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Microsoft Earnings: Revenues Increase As Microsoft Consolidates Phones Division Revenues
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced its earnings for Q2 FY15 on January 26th. (Fiscal years end with June) The company posted a 8% year-over-year growth in revenues to $26.47 billion, which also includes $2.3 billion revenues from Nokia’s phone di...
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Microsoft Earnings Preview: Hardware And Cloud Sales In Focus
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to announce its Q2 FY 2015 earnings on Monday, January 26th. (Fiscal years end with June.) Microsoft is transitioning from a software company that sold perpetual licenses for its Operating System (Windows OS) and...
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Microsoft-Nokia Launches Cheap Lumia Phones For Price Sensitive Consumers
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) acquired Nokia’s devices and services unit for $7.2 billion in a transaction that closed last April. At the ongoing IFA event in Germany, Microsoft leveraged the acquisition with the planned launch of three new sma...
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Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform Explained – Part 2
In our previous article (the first in a two part series), we looked at some of the trends in cloud computing. To recap, cloud computing is expected to grow at a robust pace in the next five years. The primary driver for this growth are the cost b...
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Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform Explained – Part 1
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched its cloud platform, Azure, in 2010. Since the launch, the service has posted triple digit growth, and last year generated over $1 billion in revenue, according to reports. Considering the latest quarterly results,...
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Weekly Review: Microsoft, IBM, HP And Adobe
The broader stock market rallied during the week posting sixth consecutive weekly gain. Companies in the enterprise technology services space, e.g., International Business Machine (NYSE:IBM) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), underperform...
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Microsoft Earnings: Hardware Sales And Cloud Services Boosts Revenues
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced its earnings for Q1 FY15 on October 23. (Fiscal years end with June.) The company posted a 25% year-over-year growth in revenues to $23.20 billion, which also includes $2.60 billion revenues from Nokia’s phone d...
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Microsoft Earnings Preview: Focus on Hardware And Cloud Sales
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to announce its Q1 FY 2015 earnings on Thursday, October 23. (Fiscal years end with June.) Microsoft is undergoing change in its business as it focuses less on the aging operating systems business, which is depen...
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Weekly Review: Microsoft, IBM, HP And Adobe
S&P declined by 3% in the week, marking a four consecutive week decline for the first time in three years. The AMEX Information Technology Index (NYSE:XIT), which is compromised of large cap technology stock listed on New York Stock Exchange...
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Weekly Review: HP, Microsoft, IBM And Adobe
It was an eventful week for companies in the technology space as many of them contemplated change in strategy to boost revenues and counter the slowdown in global IT spending. The AMEX Information Technology Index (NYSE:XIT), which is compromise...
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HP To Launch Windows-Based Tablets And Laptops That Are Not Only Thin But Inexpensive As Well
It seems that the competition in low end price segment of the PC and tablet industry is heating up. The latest company to foray into this segment is Hewlett-Packard (NASDAQ:HPQ), which has rounded out the release of its new Stream family of ultra...
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Weekly Review: Microsoft, IBM, HP And Adobe
While the AMEX Information Technology Index (NYSE:XIT), which is compromised of large cap technology stock listed on New York Stock Exchange, has been underperforming the broader technology market, NASDAQ 100 Technology Sector(NASDAQ:NDXT) has o...
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Stock Market Breadth Signals Correction Ahead
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program By Alan Gula, Chief Income Analyst The Russell 3000, a broad equity index representing 98% of the investable U.S. stock market, is up 9.3% for 2014 on a total-return ...
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These 16 Stocks Hiked Dividends In The Past Week
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . These 16 Stocks Hiked Dividends In The Past Week What a Week! Scotland votes no and remains in the United Kingdom! But more important to me were the dividend growth announcem...
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Week In Review: MSFT, IBM, HP
While the AMEX Information Technology Index (NYSE:XIT), which is compromised of large cap technology stock listed on New York Stock Exchange, has been underperforming the broader technology market, NASDAQ 100 Technology Sector(NASDAQ:NDXT) has ou...