Sentences with phrase «msft did»

While MSFT did go back up to 50 briefly it then quickly plunged to 30 in May 2000, probably trapping all those investors late to the party with substantial losses.

Note: This is not meant as particularly pro-Apple, and Android sales figures are also impressive and are in essence blocking Microsoft's entry into a lower - priced tier (which is likely why MSFT didn't even try to enter it?).

MSFT doesn't look to be slowing down the dividend growth at all and the P / E ratio currently appears OK.

Not exact matches

Microsoft (msft) did not say how much the German data deals cost, but the local news reports said it would cost Microsoft the equivalent of $ 120 million.

That's pretty small potatoes compared to the much larger deals done by rivals like Microsoft's (msft) $ 26 billion merger with LinkedIn, not to mention the $ 109 billion AT&T (t) is paying for Time Warner (twx).

In June, Microsoft (msft) said it would supply the new Azure - based technology for precinct captains at the caucus to log and report results, a process that has been done manually in the past.

Antitrust regulators should temper the power of these giants, just as they did with different degrees of success with AT&T (t), IBM (ibm), and Microsoft (msft).

EI du Pont (DD): $ 1.54 Travelers Cos (TRV): $ 1.51 Freeport - McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX): $ 0.85 Swift Transportation (SWFT): $ 0.14 KeyCorp (KEY): $ 0.19 Laboratory Corp of America (LH): $ 1.65 BB&T (BBT): $ 0.58 Sherwin - Williams (SHW): $ 0.94 UnitedHealth Group (UNH): $ 1.17 Southwest Airlines (LUV): - $ 0.05 Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB): $ 0.36 Philip Morris International (PM): $ 1.19 Bank of America (BAC): $ 0.12 EMC (EMC): $ 0.36 Morgan Stanley (MS): $ 0.44 Verizon Communications (VZ): $ 0.57 Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG): $ 1.92 Capital One Financial (COF): $ 1.43 NCR Corp (NCR): $ 0.34 SanDisk (SNDK): $ 0.67 E * TRADE Financial (ETFC): $ 0.09 Tempur - Pedic International (TPX): $ 0.84 Microsoft (MSFT): $ 0.57 Union Pacific (UNP): $ 1.63 Peabody Energy (BTU): $ 0.57 Baxter International (BAX): $ 1.00 Boston Scientific (BSX): $ 0.08 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): $ 0.09 Blackstone Group (BX): $ 0.39

Since Apple (aapl) doesn't sell iBooks for Windows and Google (googl) is mostly focused on selling on Android mobile devices, Microsoft (msft) may have seen the decline of other players as creating an opportunity in the market to serve Windows users.

The tech summit did include executives from most of the ten largest Nasdaq (ndaq) companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft (msft), Facebook (fb), Intel (intc), Oracle (orcl), IBM (ibm), and Cisco (csco).

Kotick's online gambit doesn't make the need for consoles obsolete; in fact Activision is working with Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), both of which sell Internet - connected systems, to ensure that Activision's web - based applications can be accessed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

He says his company can help businesses build «conversational apps» by using AI, similar to what IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT) are trying to do.

And with stocks, you don't have to sell when MSFT dips to $ 25 per share; you can just hold onto the stock and wait for it to rise back up to $ 30 or higher.

Yeah, I think the tech companies (APPL, MSFT, GOOG, ORCL, and CSCO) hoarding cash will have little recourse but to raise their dividends or doing significant buybacks.

Full Disclosure: I curently do not have any positions in MSFT.

So, all of these companies, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), old legacy companies that are making a good transition into cloud and like you say have a big retailer like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), you do n`t think of when you buy something off the Internet, they «re a huge player.

Pete @ Intelligent Speculator writes Does This Move Mean Anything For Microsoft ($ MSFT)?

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) who is kind of an old legacy company like an IBM, who «s made this conversion over off the desktop in the cloud, you know, commercial cloud did over $ 6 billion.

If you do, you will miss a lot of upside that still remains, especially in the large cap technology stocks, such as «old tech» stalwarts Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as well as the new tech titan Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN).

Verizon Wireless (s VZ)(s VOD) didn't unleash an army of new Android (s goog) and Windows Phone (s msft) LTE devices at CES like its archrival AT&T (s T), but the handful of gadgets it did unveil Monday are worth noting.

