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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) posted EPS for its fiscal first quarter of  $.40 compared with $.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St....
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has just posted its Q3 earnings report of $0.24 EPS on a non-GAAP basis on $490 million in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had estimates at $0.20 EPS on $473.95 million in...
After the close of trading today, we will get a look at the earnings report from VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW).  The company’s former parent and still-majority shareholder (by far) is EMC Corp. (NYSE:...
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App store offers an extraordinarily large number of downloads–more than 85,000. The store has downloaded more than two billion piece of software. Developers are...
IBM (NYSE:IBM) slightly beat Wall St. estimates with EPS of $2.40, an 18% improvement over the same period a year ago.  The consensus estimate for the  quarter was $2.38 . The huge computer and IT...
Google (GOOG) is trying to diversity beyond the search business. One of its most important attempts is to offer low cost applications for PCs. Its Google Apps includes e-mail, calendar, word...
Close to one out of three people in the world has downloaded an app from the Apple (AAPL) App store. Or, a much smaller number of people have downloaded ten or twenty apps on their iPhones or iPods....
The EU regulators who combat monopolistic practices have never been kind to Microsoft (MSFT). They have hounded the world’s largest software company for years, accusing it of bundling its browser...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was having a rough day ahead of its earnings and things don’t look much better after the report.  The CRM leader posted a 5% rise in income of $1.1 billion, which came...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is on deck for earnings after the close of trading today.  The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are $0.30 EPS and $5.25 billion in revenues.  The $0.30 EPS...
Morgan Stanley has made several key downgrades in technology, as well as a few lesser upgrades.  Both IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) were downgraded to Equal-Weight from Overweight. ...
Oracle (ORCL) probably thought its deal to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was a sure thing once US regulators had approved the deal. Now, the transaction is in real trouble and some experts believe it...
There are a number of estimates of what piracy in China costs American software companies. Most are in the $2 billion to $4 billion range. It could be much more than that. China is so vast that...
The Apple (AAPL) App Store, with over 1.5 billion application downloads, has become a tremendous market where software developers can sell their products.  Individuals or corporations must register...
LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM) has only been public since July 1.  While the market has done well, this stock has actually come off by about 10% from its IPO post-closing levels.  It is still not a...