The European Union’s antitrust regulator is preparing to launch an official investigation into a failure by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to comply with a 2009 ruling requiring the company to make it easier for…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) recently claimed to be activating 1.3 million Android-based smartphones every day. All those phones need apps from Google’s Play (apps) store, and the company announced on its blog today that…
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is out with its first quarter earnings report. The company’s adjusted earnings rose 11% to $0.53 per share while GAAP earnings rose 15% to $0.41 EPS, and revenue was light…
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) reported fiscal 2012 third quarter earnings after markets closed today. The software company reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.58 on revenue of $1.08 billion. In the same…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings on Thursday after the close. What has been amazing is that Oracle’s share price is back to within 3% or so of its 52-week high…
The stock prices of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reach all-time highs almost every day. The third member of the club of tech companies that is often mentioned as among…
Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) reported adjusted second quarter EPS of $0.42 on $732 million in sales after markets closed today. In the same period a year ago, the customer relationship management firm reported EPS…
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has released what is nothing short of a disappointing second quarter earnings report. Its non-GAAP earnings per share were $0.48 versus $0.44 a year ago, while sales came in with a 4%…
The estimated 300 million Twitter users are not having many exchanges today. Just six weeks after another outage, users have today begun experiencing another outage where they are unable to read their Twitter streams…
A day ahead of quarterly earnings, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) managers have made comments internally that the new Windows 8 operating system will be released on October 26. Windows remains the flagship product of the world’s…
Friday has been a stellar day based upon reaction to the major bank earnings reports and due to reports that China’s GDP maintained a growth rate of 7.6%. What is amazing is that the…
By now investors have had time to digest the notion that technology company sales and earnings are just not going to live up to prior expectations in most cases. Investors are learning that they should be…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has two main partners to help it enter the mobile world. One is Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which sells the tabletlike e-reader Nook. The other is…
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) gave decent earnings today but its guidance is leaving something to be desired. Revenue was up 10% to $1.124 billion and earnings on a non-GAAP basis were $0.60 per…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) was set to report earnings later in the week but they were issued out in a SEC filing after the close on Monday. It would seem that somehow this news…