Another 24/7 Wall St. Target CEO Bows Out (SYMC)
Back in late 2007, we listed John Thompson of Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) as one of our 10 CEO’s which need to leave in 2008. This was with some mixed emotion because we have…
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) came out this morning with an updated guidance, and you can guess that the guidance was lowered like it has been at so many other established technology and software firms. …
Another Break-Up Of Microsoft (MSFT)
It is not that long ago that The Justice Department suggested that Microsoft (MSFT) was so powerful that it needed to be broken into pieces. In 2000, Justice hired famous banker Bob Greenhill to…
Microsoft Earnings, When Less Is More (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reported earnings and the management of expectations here is probably about as fair as any investor in today’s climate could hope for. The software giant posted earnings of $0.48…
Adjusting Expectations On Microsoft Earnings (MSFT)
Software giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after today’s close. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.47 EPS and $14.78 billion in revenues. As with most companies, the focus is…
VMWare (VMW): The Stock The Market Underestimated
VMWare’s (VMW) went from an IPO price of under $50 a year and a half ago to $125. That happened in three months. The market then discovered that the virtualization software company’s revenues were…
Day Trader Alert: Aladdin Knowledge Systems (ALDN)
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALDN) is seeing shares surge in pre-market trading, albeit on rather thin volume. The data security company posted much narrower losses than expected with a report of -$0.02 EPS…
Microsoft (MSFT): The Redmond Nation Turns Toward Sanity
At the coroner’s inquest about the dead deal for Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) it became clear the Redmond got the best of it. For reasons which investors are not likely to fathom,…
Symantec, Help From Within & From Outside (SYMC)
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is catching a bid this morning, although it is still at the lower-end of its 52-week trading range following an upgrade and an acquisition.
HP’s Virtualization Expansion (HPQ, VMW, MSFT, CTXS)
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is acquiring LeftHand Networks Inc., a move that takes the company further into hardware for virtualization. LeftHand provides storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network solutions to enable mid-size companies and…
CMGI Is No More (CMGI, MLNK)
CMGI Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI) is about to go through an investor transformation. The former Internet incubator is now mostly ModusLink and will reflect that change. It also released its quarterly earnings with its net…
Oracle Enters Hardware Market In Time For Slowdown (ORCL, HPQ)
There have been more press releases out of the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week than you can count. But one from Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is perhaps the most interesting. It…
Red Hat Continues Deferred Revenue Growth (RHT)
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the largest seller of Linux operating systems and office suites, today reported that quarterly revenue soared 29% revenue to $164.4 million. It posted non-GAAP earnings of $0.20 per share. …
Microsoft’s $40 Billion Stock Buyback (MSFT)
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is announcing another monster share buyback plan. This one gives it the authorization to repurchase as much as $40 billion worth of stock. Its last buyback plan has been completed. …
Microsoft Scores AAA Rating From S&P (MSFT)
Standard & Poor’s has just made what appears to be its first new "AAA" corporate credit rating in years. The winner is none other than Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Its short-term and commercial paper…