Fresh analyst downgrade burdens Microsoft’s stock

Microsoft’s long languishing stock today received a fresh blow in the form of a very public downgrade by Davenport & Co. analyst F. Drake Johnstone. Not only did Mr. Johnstone move Microsoft from a ‘buy’ to a ‘hold,’ he removed his share price target, and cut his forecasts for the company’s coming fiscal 2012. The reason for his downgrade? The PC market. After weak earnings in regards to PC sales from the likes of HP and Dell, Davenport & Co....

2 min · 364 words · Eric Kirby

Fresh Feed: An Elegant Way to Read News

I believe that quality content has to be consumed from an elegant app, likeFresh Feedfor Mac. Fresh Feed is a simple and effective News notifier that doesn’t try to be the Jack of all trades. It sports a minimalistic yet gorgeous design. Upon installation, the app will set itself in the menubar. Another good thing about Fresh Feed is that it doesn’t nag you to add feeds right away. Popular online news resources are automatically subscribed to and are readily accessible....

3 min · 502 words · Ronald Prince

Fresh insight on Windows 8 from the people building it

An intrepid writer over on ZDnetculled a veritable mountain of datathat contained reference to Windows 8 from around the Internet and complied it into a massive list. As with every endeavor of the sort, it is more chaff than wheat. That is where we come in. Instead of confusing you with odd lines of text pulled from LinkedIn profiles and job postings, what follows is a condensed run through of the most interesting parts of ZDnet’s findings....

3 min · 583 words · Lisa Ramos

Fresh screenshots leak from the Internet Explorer 9 RC

We love a good leak here at TNWmicrosoft, and this one is of particular note. We have freshly found screenshots of the forthcoming release candidate (RC) build of Internet Explorer 9. Coming from theRussian website WinSite.ru, we have a bevy of new information from the build numbered 9.00.8073.6010. According toWinRumors, “this build is one of Microsoft’s escrow near final builds of Internet Explorer 9 RC.” That said, let’s get to the images....

2 min · 300 words · Rachel Harrell

FreshBooks launches official add-on store

FreshBooks, a leading Canadian invoicing company has just rolled-out its official FreshBooks add-on store. Toronto-based FreshBooks offers a service for online accounting, invoicing, billing and expense management and it’s full of tools for businesses including PayPal integration. The FreshBooks add-on store brings users a series of additional tools that can be used to enhance their current FreshBooks experience, and it also creates a new venue for developers that can now offer both paid and free add-ons to the healthy 2 million + FreshBooks community....

4 min · 772 words · Thomas Webb
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