web’s Top Properties the Usual Suspects (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, FB, AOL, AMZN, WMT, TGT)

Posted: June 22, 2012 at 4:10 pm

Internet research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its rankings of the top web properties for the month of May. The top 5 of the 50 sites ranked by ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 19, 2012 (AKS, INTC, VLO, CPST, MSFT, ORCL, BKS, FDX, JEF, DFS, ADBE, JBL, JKS, GAGA, WAG, PBR, AFFX)

Posted: June 19, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as markets ignored a steep rise in short-term Spanish debt and focused instead on some encouraging news on new housing ...
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Oracle Weighs on Application Software Stocks (ORCL, MSFT, SAP, MITK, BSFT, VRSN)

Posted: June 18, 2012 at 2:12 pm

Software giant Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is trading down about -2% in the early afternoon today following a research note from JMP Securities that maintains the firm’s ‘market perform’ rating, ...
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Microsoft, B&N to Unveil Tablet? (MSFT, BKS, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG)

Posted: June 18, 2012 at 9:30 am

At a hastily arranged event scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to announce a new tablet device to be built by its ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 15, 2012 (AAPL, FDO, A, KR, ORCL, CPST, RBY, FDX, CAG, RHT, ATPG, MVIS, MSFT)

Posted: June 15, 2012 at 4:06 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning as markets reacted to news of a cooperative effort by central banks to maintain liquidity in the world’s financial ...
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Samsung Denies Interest in Acquiring Nokia (NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF)

Posted: June 11, 2012 at 8:58 am

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) rose more than 12% last week, about half that on Friday as rumors swirled that the company might be acquired. Nokia, now partners with ...
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