| 34 Business News - Software Resources |
| Adobe Acquires Auditude to Address Video Advertising |
| Adobe Systems has acquired privately owned Auditude in order to boost its video offerings with an advertising platform, the company said on Tuesday. |
| November 1, 2011 |
| Adobe snarfs up electronic signature automator |
| Adobe Systems has acquired the online electronic-signature and signature-automation provider EchoSign. |
| July 18, 2011 |
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| Compuware buys dynaTrace for $256 million in cash |
| Compuware announced Wednesday it has purchased application performance monitoring vendor dynaTrace for $256 million in cash, a move that builds upon its 2009 acquisition of Gomez and places it in closer competition with rivals such as CA Technologies and BMC. |
| July 5, 2011 |
| Critical Software Shows Portugal Can Grow |
| If you've followed any of the coverage of its $113 billion IMF bailout, shrinking economy, and budget woes, you might conclude that Portugal lacks what it takes to grow. But that would be wrong. After all, Critical Software (CS), a Coimbra,Portugal-based business application developer, plans to boost hiring by 40% in the next year. |
| June 3, 2011 |
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| Dell names former CA CEO head of software unit |
| John Swainson, former CEO of CA, will be in charge of building out Dell’s software unit. |
| February 2, 2012 |
| DOJ forces changes in Novell patent deal |
| A partnership that includes Microsoft and Apple agreed to modify the terms of its acquisition of some Novell patents in order to satisfy antitrust regulators worried about the impact on open-source software. |
| April 20, 2011 |
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| EBay buys Magento to boost its e-commerce developer tools |
| In a move that could help eBay improve its tools for online store developers, it has acquired Magento, the maker of an open source e-commerce platform. |
| June 6, 2011 |
| EU Bodies Plan Upgrade to Windows 7 Without Public Tender |
| The European Commission has been accused of favoritism in handing out its IT contracts as it looks set to move internal IT systems to Microsoft Windows 7 without holding a public tender. |
| March 24, 2011 |
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| Facebook global revenue expected to hit $4.27B |
| Global revenue for the world's most trafficked social platform will hit $4.27 billion this year, up from $2 billion last year, according to a forecast issued today by digital market research company eMarketer. |
| September 20, 2011 |
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| Google disputes damages estimate in Oracle case |
| Google has asked a California court to throw out the testimony of an expert witness who said Google should pay Oracle as much as $6 billion for allegedly infringing on Java patents and copyright. |
| July 5, 2011 |
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| Kaspersky DLP spin-off buys German security firm |
| InfoWatch, a spin-off of Kaspersky Lab, said the deal will help to sell its technology to more customers in western Europe, particularly small and medium-sized businesses. |
| December 12, 2011 |
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| Lawson Accepts $2 Billion Takeover Bid by Infor |
| Lawson Software has agreed to be purchased by an Infor affiliate GGC Software Holdings for roughly US$2 billion, the company announced Tuesday. |
| April 26, 2011 |
| Lawsuit alleges cloak-and-dagger conspiracy by Software AG |
| Middleware giant Software AG conducted an elaborate corporate espionage scheme replete with "sex, lies and an audiotape," according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by RFID (radio frequency identification) vendor GlobeRanger. |
| March 25, 2011 |
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| Microsoft boosts dividend 25 percent to attract new investors |
| Microsoft's share price is stagnating, and long-term investors are asking for a greater return. Is it time for Steve Ballmer to go? |
| September 21, 2011 |
| Microsoft declares victory over Linux, names Apple and Google main rivals |
| Normally, reading a company's annual report is an exercise in sheer boredom. But this year Microsoft's lawyers allowed some actual competitive insight to sneak into the 10-K reports it files with the SEC. Linux has been neutralized, and Apple is first on the list of archrivals. |
| August 15, 2011 |
| Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants Awarded to Students to Help Create Businesses and Nonprofits Aimed at Global Change |
| At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting today in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. Grant recipients include Team Apptenders from Croatia, Team Falcon Dev from Ecuador, Team OaSys from Jordan and Team Lifelens from the United States. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| Microsoft opens commercial licensing for Kinect for Windows applications |
| Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Kinect for Windows commercial program, allowing businesses to build for-profit applications and solutions using Microsoft's popular free-space interface. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| Microsoft Partners with Largest Search Provider in China |
| With its biggest online rival struggling in China, Microsoft has finally struck a search partnership with Baidu, the nation's largest search engine. Terms of the deal haven't been announced, but Microsoft will provide Baidu users with English-language search results. |
