Blue Coat Systems shares are losing ground Monday morning after Lazard Capital analyst Ryan Hutchinson this morning cut his rating on the WAN optimization software stock to Neutral from Buy.
Blue Coat Systems shares are trading sharply lower this morning after the Web security and wide-area network optimization software company reduced its earnings outlook and disclosed a management shake-up.
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Blue Coat Systems shares are trading sharply lower in the after-hours session Thursday after the Web security and wide-area network optimization software company reported disappointing guidance for the July quarter.
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The guts of the program is so-called optimization software that compares the bills on a monthly basis with some 13, 000 cellular rate-plan combinations available across the U.S., to make sure the client is paying the lowest amount possible.
This being the tablet's official unveiling, it's quite possible the model we handled could still benefit from software optimization.
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In particular as we move to the Cloud, software optimization and back-end processing are going to be more important than pure processor grunt.
Keep in mind these early results are based off of pre-production hardware and final units could yield welcome improvements in the form of software optimization.
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"We were turning up our nose at Linux, which was a huge strategic mistake, " says Klein, who came to the company from software optimization company Mercury Interactive (nasdaq: MERQ - news - people ).
They combine that with search engine optimization (SEO) software like that from SEOMoz, and typically hire an outside firm to manage their SEO and social marketing efforts.
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And Wal-Mart is not the first retailer to invest in software-generated workforce optimization, points out Edward Jones retail analyst Stephanie Hoff.
Products from these companies were integrated into a new software suite called Business Technology Optimization.
Lenovo optimization does not impact any essential services or software features.
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GenYers in the survey were nearly 3 times as likely as employees in general to cite skills such as tableau software (a business intelligence tool), blogging, social media optimization and press releases.
Mountain View, California and Oslo, Norway - February 15, 2013 - Opera Software announced today that it has acquired Silicon Valley based Skyfire Labs, a leader in mobile video optimization and cloud solutions for mobility.
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