Share of enterprise software provider Informatica are trading higher this morning after Roth Capital analyst Nathan Schneiderman lifted his rating on the stock to Buy from Neutral, asserting that a recent sell-off was overdone.
After a trial and an appeal, the Justice Department and the company reached a settlement in which Microsoft agreed to share some of its software code with competitors.
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And because of the program's complexity, even the best produce their share of bug-ridden software.
Microsoft has a 94% share of the desktop productivity software market, but it has been losing ground to rivals like Google and Salesforce in the cloud computing space.
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For each of its media partners, ClickFuel generates revenues from some combination of an enterprise licensing fee, a charge based on the number of SMBs that use the software, and a share of the revenues from the online advertising.
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Microsoft and Facebook declined to discuss the patents, which represent the lion's share of the patent portfolio the software giant agreed to buy earlier this month from AOL Inc.
As Gillian also heard in compiling the Business Scotland programme, there are significant success stories in the sector - the rapid growth of Skyscanner, based in central Edinburgh and using some very smart software to eat up share of the vast online airline ticket booking market.
The maker of the bike-share software, PBSC Urban Solutions, Inc. in Montreal, didn't return a message seeking comment.
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Oracle is the world's biggest seller of proprietary software to run such databases, with a market share of nearly 50%.
Adobe Systems has around 43% market share in creative software market globally as of 2009.
Notably, Oracle is already the dominant player in the database software market with a share of around 50%.
Measured as a share of GDP, investment in equipment and software is almost back to its prerecession level.
Even PowerPoint software developers do their share of doodling.
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Analysts and industry watchers have been speculating for some time that Nokia would (or at least should) open itself up to the possibility of hosting third-party software on its phones in a bid to recapture its narrowing share of the smartphone market.
Oracle is the largest player in the database software market with a market share of close to 50%.
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Microsoft Office is the dominant player in the productivity software market with an estimated share of around 95% as of 2009.
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Luckily BubbleBoy's proud author chose to share his achievement with the manufacturers of anti-virus software, rather than mail it to the rest of us.
One application, called Shibboleth, is a piece of open source software that enables users to share restricted online resources.
Following PeopleSoft's warning, Morgan Stanley cut its earnings estimate for the provider of enterprise application software to 13 cents per share from 20 cents.
On installation users are asked permission to share their contacts so that the software can identify which of their friends are also on the service.
Most enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based, on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in the rapidly growing cloud computing market.
Goodwill has set up a whole new division that will use the lure of share options in start-ups to poach young software engineers from big electronics companies.
Microsoft is desperate to grab a bigger share of the online-advertising market because many of its software products are being challenged by free, advertising-supported services offered by Google.
Yes, I realize that Microsoft has a 95% share of the office application market and its server and networking software is the most popular, secure and reliable out there.
That is why, as the stock market hemorrhaged when trading resumed after the tragedy, the share price of Viisage, a maker of facial-recognition software, more than doubled, the biggest gainer of any stock that grim day.
But somehow the back office software business manages to mint more than its share of the super-rich, it seems.
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Minister Yashwant Sinha energized the business community by presenting a fairly bullish budget on Feb. 27, software was among a handful of sectors whose share prices were hitting the stratosphere.
John Wiley and Sons, the textbook publisher suing Kirtsaeng, has its share of backers as well, including the movie and music industries, software companies, and other book publishers.
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The firm makes money back by offering support and training and also plans to take a share of sales from online marketplaces offered by handset makers who adopt its software.
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