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Magic Software is a provider of "platform-as-a-service" cloud computing application development tools and business software integration applications. It is a market with big growth potential, but also big boys as competitors. Can Magic survive and thrive?

By Clifford Stoll | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 27, 1995

The markets are significantly lower on a strong dollar (NYSE:UUP) and shockingly poor economic news.

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Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) is shooting higher today on the back of earnings that tripled analysts expectations for the company. The stock hit a high of $58.05 today in the first 10 minutes of trading only to slowly fade into lunch. The stock continues to trade higher by $2.75 or 5% but is under

Google Inc said on Wednesday it would build a super high-speed broadband network for up to half a million people around the United States in order to experiment with the possibilities of a network running at 100 times current speeds.

There is no other way to describe the last couple weeks in the market other than choppy! From a master reversal and bottoming tale on Friday
was a beauty. It essentially told me we would go into a short term
choppy upward dire

The Options Action gang had a few thoughts regarding AAPL on Friday night. To set the stage they mentioned the fundamental catalyst of a potential 4G IPhone rumoured to be released sometime in the near future.

Microsoft has reported a 60% jump in profit, thanks largely to "exceptional demand" for Windows 7.

Net profit came in at $6.66bn (£4.13bn) for the three months to 31 December 2009, up from the $4.18bn it made in the same period a year earlier.

It also reported record revenues of $19.2bn, which comfortably beat analysts' forecasts.

Complete coverage, specs, pictures, and details of Apple's new iPad.

The race to be king in the tablet PC market is heating up. Hewlett Packard, Dell ,Lenovo, Sony and Samsung have all displayed their tablet PC offerings at the 2010 Consumer Electronics show. Microsoft is expected to release a courier tablet PC within the next few months. All of these companies are

Electronic Arts has once again disappointed investors. EA downgraded profit expectations from 79 cents to a range of 40 to 55 cents per share. Electronic Arts had more excuses for why the company’s revenue was lagging. Electronic Arts blamed the poor economy, overseas weakness and consumers changing buying habits

Yesterday evening the story broke that Google (GOOG) was threatening to cease operations in China.

John Tantillo congratulates Apple for the positive buzz surrounding Slate, although little is known about the actual product, attributing the confidence in this unknown product to Apple's strong track record of designing superior products with customer needs in mind.

It is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so that they can adequately prepare equipment and doctrine ideal to meet the threat. Evidence, however, shows that what most occupies their attention is how to adapt existing force structures and systems to react to emerging conditions.

The basic technique of a technical analyst is to try and find confirming indicators, or an alignment of trends over multiple timeframes. From long-term monthly or weekly charts, all the way down to minute charts. So what I have done is annotated four AAPL charts; the monthly, weekly, daily and 60 minute charts. [Check out the site for the charts]

AAPL Monthly Chart AAPL Weekly Chart