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Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. (NYSE: ALDN) shares have risen sharply on new reports that the Israeli data security software provider was close to receiving a buyout offer from a Vector Capital Group...
Cloud computing has started to pick up some fans. Google (GOOG) markets a lot of the stuff. It allows things like e-mail, documents, and spreadsheets to run on its servers. The PCs at companies...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) posted non-GAAP earnings of $0.34 EPS and $5.7 billion in revenue compared with First Call estimates of $0.34 EPS and $5.84 billion in sales. There is more data that...
After the close of trading today, Larry Ellison & Co. is set to report earnings for Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL).  Thomson Reuters (First Call) has earnings estimates of $0.34 EPS on $5.84...
The theory goes something like this: Microsoft (MSFT) has a model for selling software which is installed in a PC or server and uses that device’s computing power and memory to run the...
It was 2006 when Scott McNealy broke the news that Jonathan Schwartz would become the new CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) rather than just be the Chief Operating Officer.  As he was the...
IBM (IBM) has decided to be the next company to pile onto Microsoft (MSFT), which has already been beaten like a red-headed step child for bringing out Vista, a flawed bit of software which is...
Back in late 2007, we listed John Thompson of Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) as one of our 10 CEO’s which need to leave in 2008.  This was with some mixed emotion because we have heard such...
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) came out this morning with an updated guidance, and you can guess that the guidance was lowered like it has been at so many other established technology and software...
It is not that long ago that The Justice Department suggested that Microsoft (MSFT) was so powerful that it needed to be broken into pieces. In 2000, Justice hired famous banker Bob Greenhill to do...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reported earnings and the management of expectations here is probably about as fair as any investor in today’s climate could hope for.  The software giant...
Software giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after today’s close.  First Call has estimates pegged at $0.47 EPS and $14.78 billion in revenues.  As with most...
VMWare’s (VMW) went from an IPO price of under $50 a year and a half ago to $125. That happened in three months. The market then discovered that the virtualization software company’s revenues...
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALDN) is seeing shares surge in pre-market trading, albeit on rather thin volume.  The data security company posted much narrower losses than expected with a...
At the coroner’s inquest about the dead deal for Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) it became clear the Redmond got the best of it. For reasons which investors are not likely to fathom, MSFT is...