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We celebrate Martin Luther King Day songs by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Queen, Public Enemy, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and more.
We celebrate Martin Luther King Day songs by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Queen, Public Enemy, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and more.
Preston Frazier discusses Billy Sherwood's best contributions to prog and pop, both with Yes and with stars like Paul Rodgers and William Shatner.
Most bands have an acknowledged lead singer. But what about when others took over for the Rolling Stones, Heartbreakers, Queen, Doors and Faces?
You know Rick Danko from "Stage Fright" and "It Makes No Difference." To celebrate his birthday, let's explore some of his lesser-known Band tracks.
Big Star, the Romantics and the Knack make our list of power pop songs that deserve some of the attention that the Raspberries' titanic hit usually gets.
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Rob Breza of Wunderlich Securities today initiates coverage of nineteen companies, assigning Buy ratings to thirteen of those names, while offering Hold ratings for Microsoft (MSFT) and some others.
Breeza's Buy-rated names include: Opower (OPWR), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Proofpoint (PFPT), Intrexon (XON), Fortinet (FTNT), Salesforce.com (CRM), Hortonworks (HDP), FireEye (FEYE), Qualys (QYLS), MobileIron (MOBL), Tableau Software (DATA), Imperva (IMPV), and LifeLock (LOCK).
For Microsoft, Breza is quite positive about CEO Satya Nadella's transition to a "mobile cloud first world," writing that "MSFT's cloud platform Azure and cloud applications such as office 365 are under-appreciated and will likely be key pillars to MSFT growth going forward."
Nevertheless, "its historical Windows franchise will face pressure as the evolution continues, creating volatility and, more important, opportunity."
For Workday, he thinks it's taking longer for the company to diversify its cloud applications than many investors would like:
WDAY has helped to advance cloud computing by employing consumer Internet principles, which remain core to Workday's core innovation strategy, and we believe it is an industry leader within the Human Capital Management (HCM) segment. Valuation remains at a significant premium, as the company expands into financial applications, which, in our opinion, will likely come to fruition in a couple of years; this may disappoint investors' expectations.
Salesforce, one of his Buys, is continuing to invade the traditional software domain of Microsoft and Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP):
Challenging traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers such as Oracle (ORCL-$43.81, Hold) SAP (SAP-NR), and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT- $46.14, Hold), salesforce.com has been able to create a strong product and unequaled services that have quickly become the de-facto standard for the firm. In our opinion, the company will likely expand its dominance into customer service and marketing, while unifying its Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service operations with an advanced platform of analytics across the enterprise, including next-generation mobile and social interactions. Salesforce.com is currently engaging a total addressable market (TAM) of $62B, which is expected to grow to $82B by 2018, or a CAGR of 11%.
Fortinet, another Buy, has a favorable "risk-reward profile":
Fortinet shares currently trade at a P/S ratio of 6.4x our FY16 revenue estimate, which is a premium to the legacy security software group mean multiple of 4.0x but a discount to the next-gen security group of 7.9x. Our $48 price target target assumes Fortinet will trade at 7.3x our FY16 revenue estimate of $1.12B, which is a discount to the next-gen security software group. In our opinion, a premium multiple is justified given the more ratable nature of FTNT's business model compared with other next-gen firewall/UTM companies; thus, we believe our price target could have potential upside, which is outlined on the following pages.
In the case of Hortonworks, which sells support for the open-source Hadoop data management platform, the company's invention of the "Yarn" operating system for Hadoop is an important breakthrough, Breza writes:
In the early 2000s, Hadoop was created as a batch system that allowed users to manage large volumes of data at scale but was limited in accessibility as only pre- selected data sets could be analyzed in siloed computing clusters. In 2013, Hortonworks engineers made a breakthrough with the creation of the initial architecture for YARN, also known as Hadoop 2.0. YARN eliminates the need for silo data sets and acts as a common data operating system that processes data in multiple ways simultaneously, including interactive SQL, real-time, online, and batch.
Bernstein Research's Mark Moerdler today reiterates an Outperform rating on shares of Microsoft (MSFT), and a $56 price target, after reflecting on what he learned at the company's "Build" developer conference in San Francisco two weeks ago, and the accompanying analyst day event with CEO Satya Nadella and team.
Moerdler makes the "bull case in a nutshell," which includes the fact the new management is "aggressively transforming to a mobile- and cloud-centric company with greater focus on revenue synergies across business lines."
Among the factors in favor of the company are a pick-up in growth — 11% revenue growth in fiscal '16 and 15% in fiscal '17 — and improving profit margin and rising capital returns:
Accelerating revenue growth, driven by a shift to subscription-based licensing, new cloud and mobile offerings, and strong growth in enterprise business. Margins should improve as the new management team continues to streamline the company to be more efficient, even when accounting for the Nokia acquisition. Increased return of capital, driven by several new board members who we believe are much more likely to issue debt (secured by overseas cash) to fund larger buybacks.
As far as growth, the company should enjoy sales of the "Office 365″ version of its productivity suite, but also new applications within its "commercial cloud" offerings:
We estimate that the $20B in commercial Cloud revenue in FY18 conservatively includes $9.3B in new revenue and $10.7B in license revenue that transitions to Cloud revenue. We estimated that 78% of commercial Cloud revenue today is from Office 365 (see Exhibit 6), 15% from Azure and 7% from Dynamics CRM and other commercial Cloud sources, most of which are in their infancy but could be significant in the future. This is a combination of new revenue sources for Microsoft and existing revenues have transitioned.
And Moerdler supplies this infographic of the pecking order of growth drivers (click on the image to see it larger):
Shares of cloud computing titan Salesforce.com (CRM) are up $1.79, or 2.5%, at $74.54, bucking a bad market, lifted by a Bloomberg article yesterday that said Microsoft (MSFT) is mulling a bid for the company.