| July 5, 2011 |
| Microsoft plans to open 75 retail stores in US |
| Microsoft is re-hatching its plan to accelerate retail store expansion in the US before turning its sights on the rest of the world. |
| July 14, 2011 |
| Microsoft Releases Windows Thin PC RC |
| Microsoft this week announced the publicly available release candidate (RC) version of its upcoming Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) system, a thin client version of Windows that will replace Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP). WinTPC is designed for corporate customers that would like to re-purpose aging PCs as thin clients while retaining the full functionality and feature set of Windows 7, Microsoft's latest desktop OS. |
| May 3, 2011 |
| Microsoft signs Android and Chrome OS patent deal with Wistron |
| Last week, Neowin covered a story on a deal that Microsoft agreed with Itronix, which allowed the ragged computer manufacturer, access to some of the software giant's patent portfolio. Earlier today it was revealed that Microsoft is continuing on with their recent trend by signing a similar deal with Wistron. |
| July 5, 2011 |
| Microsoft's Earnings Dip As Revenue Edges Up |
| Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $6.62 billion, or 78 cents a share, on revenue of $20.89 billion. During the prior-year's quarter, Microsoft earned $6.63 billion, 77 cents a share, on $19.95 billion in sales. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had forecast the software giant to earn 76 cents a share on $20.9 billion in revenue. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Microsoft's second quarter: Hurry up and wait for Windows 8 |
| The software giant is expected to report fiscal second earnings of 76 cents a share on revenue of $20.93 billion. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Microsoft: 350 million licenses of Windows 7 sold in 18 months |
| Microsoft officials said on April 22 that the company has sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses in the 18 months the product has been available. |
| April 22, 2011 |
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| NetApp Plunges On Weak 2Q Revenue, 3Q Seen Below Targets |
| Shares of NetApp Inc. have plunged more than 8% pre-market activity, as traders react to the company's mixed second-quarter earnings report. Earnings for the period came in higher than anticipated with NetApp posting an ex-items profit of $235.5 million, or 63 cents per share. |
| November 17, 2011 |
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| Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft |
| A few months ago, Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond for a new job with Microsoft. His goal: improve Microsoft's credibility within open source circles. |
| March 1, 2011 |
| Oracle delivers strong third quarter, to hit Sun profit target |
| Updated: Oracle delivered strong fiscal third quarter results as the company landed large hardware and software deals. The company touted its Exadata and Exalogic sequential sales growth. |
| March 24, 2011 |
| Oracle Q1 revenue, EPS slightly ahead of Street view |
| Oracle Corp posted quarterly revenue slightly above Wall Street expectations, defying a weak outlook for global technology spending. |
| September 20, 2011 |
| Oracle to buy RightNow for about $1.5 billion |
| Oracle's bid amounted to a 20 percent premium over RightNow's closing price on Friday. RightNow's shares rose 19 percent in early trading. |
| October 24, 2011 |
| Oracle's Q2: Six themes to watch |
| Exadata sales, hardware revenue and the outlook for 2012 IT spending will be closely watched when Oracle reports its latest quarter. |
| December 20, 2011 |
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| SAP Q4 revenues jump 11% |
| Operating profits were helped by the lowering of the TomorrowNow provision. |
| January 13, 2012 |
| Skype now officially property of Microsoft |
| Microsoft has completed the $8.5 billion acquisition of consumer VoIP and instant messaging service provider Skype from investment firm Silver Lake that was first announced six months ago. |
| October 14, 2011 |
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| Twitter hopes to buy Tweetdeck for $40-50 million |
| Although there is plenty of drama to be had within the Twitter-verse, it is not often that you see this much drama over Twitter clients and company purchases like we are seeing now with Tweetdeck. According to TechCrunch.com, Twitter has acquired the popular iPhone and iPad client, Tweetdeck, and the $40-50 million transaction will be announced within the next few days. What happened to the deal between Bill Gross' Ubermedia and Tweetdeck from back in February? It obviously fell through. Either way, Twitter is making a pretty strong move toward acquiring Tweetdeck and it's not that hard to imagine why. |
| May 3, 2011 |
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| Weak PC sales likely to ding Microsoft's Windows cash cow |
| IDC said PC sales fell 3.2 percent in the first quarter due to media tablet sales, Japan's earthquake, oil costs (which take money away from the IT budget) and slowing corporate demand. Gartner called enterprise PC sales a bright spot, but projected that first quarter sales will be down 1.1 percent. The upshot: PC sales are weaker than expected. |
| April 14, 2011 |