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Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has reported earnings which met expectations on the surface.  The non-GAAP report was $0.57 in earnings per share on sales of $1.05 billion.  Thomson Reuters had...
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is seeing its volume pick up in the stock options ahead of Tuesday’s earnings report.  On Friday we outlined that the case for this report being a ‘make or...
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings this coming Tuesday after the close and this may be one of the most important earnings reports in Larry Ellison’s future.  Last quarter...
Demandware, Inc. (NYSE: DWRE) priced its IPO today and the premium price of $16.00 was above the $12.50 to $14.50 per share price range.  24/7 Wall St. wanted to track this one throughout the...
Guidewire Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GWRE) is currently the best of the best of the IPO class of 2012.   After pricing more than 8.8 million shares at $13.00 in late January, the lowest price seen...
The tech patent suits keep piling up. The most recent is a set of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) claims about 10 patents filed against Facebook. The mobile sector has the highest level of litigation, and...
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released a report that says downloads from its App Store have reached 25 billion — about three times the population of the world. The figure skirts the issue of how many of...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is “the new Microsoft” as far as tech companies taking over the world.  In the 1990’s it was Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) that was taking over the...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on fire in 2012 and has hit new high after new high.  If you just benchmark the $500 price, Apple shares are up 23.4% so far in 2012. What is amazing is that there...
It is a bit surprising that First Trust ISE Cloud Computing (NASDAQ: SKYY) is not trading higher than it is after a ‘cloud acquisition’ even if it is a thinly traded ETF compared to other...
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings and the size of its iPhone sales helped move its market cap well above $400 billion. The press constantly reminds readers that this is greater than any...
It was no accident that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were good and Google’s bad (NASDAQ: GOOG). The assumption that search is one of the best businesses in the world has proved inaccurate....
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software giant’s...
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) may have decided that it will not jettison its PC business after all, but the company’s strategy appears under new CEO sure appears to be a strategy that...
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 taking it by...