The deal chatter has already resulted in one price target increase for Salesforce, from Kash Rangan at Merrill Lynch, who raised his target to $80 from $73, though that was mainly about healthy trends in the business. Rangan sees upside of as much as $92 should a bid emerge from Microsoft, according to a write-up today by TheFlyontheWall.
One noted observer, venture investor Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners was on CNBC today saying this would be a bad idea for Microsoft, as "most large acquisitions in software do not go well," and certainly, Salesforce, with a $48 billion market cap, would be a very, very large acquisition.
Elsewhere, several analysts are willing to give credence, while at least one, Bernstein Research's Mark Moerdler, is as skeptical as McNamee.
Moerdler, who has been one of the most vocal defenders of Microsoft's progress in becoming a cloud computing company, has an Outperform rating on Microsoft shares, and a $56 price target, and an Underperform rating on Salesforce, and a $44 price target.
Today he writes that "We believe that it is quite possible that Microsoft would be talking internally about Salesforce.com."
Who wouldn't consider buying them, he suggests: "We would not be surprised if Microsoft, and most very large tech companies, would be considering how this would impact their business and whether they should be considering also making an offer."
But he's skeptical this would come to pass:
However, we do not believe Microsoft will make an offer for Salesforce.com. Having taken the time to consider the pros and cons and having talked to numerous investors, we believe the downside impact and risks for Microsoft would be considerably greater than any upside opportunity acquiring Salesforce.com would create. We believe the impact on cash, margins, clarity of Microsoft's Cloud vision, distraction of the company, and the integration costs and issues would be so significant that Microsoft would not go farther than kicking the tires.
Credit Suisse's Philip Winslow, who has an Outperform rating, and an $80 price target on Salesforce shares, writes that "with a potential reactionary bid under consideration by Microsoft, we would add Amazon to this list [of potential suitors], and based on management comments, we would eliminate both SAP and Oracle as the original bidders."
But like Moerdler, he is skeptical this would be a good idea for Microsoft:
We believe that Microsoft cannot afford another mismanaged Windows release, and we, therefore, had originally questioned whether Microsoft would be the bidder at this time. Although adding Force.com and Heroku could confuse its PaaS positioning of Azure, acquiring Salesforce.com would reinforce Microsoft's positioning as the clear #2 market share (and gaining) player in public IaaS and would establish the combined company as the clear #1 market share leader in public PaaS (with support for multiple platforms and frameworks, which is an emerging theme for Microsoft that was further highlighted at the Build conference last week) and SaaS. However, such an acquisition would likely be dilutive to Microsoft in the near to medium term or potentially trigger a repatriation of international cash (which would impact calculated enterprise value)-with both alternatives likely pressuring Microsoft's stock in the near term.
He sees a potential take-out range of $81 to $88 for Salesforce, based on the value of SaaS companies:
How Would Salesforce.com Be Valued? As highlighted in our note, If In Play, Salesforce.com Could Be Valued At… dated 29 April 2015, we performed two statistical analyses based on takeout multiples in the on-demand/SaaS/cloud sector versus each target company's LTM revenue growth rates. When applying these two trend models (plus one standard error) to Salesforce.com's LTM subscription revenue of $5.0 billion and revenue growth of 32.0%, we arrive at warranted takeout prices of $81.74 and $88.04 for Salesforce.com, respectively-suggesting continued upside from current levels.
Daniel Ives of FBR & Co., who sounded very bullish on Microsoft as a buyer yesterday, on CNBC, today reiterates those views in a note to clients:
We believe Microsoft could be a key potential buyer given its large balance sheet ($95.4 billion in cash and $31.9 billion in debt as of the March quarter) with room to take on more leverage, in our view, given robust cash generation/margins. Given Nadella's focus on the cloud and Windows 10 vision with Azure as the foundation, we believe an acquisition of salesforce.com would be a "game-changing" move that would significantly vault Microsoft's cloud platform, brand, and customer base.
However, he still sees Oracle as the front-runner in terms of who's a logical buyer:
Oracle, in our opinion, remains the front runner and company that stands to gain (or lose if it falls into enemy hands) the most from this deal, as we believe salesforce.com would fit right into Oracle's wheelhouse as it could help accelerate the database stalwart's painful cloud transition (e.g., move to subscription-based model) and leap-frog SAP's latest attempt to surpass Oracle's cloud offerings through the acquisition of Concur (announced last September). Overall, we believe a "ground- breaking" acquisition of salesforce.com would bolster Microsoft's transition to the cloud and increase its enterprise presence with core cloud products (e.g., Azure/Office 365) and scalable global architecture representing key differentiating factors that will continue to attract an increasing number of subscribers as enterprises evaluate/embrace cloud providers and their services over the coming quarters/years.
Amazon.com (AMZN), hosting its "AWS Summit" in San Francisco for its Amazon Web Services, today, announced a number of new initiatives, including a "Marketplace" in which to buy desktop applications delivered over the Internet, a new set of tools for managing files, the "Amazon Elastic File System," and a new service for helping companies make predictions.
The company also made a pitch that more and more companies are moving all their computing to AWS, and talked up companies that are doing so, such as publisher Time Inc.
Amazon shares rose 47 cents to $381.67 following the presentation.
The EFS is the "missing piece" in Amazon's cloud computing storage initiative, said Andy Jassy, senior VP for AWS. He billed it as a "file system that grows and shrinks, automatically."
Among the benefits of the software is that it means customers for cloud computing don't have to buy storage in advance, they will be billed just for the storage their file systems requirements demand: "With Amazon EFS, you pay only for the storage used by your file system. You don't need to provision storage in advance and there is no minimum fee or setup cost."
