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- Time Warner sets AOL spin off for Dec. 9
- Time Warner declares a spin-off date for AOL of Dec. 9 and explains the stock distribution and dividend plan. by Sam Diaz
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Stock, Dividend, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Rimini Street chief: Where's the maintenance cost 'peace dividend'?
- Enterprise software maintenance and support---the cash cow that keeps giving---has becoming a hot topic amid an economic downturn that has customers questioning a never-ending stream of price increases. Rimini Street is at the forefront of taking advantage of some of this ire. Rimini Street, a third party...
- Tags: Maintenance, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, Dividend, Rimini Street, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Google's VC fund: Would you rather have a dividend?
- Google has a bevy of side projects and now there's another one: A reported $100 million venture capital fund. Google announced its venture fund on its blog post and like all things the search giant does it has garnered a lot of attention Techmeme. Google says: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Venture-capital Fund, Dividend, Intel Corp., VC, Intel Capital, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Oracle Q3 at high end: declares dividend 5¢, cautions Q4
- "But for currency, we sold more in licenses than we did in Q3 of last year...We are still able to grow ahead of our plan," crowed Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO on today's earnings call. An upbeat Oracle executive team reported numbers at the high end of guidance...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Dividend, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Corporate Law, Personal Finance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Oracle delivers solid third quarter; Strong dollar dings fourth quarter outlook
- Oracle's fiscal third quarter earnings were better than expected and the company declared its first-ever dividend as a way to spin off its excess cash directly to shareholders. The applications and database giant reported net income of $1.33 billion, or 26 cents a share, on revenue of $5.45 billion,...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Software License, Dividend, Quarter, Earnings, Database Revenue, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Kiwibank's New Account in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Is Gaining Dividends
- Kiwibank is a 100 percent New Zealand-owned and -operated bank with branches in hundreds of locations across the length and breadth of the country. It needed to achieve control over the accuracy and consistency of burgeoning business information in a rapidly growing organisation and make that information available to a...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Dividend, IBM Corp., Kiwibank, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-23
- Earnings Tracker 4 (Windows)
- Earnings Tracker is a free accounting tool for UK contractors. It enables invoice amounts, salaries, pension contributions, and expenses to be recorded, and calculates the amount of corporation / business tax due. It also enables dividend tax vouchers to be generated. Written in PHP and MySQL, Earnings Tracker can downloaded...
- Tags: Accounting, Dividend, Microsoft Windows, John Dixon Technology, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-09-10
- MyGains Deluxe 1.0.18 (Windows)
- MyGains is a software that allows you to track, report and save on capital gains taxes. With a simple yet powerful and intuitive interface, it allows you to automatically download transactions from multiple brokerages in a secured way. Highlights of MyGains - Deluxe include: Trades...
- Tags: Accounting, Dividend, Microsoft Windows, Brokerage, MyGains, Taxes, Free Trade, Mutual Funds, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Market Alternatives for Sun
- Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Share Register 3 (Windows)
- The Share Register allows maintaining your shareholders listing in a master file with key data and also incorporating summarized as well as transactional details at a glance. Maintaining a document library for the individual shareholder as well as company wide with the attachments being in pdf, gif, jpg, bitmap, word...
- Tags: Shareholder, Dividend, Microsoft Windows, Amblin Software, Share Register, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, E-mail, Finance, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-04-29
- Microsoft SQL Server Migration Pays Big Dividends for SAP/ERP Customers
- Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are the nervous system of an organization, tracking and coordinating vital operational support. They move products, place orders, assist in decision-making, track projects, and support numerous industry-specific needs. Implemented primarily in the 1980s and 1990s, most organizations have their ERP environments firmly in-place and under...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Wipro Technologies, Dividend, ERP, Server, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning System, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Storage, Databases, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Rich, branded experiences pay dividends for advertisers
- Imagine a world where advertising is targeted and fun. That's what I think about every single day when I use or build rich internet applications. Productivity applications are great but there's also a lot to be said for engaging consumers and RIAs are a great way to do that. Any...
- Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Rich Internet Application, Dividend, Advertiser, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Japanese government investment in broadband pays dividends
- How do you like these statistics? Japanese broadband customers pay about 70 cents per megabit per second of bandwidth. In the US, we pay $4.90, on average, according to Takashi Ebihara, senior director of the corporate strategy department at NTT East Corp. Why? A wide-ranging government policy on...
- Tags: Government technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Investment Management Firm Reaps Dividends With HP Storage
- Banquo Credit Management wanted an easy-to-manage centralized storage resource for multiple groups and applications, which reduces the time spent on storage management and frees IT to support strategic initiatives. Banquo Credit Management deployed the HP StorageWorks All-in-One AiO Storage System to consolidate storage resources and to use as an on-line...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Dividend, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Banking on the HP BladeSystem Using HP Management Tools: The Dividends Are Availability, Performance and Security
- B-Source, the market leader in the outsourcing of IT and bank back-office services in private banking and wealth management firms, needed a scalable solution that was both flexible yet highly available to support its Citrix data farms that deliver these IT solutions directly to customers. Working hand-in-hand with HP, B-Source...
- Tags: Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Banking, Dividend, Tool, HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Would Microsoft make a good private equity play?
- I'm not sure what they are smoking at The Financial Times today, but it's produced a hallucinogenic $288 billion in unrealized value that Microsoft is failing to deliver to investors. That is, value that would be extracted from the assets if the company were acquired in...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., private equity
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- Software's SOA buzz yielding dividends
- Software's SOA buzz yielding dividendsAn aside: Microsoft's cash cows...... now include servers and tools:"Meanwhile, Microsoft's server and tools business continues to grow rapidly and now approaches the size of its Windows and Office business units."People who observe that Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office will have to expand...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, software, dividend, IBM WebSphere, SOA, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Applixware
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Microsoft ups quarterly dividend 12.5 percent
- Microsoft ups quarterly dividend 12.5 percentsmoke and mirrorsM$ executives are cashing in while they still can.Next year M$ stock will be worth nothing because of the onslaught from OSS.12.5% sounds better than $0.01 eh? nt.The emperor's new clothes...MS is in denial. Office and Windows are their only products that...
- Tags: Game players, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, emperor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, dividend
- Discussion threads 2005-12-15
- OptionsVantage 1.2 (Mobile)
- Designed for market professionals requiring mobile access to option valuation and analysis. OptionsVantage provides popular vanilla option pricing models (black-scholes, binomial CRR) to calculate fair values, implied volatilities, and the Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho) for American and European stock, index, and currency options. Supports annual dividend yields...
- Tags: Mobile, Dividend, Pricing Strategy, Analysis, P Chard, OptionsVantage, Version1.2, Pricing, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Investment, Marketing, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-05-18
- IBM boosts dividend, hears complaints
- IBM boosts dividend, hears complaintsWay to go IBMJust shirk those you support you. Does history repeating itself mean anything to the mega corp?Guess not, we will see where this leads shortly.
- Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., dividend
- Discussion threads 2005-04-26
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