Microsoft (MSFT): Recession Proof?
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has not felt the impact of slower spending. Software must be sitting outside the vortex which is dragging the rest of the economy under. Redmond’s CFO says that the company’s geogaphic…
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Newest first · Page 52As Google (GOOG) Bites, Microsoft (MSFT) Winces
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps software, which offers spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation features has signed up 500,000 customers by some accounts. The product is popular because it runs off of Google’s servers, saving storage…
Microsoft (MSFT): Vista Price Cuts
No one in Redmond wants to admit this, but Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new Leopard OS may be getting the better of Vista, at least in enough cases to make it hurt. Almost all evidence…
Netezza Ready For Earnings (NZ)
Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is posting earnings Thursday morning and this will be the first earnings report where the company was public for the entire quarter that doesn’t have those IPO charges lumped in…
Despite Multiples, Salesforce.com Shares Rise On Raised & In-Line Guidance (CRM)
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has just posted a more than ten-fold rise in net earnings with $0.06 EPS on a 50% gain in revenues to $216.9 million. First Call had estimates pegged at $0.04 EPS…
Autodesk Stubs Its Toe (ADSK)
Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has posted earnings of $0.52 non-GAAP EPS on revenues of $599.1 million, while First Call had estimates at $0.54 EPS and $581.4 million in revenues. Unfortunately, the guidance is going…
VMWare’s (VMW) Shares Can Fall More As Microsoft (MSFT) Enters The Market
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) play a cut-throat game in almost every sector the software market it enters and investors at virtualisation software company VMWare (NYSE: VMW) know that. VMW shares have gone from over $125…
Electronic Arts (ERTS) Offers $2 Billion For Take-Two (TTWO)
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) has disclosed that it made a $26 all-cash offer for smaller video game publisher Take-Two (NASDAQ: TTWO). The total value of the deal is about $2 billion. It is a…
EMC Buys Into Personal Information Management (EMC)
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) has announced it will acquire Seattle-based Pi Corporation. This is a small merger, but this company is one we have actually had under watch as a development stage operation that…
Microsoft & Interoperability (MSFT)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; fostering more open engagement with customers…
Microsoft (MSFT) Gets Good News From Asia
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says that its sales to PC makers in Taiwan are running up and should rise about 10% this year. Manufacturers in Taiwan make about 60% of PCs sold around the world…
Blue Coat Earnings Technicolor (BCSI)
Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) is seeing shares surge in early pre-market trading after its earnings release. The data monitoring company posted earnings of $0.38 non-GAAP EPS on a 73% revenue jump to $81.4…
CMGI Adds To ModusLink Via Acquisition (CMGI)
CMGI Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI) has announced an acquisition this morning of a company called Open Channel Solutions, Inc., which is a provider of entitlement and e-business management solutions. This acquisition was all cash and…
Sun Micro Wants Deeper Virtualization (JAVA, CTXS, VMW)
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) has announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Stuttgart, Germany-based innotek. Sun is calling innotek the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software…
VMware’s Last Hurdle: IPO Lock-Up Expiration (VMW, EMC, INTC, CSCO)
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has already taken its hit from the earnings expectations getting high enough that the stock just couldn’t hold up to expectations after a monumental IPO. There is always a key…