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This weekend's Barron's examines the prospects for Meg Whitman's half of the old Hewlett-Packard. The prospects for a clinical lab operator, a homebuilder and a water resources company are also examined. A follow-up story takes a look at where a consumer goods giant goes from...

Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) were trading lower by more than 4 percent on Friday after the company reported its first-quarter results Thursday. According to Ed Maguire of CLSA, Oracle demonstrated improvements in its cloud SaaS and PaaS businesses but were yet again offset by declines...

How does salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM)'s business stack up to the much larger Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL)? According to Global Equities Research's Trip Chowdhry, salesforce is in an "uncomfortable position" compared to its peer, as it is "technology light and marketing heavy" and faces near...

The earnings season has wound down, so very few companies will be sharing quarterly results this week. However, two leading specialty retailers are expected to report their latest earnings. Wall Street analysts are looking for top and bottom line growth from both. In what overall will be a very...

According to Bloomberg, Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) handed over $1 billion to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Bloomberg reported that Apple received $1 billion from Google in 2014 as part of a search agreement between the two companies. The report noted...

Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) were trading lower by more than 3.5 percent Thursday following the company's second quarter print on Wednesday. Oracle earned $0.63 per share on revenue of $9 billion. Wall Street analysts were looking for an earnings per share of $0.60 on...

Wall Street is looking for strong quarterly results from Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Ciena Corporation (NYSE: CIEN) this week. Year-on-year earnings growth is also anticipated from Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST). However, mixed results are forecast for H & R...

The shopping extravaganza of the year is just one week away, and earlier this week, one of many surveys on Millennials and shopping trends related to Black Friday was released. 80 Million And Counting Despite the highly circulated stereotypes of self-centeredness, money mismanagement and...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (formerly Google Inc) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)’s recent ad platform updates came about because cookies don’t function properly in mobile browsers, according to Fluent CMO, Jordan Cohen. Marketers with large email lists could be winners...

Subscription-based services like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have forced companies in every sector to re-examine their business models. Many of these companies have turned to Zuora for help. Co-founded by Tien Tzuo, Zuora makes it possible for...

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) reported better-than-expected earnings for its first quarter on Wednesday, but sales fell short of expectations. At the same time, the company also issued forward-looking guidance that may have spooked investors, as shares were trading lower by more than 3 percent...

A couple of retailers and two software giants, as well as an ostensible bellwether of the U.S. economy, will highlight an otherwise quiet week on the earnings front. Wall Street analysts by and large expect to see sharp drops in earnings when Ascena Retail Group Inc (NASDAQ: ASNA) and Rite Aid...

Hortonworks Inc (NASDAQ: HDP) is on a mission to acquire new talent. Brian Marshall, vice president of corporate development, told Benzinga that the company is "constantly" seeking new M&A opportunities. "Anything we build internally or buy externally, we give it away free to our customers that...