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...circumstance for most large cap stocks is the same. Spreads between high and low forecasts for the same company have widened even for firms which have had highly predicable numbers. For Microsoft (MSFT) there is an 8-cent difference between best and worst case scenario of $.45 per share profit and $.53. For AT&T (T) the numbers range from $.63 per share to $.69 per share. This may not seem like much, but for a corporation with revenue of $125 billion a year and 5.9 billion shares outstanding...
...fight over the future of Yahoo! - which has struggled with a takeover offer from Microsoft (MSFT), falling earnings and management changes - masks the great foundation the company still possesses. (See the worst business deals...
Yahoo! remains the No. 2 search company in the U.S., with about 18% of the market. Google (GOOG), by most measures, is far ahead, at 65%. Microsoft falls far behind at 10%. It is unlikely that Yahoo! will regain market share on the PC, but the wireless market has not been carved up. It may take years before it is clear who leads in Web searches on handsets. It is also unclear which company will take the wireless lead in Europe, India, China and Japan. Yahoo! still has a shot at a prominent position for its core business beyond...
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Sony is hoping Home will breathe some life into its flagging video-game division, which, according to Business Week, lost about $3.8 billion over the past two years. It sure can't help Sony that the latest PlayStation console costs nearly twice as much as Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's adorable...