Microsoft reported mixed fiscal fourth-quarter results after markets closed Tuesday. The newly acquired Nokia business contributed an operating loss of $692 million, or $0.08 per share.
Paul Ausick By a variety of measurements, Google is the 800-pound gorilla of the Internet. It is by far the largest U.S. search engine and its various websites, including YouTube, attract the largest U.S.…
Paul Ausick Results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index 2014 E-business study are bound to set off more debate about which network or newspaper delivers the best news and whether their political leanings are…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Sony Corp.In a war of words, not numbers, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) claimed last week that sales of its Xbox One doubled month-over-month in June. The company has not released…
The appointment of Susan L. Wagner, a senior executive of investment firm BlackRock, to Apple's board of directors is a reminder of how few woman sit on corporate boards.
Wikimedia Commons (Lee-Sean Huang)Ahead of the company’s second quarter earnings report after the bell on Thursday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued to dominate the search market with a 78% of a three-country…
We already know where the ax is going to fall most harshly in the 18,000 job cuts that Microsoft has announced -- Nokia. It did not say where the rest of the…
In a memo written last week, CEO Satya Nadella telegraphed staff cuts now that Microsoft had added some 25,000 new employees as part of the acquisition of the smartphone business from Nokia.
thinkstockJuly 16, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday following a report of better-than-expected Chinese GDP growth and a strong showing from some big tech stocks. A sharp drop in crude oil inventories…
When it comes to worldwide revenues for digital advertising, there is Google and everybody else. In the latest round of rearranging deck chairs, Microsoft is positioned to take over third place from…
Paul Ausick Intel is set to dominate the bias toward much of the technology sector when it reports earnings on Tuesday after the close. Intel already raised its guidance back in June.
Courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple held on to its spot among the top five most shorted stocks on the Nasdaq between the June 13 and June 30 settlement dates, even though short sellers…
For the three months ending in May, Samsung Electronics gained 0.8% of the U.S. smartphone market, and Apple added 0.6% and continues to hold the market share lead.
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had two things going for it since Satya Nadella took over the role of Chief Executive Officer from Steve Ballmer. The most obvious is that…
Microsoft has completed its acquisition of the handset unit from Nokia. But Sterne Agee's Robert Breza rates Microsoft only as Neutral, and he has decided to ratchet down Microsoft's earnings expectations.
