Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) posted EPS for its fiscal first quarter of  $.40 compared with $.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St. forecasts of  $.32 a share on revenues of $12.4 billion. The revenue figure was off 14% for the three mon ... Read more

“Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has ... Read more

The valuations of large social networks like MySpace (NWS), Facebook, and Twitters is that a visitor to a social network as the same value as a visitor to Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL, or Ask.com (IACI). Facebook is worth $10 billion because its number of members is close to the number of people who come to Y ... Read more

There have been a number of news reports recently saying that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! are back in the process of negotiating a combination of their search businesses to take on the industry leader, Google (GOOG). Since Microsoft is a distant third in US market share with less than 10% by most ... Read more

There is market chatter, despite the sell-off, that Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) may be interested in playing catch-up in the virtualization space.  Jefferies has noted that Larry Ellison and friends at Oracle may soon acquire privately-held Virtual Iron, one of the independent virtualization ... Read more