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Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is catching a bid this morning, although it is still at the lower-end of its 52-week trading range following an upgrade and an acquisition. Essential Tips for...
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is acquiring LeftHand Networks Inc., a move that takes the company further into hardware for virtualization.  LeftHand provides storage virtualization and iSCSI storage...
CMGI Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI) is about to go through an investor transformation.  The former Internet incubator is now mostly ModusLink and will reflect that change. It also released its quarterly...
There have been more press releases out of the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week than you can count.  But one from Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is perhaps the most interesting. ...
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the largest seller of Linux operating systems and office suites, today reported that quarterly revenue soared 29% revenue to $164.4 million. It posted non-GAAP earnings of...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is announcing another monster share buyback plan. This one gives it the authorization to repurchase as much as $40 billion worth of stock.  Its last buyback plan has...
Standard & Poor’s has just made what appears to be its first new "AAA" corporate credit rating in years.  The winner is none other than Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT).  Its short-term and...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) came out with some mixed earnings after today’s close, and without guidance this is somewhat of a pending and unresolved issue.  The enterprise and CRM behemoth posted...
After today’s close we’ll get earnings out of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL).  The enterprise and CRM behemoth is expected to post $0.27 non-GAAP EPS on $5.42 Billion in revenues according to First...
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) reported better-than-expected results.  The software and media player giant earned $0.50 per share on revenue of $887.3 million.   First Call had estimates of...
Jerry Seinfeld can be a vicious and cruel comedian. Microsoft (MSFT) has changed that by putting $10 million in his pocket. The people from Redmond have finally acknowledged that a huge portion of...
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) got some decent news after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) expanded its Linux support relationship for interoperability.  If it seems that Microsoft is warming up to Linux and...
Corel Corporation may be under some pressure Monday as we get closer to the open this Monday morning.  The software maker’s acquisition offer from Corel Holdings L.P., which owns 69% of Corel, has...
An announcement came early this morning that JDA Software Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) was acquiring i2 Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ITWO).  The companies have signed a definitive merger pact for...
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is having a rough day, yet it is on no news of its own.  The blame lies with Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) after its earnings.  Is it competition?  Is it industry...