Systems Software

Congratulations, you've just lived through the sixth-worst day in the history of the U.S. stock market. The Dow Industrials fell 634 points on Monday in response to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating, and two days later the volatility continues. After a day like...

Finland-based phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to stop selling low-end phones and Symbian-based smartphones in North America, as the company goes all-in on Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) newest mobile Windows software. In interview with AllThingsD this week, the head of Nokia's U.S. subsidiary,...

Shares of BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) are higher on the session by 3.31%, trading at $39.35. Overall put volume is now running at 2.96x the daily average, with 74% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,752 contracts have traded on the session so far. BMC Software, Inc. is a software...

Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 344,930 contracts, 49.8% calls, 50.2% puts 2. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) 244,700 contracts, 46.8% calls, 53.2% puts 3. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 195,542 contracts, 60.9% calls, 39.1% puts 4. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT...

Radiant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RADS) announced today that it has acquired Texas Digital Systems, Inc. Texas Digital's solutions enable businesses to improve order accuracy, increase speed of service and influence sales at the point-of-purchase. “Order confirmation and digital signage is an...

Wunderlich Securities reiterated its Buy rating on Falconstor Software (NASDAQ: FALC). At the same time, the rating agency left its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $6. On Monday, FALC lost 9.79% of its value to end the day at $3.50.

I'll bet Facebook and Zynga are glad they haven't gone public yet. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is among the many tech companies taking significant losses following today's unparalleled crisis. As of this writing, the popular social networking has been hit by an 18% decline. Granted, LinkedIn was...

Will we even remember what FaceTime was five years from now? Probably. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a stickler for standing by its own technologies, so it seems unlikely that FaceTime will be abandoned. But while it may have seemed like a necessary evolution in videoconferencing when it first debuted,...

Deutsche Bank provided color on Quality Systems (NASDAQ: QSII). In a research report published today, the rating agency commented on the company's agreement with Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). In the report, Deutsche Bank states, “This morning, Quality Systems, through its NextGen divi‐ sion, announced that...

Today at SHARE's bi-annual user conference for enterprise technology professionals, CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) announced an agreement with INNOVATION Data Processing, a leading Linux storage management company, to include the company's UPSTREAM for Linux on Z and UPSTREAM for z/OS UNIX in its...

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) announced an agreement with INNOVATION Data Processing, a leading Linux storage management company, to include the company's UPSTREAM for Linux on Z and UPSTREAM for z/OS UNIX in its Linux on System z management offering. INNOVATION Data Processing's products provide...

Today at SHARE's bi-annual user conference for enterprise technology professionals, CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) announced an agreement with Velocity Software, a leading Linux performance management company, to include the company's zVPS™ Performance Suite for IBM System z in its comprehensive...

If a corporation has a lot of cash, one would think it doesn't need to take on the added costs (through interest payments) associated with debt. But it appears things in practice are a little different from what they are in theory; a simple screen on robotdough.com demonstrates that there are...

Cusick's Corner What a week. The initial rally at today's open did not last long, the selling began but then Europe's response to Italian and Spanish debt problems/default risk helped bring the market back causing more whiplash. There was that bounce because the US relies on exports to Europe to...

Cusick's Corner Stock volumes are surging. The market's bringing ugly back. Selling was brisk earlier but a rebound was in play after the European Central Bank said it would provide support for Italian and Spanish bonds if they agree to certain economic reforms. The market has had its swings...