Microsoft Corporation

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Most of the top firms we cover on Wall Street specifically named the Technology sector as a top sector to own in 2014. From the big bulge brackets to the super regional firms, they all agreed,...
By Matthew YoheMatt Yohe at en.wikipedia CC-BY-3.0, from Wikimedia CommonsWhile the irony of Steve Jobs being honored on a U.S. postage stamp is not lost on anybody in the technology world, it...
ThinkstockAt 24/7 Wall Street we have been running weekly research screens to scan the brokerage firms we cover for the stocks that are cut to Underperform or Sell ratings. The higher the market...
Just ahead of next week's Japanese launch, Sony announced on Tuesday that the company had sold 5.3 million of its PlayStation 4 game consoles. The company had forecast sales of 5 million by the end...
Apple sat atop a new list from Brand Finance of the world's most valuable brands. However, rival Samsung's value surged as it gained on and then took the lead over Apple in the smartphone industry.
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2013 the United States spent more corporate money on research and development than any other country in the world. Of a total spending level of €538.8 billion...
January was not a particularly good month for video game and gaming sales. Compared with the January 2013, total sales at brick-and-mortar video game stores fell 21%, according to research firm NPD...
courtesy of SamsungFor anyone paying attention to the smartphone market, the fact that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominate the market is certainly no big shocker....
ThinkstockOpen Compute, or OCP for short, is an organization that was founded by Facebook in 2011. According to the organization’s website, Open Compute’s goal is to “build one of the most...
The UBS team thinks that investors that take "flight to safety" into U.S. treasury bonds and defensive, high dividend yield equities could get hurt bad later in the year. In a new research report,...
Reuters has reported that Nook-related sales fell during the recent holiday season. With demand for tablets declining, Barnes & Noble, perhaps the weakest player, likely is a harbinger of things...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the largest charitable giver in the United States last year, donating just shy of $1 billion. A large number of the other largest givers were also from...
Wikimedia CommonsEven though there is a virtually unlimited supply of Internet searches available and only a limited (if very large) amount of oil and gas available, it would seem that oil and gas...
Discussions about breaking Microsoft into two companies have gone on for years. As Satya Nadella moves into the role as the giant software company's third chief executive officer, the issue can begin...
A landmark settlement has been reached in the high-profile case between Google and EU antitrust regulators. Google has agreed to provide comparable prominence in online search results to services...