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Microsoft (MSFT-NASDAQ) reports after the close today. Street estimates for the software beast are $0.46 EPS & $13.89 Billion in revenues. The truth is that we can talk about guidance, we can...
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There may be only marginally good news out of Sun Microsystems (SUNW-NASDAQ) since there was at least some growth, but the street is giving this a negative focus. It is also hard to blame the...
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Stock Tickers: CRM, ORCL, MSFT, SAP Salesforce.com (CRM-NYSE) is trying an interesting strategy: it is splitting the need to buy its core product to use the company’s online market for business...
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From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Is Your Money Earning the Best Possible Rate? (Sponsor) Let’s face it: If your money is just sitting in a checking account, you’re losing value every...
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Oracle (ORCL) has grown so quickly recently, that there has been some cause for alarm that its European rival, SAP (SAP) might buckle under the pressure. No such luck for Oracle. SAP announced that...
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Google (GOOG-NASDAQ) reports earnings after the close today, but even the remaining few unwired monks in Tibet probably know that by now. Google is expected to post $3.30 EPS & $2.495 Billion...
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The offer sounds very generous. Microsoft (MSFT) will sharply cut its prices to developing countries that offer free PCs to children. It may be a way to avoid some piracy of Windows. If consumers can...
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Going into earnings, it is always important to look at which Internet search giant investors have made bigger bets on: Google (GOOG-NASDAQ) versus Yahoo! (YHOO). Yahoo (YHOO) reports after the close...
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Getting a free version of the new Microsoft (MSFT) Vista OS would be fairly hard. But the European Union wants the world’s largest software company to hand over extensive information about its...
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By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat When Intuit (INTU) recently reported its interim sales figures for TurboTax, we said: Sales since November are up 1%, but the company expects sales for the...
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The groups that controls Linux open source software is thinking of preventing Novell (NOVL) from using the newest versions of the Linux OS because the company has teamed with Microsoft (MSFT) to...
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By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Back in December we said: We recently took profits on our Adobe (ADBE) position because we have noticed the stock tends to trade down following the release...
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The licensing group that controls the Linux open-source operating system is intent on crushing a deal between Microsoft (MSFT) and Novell (NOVL). The partnership would allow the two companies to...
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Oracle (ORCL-NASDAQ) has filed a multi-headed lawsuit against SAP (SAP-NYSE/ADR), its oldest independent pure-play competitor. It accuses SAP of stealing potentially thousands of copyrighted...
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By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We recently said that “As we have pointed out before, Intuit’s (INTU) stock price is highly seasonal. It goes up in anticipation of tax season, but...
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