The EU Blocks Oracle (ORCL) Deal For Sun (JAVA)
Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is going to have to make some more threats if he wants the EU to approve his company’s deal to buy Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $9.50 a share.…
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Newest first · Page 40Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 And The Renewal Of The PC Industry
Microsoft (NYSE:MSFT) Windows 7 sales in the first week after its introduction last month outdid Vista sales during the first week after its launch in January 2007 by 234%, according to industry research firm…
Top 10 Grossing Apple (AAPL) Apps
Apple recently started publishing a list of the top grossing applications in its App Store. Since its inception the App Store has posted over 2 billion downloads. The App Store effectively operates like a…
Apple (AAPL) Becomes Too Excellent: 100,000 Apps
It will be a shame when the day comes that Apple can’t put out good news every day. The market has become used to it. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) now has the 9th highest market cap…
More E.U. Roadblocks in Sun-Oracle Deal (ORCL, JAVA)
There are reports from the Financial Times that were also just noted on CNBC that are almost baffling. It seems that the European Commission may issue a formal objection to the Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Analyst Sees Windows 7 Pricing Data & Penetration Rates (MSFT, DELL, HPQ, YHOO)
Auriga is a boutique research firm that many have not heard of, but this morning the firm has reiterated its BUY rating on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its $33.50 price target after yesterday’s…
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Ballmer: IT Spending May Never Come Back
In a statement that must send chills up the spines of other tech CEOs, Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Steve Ballmer said that the vicious recession may have reset IT spending to a level which will never…
Yahoo! and Microsoft Extend Negotiation Period (YHOO, MSFT)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) issued an SEC filing noting that it and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have extended the negotiating time on the previously announced search pact. Without getting to participate in the drawing…
Microsoft (MSFT) Overpowers Earnings Forecast Helped By Server Numbers, Shares Soar
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) posted EPS for its fiscal first quarter of $.40 compared with $.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St. forecasts of $.32 a share on revenues of $12.4 billion. The revenue figure…
VMware Delivers (VMW)
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has just posted its Q3 earnings report of $0.24 EPS on a non-GAAP basis on $490 million in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates at $0.20 EPS on $473.95 million in…
Earnings on Deck: VMware & EMC (VMW, EMC)
After the close of trading today, we will get a look at the earnings report from VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW). The company’s former parent and still-majority shareholder (by far) is EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC),…
The Most Insane Apple (AAPL) App Of All Time
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App store offers an extraordinarily large number of downloads–more than 85,000. The store has downloaded more than two billion piece of software. Developers are constantly creating new application in the hope of offering free services…
IBM (IBM) Earnings OK, But Hardware Sales Hurt
IBM (NYSE:IBM) slightly beat Wall St. estimates with EPS of $2.40, an 18% improvement over the same period a year ago. The consensus estimate for the quarter was $2.38 . The huge computer and IT…
IBM (IBM) Goes After Google (GOOG) Apps Business
Google (GOOG) is trying to diversity beyond the search business. One of its most important attempts is to offer low cost applications for PCs. Its Google Apps includes e-mail, calendar, word processing, and presentation…
Apple (AAPL) Apps Hit Two Billion Downloads
Close to one out of three people in the world has downloaded an app from the Apple (AAPL) App store. Or, a much smaller number of people have downloaded ten or twenty apps on…