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Microsoft-Nokia Eye Bigger Share In Smartphone Industry With New Launches At Year End
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 fruits of this acquisition with the planned launch of...
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Amazon’s Stock Can’t Defy Gravity Forever
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program By Louis Basenese, Equity Analyst Amazon ( AMZN ) has been basking in the glory of higher sales and share prices, thanks to a phenomenon known as “showrooming.” That...
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Microsoft’s Nokia Can Boost Its Revenues In The Future
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) acquired Nokia for $7.2 billion last year. While the company expected this acquisition to expedite its entry into the smartphone industry, the short term effects of this merger can be seen in its latest Q4 results. In Q4,...
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Microsoft Earnings: Cloud Delivers Growth Yet Again
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced its earnings for Q4 FY14 on July 22. The company posted a good 17% year-over-year growth in revenues to $23.38 billion, which also includes $1.9 billion revenues from Nokia’s phone division. If revenues from pho...
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Microsoft Earnings Preview: Focus On Revenue Growth From Hardware And Cloud Services
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to announce its Q4 FY 2014 earnings on Tuesday, July 22 amid news that it’s planning to cut as many as 18,000 jobs next year. Most of the job cuts are expected to take place in business areas where an overlap...
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Microsoft is Fairly Valued At $41
The stock price of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the maker of Microsoft Office productivity suite and Windows operating system, was languishing below $35 for months. However, it rallied nearly 20% in the last six months to close above $4...
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Microsoft Targets Enterprise Clients With Strategic Salesforce Partnership
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) have recently entered a strategic partnership to offer Salesforce.com’s Customer RelationshipManagement (CRM) app on Microsoft’s Windows and Azure platform. Furthermore, the companies are p...
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Microsoft Strengthens its Hardware Vertical With Surface 3 Launch
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled its latest tablet, the Surface Pro 3 on May 20 . The latest offering from Microsoft has a much bigger screen size at 12 inches, and has more processing power with Intel’s multi-core processors. This launch augmen...
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Microsoft’s Office For iPad Gains Traction
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched its flagship productivity application – Office for Apple’s iPad – on March 27 as part of its mobile first strategy. The recent announcement at the TechEd conference on Monday indicates that Office fo...
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This Stock Just Hit 85 on the C.H.A.O.S. Meter
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program This Stock Just Hit 85 on the C.H.A.O.S. Meter I said it on Wednesday, and I’ll say it again: We’re not in a tech bubble . And we’re not set for a dot-com-style disas...
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Putting Apple’s Dividend into Perspective
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Putting Apple’s Dividend into Perspective Last week, Apple ( AAPL ) made waves with impressive quarterly results. The market responded enthusiastically, sending AAPL sh...
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We Put PLX Technology to the C.H.A.O.S. Test
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program We Put PLX Technology to the C.H.A.O.S. Test As you know by now, I absolutely love chaos. Not just a little bit of chaos, either – the all-out, no-holds-barred kind! ...
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Microsoft Earnings: Windows Licensing And Cloud Powers Revenues
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced its earnings for Q3 FY14 on April 24. The company posted a good 8% year-over-year growth in revenues to $20.4 billion. In our pre-earnings note, we noted that cloud services would boost revenues. The compnay r...
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Microsoft Earnings Preview: Satya Nadella’s ‘Mobile First, Cloud First’ Strategy In Focus
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to announce its Q3 FY 2014 earnings on Thursday, April 24. During the quarter, the company named Satya Nadella, former head of the cloud and enterprise division, as its new CEO. Over the course of last two months, ...
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Microsoft Makes Big Bet on Apple’s iPad
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Microsoft Makes Big Bet on Apple’s iPad Microsoft (MSFT) is no longer holding a poker face. All bets are on the iPad. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella reveals the Micros...
