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Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Presents WISE Awards to Six Outstanding Education Innovators [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 14 hours 54 minutes ago
DOHA, Qatar, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Please click on the following link to access the full version of the Digital Press Release:
Darren R. Huston Elected to DeVry s Board of Directors [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 8 hours 34 minutes ago
DeVry Inc. (NYSE:DV), a global provider of educational services, announced today that Darren R. Huston, 43, was elected to serve as a Class III director until 2012 at its annual meeting of stockholders held on Nov. 11, 2009. Lyle Logan, William T. Keevan and Julia A. McGee were also re-elected to serve as Class III directors through 2012.
Google's lifeline for AOL shows signs of decline - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 9 days 11 hours 15 minutes ago
At a book party for author Ken Auletta, who has just written "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," Kara Swisher asks guests if they were scared by the search giant's growing power.
Why Congress needs a pay cut, or threat of one - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 11 hours 34 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 | 3 days 16 hours 5 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.
Conspiracy Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces New Investor Relations Site for Shareholders [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 16 hours 19 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 | 9 days 8 hours 21 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 | 4 days 11 hours 19 minutes ago
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NSF Awards Cornell Grant to Deploy MATLAB on the TeraGrid [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 17 hours 19 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...
Serenic Navigator 2009 Simplifies User Experience for Financial and Business Management [Press Release]
MarketWire | 10 days 9 hours 19 minutes ago
EDMONTON, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/09 --
Blackboard Joins Forces with Microsoft to Make Course Information Available on Web Browsers [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 18 days 14 hours 19 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 | 6 days 8 hours 34 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 | 45 days 16 hours 34 minutes ago
EBay, H-P, Microsoft among early tech advancers
InQuinox Announces First SAN Booting System Migration Utility [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 15 hours 49 minutes ago
InQuinox, the data storage industry’s most innovative solutions provider for IT’s worst problems, today announced the release of the industry’s first Storage Area Network (SAN) booting system migration utility. SanXfer™ software migrates Windows®-based SAN booting systems to new hardware automatically, regardless of vendor, model or attached devices. It expands server hardware options, simplifies administration and Disaster Recovery (DR), and increases IT environment reliability. Unlike manua...
Global Leaders Achieve Major Outcomes at First World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 2 hours 11 minutes ago
DOHA, Qatar, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --
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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 |