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Give Jim Whitehurst his due and proper

Red Hat wasn't broke when Whitehurst came in, and they're just keeping on. The had another good quarter, the stock has more than doubled in value this year, and the market cap is now over $5 billion. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Market Capitalization, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales

Over-reaction of marketThis Apple news will be diluted once Windows7 ships this week. Plus, with the new Zune HD and Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple's days are definitely numbered. Microsoft is poised to take control of all markets once and for all. I would sell AAPL if I were a shareholder...

Tags: Investment, Digital music, Digital media, Financial accounting, Personal finance, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple stock price, Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., market capitalization, stock

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Dell is going shopping: Pondering the data center and services targets

Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company is likely to spend some of its $10 billion in cash on an acquisition that would give it more of a foothold in the data center or expand its services.  The one bright spot of Dell's first quarter was the...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Market Capitalization, Data Center, Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Sun-Oracle FAQ: Did IBM make a big mistake?

Sun-Oracle FAQ: Did IBM make a big mistake?Oracle should buy Apple...Just to put the straw that broke the Camel's back.Oracle should buy SCOIf you're going to kick IBM in the teeth, why not join someone that is already doing it? Not only will Oracle own Sun, but Oracle will OWN...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Dell offers PC that packs 192GB of DDR3 RAM [not a typo]

Dell offers PC that packs 192GB of DDR3 RAM [not a typo]Both XP and Vistahave 64-bit versions, which can handle more then 3GB of RAM.So Intel has been holding the market back until they could match AMD?[i] Before Nehalem, Intel?s PC memory controllers were mounted on the...

Tags: Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, RAM, DDR3 RAM, PC, Nehalem, market capitalization, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Attention Shoppers: Apple Worth More Than Google

Apple and Google almost are acting like the McCain and Obama campaigns. You try to grab attention and I’ll try to top you. Just when Google took over the tech news attention cycle for a full 24 hours, the invitations for its “Let’s Rock” event went out....

Tags: Google Inc., Market Capitalization, Apple Inc., Web Browsers, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Apple market capitalization tops Google

Apple market capitalization tops Googleit means nothingEasy comes, easy goes, that number is just that, a number; prosperity doesn't always last forever...This news comes as great relief to manyThis will totally make up for the fact that MobileMe doesn't work, the iPhone 3G doesn't work, Mac video cards don't work,...

Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., market capitalization, Apple market capitalization, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Apple market capitalization tops Google

Apple AAPL eclipsed Dell's market cap of US$71 billion in January 2006 and in intraday NASDAQ trading in June 2007 Apple’s market value doubled that of Dell’s DELL, $127.81 billion vs. $63.65 billion. Take that Michael Dell! Today our favorite Cupertino company achieved another financial milestone, passing...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Market Capitalization, Apple Inc., Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Market disconnects

Last November 12th, the day of the 1:4 reverse stock split, Sun's shares closed at $20.33 for a market cap of around $15.7 billion. Six months later, on May 12th, they closed at $13.42 for a market cap of about $10.3 billion - a 34% decrease over...

Tags: Shareholder, Market Capitalization, Trader, Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Google playing proprietary games with open source?

Google playing proprietary games with open source?I'm pretty sure a company with ......a $200 billion market cap and a 50 to 1 price to earnings ratio doesn't need your advice.Just because I write a program for LINUX...Doesn't mean I must subjugate it to an open source license. As someone who...

Tags: JCP, GNU/Linux, game, open source, Google Inc., market capitalization, proprietary game

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

A real bidding war: Google's price target

A real bidding war: Google's price targetTypo there LarryAt the end of the second paragraph. I think you meant $100 billion. If Google's still trying to get to $100 million they've got major problems. ;)At least Google's generating revenueI have to roll my eyes sometimes when these analysts...

Tags: Investment, IBM Corp., Google market cap, Google Inc., market capitalization

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms

IBM, the worlds largest computer and IT services company, could become an acquisition target for private equity firms said Steve Bengston, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr Bengston was speaking at a recent lunch panel on trends and predictions for 2007 organized by FountainBlue. Also on the panel was Fred Greguras,...

Tags: Trend watch, IBM, private equity company, private equity

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Land value taxation and the stock market

According to economic theory, the shares of a public company should be worth the discounted net present value of its future earnings divided by the number of shares issued. That's theory, but Google today has a market cap of $100 billion on revenues of perhaps $6 billion while Sun has...

Tags: stock market, Sun Microsystems Inc., analogy, surplus, market capitalization, Google Inc., theory, stock

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Additional Resources

Nintendo: 2009's 'World's Best Company'

BusinessWeek released 2009's Top 40 list of World's Best Companies, and the top dog may come as somewhat of a surprise. Our lovable Mario jumped on the Goomba heads of Apple, Google, and Amazon to save the princess and reach the No. 1 spot, making it...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., BusinessWeek, Kearney, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Leadership, Sales, Management, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!

Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...

Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Some Business.com: R.H. Donnelley files for bankruptcy?

In July 2007, R.H. Donnelley paid $345 million for the domain Business.com. That dough could have come in handy today as R.H. Donnelley's market capitalization is a hair above $3 million. R.H. Donnelley on Monday filed for Chapter 11 restructuring.  In a statement, R.H. Donnelley said that...

Tags: R.H. Donnelley Corp., Business.com, Bankruptcy, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Analysis of Workday's capital infusion

Yesterday, Workday announced it had raised $75 million in Series E venture financing. The investors in this round included company founder Dave Duffield, Greylock Partners a firm Aneel Bhusri joined after his PeopleSoft days, as well as VC firm NEA Ventures. NEA is the new player in the mix. ...

Tags: Valuation, Financing, Workday, Analysis, NEA Ventures, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Q&A: Kronos CEO Aron Ain on ERP, Saas and the joys of being privately held

Kronos, a human capital management software company, revolves around good timing. For starters, it tracks employee work time, scheduling and other work processes to improve productivity. It also managed to go public back in 1992, make a bunch of acquisitions and then go private in 2007 just before the economy...

Tags: Kronos Inc., ERP, Human Capital, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-06

RealNetworks: Revenue in line; Charges pile up

RealNetworks said Tuesday that its fourth quarter revenue will be in line with its expectations, but detailed a bevy of charges. The company statement said its revenue for the fourth quarter will be $151 million to $153 million. However, it will be writing down goodwill and acquired...

Tags: Revenue, RealNetworks Inc., Goodwill, Games, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-03