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Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) reported fiscal third quarter 2012 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.53 on revenue of $4.68 billion. In the same period a year ago, the cruise line operator reported...
Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) reported fiscal first quarter 2013 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.42 on revenue of $578.2 million. In the same period a year ago, the homebuilder reported EPS of $0.41 on...
VeriFone Systems Inc. (NYSE: PAY) reported adjusted third quarter 2012 EPS of $0.75 on $493 million in non-GAAP after markets closed today. In the same period a year ago, the electronic payments firm...
Business software maker Workday Inc. has filed an initial Form S-1 saying it plans an initial public offering to raise up to $400 million. No date or share price is included in this filing, nor does...
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is testing an advertising service that allows companies to place more promotional messages in the News Feeds of users, even if those members or their friends have not...
The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (NYSE: IPG) is giving back on Friday’s gains after hopes of an acquisition have been put on the back burner. Publicis was quoted over the weekend as having...
The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE: IPG) may not be at a 52-week low but its shares are now trading at a low for all of 2012.  The advertising empire’s poor second quarter earnings...
Xerox (NYSE: XRX) shares slipped about 2.5% in morning trading, following the Connecticut-based document management company’s second-quarter report. Xerox said its quarterly earnings declined 3.1%...
Big data firm Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) had one of the most successful IPOs of this year, if you measure success by the rise in the share price on the first day of the offering. Splunk shares went...
Shares in Informatica Corp. (NASDAQ: INFA) lost -25% after the market closed last night after the company announced that it would not meet previous second quarter revenue or EPS forecasts. The...
New research from consulting firm InSites Consulting reveals a high level of social media usage in the US, much higher than in Europe. Some 80% of US companies use Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), 45% use...
Software giant Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is trading down about -2% in the early afternoon today following a research note from JMP Securities that maintains the firm’s ‘market perform’...
Database software maker Quest Software Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) said this morning that the company had received a takeover offer of $25.50/share from an unnamed “strategic bidder.” The company had...
About 8 million cryptographic hashes have been posted to a user forum at insidepro.com that is dedicated to cracking passwords. Of the posted lists some 6.5 million entries are thought to belong to...
We have been growing more and more used to economic reports showing near-recessionary levels or worse in recent weeks.  The manufacturing and factory orders slowdown is one thing, but the newest...