courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) reported first-quarter fiscal 2014 results after markets closed Wednesday. The software and server company reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.59 on revenue of $8.4 billion. In the…
ThinkstockSo far, no one outside the United States has built a global social network, created an operating system adopted at an astonishing rate by smartphone and tablet manufacturers, created the best search engine in…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) did something it did not have to do (something that no public company would want to do), so why did it do it? The huge software…
ThinkstockMany of the firms that we cover around Wall Street have become more positive on the prospects for improved capital expenditure (capex) spending by corporate America as the year progresses and into next year.…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.One of the knocks against Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is that there are few barriers to entry for competing firms to offer a virtually identical product. All it takes are a…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.In what has to be one of the stranger product announcements of recent times, Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) said on Monday morning that it is releasing a suite…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsAccording to a programmer who tracks Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), one of its major features has been hacked. Khalil Shreateh writes that: Days ago i discovered a serious facebook vulnerability that…
courtesy of ZyngaIs it any wonder that the video game/smartphone game/social media game market is so complex and has reached a level of warfare that analysts can barely follow? Super Data released its report…
The New York Times website is currently down, according to several sources around the nation. Any attempts to reach the main page, section pages, or individual articles has failed HTTP 1.1
courtesy of NvidiaTake-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) is trading at its highest levels since the recession. Things are about to get even better for investors, if Bank of America Merrill Lynch is correct.…
ThinkstockCloud-based enterprise event management software provider Cvent Inc. (NYSE: CVT) sold 5.6 million shares of stock today at $21 a share in its initial public offering. The stock priced above its expected range of…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The future often seems to knock at the door when you may not be ready. Facebook aficionados recently received a message from founder Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the social media giant…
ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself is doing well. There…
ThinkstockIn what an obvious effort to beef up its widely panned iOS mapping capability, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired a small Canadian firm, Locationary, for an undisclosed sum. The company offers a local…
ThinkstockThe migration of data, video, music and other information to the cloud for safe storage and retrieval is becoming ubiquitous. While the process was slow and more difficult at first, it is now becoming…