Microsoft Corporation
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The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not yet recovered the losses...
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Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) may be the most hated large financial firm in the world. That does not seem to have hurt its business prospects. It may even help them. Companies who need corporate...
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The government may stop the sale of $9 billion in AIG (NYSE: AIG) shares if it does not do well. (Reuters) Taketa may take over Nycomed for $14.2 billion. (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) warned the...
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) was already one of the highest dividend yields in the technology sector. Intel just again raised its dividend for the second time over the last six months. This...
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Updated throughout the day. Skype demanded $7 billion for its sale to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) (Bloomberg) Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) CEO Ray Elliott was pushed out by the firm’s board (various)...
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) kept the top spot in the Flame Index as concerns about the shutdown of its PS3 network failed to subside. Sony could face $1 billion in liabilities. The Japanese company says the...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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Skype is no longer going to be one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011 any longer… Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has wiggled in and cut Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook out of their...
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A number of media outlets say that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) bought global VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion. Skype’s subscriber base has been put at 655 million. Skype’s S-1, a step toward an...
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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is close to a purchase of Skype for $7 billion (WSJ) Microsoft is close to an $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype (Reuters) PIMCO increased its short position in US Treasury...
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Today’s alternative energy news includes recent changes to Italian solar subsidies, restrictions on biomass electricity generation, and comments by Bill Gates on energy innovation. After 10 years...
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Howard Stinger, Sony’s current CEO, is 69 and most analysts expected him to step down in the next year. The hack of the PlayStation Network, which has happened not once but twice will speed his...
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It was just last week that ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CKSW) managed to beat earnings, but what the company also did was begin a dividend policy. The company has a mere $301 million...
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Wall St. was disappointed by the sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows products as the world’s largest software company announced earnings for the quarter which ended March 31....
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