According to Reuters, US car sales for March are likely to be off sharply. Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) will not raise its bid for Yahoo! (YHOO) Reuters reports that UBS (UBS)…
The largest losers among the big companies in the S&P 500 for the first quarter were: Microsoft (MSFT) down 21.6%, Google (GOOG) down 36.7%, Apple (AAPL) down 27.8%, Intel (INTC) down 22%,…
A new piece of research shows that Apple (AAPL) has the largest impact of any global brand. Reuters writes that "The poll by online magazine brandchannel.com asked its readers to identify the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) has started another business which Microsoft (MSFT) can shutter when it buys the big web portal.. Yang & Company are starting a site aimed at women ages 25 to 54.…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Bank of America (BAC) will pay the president of Countrywide (CFC) $28 million to stay and run the company after the buy-out is complete. Reuters writes that the chairman…
Virtualization was supposed to be the next big thing in enterprise software. Virtualization allows one computer do the job of multiple computers by sharing the resources of a single machine .The software…
Short interest for number of tech stocks listed on Nasdaq rose on March 14 compared to figures from February . Shares short in Microsoft (MSFT) spiked up 7.4 million to 123.1 million.…
After today’s close we’ll get to see earnings out of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL). The estimates for the enterprise software company from First Call are $0.30 EPS on $5.42 billion in revenues. …
24/7 Wall St. had a chance to interview Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) on a few subjects including why some large companies were late to the search business, his view…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is predicting that the number of smartphones will move up to 400 million handsets in the next three years. It expects that its share of mobile operating systems will…
Douglas A. McIntyre On Wednesday afternoon, we’ll get to see earnings out of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL). The estimates for the enterprise software leader from First Call are $0.30 EPS on $5.42 billion in revenues. …
According to The Inquirer, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is releasing the latest version of its Safari operating system to Windows users. It may get some of them to switch. Hard to see that…
With the performance of the PC reaching its natural limits, the companies with the most at stake, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are hoping to take computing in directions which users can…
According to Reuters, the Fed cut rates .75%. Reuters writes that Visa raised $17.9 billion in its IPO. Reuters writes that New York City will probe whether Bear Streans (BSC) misled investors.…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) has come out with a business plan which says the company is worth more than Micorosft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is offering. That is based, to some large extent, on how…
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