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Shares of technology outsourcing and consulting giant Accenture have been on a tear lately, with the company bulking up its insurance offerings. Trefis thinks Accenture's acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies could give it a boost, but maintains its price estimate for now.
SAP's New Businesses Could Help It Grow
4:30PM 8/03/2011
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.
IBM Capitalizes on a Need to Make Cities Smarter
8:30AM 6/15/2011
Last week, IBM announced its Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities, aimed at providing in one easy package a software platform for cities to use in monitoring and managing city resources. Trefis sees this as a potentially huge boost IBM's lucrative middleware business.
Software Giant SAP Is Spending Money to Make Money
9:00AM 5/21/2011
Company News, Technology, Investing, Stock Picks, SAP, Stocks in the News, Investment
SAP showed healthy revenue growth in its recently announced first quarter earnings, but operating profits increased by far less. Why? Because the company is putting more money into operating expenses and R&D, which sets it up for bigger profits in the longer term.
Can U.S. Services Growth Outweigh High Oil Prices?
11:00AM 3/10/2011
The U.S. services sector is growing strong, providing additional evidence that the U.S. economy is recovering and might not need more stimulus funding. But that's contingent upon oil staying below $120 per barrel.
Bill Gates Sells 90 Million Microsoft Shares
6:30PM 2/08/2011
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has cut his stake in the world's largest software maker -- which he co-founded -- by 13% over the past year, InformationWeek reported. In the last five years, the company has delivered far lower returns than Apple or Oracle.
European Commission Approves Intel Acquisition of McAfee
6:30PM 1/27/2011
The European Commission on Wednesday approved Intel's $7.68 billion acquisition of security-software company McAfee. Regulators had been concerned that the deal would exclude competing software from working with Intel processors, but Intel agreed to maintain interoperability.
The outlook for IT spending this year is looking up. Research firm Gartner said Thursday it expects revenue to grow 5.1% from 2010, an increase from a previous forecast of 3.5% growth.
Oracle Earnings Jump 28% as Tech Spending Rises
10:00PM 12/16/2010
Company News, Technology, Economy, Earnings, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Cisco Systems, SAP
Oracle, one of the world's biggest software companies, on Thursday posted fiscal second-quarter earnings that grew 28% year over year. It's the latest sign that companies are spending more on technology.
Cloud Computing Is Growing Up, and Venture Capitalists Are Feeding It
7:55AM 12/13/2010
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.
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