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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) came out with its earnings after the close (only on the website, no press release).  This was record revenues for its first quarter of up about 25% to $16.20...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to report earnings on Thursday after the close.  We had already questioned the company’s ability to reconcile its books because it seems that the...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is on deck to report earnings Thursday, October 28, 2010 after the close.  Microsoft used to be report at least in the middle of the pack of tech giants each...
There were some interesting takeaways from Apple’s conference call and its Q&A session of that call.  The call ended right about 6:00 PM EST.  Despite a blowout in sales and earnings and...
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported $2.82 EPS and $24.3 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had estimates of $2.75 EPS and $24.12 billion in revenues. As far as guidance,...
It seems as though there are now more market rumors of which company wants to buy other companies and which company has many companies considering an acquisition of the target than there are real...
F5 Networks is losing more of those old buyout hopes.  We noted at VSInvestor.com on October 4 that buyout rumors were driving the stock, but the problem is that it was approached more than a year...
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has seen a flurry of volume today after the New York Times reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives showed up at...
The success of the company is particularly spectacular because it is largely a four-product enterprise, consisting of the iPad, iPod, Mac, and iPhone. It also produces a suite of supporting software...
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) revenue run rate is about $60 billion a year. That compares to $100 billion for IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ). Oracle has advantages as it attempts to catch...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much different...
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) shares rose more than 2% after hours reported better-than-expected results, as it benefited from the buyout of Sun Microsystems. Fiscal 2011 Q1 GAAP revenue was up 48% to $7.5...
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this was a...
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has finally buckled to pressure to return capital to shareholders.  While we did not get the promise of a one-time massive dividend we outlined as a possibility,...
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will open its App Store developer program to a number of new types of software, which appears to include the Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Flash technology. We are continually trying to...