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U.S. stocks gained on Thursday despite the Commerce Department reporting that U.S. gross domestic product declined at a one percent annualized rate in the quarter. Analysts were expecting GDP to decline 0.4 percent. Pending home sales were below expectations but investors may have shrugged off...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), continuing to see “the writing on the wall” released its Mohoro Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Monday. Known officially as Azure RemoteApp, the service allows users to run Windows Server applications on a variety of devices. The remote desktop client that accompanies...

U.S. stocks declined for the second straight session on little market-moving news. The Nasdaq index was hit harder than other major indices with investors and traders selling off otherwise solid performers like Facebook, Google, Tesla, Keurig Green Mountain and others. "These are all stocks...

U.S. stocks slipped to negative territory aided in part by Friday being a quadruple witching trading session. Major indices sold off in the afternoon as investors likely took some chips off the table going in to an uncertain weekend with the situation in Ukraine far from resolved. The S&P...

U.S. stocks rose as investors focused on positive economic data rather than the tense situation in Ukraine. Economic reports showed that U.S. industrial production rose in February. President Obama imposed sanctions against Russian and Crimea officials following an election on Sunday which...

U.S. stocks declined as investors continue to question China's growth prospects following Monday's shocking report that its exports had tumbled in February. Certainly not helping investor sentiment is the fact that Crimea's parliament voted to declare independence from Ukraine. This weekend,...

Businesses are all about saving money. Now Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) have come up with a way enterprises can save lots of money via Google’s inexpensive Chromebook. Chromebook users, thanks to VMware, will be able to access Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows applications via...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

Wednesday marked another day of mixed trading as investors and traders continue to find little clarity from the quarterly results released so far. With the markets being a "mixed bag" major indices ended the day little changed with the Dow ending slightly in the red and both S&P 500 and...

Analysts at Lazard believe software makers Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS), NetSuite (NYSE: N) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) are well positioned to benefit from strong government spending in the current quarter and possibly to the end of the year. That should help them exceed consensus revenue estimates...

Monday’s announcement by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) that its Cloud Drive desktop app now syncs files across various devices puts the company on par with cloud competitors like Dropbox and others that have long offered that capability. Amazon, which offers 5GB of free storage with a basic account, is...

Samsung just announced a new feature that might put the lights out on BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and give Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a run for its money. Business Insider reported that earlier this week Samsung announced its latest technology - Samsung Knox. Knox is a new feature that lets you divide...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual Barron's/Lipper Fund Family Ranking, why the Dell buyout deal may unravel, and the prospects for CSX, Hospira, and Wendy's. Cover Story "All in the Family" by Lawrence C. Strauss. It is time again for the Barron's/Lipper Fund Family Ranking, and the...