The technology, which will be in preview mode this summer. If you want to be in that beta test, you can sign up on the AWS Web site.
Following are a few slides from the presentation noting the attributes (click on the pictures to see them in a larger version):
In addition to EFS, Amazon announced it will be offering something called a "Machine Learnings Services," which allows customers to mine the data they have on Amazon servers to construct predictive models for "billions of predictions," with far greater ease, said Amazon, than traditional data scientists must bring to bear.
AWS's general manager, Dr. Steve Wood, explained customers will be able to use just three steps: "build model; validate & customize; make predictions."
The service is available today.
Turning to the database market, Jassy said customers were chomping at the bit for a new database, as shown by attempts to move to technologies such as MySQL. "We get asked all the time is there something you can do that will let us have the same performance characteristics as commercial databases, but as cost-efficient as open databases."
He said the answer was last year's debut of "Aurora," a new database cost one tenth the price of offerings from the commercial world. The database has been in test mode so far.
Desktop computing, another thing Amazon wants to fix, said Jassy, is the virtualization of the desktop. Amazon's "WorkSpaces" offering, unveiled last year, as become one of the "fastest-growing AWS services," he said.
Not just desktops, but applications people use on these desktops have had the same limitations," said Jassy. And so, Amazon will offer two things "AWS Marketplace for Desktop Applications," and "AWS WorkSpaces Application Manager." Jassy said the offerings would change how desktop applications are purchased and managed by companies.
In other developments, Amazon said it would offer expanded use of "containers," a means of making applications "virtual," developed by a number of companies such as San Francisco startup Docker. Jassy said the software would "make it simple to scale containers up and down."
"We think this makes AWS the best place to run containers in production," said Jassy.
Jassy also discussed something called the "Lambda" computing service. In past, companies had to pay for an "instance" of computing each time an event happened in their app. But with Lambda, each action by a user would spin-up an instance of computing, handle all the scaling and managing, and would only incur costs for each hundreds of a millisecond used.
He said customers running Lambda use them to respond to Internet of Things events, databases, and other uses. "It was interesting to us how many mobile developers were using it. They wanted to offload to AWS. They really needed to be able to call Lambda directly."
Jassy announced the company was adding "a whole bunch of new functions to Lambda" to let mobile developers "call" the functions directly from their applications, "to spin up Lambda functions, set a trigger, perform a function based on what the notification says." He noted Lambda will be available to Java developers in coming weeks.
Deriding the approaches of "some other vendors" of cloud, a clear reference to Microsoft's (MSFT) "Azure," Jassy said that Amazon takes "a different view" on cloud computing, arguing that "over the next several years, we believe the vast majority of workloads will move to the cloud."
Jassy joked, too, about former Oracle (ORCL) executive Chuck Phillips's quip that "friends don't let friends build data centers." He said that an increasing number of companies are moving all of their computing tasks to AWS.
Guest of honor, in that respect, was Colin Bodell, the CTO of publisher Time Inc., who had previously been at Amazon for 8 years. He spoke about why Time is "going all-in on AWS" in converting its IT.
Bodell told the assembled that when he first joined Time, 13 months ago, he took an inventory of the company's IT resources. Among them was an entire floor of data center on the 21st floor of the Time building on Sixth Ave. in Manhattan.
"We leverage all the services AWS offers so we don't have to build them ourselves," said Bodell.
Time, he said, was using some of the most expensive real estate in the world for a data center. Bodell said the company hd moved all its UK publications "100%" to AWS. "Our hosting costs went down from $70,000 a month to $17,000," said Bodell. He said the company was looking to move its traditional enterprise applications over as well.
"I want to be out of the data center business completeley," he said. By the end of 2015, the company will be out of two data centers, will have scaled down a third, and will be "all moved across" by Q1.
Bodell said using AWS was leading to a "cultural change" at Time.
"The more we do on cloud, it helps us bring in much more agile development … the speed of development has really picked up dramatically, because the staff have so much more power at their fingertips."
Wrapping up the day's talks, Jassy compared cloud computing to third-party sales of retail goods, which Amazon resisted at first on its own site. Eventually, he said, Amazon realized that third-party sellers could be good for consumers, and Amazon felt compelled to embrace third parties on its own Web sites as a "better way of doing things" in some cases. Today, third parties make up 43% of good sold on Amazon, he noted.
Similarly, said Jassy, cloud computing is "the biggest change to computing in our lifetimes," and has many companies were scared. But, he said, customers ultimately want it, and everyone should learn to embrace it.
"The cloud is providing all of us with an unbelievable opportunity to completely reinvent our businesses."
Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:
Update: Following last night's chatter, Informatica (INFA) this morning announced it agreed to be taken out for $5.3 billion in cash, or $48.75 per share, by Permira Funds and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The shares were halted this morning and are now up $1.93, or 4%, at $47.76.
Shares of Samsung Electronics (005930KS) were down fractionally in morning Seoul trading after the company forecast Q1 profit that topped analysts' expectations despite a revenue outlook that missed consensus.
Bernstein Research's Mark Newman reiterates an Outperform rating on the stock this morning, writing that Samsung is headed for profit growth in the June quarter, for the first time since 2013.
Speaking of Samsung, shares of wireless chip maker Qualcomm (QCOM) fell 21 cents to close at $67.76, after FBR & Co.'s Christopher Rolland cut his rating to Market Perform from Outperform, and cut his price target to $72 from $80, citing data that show a model of Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S6 will not use Qualcomm's baseband processor, which to him indicates that Samsung is now pursuing a strategy to replace Qualcomm's part with a home-grown Samsung part wherever possible.
Chip giant Intel (INTC) said it would revise its financial reporting approach yet again after a year ago deciding to open the kimono and expose how many billions it was losing in its mobile chip division that sells into tablets and smartphones.
