Following U.S. Stocks are among the “Most Active” Stocks in the course of recent trading session, Friday: Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), EMC Corporation(NYSE:EMC), GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

• Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), with shares dwindled -0.67% is now trading at $42.70. The Stock is active as 228,752.00 shares changed hands versus its average volume of 13.90M shares.

• EMC Corporation(NYSE:EMC), with shares dipped -1.30% is now trading at $25.48. The Stock is active as 770,430.00 shares changed hands versus its average volume of 15.52M shares.

• GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) with shares declined -1.42% is now trading at $38.27. The Stock is active as 236,334.00 shares changed hands versus its average volume of 1.55M shares.

• Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) with shares rose 0.06% is now trading at $41.24. The Stock is active as 1.14M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 35.40M shares.

Latest NEWS regarding these Stocks are depicted underneath:

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)

Digital disruption is influencing all aspects of the workforce. Today, employees expect the same capabilities at work that they get in the consumer world. Unveiled recently at Oracle Corporation (ORCL), HCM World in Washington, DC, Oracle has introduced Oracle Learning Cloud to assist shift the corporate learning paradigm to one that enables employees at all levels to learn contextually and socially regardless of their location.

Creating a new standard in enterprise learning, the new Oracle Learning Cloud reflects changing user preferences as digital natives join the workforce. Designed for the way people learn recently, the next generation learning solution goes beyond traditional learning administration systems to provide today’s digital workforce with better access to content, within context, shared by subject experts, and backed by the power of the Oracle Cloud.

Social: It enables employees to capture, share and collaborate around best practices using rich media. It allows subject matter experts to build their own reputation by empowering them to create, assemble, and publish high quality content, and encourages social recommendations and discovery.

Contextual: It allows organizations to provide real time, in-line learning to their employees.

Intelligent: It has a recommendation engine that delivers personalized learning recommendations based on more than 100 person, job, and enterprise attributes.

Scalable and Secure: With Oracle Cloud, it has the technical infrastructure needed to support transcoding and bit-rate adaptive stream (like YouTube and Netflix) so that employees can publish and consume from any modern device, from any network, such as 3G, 4G, or Wi-fi.

With the Oracle Cloud as its foundation, the new Oracle Learning Cloud also provides all of the compliance and administration features of traditional learning administration systems.

Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems, and related services worldwide.

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)

EMC Corporation (EMC), declared the Federation Business Data Lake. The fully engineered solution comprises leading storage and Big Data analytics technologies from EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, and VMware to assist customers leverage the new world of Big Data, thereby clearing the path for new insights and disruptive differentiation.

Implemented in as little as seven days, the Federation Business Data Lake greatly simplifies the massively complex task of building a Data Lake and is designed for speed, self-service and scalability for the enterprise, enabling organizations to start making better-informed business decisions using Big Data analytics. The Federation Business Data Lake joins the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution as a converged solution from the EMC Federation that will redefine infrastructure to maximize the speed and agility for IT organizations deploying Hybrid Clouds and Data Lakes.

The incredible potential of Big Data is being driven first and foremost by the growth of data from traditional applications, modern applications, sensors and intelligent devices together with masses of new public data such as social media feeds. The ability to capture and process that data is now possible because of the growth of inexpensive storage and limitless compute, together with the invention of new technologies that enable real-time analysis and a direct connection to action through new applications and products. These storage and analytics technologies, together with the massive data sets comprise the Business Data Lake.

Business Data Lakes are becoming a top corporate priority because they fill a critical gap left by traditional data warehousing. A Business Data Lake contains structured and unstructured data from a wide variety of sources and the analytics are focused on building models to predict the future. Companies with successful Data Lakes are leveraging the data and predictive models to build new products, applications and business models to redefine their industry, taking or extending the “Market Leader” role.

Josh Kahn , Senior Vice President, Global Solutions, EMC Corporation

“Nearly every traditional business model faces near-term, lasting disruption. The fast track to competitive advantage will be reserved for those able to quickly embrace and yield value from the massive growth in data, but it will take a new approach. The new Federation Business Data Lake solution makes it easy to harness all types of data to build predictive models, that enable new applications, products and business models to redefine industries.”

