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Why Congress needs a pay cut, or threat of one - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 10 hours 28 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.
GameStop earnings rise 12% in third quarter - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 4 days 14 hours 59 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 7 hours 28 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 | 4 days 15 hours 12 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 7 hours 15 minutes ago
What happened to the Silicon Valley zero-sum game?
Call of Duty(R): Modern Warfare(R) 2 Sets All-Time Entertainment Industry Record Grossing an Estimated $550 Million Worldwide in First Five Days [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 10 hours 13 minutes ago
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NSF Awards Cornell Grant to Deploy MATLAB on the TeraGrid [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 16 hours 13 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 | 19 days 13 hours 13 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 7 hours 28 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 | 46 days 15 hours 28 minutes ago
EBay, H-P, Microsoft among early tech advancers
University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund Achieves Record $2 Million Return on HandyLab Acquisition [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 9 hours 16 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...
Canadian Innovation Exchange Highlights Technology Visionaries As Keynote Speakers [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 15 hours 8 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.
Day 3 WISE 2009: Peer-to-Peer Digital Communications Also Have Central Role in Education Practices [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 6 hours 37 minutes ago
DOHA, Qatar, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Please click on the following link to access the full version of the Digital Press Release:
Global Leaders Achieve Major Outcomes at First World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 1 hour 5 minutes ago
DOHA, Qatar, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --
ASD Expands Nationwide; Broadens Its Business Intelligence Focus [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 14 hours 13 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.
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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 |