5 posts and columns on Sandeep Aggarwal

New for Xbox Kinect: Bombastic Ballmer’s $2 Billion Blowout

in News on December 13, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Kinect, Microsoft’s new controllerless controller for the Xbox 360 is shaping up to be a monster hit, one that should give the gaming platform momentum enough to carry it forward for some time to come. In fact, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal says he expects Kinect to generate about $2 billion in gross revenue for Microsoft.

The YHOO-MSFT Crap Shoot

in News on June 16, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

On stage at our All Things Digital conference last month, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said that a search deal with Microsoft would require a “boatload of money,” and an outright acquisition even more. It doesn’t require a great feat of augury to see that an agreement between the two–at least at this time–isn’t that likely, as a number of analysts have recently noted.
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Analyst: The Great Dark Times Cometh!

in News on October 3, 2008 at 5:19 pm PT

The financial markets’ descent into the maelstrom over the past several weeks is proving quite a test of faith for Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal. Last week he cut his estimates for Yahoo, citing the company’s deteriorating fundamentals. Since then he’s become increasingly dismayed by Wall Street’s continued collapse.

New From Microsoft: Live Search SearchGimmick!

in News on October 1, 2008 at 9:52 am PT

Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback–“The Search That Pays You Back!”–must have had at least some short-term positive effect on Microsoft’s search business because the company is augmenting it with another rewards program. Now, in addition to receiving Cashback rebates on certain purchases of products found through Microsoft’s live.com Web search, users can win prizes as well.

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Google: Dollar Rally to Drag on Q3 Results

in News on August 25, 2008 at 11:11 am PT

Google’s third-quarter results will feel the effects of a strengthening dollar, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal observed in a research note this morning. Aggarwal points out that currency has lifted earnings in each of the last 10 quarters, but that the company will suffer a sequential foreign exchange loss in Q3, with the year-over-year benefit “materially lower” than in recent quarters.