Microsoft Finishes Fiscal Year With Q4 Earnings Up 62%.
Microsoft Corp finished off its fiscal year in the style that investors have come to rely on, with better-than-expected earnings on strong revenue growth. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant posted fourth-quarter net income up 62.3% at $2.2bn, or $0.40 per share, beating the $0.36 consensus estimate of analysts surveyed...

SAP Faces New Insider Dealings Probe.
German ERP vendor SAP AG, faces the second investigation in four years into allegations that staff sold shares immediately before the company issued a profit warning. The new probe centers on dealings that took place before SAP's shares lost about a fifth of their value when it released a...

Tribune Reports 2008 Third Quarter Results.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Company today reported a third quarter 2008 loss from continuing operations of $124 million compared with income from continuing operations of $84 million in the third quarter of 2007. Tribune also reported income from discontinued operations of $3 million in the...

Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. Declares Fifty-Seventh Consecutive Quarterly Distribution and to Hold Earnings Call for First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Results.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. today declared its first quarter cash distribution of $0.50 per partnership common unit. The distribution marks the fifty-seventh consecutive $0.50 quarterly distribution and is payable December 15, 2008, to common unitholders of record as of December 8, 2008. ...

Exercises With Stock Options of Nokia Corporation.
ESPOO, Finland, November 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Based on Nokia's 2003 employee stock option plan, 5 813 shares of Nokia Corporation were subscribed for between October 28, 2008 and November 24, 2008. The total amount of subscription prices will be recorded in the fund for invested non-restricted equity. ...

Results of AXA Employee Share Offering in 2008.
PARIS, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On August 18, 2008 AXA announced the launch of its 2008 SharePlan offering, a capital increase reserved to its employees worldwide. Approximately 36,000 employees in 37 countries, representing 30% of eligible employees, subscribed to SharePlan 2008. The large number of employees who...

ResMed Inc Announces Record Financial Results for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2008.
San Diego, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ResMed Inc. today announced record revenue and income results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Revenue for the quarter was $217.9 million, a 17% increase over the quarter ended September 30, 2007. For the current quarter, income from operations was $36.6 million...

EMCORE Corporation Announces 409A Tender Offer for Employee Stock Options.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EMCORE Corporation , a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets, today announced that it has commenced a tender offer for 164,088 stock options outstanding under its 2000 Incentive Stock Option...

Cowen Group, Inc. Announces 2008 Third Quarter Results.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cowen Group, Inc. today announced its operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2008 was $58.0 million, representing an increase of 1% from $57.5 million in the prior year period....