If you have tracked enterprise software for long, you know that Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) has been taking market share from SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) for years and years. It has been…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. BlackRock,…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings missed almost all Wall St. estimates and its shares fell 8%. The company has been among the most successful in the tech sector for years. Was the report…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is going to be an important earnings report for after the close. The company now has some hardware component sales after the Sun Microsystems bailout, something which may…
Covering a wide range of industries and behaviors, the 10Q Detective lists some of the more sophomoric — and predictable — regulatory filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011:…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised to Outperform at BMO Capital Markets. AutoZone…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.…
Just after noon today, we’ve noted some stocks that are flying high. Companies involved in cloud software are getting a particular boost. SuccessFactors Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF) is up more than 51%, at…
Samsung shares rise after its victory in the U.S. against Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) attempt to block its Galaxy tablet from the U.S. market. (Reuters) HSBC data show that China’s PMI slowed considerably. (Reuters)…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) will buy cloud computing company SuccessFactor (NYSE: SFSF) for $3.4 billion. It is a move that will get the Germany company into a business dominated by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google…
Software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP) will buy US company SuccessFactor (NASDAQ: SFSF) for $3.4 billion. The price of $40, a 52% premium. The firm creates management and human resources software. SAP will use…
Douglas A. McIntyre Meg Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), wants to rely on new software revenue to reverse the firm’s fortunes, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The paper reports that Whitman said…
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) filed for a secondary offering on Monday evening for up to 8 million shares. The company itself is offering 1,271,255 shares of Class A shares and stockholders are…
Jon C. Ogg A deal to rescue the EU’s weak nations has stalled over political differences and objections by banks. (Reuters) IBM (NYSE: IBM) appoints Virginia Rometty as its new CEO. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
Some economists argue that while businesses have recovered a great deal from the recession, American workers have not. There is some proof of that in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest quarterly results. Analysts…