With the next quarterly report, it plans no longer to break out that profit and loss on its income statement but rather to mix it with results from the personal computer chip division as an overall "client" business unit.
Intel shares rose rose 23 cents, or 0.8%, to close at $31.04.
Elsewhere in chips, shares of Nvidia (NVDA) rose 67 cents, almost 3%, to close at $21.67, after the company disclosed in a blog post that it made progress at the International Trade Commission with respect to a patent suit it has brought against Samsung, as a judge at the ITC "returned a pretrial claim construction ruling that favors NVIDIA's preferred construction on nearly all of the claims that were disputed."
Reflecting on the announcement, Raymond James's Hans Mosesmann reiterated a Strong Buy rating on the shares, writing that eventual payments to Nvidia could be in the hundreds of millions, and could even top the $1.5 billion that Intel is paying to license Nvidia technology through next year.
"We note the Street has seemed lethargic in attempting to understand the implications of NVIDIA's actions," wrote Mosesmann. "Importantly, graphics IP continues to increase as a percentage of silicon used for most computing platforms (from mobile to supercomputers) and is one of the reasons Intel is a current licensee."
Speaking even further of chips, NAND flash memory-chip maker SanDisk (SNDK) shares rose $2.68, over 4%, to $67.25, powered by an endorsement from Bernstein Research's Mark Newman, who reiterated an Overweight rating, writing that the company is an excellent candidate to get bought by competitor Micron Technology (MU), or drive makers Seagate Technology (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) or another party, given that its stock is worth less than what he calls the "replacement value" of trying to build its assets from scratch.
But Needham & Co. analyst Richard Kugele, who follows the drive makers, argued that there's little reason for either Seagate or Western to want the assets.
Speaking of M&A, shares of enterprise data management software vendor Informatica (INFA) rose $1.61, almost 4%, to $45.83, following continued takeout speculation, this time in the form of a Reuters article stating there are three different groups of private equity firms circling the company.
In response, Mizuho Securities's Abhey Lamba reiterated a Neutral rating, and a $47 price target, writing that a buyout seems "increasingly likely," probably in the $45 to $50 range, but that there's little upside because "we think it will be difficult for private equity to justify paying more than high-$40′s for the company."
Morgan Stanley's Jennifer Swanson Lowe raised her price target on cloud computing IT services firm ServiceNow (NOW) to $94 from $80, and reiterated an Overweight rating, arguing that if the company can produce greater productivity than expected, its financial results can surprise to the upside. The stock rose $2.12, almost 3%, to $78.24.
Microsoft (MSFT) stock rose $1.25, or 3%, to $41.55, after Wells Fargo's Jason Maynard raised his rating to Buy from Hold, with a $46 to $50 "valuation range," arguing that the company's Azure cloud computing service has a bright future and that Microsoft has evolved from its classic fixation on the Windows operating system.
Axiom Capital's Victor Anthony started coverage of Internet radio purveyors Pandora Media (P) with a Hold rating, and a $17 price target, writing that everything depends on the fractions of a penny by which the U.S. Library of Congress's Copyright Review Board may increase music play fees next year. The stock rose 4 cents to $16.26.
Barclays's Christopher Merwin cut his rating on shares of online real estate hub Zillow (Z) to Equal Weight from Overweight after concluding that its growth is slowing. The stock fell $3.69, almost 4%, to $97.17.
Shares of mobile device maker Garmin (GRMN) rose 23 cents, half a percent, to $46.71, after Citigroup's Jeremy David cut his rating from Buy to Sell, and cut his price target to $42 from $68 after cutting estimates, anticipating the company's GPS-enabled fitness watches will eventually feel the heat from Apple's (AAPL) Apple Watch and from other competitors such as startup FitBit.
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) are up $1.06, or 2.6%, at $41.35, after Wells Fargo's Jason Maynard this morning raised his rating on the shares to Outperform from Market Perform, with a $46 to $50 "valuation range," writing that he likes "the New Microsoft."
The New Microsoft is defined by the company's focus on apps and on cloud computing, he writes, and has "decoupled" itself from the historical fixation with Windows software, writes Maynard. In fact, he sees Windows 10, the next big release, not being a "catalyst."
In fact, Maynard even cuts estimates for the company given weak PCs, but he doesn't think that matters much:
Several negative PC data points lead us to believe consensus estimates are too high. The risk with our upgrade is that we are assuming investors have baked the cuts into expectations even though it is not yet reflected in consensus estimates. Even with that issue we don't see much more than 5% downside risk.
Investors, he writes, are focused too much on the downtrend in PCs:
Sentiment and perception has improved substantially over the last year. The stock benefited from the management change as well as the shift in strategy. However, the big run in the stock was also driven by the boost to numbers from the end of life for Windows XP. In our view that one-time benefit has now turned into a negative catalyst causing shares to sell off and erase the gains of the last twelve months.
But investors need to look at the progress Microsoft has made under CEO Satya Nadella. Maynard cites his own recommendation to Microsoft a year ago: "We think MSFT needs a fresh horizontal vision enabling apps/services to be used in both work and consumer scenarios across any device."
Nadella has changed the company's focus:
Under CEO Nadella's regime it is very clear to us that they are more than just moving in that direction. Across the board the company is reinvigorated around a mobile first, cloud first strategy. They are open to new approaches more than ever, and are embracing, not fighting, the disruption brought by mobility.
