A number of media outlets say that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) bought global VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion. Skype’s subscriber base has been put at 655 million. Skype’s S-1, a step toward…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is close to a purchase of Skype for $7 billion (WSJ) Microsoft is close to an $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype (Reuters) PIMCO increased its short position in…
Today’s alternative energy news includes recent changes to Italian solar subsidies, restrictions on biomass electricity generation, and comments by Bill Gates on energy innovation. After 10 years of booming growth, solar generation…
Howard Stinger, Sony’s current CEO, is 69 and most analysts expected him to step down in the next year. The hack of the PlayStation Network, which has happened not once but twice…
It was just last week that ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CKSW) managed to beat earnings, but what the company also did was begin a dividend policy. The company has a mere $301 million…
Jon C. Ogg Wall St. was disappointed by the sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows products as the world’s largest software company announced earnings for the quarter which ended March 31. Microsoft’s two enterprise software…
Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and ICE may make a hostile bid for NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) (Reuters) Silver and gold are near all-time highs (Reuters) The House Budget Chair favors a cut in oil…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is out with earnings and there is some news that will please bulls and bears alike. Microsoft reported headline earnings of $0.61 EPS, but the headline data is…
Jon C. Ogg Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is about to get beyond the somewhat negative press of the Paul Allen behind it. The software giant reports today after the close. Thomson Reuters has estimates for…
NokiaNew Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop received a signing bonus of 5 million euros to join the struggling handset company. His base salary is 1.1 million euro. The new chief executive…
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will buy Synthes for $21.9 billion (Reuters) S&P cut the Japan sovereign rating outlook because of the earthquake (Reuters) The Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation network was hacked…
Odd, that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should announce that it had sold 350 million copies of Windows 7 just as Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud computing service collapsed and left clients’ website and download…
There are at least two ways to look at the cash pay raises that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will give employees. One is that it is a way to retain talent. Another is that…
Douglas A. McIntyre Samsung filed patent lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over smartphone technology (Reuters) The Japanese government will release $50 billion to cover initial costs of the earthquake (Reuters) The Administration will create a…
Yahoo.comYahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs fell 6% in the first quarter to $1.13 billion. Net earnings dropped 28% to $223 million. Both numbers cheered Wall St. because they were…
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