Sentences with phrase «from msft»

I think it's fantastic and Sony should learn from MSFT sooner than later.

At the end of the day, we'd be looking at a 2.3 % total return in 42 days, which works out to a 19.9 % annualized yield from MSFT.

Opportunity to Capture a 24.1 % to 39.4 % Annualized Yield from MSFT Yesterday I bought 200 shares of Microsoft (MSFT) at $ 43.02 per share and simultaneously «sold to open» two February 20, $ 43 covered calls for $ 0.89 per share.

That works out to a 24.1 % annualized yield from MSFT.

Something sounded funny, when the cost of Nexus 7 is $ 152 + marketing cost + licensing cost from MSFT and it comes with a $ 25 credit.

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Demand for the NES: Classic was so high that a number of retailers like Walmart had trouble keeping enough in stock despite competition from more expensive consoles with more advanced technology like Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro and Microsoft's (msft) Xbox One.

Apple's Core ML toolkit could already be used to connect with competing cloud - based machine learning services from Google (goog), Amazon (amzn), and Microsoft (msft).

Microsoft (msft) has been pushing its Skype for Business to corporate customers amid increasing competition from companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog).

Additionally, many businesses are foregoing buying data center hardware entirely as they increasingly rent their computing resources on demand from big tech companies like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

There are five playable versions of the game on display for visitors to compete on, as well as a chronicle of the evolution of the virtual sport from its Apple II debut to current day Xbox One (MSFT) and PlayStation 4 (SNE) next - generation technology.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

There's no time to bask in accolades, because AWS faces substantial new challenges, including growing competitive threats from cash - rich rivals like Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT).

So far, Sanders has raised more than $ 250,000 from employees at Google's parent Alphabet (GOOGL), nearly $ 100,000 from workers at Microsoft (MSFT), and more than $ 85,000 from those at Apple (AAPL), the group's data shows.

Snowden's leaks showed that Section 702 collects content of digital communications directly from the internet backbone and through a program formerly code named Prism where the NSA gathered data directly from several companies, including Facebook, Google (goog), Apple (aapl) and Microsoft (msft).

Jerry Cuomo, chief technology officer for IBM, and Fabien Potencier, founder of Symfony, are joining a roster that already includes Docker co-founder Solomon Hykes; Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang; as well as tech experts from Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG), LinkedIn (LNKD), Microsoft (MSFT), Uber and other powerhouses.

More businesses are buying computing resources on demand from tech giants like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft), which has hurt big data center hardware companies like Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe).

Analysts have said Nintendo «s family - oriented game titles compete with smartphone games more directly than titles from rival console makers Sony (sne) and Microsoft (msft), which focus on high - end graphics targeting core gamers.

Interestingly, he and a colleague in November won $ 100,000 in grants from Microsoft (MSFT) to use that company's HoloLens headset to study «collaborative analysis of large - scale mixed reality data,» according to the Financial Times.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

Additionally, Oculus said a «small number» of Rifts will be available to buy from the websites of Microsoft (msft) and Amazon (amzn) on May 6 at 9 a.m. PT.

Still, HPE faces stiff competition from big cloud computing vendors like Amazon (amzn), Microsoft (msft), and Google (goog), which continue to roll out advanced data analytics services and could undercut the need for businesses buy this type of powerful hardware.

Meanwhile, Microsoft (msft) claimed big gains in its cloud business, with CEO Satya Nadella boasting to analysts that the company has an annualized revenue run rate of $ 20.4 billion that is extrapolated from one recent month's sales multiplied by 12.

Good has been aggressively pursuing Blackberry customers; last month it launched a comprehensive «migrate now» program to entice corporate tech chiefs to switch from Blackberry to Good's system, which allows companies to manage their corporate email and other software on Apple (AAPL) iPhones and tablets and devices running on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system as well as Microsoft (MSFT) «s Windows mobile platform.

The round was led by Ford Motor Co. (f) with participation from Microsoft (msft) and earlier investors like General Electric (ge).

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).

