Oracle profits up on acquisitions
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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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PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O on  Thursday returned to profit in the third quarter from a year  earlier with a 12 percent rise in sales that upended market  fears that Oracle Corp.'s takeover bid had damaged PeopleSoft's  business in the quarter.
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Oracle Corp  posted a 35 percent rise in quarterly profit on higher-than-expected software sales and issued a strong outlook, easing concerns it may be hurt by the slowing U.S. economy and pushing its shares up 6.5 percent.
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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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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Thursday reported a quarterly net profit, after a year-earlier loss, as the company saw stronger sales of its  business software than what it had forecast earlier despite its continued fight to block a takeover from rival Oracle Corp.
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U.S. stocks jumped on Friday as higher-than-expected results from software maker Oracle Corp  and a share buyback from Texas Instruments Inc  boosted technology shares.
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SAN FRANCISCO Shares of Oracle, the software maker, were up more than 7 percent in late trading Wednesday, a day after the company said its first-quarter earnings rose 16 percent on strong demand for its flagship database programs.
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Oracle Corp. on Tuesday reported  a 16 percent rise in quarterly net income 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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Oracle Corp. reported second-quarter 2005 earnings that beat analyst expectations on Monday, thanks to new software revenue and continued gains from license updates and product support.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. on Thursday said its fiscal fourth profit rose 27 percent on record revenue as sales surged across most of its business lines and geographic regions.
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Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Tuesday  reported a 16 percent rise in quarterly net income as the  world's second largest software company benefited from steady  demand for its flagship database software.
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And slaps $1.3bn on Q2 bottom line Database giant Oracle said yesterday that it saw earnings jump by 35 per cent in its second quarter buoyed by strong sales of software licenses.â¦
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Oracle Corp  posted a 35 percent rise in quarterly profit on strong new software sales, beating expectations at a time when investors are wary that growth in technology spending may be slowing.
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Increase in revenue from new software licenses helped SAP increase Q2 profits, despite stiff competition from Oracle.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's second-largest business software maker, on Wednesday forecast 2005 and 2006 earnings above Wall Street estimates, helped by its &#36;10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft.