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Why Congress needs a pay cut, or threat of one - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 21 hours 40 minutes ago
Everyone in business understands this. That's why enormous work goes into designing and improving incentive systems to align the interests of directors, executives and staff with those of stockholders. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's second in command, says he's been a fanatical believer in the power of incentives all his life and yet frequently finds he's underestimated it.
Critical Alerts for Microsoft, State Street, J.C. Penney, Netflix, and Mead Johnson Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 19 hours 54 minutes ago
Critical Alerts for Microsoft, State Street, J.C. Penney, Netflix, and Mead Johnson... Today's PriceWatch Alerts cover the following stocks: Microsoft Corporation , State Street Corp. , J.C. Penney Company, Inc. , Netflix...
GameStop earnings rise 12% in third quarter - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 2 hours 11 minutes ago
Sales rose 8.2% to $1.83 billion. Same-store sales fell 7.8%, mostly because of slower sales of new video-game hardware.
Avistar Expands New Product Offerings in the UK [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 18 hours 40 minutes ago
Avistar Communications Corp. (www.avistar.com), a leader in leader in unified visual communications solutions, today announced that Northern Ireland-based JSR Technology, which specializes in computer networks, telephone systems, videoconferencing, and other services, will distribute the award-winning Avistar C3 software solutions platform.
Conspiracy Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces New Investor Relations Site for Shareholders [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 2 hours 25 minutes ago
Conspiracy Entertainment Holdings, Inc. ("Conspiracy Entertainment") (OTCBB: CPYE), a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment software in North America and Western Europe, announced today that it has engaged PrecisionIR Group, to provide its proprietary platform for the Company’s Investor Relations section of the Company’s website.
Intel-AMD pact marks end of Valley's zero-sum game John Dvorak's Second Opinion - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 18 hours 27 minutes ago
What happened to the Silicon Valley zero-sum game?
NSF Awards Cornell Grant to Deploy MATLAB on the TeraGrid [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 3 hours 25 minutes ago
Cornell University announced today that the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) in partnership with Purdue University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to deploy The MathWorks MATLAB® on the TeraGrid as an experimental computing resource. This initiative will provide seamless parallel MATLAB computational services running on Windows HPC Server 2008 to remote desktop and Science Gateway users with complex analytic and fast simulation requirements. Project supporter...
Blackboard Joins Forces with Microsoft to Make Course Information Available on Web Browsers [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 20 days 25 minutes ago
Blackboard Joins Forces with Microsoft to Make Course Information Available...today announced an alliance with Microsoft Corporation to offer students and learners...the agreement, Blackboard and Microsoft will work together to enable...
James Cash, Jr., Ph.D., Joins Veracode Board of Directors [Press Release]
MarketWire | 7 days 18 hours 40 minutes ago
BURLINGTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- Veracode Inc., provider of the world's leading cloud-based application risk management services platform, today announced that James Cash, Jr., Ph.D., Emeritus James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University Business School, was named to its board of directors.
EBay, H-P, Microsoft among early tech advancers - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 47 days 2 hours 40 minutes ago
EBay, H-P, Microsoft among early tech advancers
Canadian Innovation Exchange Highlights Technology Visionaries As Keynote Speakers [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 2 hours 20 minutes ago
The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) is proud to host a premier line-up of innovative visionaries as keynote speakers in its one-day forum December 2, 2009 at the Design Exchange in Toronto.
University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund Achieves Record $2 Million Return on HandyLab Acquisition [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 20 hours 28 minutes ago
...the Advisory Board include Samuel Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments; Michael Hallman, former COO of Microsoft Corporation; and Eugene Applebaum, Founder of Arbor Drugs, Inc. For more information, visit the Institute at www.zli...
ASD Expands Nationwide; Broadens Its Business Intelligence Focus [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 1 hour 25 minutes ago
Advanced System Designs of Morton, Ill., recently expanded to locations across the United States and added several new members to its Business Intelligence (BI) team to support the growth of its offerings across the insurance, financial services and manufacturing specific industries.
EMC Drives More Efficiency Around New Microsoft Platforms [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 14 days 18 hours 25 minutes ago
...technologies through our leading Microsoft consultancy, storage technology integration across Microsoft's broad product portfolio...information infrastructure for Microsoft environments." EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer...
Chinese Entrepreneurs Gather Together to Explore the Chinese Approach to New Business Civilization [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 7 days 21 hours 25 minutes ago
BEIJING, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- On December 5 and December 6, 2009, The 8th China Entrepreneur Summit 2009, co-sponsored by the China Entrepreneur Magazine and the China Entrepreneur Club, will be held in Beijing. At that time, more than 700 leading domestic and international business leaders will attend this event, to further discuss whether China, which is out of the economic crisis, can become a dominant force in building a new business civilization.
Company Overview
| Company: | Microsoft Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Development Tools, Operating Systems & Utilities Software |
| Website: | http://www.microsoft.com |
Microsoft's ambitions are anything but small. The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its ubiquitous Windows operating systems and Office software suite. Microsoft has expanded into markets such as video game consoles, customer relationship management applications, server and storage software, and digital music players. The company has also used selective acquisitions to bulk up its presence in markets such as online advertising, mobile devices, and enterprise software. In 2008 Microsoft made repeated efforts to acquire Yahoo! but was ultimately rebuffed; the two companies would instead sign a deal in 2009 to combine their search operations.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 58,437 (2009) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | -3.3 (2009) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 14,569 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -17.6 (2009) |
| Number of Employees | 93,000 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 2.2 (2009) |
| Fiscal Year-End | June |