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Do Super Bowl Ads Score for Their Companies' Stocks?

1:15PM 1/31/2012

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

Investing, Media, Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, salesforce.com, Apple, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Yahoo, Best Buy

The Patriots and Giants will interrupt the entertainment to run some football plays, but everyone knows the Super Bowl is all about the commercials, and at $3.5 million for 30 seconds, sponsors must think they'll get their money's worth. But will their shareholders feel the same way?

SAP's New Businesses Could Help It Grow

4:30PM 8/03/2011

By Trefis

Technology, Investing, Microsoft, Oracle, salesforce.com, SAP, Investment

Trefis has raised its expectations for SAP's stock price based on some of the German enterprise-software company's new businesses.

Three Tech Trends to Watch in 2011

8:00AM 1/03/2011

By Alex Salkever

Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, Oracle, salesforce.com

What's to look forward to in tech for 2011? Here are a few: Consolidation in enterprise computing, a check-in shakeout (Foursquare's Dennis Crowley pictured) and a surge in crowd-sourcing businesses.

Cloud Computing Is Growing Up, and Venture Capitalists Are Feeding It

7:55AM 12/13/2010

By Alex Salkever

Technology, Columns, Investing, Google , Oracle, salesforce.com, Amazon.com

On-demand-software giant Salesforce.com just acquired a cloud software startup called Heroku for $212 million in cash. That's par for the course these days as cloud computing goes from buzzword to reality. And venture capitalists are flocking to put money into the next Heroku.

Salesforce.com Takes a Shot at Oracle with New Database.com

11:30AM 12/07/2010

By Tom Taulli

Oracle, salesforce.com

As it looks for ways to grow, Salesforce.com is targeting another big market: databases. Its new offering, Database.com, looks to be a direct threat to Oracle. Maybe its time for Oracle to finally get serious about cloud computing.

Oracle to Acquire Art Technology for $1 Billion

10:52AM 11/02/2010

By Dawn Kawamoto

Technology, Oracle, salesforce.com

Oracle further satisfied its voracious appetite for acquisitions Tuesday, announcing plans to snap up e-commerce software maker Art Technology Group in a $1 billion deal.

Jim Cramer on Short-Term Trading: Mad Money or Simply Mad?

11:00AM 10/12/2010

By Daniel Solin

Columns, Investing, Netflix, salesforce.com, Toshiba, Market News

On his Mad Money show last week, Jim Cramer encouraged viewers to add short-term trading to their portfolios. But how can an investor determine with certainty when a stock has "flown too high" and when to buy it back?

Some Sunlight for Cloud Computing Stocks

12:10PM 10/07/2010

By Tom Taulli

Technology, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, salesforce.com

Cloud computing stocks got hammered Wednesday when hosting services provider Equinix lowered its guidance. While the dips may be stomach churning, look at them as opportunities to invest in a field that is likely to grow for the long haul.

Three Reasons Why Google's Valuation Could Vault

6:30AM 8/11/2010

By Alex Salkever

Company News, Technology, Columns, Investing, Google , salesforce.com, eBay, Stocks in the News

The conventional wisdom gaining strength these days is that Google is past its hot-growth prime. But unnoticed by many investors are at least three businesses that could give the search giant's stock the kick it's looking for.

Stocks in the News: Dell, Abbott, PepsiCo

7:56AM 5/21/2010

By Melly Alazraki

Company News, Investing, JP Morgan Chase, Dell, Coca-Cola Company, Morgan Stanley , salesforce.com, Citigroup, Toyota, Abbott

As a volatile trading week lands the market in correction territory, all eyes are again on Wall Street today. Bank stocks are certainly in focus after the Senate passed its version of the financial reform bill. Other stocks to watch include Dell, Pepsi and Abbott.