Symantec, a longtime partner (and sometimes rival) to Microsoft (msft), will also sell its software from the Microsoft Azure marketplace, and Microsoft will use Symantec security in Azure.

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Workplace is essentially a version of Facebook's social network that businesses can subscribe to for a fee, similar to competing workplace collaboration tools from Google (goog), Microsoft (msft), and Atlassian (team).

In addition to HP Enterprise, Su also collected endorsements on Tuesday from Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft's (msft) Azure cloud data center group, and Chinese search giant Baidu's (bidu) big data team, who all said they would be using the Epyc chip.

Although the research paper focuses on Google's AI software, Athalye said that similar image - recognition tools from Microsoft (msft) and the University of Oxford also stumbled.

In pushing into cloud computing, Google faces intense competition from companies like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

Mike Vernal graduated from Harvard in 2002, a few months before Zuckerberg arrived on campus, and took a job at Microsoft msft.

The deal is the biggest to date under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, and the logic, according to some reports, is that Microsoft (MSFT) would be able to swell the already formidable ranks of Minecraft players by its position in computer and console market, and increase revenue from licensing for merchandise and other spin - offs.

Increasingly, customers are renting computing power from cloud computing businesses like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft) instead of buying their own equipment.

A typical example are companies transitioning from a period of high to lower growth, as it was the case for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) after the dotcom bubble exploded.

Virtually every legacy IT power from Cisco (csco) and Hewlett - Packard Enterprise (hpe) to Microsoft (msft) has been acquiring cloud - related properties.

In his four years as CEO the company managed a merger of equals, grew from $ 210 million in revenues to $ 562 million, survived an aborted takeover attempt by Microsoft (msft), and evolved into a company that today is a regular on Fortune's list of Best Places to Work.

And much like Adobe and Microsoft (MSFT), Autodesk is finding that transitioning users of its core franchises from licenses to subscriptions is both making its business more predictable and increasing its long - term revenue opportunity with major clients.

Even though Microsoft (MSFT) started as a OTC stock, but that was over 30 years ago, remember today is different, you as an average investor should stay away from OTC stock if you can, unless you have money to burn or gamble.

We've traded stocks like Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN), PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Square (NYSE: SQ), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) for short - term gains with the corresponding call options raking in profits from 39 % to 202 % for quick holding periods.

Its P / E pales in comparison with tech peers Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) even though analysts expect similar earnings - per - share growth from all three companies.

IMO, Kindles were fundamentally pushed by Amazon as a defensive measure to keep B&N and / or Apple and / or MSFT from dominating the e-book-buying space and gradually edging Amazon out of its dominating position therein.

Honestly, from a BES administration standpoint, I could care less, aside from obvious cost reduction points to help aide in the ever - annoying RIMM vs MSFT arguments that are being fueled every single day.

Jamie Iannone, president of digital products at Nook Media (the spinoff of Barnes & Noble's digital and college businesses, which was completed in October and includes investments from Microsoft (s MSFT) and Pearson), said in a statement that the two - for - one deal lets customers «fully experience all that the expansive Nook Store of more than 3 million titles has to offer.»

Add it all up and you're looking at potentially capturing 10 % - plus yields from world class stocks like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (MCD), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Pepsi (PEP) and more.

After a long - term uptrend that began in 2013, Microsoft (MSFT)-- one of just three companies in the world to be awarded the coveted AAA rating from Standard and Poor's — has taken a much - needed breather.

Put simply, a «10 % Trade» is a conservative, income - oriented trade that typically lasts just six to 10 weeks and that, if repeated over the course of a year, can generate at least 10 % yields from companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Coca - Cola (KO), McDonald's (MCD), Apple (AAPL), Wal - Mart (WMT), Target (TGT), General Electric (GE), Wells Fargo (WFC) and more.

Add it all up and you're looking at potentially capturing 10 % - plus yields from world class stocks like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (MCD), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Coca - Cola (KO), Pepsi (PEP) and more.

(a.) MSFT shares trade flat (below the $ 60 strike price)-- the option will expire worthless and you keep the premium ($ 107 per contract sold) from the option.