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

As year-end nears, investors are in for a surprise about which stocks in the S&P 500 spearheaded the unexpectedly robust upswing in 2010. Hint: Cummins is the only economy-driven name in the bunch. Plus: Goldman Sachs on how 2011 could turn out.

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 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.

Wall Street analysts still predict a record $97 in profits for the S&P 500 next year despite a lackluster economy. Expectations of massive corporate profits have propped up the stock market. That could change quickly. (With video)

Twitter's new @anywhere platform brings the service closer to users by integrating more easily with sites like The New York Times and Amazon.com.

Larry Ellison's webcast announcing the completion of the Sun acquisition got overwhelmed by iPad-mania the same day. So much so, that it appeared as if Oracle had made a rare publicity blunder. But maybe not.

Investors turned cautious Wednesday as an unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from technology companies raised concerns about the pace of the economy's recovery. The modest drop came a day after major stock indicators closed at 13-month highs, including the Dow Jones...

The heat is on. Doctors, long resistant to taking their practices into the digital age, are finally starting to adopt electronic health records. President Obama said earlier this year he wanted to see all medical records digitized within five years. There have been many reasons for the...

The old line software companies like Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) have always favored the idea of their products running on their customers' computers and servers. The notion of "remote computing," where the customer has access to the products over the internet, scares firms like Oracle...