Amazon was able to create a huge lead in AWS (Amazon Web Services) because the competition (Alphabet GOOGL, -1.07 % and Microsoft MSFT, +0.19 % did not give Amazon enough respect.

Yes, I know it can be rooted and flashed to be a full tablet, but my Macbook can run Windows, yet I don't think it should be counted as part of MSFT's marketshare...

T - Mobile didn't officially announce the upgrade, but LG's software upgrader application can download it to Windows (s msft) PC and install it on the phone.

The college segment — which Microsoft (s MSFT) has a stake in, along with the Nook business — did better: Revenues were $ 252 million for the quarter, up 10.7 percent, and $ 1.8 billion for the year, up 1.1 percent.

I do this with Abbot Labs (ABT), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), as well as solid tech stocks like Intel (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT).

Both of these stock carry significant risks and investors looking for tech stocks may do better to buy the less sexy, but more conservative names like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hewlett - Packard (NYSE: HP).

-- Ben Graham, Intelligent Investor I wrote this post on why I bought MSFT and AAPL last week and I reposted it over at Seeking Alpha where I received around 60 comments with various opinions, mostly having to do with AAPL.

Microsoft (MSFT) has an international story, as do payment processors like Visa (V), or soda - sellers like Coca - Cola (KO).

If you do the thought experiment where valuations etc. remain identical but (say) someone turns up at the NYSE and drops $ 1.5 T in a helicopter to take MSFT, AAPL, XOM, IBM private then there goes $ 1.5 T from one side of the ratio.

Sometimes a stock will run away from me right when I find myself in a spot to build up a position, like Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) did somewhat recently.

The good news is that not only have you done well with AAPL over there (and I'm sure many other stocks), but MSFT is available at a pretty solid valuation right now if you wanted to get back in.

Their credit rating and balance sheet are stellar, but I do miss the days when AAPL and MSFT had zero debt, even though I know it makes more financial sense to borrow with rates being so low.

I wish I would have bought MSFT back in the day, but I've done well with the other moves I've made.

Not a huge fan of tech overall, but I don't see MSFT going anywhere.

Warren Buffett once said he would own MSFT but he didn't want to because of his close friendship with Bill Gates.

I would buy again if I ever thought MSFT offered as much value as it did back when I was accumulating.

you don't even have to worry about what you miss by not buying it sooner, you will soon be rewarded I see AAPL becoming another MSFT in the future in term of dividend payment.

-- No penny stocks — No commodities, I'll make here an exception for oil (uranium was a nice success story for me until Fukushima)-- No tech companies (except Apple, MSFT, Intel, but I shouldn't make any exceptions due to the lessons of AMD and STEC and BlackBerry)-- Lots of real estate (too much I would say), I don't want to buy apartments to rent but I like having a very, very small ownership from many of them through REITs — ETFs are good (unless they cover specific developing countries, eg.

That is exactly what happened to Microsoft (MSFT) when it paid its $ 30 billion dividend; though don't forget the stock ran up substantially on the dividend announcement.

A quick note regarding their fills, while purchasing my MSFT, I did notice when the order went through, that it was $ 1 higher than current market price, which I thought was interesting but it didn't bother me.

Here is Shu complementing msft for making onto Rolling stone a few months back: https://mobile.twitter.com/... I agree with the sentiment that if there was a game worthy of praise Shu would say something like he did for breath of the wild.

MSFT has clearly done what they wanted to do, make their show the one everyone watches.

I think MSFT got a universal stat list, that list was probably sent to both MSFT and Sony and xbox.com did not check as they have done many times before (NBA street was listed as 720p / 1080i when it is 1080p native a while back, Xbox.com simply gets things wrong sometimes) Sony fans are the most rabid I» v ever seen E3 must have them nervous.

If it has to do with XB1, MSFT has something to do with it.

MSFT wants to control your TV, like it does your PC.

And upstart Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) has done the unthinkable, passing Nintendo in worldwide market share this cycle and that lead is extending.

BTW — MSFT, with their several BILLION dollar a YEAR R&D budget didn't invent Kinect, they bought it.

«But still our entry level offering has been quite complex... We wanted to have an entry - level product where people can manage a simple to - do list in their team, but not with Excel (s msft), with this Kanban board.»

The program itself is Outlook - based (s msft), but the people who Liaise users collaborate with do not need to be using the same email client.

does nt the same logic apply to MSFT as well?