He lauds Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing service, as a "real force":
Microsoft made the big leap by rewriting their server OS for the cloud with Azure. They had a tough start back in 2010 as they focused too early on the Platform as a Service (PaaS) market. PaaS adoption by mainstream organizations and developers appears now to be more of a 2015/2016 phenomenon as inertia and corporate IT resistance has been strong. However they made a strong pivot toward IaaS in 2012. Microsoft is now a real force in this market because they leveraged their expertise and learning from building Bing. We think this perhaps one of the most overlooked and underappreciated aspects of the Bing consumer service. It is worth pointing out that the three most dominant IaaS vendors (the others obviously being Amazon and Google) are all leveraging their massive capex and scale associated with consumer web businesses. Looking forward we think Azure will be the defacto choice for all Windows developers as they move from on premise to cloud-based development. Unlike the VMware and Red Hat competition, Microsoft is very willing and able to let the on premise world fade slowly and win in the public cloud market, in our view. With scale only matched by Amazon and Google, we think Microsoft is a real public cloud IaaS and PaaS winner. We assume the end of support for Windows Server 2003 could also be a nearer term, modestly positive catalyst. In the productivity software market, Microsoft has reclaimed the throne by re-writing Office: "We think Microsoft has locked down their market position in the productivity category through the organic rewrite of Office and a bevy of smart acquisitions that position them well for the future."
Maynard offers that Microsoft could benefit from making a large consumer-oriented acquisition:
We think consumer related acquisitions are appropriate in order to bolster their position and diversify the model. We believe technology is evolving away from the desktop, single device, machine-centric approach and toward a design centered on the individual. We see models realigning around the needs of the user, rather than the individual capacities of each device. Mobile proliferation makes a user-centric strategy even more important. In a user-centric world, we believe differentiation will increasingly be based on ease of access to data and content, potential for user personalization and discovery, and ability to seamlessly integrate within the context of each user. We believe there will be a race to capture information and assemble proprietary data matrices that can be used to improve engagement and monetization. In the end, we believe the most valuable asset for a company is the information they have about their customers. This data can derive from device interactions, the social or interest graph, search intentions, or interactions with content, commerce, and communication platforms. The more personalized data available, the better-equipped companies will be to monetize their customer base, in our view. We think this means categories related to productivity, entertainment, local, commerce, and messaging are all of critical value to Microsoft.
I would note that Maynard also cut his rating on SAP AG (SAP) today from Market Perform to Underperform, writing that the transition to cloud computing is going to prove "challenging" for it.
SAP shares are up 87 cents, or 1.2%, at $73.63, despite that concern.
Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue that beat analysts' expectations by a hair, and earnings per share in line with consensus, and said its sales of cloud computing continued to soar even as sales of Windows software cooled because the corporate PC buying binge of 2014 was tapering off.
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $26.5 billion, yielding EPS of 71 cents
Analysts had been modeling $26.3 billion and 71 cents a share.
CEO Satya Nadella remarked that "Microsoft is continuing to transform, executing against our strategic priorities and extending our cloud leadership.
Added Nadella, Microsoft is "taking bold steps forward across our business, and specifically with Windows 10, to deliver new experiences, new categories, and new opportunities to our customers."
Microsoft said it will complete its existing $40 billion share repurchase program by December of 2016.
Microsoft said its "Devices & Consumer" division saw revenue rise 8% to $12.9 billion. Within the division, sales of "Surface" tablet computers rose 24%, to $1.1 billion.
Sales of search advertising, the Bing service, rose 23%.
Microsoft's Xbox sales totaled 6.6 million units.
Revenue from OEM PC makers in the "Pro" class of devices fell 13%, "and was impacted by the business PC market and Pro mix returning to pre-Windows XP end of support levels and by new lower-priced licenses for devices sold to academic customers."
In addition, revenue from "non-Pro" types of PC makers also declined 13%, "with license growth from opening price point devices."
Microsoft said its revenue from commercial uses rose by 5%. Within that, "commercial cloud revenue" was up 114%, at $13.3 billion. That includes sales of "Office 365" and Azure application hosting.
Sales of the traditional Office suite of products declined by 1%.
Server software rose by 9%. That includes "double digit" sales of the "SQL Server" database and the "System Center" management console.
Management will host a conference call with analysts at 5:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on the company's investor relations home page.
Microsoft shares are down $1.39, or 3%, at $45.62.
Shares of data center networking outfit Arista Networks (ANET) are up $3.69, or 4.5%, at $86.50, after MKM Partners's Michael Genovese this morning initiated coverage of the stock with a Buy rating and a $115 price target, calling it "s an extraordinary growth and market share gain story in the Data Center Switching market."
Genovese also today reduced his rating on shares of Juniper Networks (JNPR) to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target to $24 from $30.
The company's revenue, less than $100 million in 2010, is on track to rise year over year by 45% to $826 million next year, he writes, and perhaps another 45% in 2016, to $1.2 billion. Genovese's estimates are higher than the Street, which sees just 32% growth in 2015 and 26% in 2016.
Genovese sees the company having a "tremendous" opportunity over many years, selling first to banks and to the "top 7 U.S.-based hyper-scale Web 2.0 data center builders," of which it has six as customers. Google (GOOGL) is one of them, he thinks. Arista's appeal may eventually trickle down to enterprise, Genovese believes.
Arista's a "pure play" focused on sales of ethernet switches running at 10, 40 and 100 gigabits per second.
He notes an expected building boom in cloud data centers by multiple parties, including Microsoft (MSFT), the largest customer, for years to come:
Based on the recent multi-billion dollar commitments of Web Titans such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google, we believe the trend toward larger Data Centers and increasing Data Center capex is sustainable for years to come. Microsoft, Arista's largest customer (23% of revenues in 2013), recently announced it is building one of the biggest new U.S. Data Centers in West Des Moines, Iowa for $1.1bn. The new Data Center is being constructed on a 154-acre property with 1.16 million square feet of facilities housing at least 500,000 servers. This is only one prominent example of a significant trend. We think it is highly likely that the top 4 Web Titans will build roughly a dozen of these new hyperscale Data Centers (500K to 1 million servers) each over the next few years.
