Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 161 - 170 of 228 results for "Microsoft"

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... some of the uncertainty leading up to it, IG Market analyst Ben Potter said. US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Ordinaries index fell 28.1 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 4,803.6. NEW YORK - US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... modestly on Friday, with Dow blue chips spurred by Caterpillar's earnings while the Nasdaq struggled after lacklustre Microsoft results and a poor Research in Motion forecast. Despite mixed economic data and a tumble in Microsoft shares, the New York ...

RBS targets retail with ETIS launch

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... first batch of ETISs to be available are linked to the top 35 US stocks including names such as Coca-Cola, Google and Microsoft. The Australian dollar denominated ETISs are issued by RBS while CommSec will exclusively distribute the initial offer. Investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... recent missteps were "unacceptable." Other technology companies also rose. Hewlett-Packard Co rose 2.2 per cent, while Microsoft Corp and chipmaker Qualcomm Inc each rose more than one per cent. Broadcom Corp gained 3.9 per cent after an Oppenheimer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... Index in Sydney and PKF Chartered Accountants will release its Business and Population Monitor 2011. In equities news, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie is scheduled to address the Committee for Economic Development in Australia. ...

Super industry warned of hack attacks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... tamper with records, or steal private information. "All data in the super industry is on SQL databases such as Oracle, Microsoft, etc," said Det-Inspector van der Graaf. The superannuation industry's greatest risks are of internal compromise and hacking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... problems in the Middle East. March crude futures dropped 1.5 per cent. Nokia, the world's largest mobilephone maker, and Microsoft teamed up to build an iPhone challenger in an attempt to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market. ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Chinese ad resellers. According to reports these contracts represent 40 per cent of its overall revenue in China. And Microsoft? Financial markets saw looming trouble there too following the resignation of Ray Ozzie, MSFT's chief software architect and ...

Singapore: the cloud computing hub

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore, including software application developers such as Google and Microsoft. The city state is one of the major network hubs in the region and a critical mass of relevant expertise in support services ...