Microsoft Corporation

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Loose lips sink ships.  Maybe mergers are not as secretive as discussing military secrets, but the world of M&A and private equity has some new buzz: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is considering...
Reuters:   Geithner says there is no risk of a global currency war. Reuters:   Hedge fund investors favor the stock market Reuters:   Oil moved above $82 as China crude imports grew....
There doesn’t seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the “too little,...
Short sellers aggressively sold off  shares of companies which have lost value over the last month, perhaps on the chance that a rising market will life all ships. For the period ending September...
Reuters: Asia nations have begun to guard against foreign capital inflow as currency tensions continue. Reuters:   A halt in foreclosures could hurt investors in related securities. WSJ:   Wall...
Reuters: CNOOC offered $1.1 billion for a part of Chesapeake Energy, a deal the US may not approve. Reuters:   Pressure to investigate mortgage practices has begun to build for banks. Reuters:  ...
Earnings season is just getting underway and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 11,000 on Friday.  There are many stocks to watch outside of earnings this week.  The cast of characters in The...
Reuters:   The federal government will supply states with $1.5 billion in funds for small businesses. Reuters:   Financial leaders around the world have begun to work to stop a currency war....
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has seen a flurry of volume today after the New York Times reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives showed up at...
Looking for companies that are “cheap” is often a tricky situation when you just run the numbers.  Cheap stocks are usually cheap for a reason, and that reason is either because fears have...
Panasonic wants to join Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo as a large provider of video game consoles. It will launch a product into that market called “Jungle.” The Wall...
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not the number 1 mobile operating system used in smartphones in the US. It is not number 2. Google is now in third place with only 19.6% of the mobile platform market in...
Reuters:   George Soros says Germany has a deflation problem. Reuters:   China helped keep the yuan’s value low by giving aid to Greece. Reuters:   China ignored EU comments about the yuan....
Standard & Poor’s has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information.  It is no small sum.  The third...
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Apple Inc....