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, assisting IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME)

GameStop Corp. (GME), stated sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2015.

Fourth Quarter Results:

Total global sales for the fourth quarter of 2014 were $3.48 billion, a 5.6% decrease (a 2.8% decrease in constant currency) contrast to $3.68 billion in the preceding year quarter as mobile and consumer electronics and new software growth was offset by a decrease in new hardware sales. Non-GAAP digital receipts raised 41.4% to $368.8 million, or $53.0 million of sales on a GAAP basis, led by growth of downloadable content and mobile digital sales. Merged comparable store sales declined 1.8% (a 1.4% decline in the U.S. and a 2.6% decline internationally) due primarily to overlapping the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One in November 2013.

During the quarter, the corporation recorded charges of $3.1 million, offset by tax benefits related to the closure of our operations in Spain and store impairments, resulting in an $8.6 million net after-tax benefit, or $0.08 per share. Counting the one-time charges, GameStop’s fourth quarter net earnings were $244.1 million, or diluted earnings per share of $2.23, contrast to net earnings of $220.5 million, or diluted earnings per share of $1.89, in the preceding year quarter.

Not including the net benefit, GameStop’s adjusted net earnings for the fourth quarter were $235.5 million contrast to adjusted net earnings of $222.4 million in the preceding year quarter. Adjusted diluted earnings per share were $2.15 contrast to adjusted diluted earnings per share of $1.90 in the preceding year quarter. Foreign currency exchange rate changes negatively influenced earnings by $5.8 million, or $0.05 per share.

Capital Allocation Update:

During the fourth quarter of 2014, the corporation repurchased 1.63 million shares at an average price of $37.83 per share, or $61.7 million of stock. For fiscal 2014, the corporation repurchased 8.44 million shares at an average price of $39.50 per share, or $333.4 million of stock. In addition, the corporation paid out $149 million in dividends during fiscal 2014.

For fiscal 2015, through March 19, GameStop has repurchased nearly 500,000 shares at an average price of $38.26 per share, or $18.9 million worth of stock. Presently, there is $428.4 million remaining on the existing repurchase authorization.

On March 3, 2015, the corporation declared a 9.0% raise of its regular annual cash dividend from $1.32 to $1.44 per share.

On March 24, 2015, the corporation paid its quarterly dividend of $0.36 per share.

GameStop Corp. (GME), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 corporation headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a global, multichannel video game, consumer electronics and wireless services retailer. GameStop operates more than 6,600 stores across 14 countries.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

On Monday, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have expanded their global partnership to bring Microsoft mobile productivity services to more consumers and business customers. Samsung is planning to pre-install Microsoft services and apps on its portfolio of Android devices and will deliver secured mobile productivity for businesses through a new Microsoft Office 365 and Samsung KNOX Business Pack.

Microsoft is committed to reinventing productivity in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Expanding its cloud-based services to customers in new ways and across platforms and devices is a big part of executing this strategy.

For consumers, pre-installed services comprise the following:

• As revealed at Mobile World Congress, Samsung will pre-install OneNote, OneDrive and Skype on the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
• In the first half of 2015, Samsung is planning to pre-install Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype on select Samsung Android tablets.

Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge will also come with 100 GB of additional free cloud storage for two years through Microsoft OneDrive, allowing extra storage space.

Microsoft Office 365, powered by the cloud, provides businesses with access to familiar Office applications, counting email, calendar, videoconferencing and up-to-date documents, all optimized for a seamless experience across any Internet-connected device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Samsung KNOX provides a way for customers to easily switch between personal and business profiles on their devices, while assisting keep them secure.

“Great things happen when you converge services and devices,” said Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of business development, Microsoft. “Our partnership with Samsung is emblematic of our efforts to bring the best of Microsoft’s productivity services to everyone, on every device, so people can be productive wherever, however and whenever they want.”

“Our aim is to meet the ever-evolving needs of both consumers and business customers and give them more power to discover new mobile experiences,” said SangChul Lee, executive vice president of the Planned Marketing Office, IT & Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics. “We believe our suite of premium mobile products coupled with Microsoft’s productivity services will offer users the mobility they need in both their personal and business life.”

Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The corporation’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.

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