Oracle earnings beat expectation
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BUSINESS software maker Oracle&#39;s quarterly earnings just exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in applications the company hopes to remedy through its takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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Oracle, the world&#39;s second largest software producer, has seen first quarter profits surge 16% on the back of strong sales of database products.
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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's second-largest software vendor, has beaten Wall Street analysts' expectations with its first-quarter results, due to strong sales of its  database software.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 18--Oracle earned $967 million during the second quarter, an  increase of 21 percent from the same quarter last year, the company said  today.
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Oracle Corp. on Tuesday reported  a higher quarterly profit as the world's second largest  software company benefited from steady demand for its flagship  database software.
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Oracle Corp. , the world&#39;s third  largest software maker, reported profit that beat Wall Street  expectations on Tuesday and gave a positive growth outlook for  the current quarter that nudged its shares higher.
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Business software maker Oracle   Corp. ORCL.O posted a quarterly profit on Tuesday that topped   Wall Street forecasts as strong sales of new licenses for   applications helped boost revenue, sending its shares up 5   percent.
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Oracle Corp. reported revenue and earnings growth in its first fiscal quarter, with its revenue from new software licenses rising 7 percent, to US$563 million.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's third-largest software maker, reported on Tuesday higher quarterly profit as sales of products it acquired over the past year helped boost earnings.
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Quarterly profit beat expectations on strong growth in its international, ground and freight segments.
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US software company Oracle reports a jump in profits after acquisitions boosted its sales of business products.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. topped Wall Street's profit forecast, but the business software maker saw sales of its business applications software slide 36 percent - with the reversal of that slump a key goal behind Oracle's tenacious pursuit of rival PeopleSoft Inc...
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IBM reported strong fourth-quarter earnings on Monday, beating analysts' expectations. It plans to provide its full earnings report later this week.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.'s quarterly earnings exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in a product line that the company hopes to bolster by completing a long-sought takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle&#39;s stock price rose on Wednesday after the software maker reported that its first-quarter profit surged 16 percent compared to last year, reaching $509 million.
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Shares of software maker Oracle Corp.  rose as much as 8 percent in early trading on Wednesday, a day after the company posted strong quarterly profit fueled by steady demand for its flagship database products.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.'s quarterly earnings exceeded analyst expectations, despite sluggish sales in a product line that the company hopes to bolster by completing a long-sought takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. -AP