The talking heads and Wall Street are likely misleading you. There's an old-school tech stock with a lot of potential these days.
This company is quietly transforming itself into a cloud-based provider of essential software tools. (You probably use at least one of them.)
The talking heads and Wall Street are likely misleading you. There's an old-school tech stock with a lot of potential these days.
This company is quietly transforming itself into a cloud-based provider of essential software tools. (You probably use at least one of them.)
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What is the Internet of Things?
It's a term thrown around in a lot of tech stories these days, though it's often not well explained.
But the Internet of Things will play a major role in the future of technology. The Internet of Things literally will change how we live. And in the process, it will create countless ways to profit.
To truly understand what this means, you need to see a few real-world examples...
Cutting through the tech industry jargon can be difficult - there are so many new terms surfacing every other day. And everything seems to progress so fast it's almost futile to try to understand.
We get that. It's our job to get that. We're here to sift through all the technobabble to bring you the pertinent information on how to profit.
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Rumors that a big tech player is ponying up funds for a salesforce.com acquisition give the financial media a lot to talk about.
Who will buy Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM)? Right now the Wall Street media circus is in full swing trying to find an answer.
Here's why that's all noise...
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In his first “report card” since taking the reins of Microsoft Corp. in February, CEO Satya Nadella showed why he was exactly the right choice to get MSFT stock moving again.
Microsoft beat expectations in when it reported earnings Thursday mostly on the strength of its cloud computing products – Nadella’s area of expertise, and the single most promising business segment for the Redmond-Wash.-based tech giant.
With a Microsoft reorganization plan expected to be announced on Thursday, investors at this point must be wondering: will it matter?
Shareholders of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have only recently gotten a glimmer of hope. Microsoft stock had languished in the $25-$30 range for more than a decade until this year, which has seen MSFT pop about 30%.
Although extremely profitable, Microsoft under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer has struggled to move beyond its core products of Windows and Office, which still deliver nearly all of those profits.
What this new Microsoft reorganization plan needs to do is reorient the Redmond, WA-based company toward future engines of growth, such as the mobile wave of smartphones and tablets, cloud computing and big data.
Insiders say Ballmer intends the new structure to provide "functional coherence" and will align the company into divisions based on services and devices.
But given Ballmer's spotty track record and Microsoft's unwieldy size (98,000 employees), it's not a given that any major structural overhaul will do much good in addressing the company's real problems.
As one worried Microsoft insider told The Wall Street Journal's All Things D: "If this is all about an org chart and not how to build great products, it does not matter what org chart Ballmer presents. Consumers buy products, not management structure."
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Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) reported a strong quarter at the end of October on the back of resurgent demand in the PC market. But the key issue to watch is the important transition in the company’s major technologies.
Microsoft just launched its very successful Windows 7 operating system, which has produced a major new upgrade cycle in the industry. In England, for example, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) had more success selling Windows 7 packages than it did Harry Potter books. Windows 7 has major advantages over Vista, including speed, simplicity and booting time. This is prompting Vista users, as well as those who skipped Vista, to upgrade.
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