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Oracle Acquires Datalogix, Strengthens Presence in Cloud Advertising Business
Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL ) announced just before the holidays that it has signed an agreement to purchase Datalogix, a company that provides data on offline consumer spending to digital marketers. Datalogix is a leading player in the cloud advert...
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Oracle Q2’15 Earnings Review: Cloud’s Success Helps Beat All Expectations
Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) posted strong results for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 on December 17th. (The company follows June-May fiscal year.) The software giant reported revenues of $9.6 billion and EPS of $0.69, exceeding consensus revenue...
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Oracle Q2’15 Earnings Preview: All Eyes on Cloud
The world’s leading database software provider, Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is scheduled to report its Q2 2015 results on December 17th. Consensus revenue estimates stand at $9.52 billion for the quarter, implying a 2.5% year-over-year growth, whil...
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Oracle Loses 4th Spot in Global Server Market to Cisco
The world’s second largest software company, Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) has lost its number fourth position in the worldwide server market to Cisco (NYSE: CSCO), according to recent reports by research firms International Data Corporation (IDC) an...
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Strong Database And Application Software Sales Could Lift Oracle Higher
Database leader Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is the world’s second largest software company in the multi-billion dollar software development market with revenues in excess of $38 billion and a market capitalization over $180 billion. The company com...
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Weekly Notes: Oracle, Salesforce, SAP SE and Symantec
It was an eventful week for the Technology sector. Most notably, three major technology companies announced to break themselves into smaller entities for greater management control. While specific events influenced trading prices for certain stoc...
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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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Oracle: Weak Hardware And New License Sales Dim Earnings Report As Management Changes Loom
Fiscal first quarter results for database leader Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) trailed consensus estimates. (Fiscal years end with May.) Q1’15 revenues stood at $8.6 billion against consensus estimates of $8.77 billion. This represents a year-on...
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Oracle Q1’15 Preview: Key Trends We Expect
The world’s largest database software vendor, Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL), is scheduled to release its fiscal Q1’15 results on September 18, after markets close. (Fiscal years end with May.) Last quarter (Q4’14), Oracle missed est...
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Weekly Enterprise Tech Software: Salesforce, Oracle and SAP
It was another eventful week in the enterprise software market exiting the Labor Day Holiday, with companies continuing to aim for higher revenue growth through organic and inorganic channels. The stock market, after a strong year, was fairly qui...
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Oracle Unlikely To Challenge TomorrowNow Verdict
In a recent verdict, a federal appeals court vacated the $1.3 billion in penalties and damages awarded to database leader Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) by a jury in a trial arising our of German rival SAP SE ‘s (NYSE:SAP) acquisition in 2007 of To...
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Oracle’s Acquisitions Could Support Long-Term Growth In Application Software
Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is the world’s largest database software development company with revenues in excess of $38 billion and a market capitalization over $175 billion. The company competes in the enterprise software market with other software...
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Mid-Year Income Performance Review
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Mid-Year Income Performance Review The financial markets were a sea of tranquility in the first half of 2014. Nonetheless, it’s been an interesting year thus far . . . ...
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A Closer Look At Oracle’s Acquisition Of MICROS Systems – Part 1
On June 23, Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) announced its plans to acquire MICROS Systems (NASDAQ:MCRS) for an enterprise valuation of approximately $5.3 billion. MICROS Systems provides leading enterprise-wide applications, services and hardware for th...
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Savvy Acquisitions to Propel Growth in These Stocks
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Six weeks ago, I told you there was no tech bubble . Looks like I was right. There’s no bubble. And there’s no imminent downturn, either. On the contrary. Tech stocks are actual...
