About 8 million cryptographic hashes have been posted to a user forum at insidepro.com that is dedicated to cracking passwords. Of the posted lists some 6.5 million entries are thought to belong to users…
We have been growing more and more used to economic reports showing near-recessionary levels or worse in recent weeks. The manufacturing and factory orders slowdown is one thing, but the newest report from the…
The Institute for Supply Management is showing that purchasing managers and suppliers are still not quite in a recessionary mode. The problem is that this is “barely” the case as some components are contracting even…
If you recall the term B2B, you are going back a decade and then some as far as internet companies. Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA) was one of the key business-to-business platform builders. Now SAP…
The woes of Europe and the slowing of growth in the BRIC nations is starting to show up more and more in the economic numbers being reported and this will act to support the…
LegalZoom.com, Inc. (NYSE: LGZ) has now publicly filed its registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its proposed initial public offering. The company offers online services such as corporate filings for small…
Business equipment firm Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) reported first quarter earnings after markets closed last night, and while the company slightly exceeded expectations for adjust EPS and revenues, the stock is sinking today…
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (NYSE: DNB), one of the venerable names in business and credit data, is taking some lumps this morning following lowered fiscal year forecast and the closure of one of the…
The Institute for Supply Management has released its data for April’s ISN non-Manufacturing sector and the reading is indicative of weaker and slowing growth. The overall NMI came in at 53.5% versus 56.0 in…
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT) is following the same lead as was recently set by Infosys Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY). The Indian information technology outsourcing firm turned in profit growth of almost 8% that was actually…
Infosys Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) is the king of IT-outsourcing in India, but today that king is finding itself under fire. The company said that it sees 8% to 10% for the year ending in…
The National Federation of Independent Business is out with a report this morning that should be causing some concerns for the broader economy when you consider that it is supposed to be small businesses…
Workforce management software maker ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CKSW) this morning forecast revenue for its first fiscal quarter at approximately $21.6 million, substantially lower than the $23.4 million consensus analyst estimate. The company said…
iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), a supplier of mobile services like virtual private networking to enterprise customers, is seeing its stock jump following a note from dealReporter that the company “could be up for sale.”…
After Wednesday’s disaster of a share performance in Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS), we are evaluating this situation to see if it is time to bring in a turnaround team? If you just looked at…