Arista, writes Genovese, has managed to expand from initial uses of its products by customers to follow-on duty:
Arista's customer strategy has been to 'Land' in early adopter accounts with specific high- performance applications, and then to 'Expand' in these accounts over time. Going back several years, the company's original customers were Financial Services firms doing high frequency trading. Over time, Arista expanded into the general Data Center operations of many of these customers. Similarly, several of the Web Titans that initially selected Arista for limited deployments have since expanded to much deeper relationships. Microsoft is an example of this. More recently, Tech companies doing Big Data analytics on applications such as Hadoop are selecting Arista for new high-performance deployments creating the opening to grow its presence in these networks over time.
Arista's product relies heavily on software, specifically its "EOS" operating system running on a Linux kernal, which makes it easier customize than gear from Cisco Systems (CSCO) or Juniper Networks, he argues:
The company started with a clean sheet of paper in 2004 and was able to develop a more advanced and customer-friendly operating system relative to Cisco's and Juniper's. Arista's EOS is built on an unmodified open Linux kernel, to which its customers have full access and is completely programmable. EOS employs a multi-process state sharing architecture with a central shared state database, which helps make Arista Switches more scalable, reliable and resilient than competitor's products. The company also uses a cleaned-up version of Cisco's command line interface (CLI) so that its customers can manage their new Arista networks without the need to learn new code.
Arista, he notes, is the "focal point of anti-Cisco ecosystem."
As for Juniper, the bulls on the stock are relying too heavily on upside from operating expense cuts outlined in Juniper's February "integrated operating plan." Those cuts boosted profit in the Q2 reported in July, though it didn't do much for Juniper shares at the time.
Writes Genovese,
In our opinion, too much of the current bull case is that there may be upside to Opex reduction targets and the stock trades at a modest P/E by historical standards. Not enough of the bull case is built on confident growth forecasts of business success. There are numerous secular overhangs on the Service Provider Router market, including NFV/SDN threatening substantial negative impacts on Hardware-based Edge Routers. Juniper has exceeded expectations in Enterprise Switching in recent quarters, but we are not confident the strength is sustainable due to secular and competitive concerns. Our new $24 fair value estimate is based on 13x our 2015 EPS forecast.
Barclays's Raimo Lenschow today reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of Microsoft (MSFT), and a $44 price target, reflecting on the company's announcement late yesterday that it will cut prices for its "Azure" cloud computing service, following price cuts last week by Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOG).
Writes Lenschow, "In our view, this price cut is not all that surprising as it reflects Microsoft's commitment, which it reiterated with this announcement, to match AWS on pricing for commodity IaaS."
He notes that Microsoft has established a new class of cloud computing service that allows it to strip away some of the more expensive features:
Compute prices on the platform were cut by up to 35% and the company introduced a new "Basic" tier, which offers comparable pricing to the equivalent AWS instances; the biggest difference with this tier relative to the existing "Standard" tier is that the instances do not include load balancing or auto-scaling. The company believes there are numerous classes of workloads (i.e. batch processing apps, development workloads) that do not require these services and this new pricing tier will make Azure more competitive in fighting for these workloads.
However, Microsoft, writes Lenschow, wants to focus this week on innovation, not pricing, as it takes the fight to Amazon at its developer conference in San Francisco, called "BUILD":
The company made this pricing announcement ahead of Build as it does not want pricing changes to grab the headlines at the conference. We believe this is wise as, while competitive pricing is clearly necessary to be one of the major players in the IaaS and PaaS markets, it is not what will ultimately differentiate Azure versus the competition. So far in the development of the public cloud market AWS has been viewed as the technology visionary, leading the way with the introduction of new cloud services. With Azure now reaching a decent scale, its IaaS offering maturing, and Nadella firmly prioritizing leadership in cloud services we believe Microsoft can start to push back on AWS and position itself as an innovator in the market. We could start to see the first signs of this at Build this week, so we would be on the lookout for the introduction of new Azure services.
Microsoft shares today are up 27 cents, or 0.7%, at $41.26.
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) are down 14 cents, or 0.4%, at $39.65, as the company's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced at a press event in San Francisco that the company will offer its Office productivity suite will be offered for Apple's (AAPL) iPad, as had been widely expected for the last week or so.
There will be a free version for basic content consumption, and also one that requires a subscription to Microsoft's Office 365, for document creation.
The program is available at 2 pm, Eastern, today for download, according to CNBC.
"It's a beautiful set of applications," said Nadella, but emphasized that a "broad set" of application programming interfaces would allow a number of ties to Microsoft's cloud computing services, Azure. Nadella called Azure "the Facebook for enterprise."
Nadella also talked about an "enterprise mobility suite," confirming confirmation by ZDNet of Microsoft expanding into tools for mobile device management. Nadella said the tools would allow developers to put together identity management, access management, and data security with one set of tools.
Nadella said today's announcements are "just one piece" of the company's cloud computing approach. He noted that next week is the company's "Build" software developer conference in San Francisco, and promised to talk about "great innovations in the operating system [Windows], and great innovations in devices."
Following Build, Microsoft will host another conference about Microsoft's approach to data. He said the series of presentations will provide a clearer picture of Microsoft's strategy of "mobile first, cloud first."
Apple shares are down $3.30, or 0.6%, at $536.48.
Update: The download is now live on the App Store, which you can go to from the Web page Microsoft has posted on its Office Mobile site.
The paid version, using Office 365, is $9.99 per month, or $99.99 per year. You can go directly to the online order page and buy that subscription, whereupon you'll be redirected to the Office download links in the App Store.
