Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Portfolio: Postini: Another Smart Move For
Google
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070715/tc_cmp/201001390
Microsoft's Weapon In Web Apps: Keep 'Em Cheap
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| Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner got a laugh from the crowd
| during a demonstration of the service when he asked Dynamics CRM general
| manager Brad Wilson about Microsoft's newest competitors. "Salesforce?
| Siebel?" Turner quipped. "There's an opportunity there?"
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070715/tc_cmp/201001381
Vanity.
DinformationWeek writer. With the "Get the Facts" ads at the top and the banner
which explicitly recited anti-Linux messages.
Wow. Microsoft executives cannot contain their excitement. They certainly do
not look concerned.
http://emperorsnewclothes.istheshit.net/
Related:
Microsoft profit on slide
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| Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from
| Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market
| share in web search to Google.
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| Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last
| four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while
| it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled
| the company's web properties.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Where the Big Buybacks Are
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| Here are five companies with outsize share repurchase programs, including
| ExxonMobil, GE, Microsoft, and Goldman
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| [...]
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| But with the stock stuck for years in a narrow trading range, the
| company [MSFT] has embarked on an ambitious buyback program. In 2005 and
| 2006, the company repurchased $27.3 billion of its own stock.
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http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/may2007/pi20070517_947246.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2szety
Software Notebook: Microsoft's cash pile isn't what it used to be
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| But Microsoft has taken a series of steps to reduce its cash
| balance. Specifically, by Microsoft's count, the company has
| paid out nearly $100 billion through dividends and repurchasing
| its own stock in the past five years.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/309852_software02.html
Microsoft counts on Vista to recharge stagnant stock
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| There was a time in the 1990s when shares of Microsoft stock seemed to
| double every couple of years. 1996: college for the kids. 1998: a place
| on Whidbey. 1999: early retirement.
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| Times have changed.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003437957_vista19.html
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