Deal Radar 2008: Intacct

Intacct provides on demand financial management applications for small and midsized companies. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with offshore operations in Bangalore, India.

Dear Radar 2008: Everest Software

Everest Software provides small and mid size companies with a fully integrated business management software so that they can run their businesses more efficiently. It allows companies to quickly manage and track their business operations online and offline in order to increase efficiency and improve their bottom line. It is a comprehensive solution which integrates

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Microsoft’s Shopping List

Let Yahoo deal with its mess, Microsoft should go cold turkey on them for a year now, and let Jerry Yang get fired for failing to create shareholder value. A far more interesting question looms on the Microsoft side. What is Microsoft’s Internet strategy going forward?

3G iPhone and Qualcomm

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The 3G iPhone rumors are getting more frequent by the day. We all know it will hit the market. It is just a question of when. I have, in the past, looked at the likely component vendors for the impending iPhone including Infineon and InterDigital. As requested by one of

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Qualcomm: Valuation Revisited

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author It has been around six months since I wrote my Qualcomm valuation series. I had at that time valued the company at $44.60. Following the company’s fiscal second quarter 2008 earnings conference call I reviewed its mobile opportunities, strategy and also its product strategy for convergence and mobile computing in

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Still Bullish on Shutterfly

Shutterfly (SFLY), the online photo company, recently declared first quarter results. Their revenue for the quarter of $34.3 million missed the market’s views of $34.8 million, even though it was 29% higher over previous year Q1 revenues. Their GAAP net loss at $0.15 per share met market expectations and was higher than GAAP net loss

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Cadence Languishes On

Cadence, (Nasdaq: CDNS) continued to be bothered with the woes of the EDA industry. Q1 results reported last week saw the quarter’s revenue drop by 21% annually and and 37% sequentially to $287 million. However, the revenue still beat market expectations of $285 million. EPS for Q1 met analyst expectation of $0.04, recording a fall

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Marvell: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author I value Marvell at $21 per share. As we have evaluated in this series, the company draws its strengths from the stable revenue coming from its storage, ethernet and WLAN businesses. Its primary weakness is its perceived inability to control its expenses that have resulted in a poor profit/loss record

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