Documents certainly look identical between Apple's own Pages program and Office as can been seen in the screen shots below, where I've taken a document in Pages, converted it to word, and opened it in Office — the first screen shot is the document as it appears in Office, the second is the document as it appears in Word.
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Risk factors for breast cancer: alcohol consumption, induced abortion, and contraception
Here's: the latest study: from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),: showing that excessive consumption of alcohol is a rish factor for breast cancer.
Consumption of 3 to 6 alcoholic drinks per week is associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer, and consumption in both earlier and later adult life is also associated with an increased risk, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA.
"In many studies, higher consumption of alcohol has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. However, the effect of low levels of drinking as is common in the United States has not been well quantified," according to background information in the article. "In addition, the role of drinking patterns (i.e., frequency of drinking and 'binge' drinking) and consumption at different times of adult life are not well understood."
Wendy Y. Chen, M.D., M.P.H., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined the association of breast cancer with alcohol consumption during adult life, including quantity, frequency, and age at consumption. The study included 105,986 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study who were followed up from 1980 until 2008 with an early adult alcohol assessment and 8 updated alcohol assessments. The primary outcome the researchers measured was the risk of developing invasive breast cancer.
During the follow-up period, there were 7,690 cases of invasive breast cancer diagnosed among the study participants. Analyses of data indicated that a low level of alcohol consumption (5.0 to 9.9 grams per day, equivalent to 3-6 glasses of wine per week) was modestly but statistically significantly associated with a 15 percent increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, women who consumed at least 30 grams of alcohol daily on average (at least 2 drinks per day) had a 51 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who never consumed alcohol.
The researchers also found that when examined separately, alcohol consumption levels at ages 18 to 40 years and after age 40 years were both strongly associated with breast cancer risk. The association with drinking in early adult life still persisted even after controlling for alcohol intake after age 40 years.
Binge drinking, but not frequency of drinking, was also associated with breast cancer risk after controlling for cumulative alcohol intake.
Now let's take a look at some other factors that raise the risk of breast cancer.
Abortion and breast cancer
Many studies show a link between abortion and breast cancer.
Study 1: (September 2010)
Based on the expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2/neu (HER2), breast cancer is classified into several subtypes: luminal A (ER+ and/or PR+, HER2-), luminal B (ER+ and/or PR+, HER2+), HER2-overexpressing (ER-, PR-, and HER2+) and triple-negative (ER-, PR-, and HER2-). The aim of this case-control study is to determine reproductive factors associated with breast cancer subtypes in Chinese women. A total of 1,417 patients diagnosed with breast cancer in the First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China between 2001 and 2009 and 1,587 matched controls without a prior breast cancer were enrolled.
[…]Postmenopause and spontaneous abortion were inversely associated with the risk of luminal tumors. By contrast, multiparity, family history of breast cancer and: induced abortion increased the risk of breast cancer.
Study 2: (March 2010)
OBJECTIVE:: To explore the risk factors of breast cancer for better control and prevention of the malignancy.
METHODS:: The clinical data of 232 patients with pathologically established breast cancer were investigated in this 1:1 case-control study to identify the risk factors of breast cancer.
RESULTS:: The history of benign breast diseases, family history of carcinoma and: multiple abortions were the statistically significant risk factors of breast cancer, while breast feeding was the protective factor.
CONCLUSION:: A history of benign breast diseases, family history of carcinoma and multiple abortions are all risk factors of breast cancer.
But wait, there's more.
Birth control pills
Many studies showed that taking birth control pills caused an increased risk of breast cancer.
Study 1: (March 2003)
RESULTS: Among the youngest age group (<35 years, n = 545), significant predictors of risk included African-American race (RR = 2.66: 95% CI 1.4-4.9) and: recent use of oral contraceptives: (RR = 2.26; 95% CI 1.4-3.6). Although these relationships were strongest for estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) tumors (RRs of 3.30 for race and 3.56 for recent oral contraceptive use), these associations were also apparent for young women with ER+ tumors. Delayed childbearing was a risk factor for ER+ tumors among the older premenopausal women (Ptrend < 0.01), but not for women <35 years in whom early childbearing was associated with an increased risk, reflecting a short-term increase in risk immediately following a birth.
Study 2: (October 2008)
Oral contraceptive use ≥1 year was associated with a 2.5-fold increased risk for triple-negative breast cancer: (95% confidence interval, 1.4-4.3) and no significantly increased risk for non-triple-negative breast cancer (Pheterogeneity: = 0.008). Furthermore, the risk among oral contraceptive users conferred by longer oral contraceptive duration and by more recent use was significantly greater for triple-negative breast cancer than non-triple-negative breast cancer (Pheterogeneity: = 0.02 and 0.01, respectively).
Note: I think that non-chemical contraception is fine for married couples.
Why are these risk factors so prevalent today?
Now let's put it all together by looking at: this New York Times article: by Nancy Bauer.
If there's anything that feminism has bequeathed to young women of means, it's that power is their birthright.: Visit an American college campus on a Monday morning and you'll find any number of amazingly ambitious and talented young women wielding their brain power, determined not to let anything – including a relationship with some needy, dependent man – get in their way.: : Come back on a party night, and you'll find many of these same girls (they stopped calling themselves "women" years ago) wielding their sexual power, dressed as provocatively as they dare, matching the guys drink for drink – and then hook-up for hook-up.
The article was written by:
Nancy Bauer is associate professor and chair of philosophy at Tufts University. She is the author of "Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism," and is currently completing a new book, "How to Do Things With Pornography."
So in that one quotation you have three risk factors for beast cancer: alcohol consumption, contraceptives, and, if necessary, induced abortions. It's important to know who is telling women to engage in behaviors that put them at risk for breast cancer.
Who is paying for all of this increased health care spending?
