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Google (GOOG) came very close to facing antitrust charges when it planned to partially marry its search system with Yahoo!’s (YHOO). With 65% of the US search market,  analysts believe the Google...
It would make sense that as businesses cut back on spending for PCs they would also cut back on the purchase of servers. One of the things computers and servers have in common is that the chips made...
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) posted earnings of $0.93 EPS and $28.8 billion in revenue.  Thomson Reuters (First Call) estimates were $0.93 EPS and $31.93 billion in revenue.  While this is...
If this was during good times, we’d be under the impression that there was a failed coup inside salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM).  Steve Cakebread, the company’s president & chief...
You do not see too many upgrades in corporate credit ratings during this part of the business cycle, let alone in technology and software.  But Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) was just raised by Standard...
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) is getting shelled after its earnings report.  The company’s net fell 4% to $0.33 EPS, and non-GAAP earnings before items was $0.48 EPS. Revenue rose 4% to...
Shares in large software companies including Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) have been selling off quickly over the last two quarters. The general forecasts for the firms is that a slowdown in IT...
Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) has posted earnings.  The results from the web filtering and data security player are initially being viewed as a disappointment, but the company is actually offering...
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) just posted earnings and the virtualization leader reported that Q4 sales and earnings were $0.36 non-GAAP EPS on $515 million in revenues. Analysts were looking for $0.26...
Virtualization leader VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today.  This earnings will likely have an impact on EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and Citrix Systems, Inc....
By now, even the pygmies have figured out that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) had an awful quarter.  We already signaled the top-line and bottom-line miss this morning, and a warning that was...
A  look at the numbers for Microsoft’s last quarter would make most investors shudder. Revenue barely moved, up 2% to $16.6 billion. Net income was of 11% to $4.2 billion. The world’s largest...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) was not supposed to report earnings until after the close of trading.  But something happened for the first time we have ever seen.  The company unexpectedly released...
The Daily Racing Form’s take on Microsoft’s (MSFT) fourth quarter is that there was nothing good about it. The company missed earnings and will have to fire almost 10,000 people. Redmond forecast...
The conventional wisdom about Microsoft (MSFT) will that it will never make a lot of money on its gadgets, the Zune and Xbox, and it will never make any money on its Internet business, MSN. On the...