Microsoft Corporation

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The recession is, by the standard measurement, over. The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee said the downturn ended in June 2009. Most polls of individuals and...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much different...
The concerns that people have about employment are supposed to get better and not worse as the economy comes out of a recession. That is not true among most Americans, according to research from...
Reuters:   White House adviser Larry Summers will leave. Reuters:   There is more support in Washington to press China hard on the yuan. Reuters:   The prime minister of Japan said its...
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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...
MarketWatch:   The Chinese let the yuan rise perhaps because of pressure from the US. Reuters:   The BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) may go into 2011 as the Australian company...
The 24/7 Wall Street  Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies  in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s...
Reuters:   Geithner will take the yuan issue to the G-20. Reuters:   Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings beat Wall St. forecasts. Reuters:   Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) numbers beat...
U.S. utilities, which are under pressure to use more environmentally friendly fuel sources, are increasingly betting their future of natural gas at the expense of coal. As Bloomberg News notes, the...
Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is no longer the major challenge to the sales of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered smartphones are. New data from comScore...
Sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT)new “Halo: Reach” video game reached $200 million on the first day it was available. The world’s largest software company expects sales of the game to help...
Reuters:   Japan says it is ready to move into the forex market to support the yen. Reuters:   George Soros says that China was the big winner coming out of the recession. Reuters:   The Senate...
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this was a...
Jim Cramer has long been an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) bull.  In fact, he’s been one of the most bullish voices on Steve Jobs regardless of all the potential pitfalls that the company has manged to...
There are many stocks on the move this morning for active traders and investors.  Stocks on the move are ARM Holdings, plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA), Best Buy...