The total cost for breast cancer treatment, which raises medical insurance premiums (private health care) or taxes (single-payer health care),: has been estimated to be between $1.8 billion and $3.8 billion dollars. In addition,: the government spends billions of dollars each year on breast cancer research. All of this spending is costing taxpayers a lot of money, as people demand more and more government funding of breast cancer research and breast cancer treatment (with either private or single-payer health care).
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1. Hong Kong Hillbilly (Nashville West) ~ Clarence White
2. Mother-In-Law ~ Clarence White
3. Make Up Your Mind ~ Clarence White
4. Grandma Funderbunk's Music Box ~ Clarence White
5. Guitar Pickin' Man - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
6. Vaccination for the Blues ~ Clarence White
7. Don't Pity Me ~ Clarence White
8. Gotta Go See the World ~ Clarence White
9. Everybody Has One But You - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
10. She's Gone - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
11. Tuff and Stringy ~ Clarence White
12. I'm Tied Down to You ~ Clarence White
13. Hey Juliana ~ Clarence White
14. Last Date ~ Clarence White
15. I'll Live Today ~ Clarence White
16. Not Enough of Me to Go Round ~ Clarence White
17. Riff-Raff ~ Clarence White
18. If We Could Read ~ Clarence White
19. Rocks in My Head ~ Clarence White
20. Made of Stone - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
21. Buckaroo - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
22. Adam and Eve - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
23. Why Can't We Be ~ Clarence White
24. Nature's Child - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
25. Tango for a Sad Mood ~ Clarence White
26. If We Could Read - (previously unreleased) ~ Clarence White
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|Personnel includes: Clarence White (guitar); Gary Paxton, The Spencers, Wayne Moore, Sanland Bros, Darrell Cotton, Jack Reeves, Dennis Payne, Great Love Trip.
|Recorded between 1966 and 1968.
|Though this is by no means the best of Clarence White's guitar work -- or even necessarily the best of his session work from 1966-1968 -- it's an important document of no less than 26 rare tracks predating his joining the Byrds. These recordings, often but not always released on the Bakersfield International label (in fact a few were previously unreleased), find White perfecting his transition to the electric guitar and country-rock from bluegrass. The confusing aspect of this phase of his career, on record anyway, is that White's presence is the only real thread running through these recordings, most (though not all) of which feature him only as a session man, rather than as the billed or featured artist. It's quite a crazy quilt of disparate tracks, combining, in varying degrees, country, pop, rock & roll, folk, and folk-rock, with some blues, R&B, Byrds, Beatles, and Cajun licks thrown in. That might not make it the easiest listen in the world, but the variety also makes it fascinating, as White fishes around numerous mixtures of country and rock on obscure recordings by Gary Paxton, Wayne Moore, the Sanland Brothers, Darrell Cotton, Gib & Jan, Jan & Clarence, Jack Reeves, Dennis Payne, the Great Love Trip, and other names known to very few, even in the record-collecting world. Alongside these are eight tracks credited to White himself, some of them previously unreleased. White and the artists explored an almost zany range of tangents, occasionally using sitar, Mellotron, and guitar through a Hammond organ Leslie unit, not to mention nut pulls for bending strings.
|What keeps this from being as good as it is historically interesting is the material, which is only average (if often ear-perkingly quirky) for the most part. Some of the tracks rise above that level, though, like the Byrds-like country-rock-psychedelia of the Spencers' "Make Up Your Mind," with some great fuzz effects, the blunt Dylan-ish folk-rock of Darrell Cotton's "Don't Pity Me"/"If We Could Read" single, and the beautiful country ballad "She's Gone" by Gib & Jan (though another recording of the song from the same era, by the Gosdin Brothers, is better). Especially worthy of note are a couple of previously unissued circa-1966 electric rock recordings by White's just-ex-bluegrass band the Kentucky Colonels, particularly the Beatles-influenced folk-rock of "Made of Stone" (co-written by Eric Weissberg); these might be the first studio tapes of White playing electric guitar. The lengthy liner notes by compiler Alec Palao do a great deal to chart White's progress during this particularly blurry and hard-to-follow juncture in his career. It should be noted that this is not a complete overview of White's session work during the time, which also included tracks with the Byrds, the Everly Brothers, Rick Nelson, Gene Clark, and others not represented on this compilation. ~ Richie Unterberger
Associated Artists and Works
|The Flying Burrito Brothers
Technical Info
|Release Date : 04/29/2003
|Original Release Date : 2003
|Catalog ID : 227
|Label : Big Beat Records (Dance)
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : DDD
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- 3 stars out of 5 - "...A fascinating glimpse of the great man's development as solo artist and innately sympathetic sessioner on the cusp of Byrdsdom..."
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Marketplace Guarantee ClaimBuyers should receive Marketplace items in the condition that they were listed. We ask buyers to first contact the seller to give them a chance to address any issues. If the seller does not respond or if the issue is not addressed to the customer's satisfaction buyers can rely on our Rakuten.com Marketplace Guarantee Claim which, covers the first $750 of every purchase... read more
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Your satisfaction guaranteed! All returns and exchanges require a Return Authorization Number. Please contact us within 45 days providing your order number, the specific problem and the reason for the return. If you decide within 45 days that you do not want the product you purchased, you may return...read more
Shipping Info
When you order a Marketplace item, sellers ship items within two business days of the completed order. Shipping times for Marketplace items are as follows:
Standard Shipping: 3 to 9 business daysIf you have any questions regarding your Marketplace shipment we ask that you contact the seller directly. The seller's contact information can be found in the order detail located in your My Account or in the email we send to you confirming the purchase of this order...read more
Expedited Shipping: 2 to 6 business days
Expedited Shipping: 2 to 6 business days
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