TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace will join the new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial initiative. The Google program pulls together a number of social networks include the…
Landor Associates puts out a study called Breakaway Brands. The survey claims to measure the financial contributions made by individual brands to their parents’ bottom lines. According to the survey, picked up…
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
RealNetworks Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK) is set to report earnings after today’s close. First Call has estimates at -$0.01 EPS on revenues of $143.4 million, but there are some estimates with a break-even to…
Apple (AAPL) today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the…
TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) is "preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene." The project is currently called “Maka-Maka”. Google already owns large social network Orkut, but most…
Nintendo, which makes the DS portable videogame device and Wii console, said it hoped to start by unveiling new features for the DS next year that would be more practical than entertaining,…
Analysts have now raised the price of poker for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock. We have our own thoughts on this, but we still tend to view this from a value perspective. At the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wall Street analysts get great kudos sometimes, and other times they get the leper treatment. There were many movers this week, and some of these research notes are actually carryovers from the…
Sirius (SIR) has gone from being a market darling to one of the most maligned companies among those that the press follows with any regularity. The conventional wisdom is that the firm…
(BEAS) BEA Systems trading down almost 4% ahead of Oracle rejected BEA Systems’ $21 indication.(CFC) Countrywide -$2.85 EPS vs -$1.28 est., but shares indicated up over 10% on writedowns.(COLM) Columbia Sportswear indicated…
Microsoft’s (MSFT) earnings took Wall St. by surprise. It was a big enough jolt to take the shares to a level they have not seen since 2001, well above $35. The move…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Microsoft’s (MSFT) strong quarter and forecast sent shares up over 10%. Reuters writes that Oracle (ORCL) has turned down BEA Systems’ (BEAS) proposal that the company be sold at…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has posted earnings of $0.45 EPS on $13.76 Billion in revenues. First Call had estimates at $0.39 EPS on $12.57 Billion in revenues. The company offered guidance of $0.44 to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to post earnings after the close, and if they live up to history they will offer some long-term guidance. Today’s results for the last quarter (Q1 2008) are…
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