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The estimated 300 million Twitter users are not having many exchanges today. Just six weeks after another outage, users have today begun experiencing another outage where they are unable to read...
A day ahead of quarterly earnings, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) managers have made comments internally that the new Windows 8 operating system will be released on October 26. Windows remains the...
Friday has been a stellar day based upon reaction to the major bank earnings reports and due to reports that China’s GDP maintained a growth rate of 7.6%.  What is amazing is that the market has...
By now investors have had time to digest the notion that technology company sales and earnings are just not going to live up to prior expectations in most cases.  Investors are learning that...
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has two main partners to help it enter the mobile world. One is Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which sells the tabletlike e-reader Nook....
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) gave decent earnings today but its guidance is leaving something to be desired. Revenue was up 10% to $1.124 billion and earnings on a non-GAAP basis were...
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) was set to report earnings later in the week but they were issued out in a SEC filing after the close on Monday.  It would seem that somehow this news was getting...
Quest Software Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) remains a premium takeout name in the world of software mergers and buyouts.  Bloomberg has reported that Insight Venture Partners has now topped a $25.50 per...
Twitter has set a group of alliances to make the use of video on the micro-blogging site more prevalent. It is not clear how this will make the company money. Critics still believe that despite...
When Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced it would launch its own map products, analysts wondered where the data would come from. The question was answered today when the world’s most valuable company...
Andy Rubin, one of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) senior engineers, claimed in a tweet that over 900,000 Android devices are activated each day. He did not mention the source of his comments. Android...
courtesy Facebook Inc.Now that hackers have broken into eHarmony’s database, the game system of Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation network, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Gmail system in China, and...
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App store, and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) for Android face new competition. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has opened an app store of its own. Most of the software available at the...
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) has one major value in its holdings of VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW).  It is worth billions upon billions in raw dollars due to VMware’s status as the de factor King of...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released it preview edition of Windows 8, putting the world’s largest software company closer to launching what will be its most important product for the next two years....