Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Commanding Heights: Amazon, Microsoft Expand Profits in the Cloud achen Tue, 11/08/2016 - 10:54 Amazon and Microsoft have expanded their market share and strengthened their dominance of cloud computing in much the same way that mainframe manufacturers came to rule their sector 50 years ago. The two companies in the most recent quarter boosted earnings and increased profits from the sale of computing power and data storage via the Internet by stepping up sales of sophisticated software, data anal

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Commanding Heights: Amazon, Microsoft Expand Profits in the Cloud. achen. Tue, 11/08/2016 - 10:54. Amazon and Microsoft have expanded their market share and strengthened their dominance of cloud computing in much the same way that mainframe manufacturers came to rule their sector 50 years ago. The two companies in the most recent quarter boosted earnings and increased profits from the sale of computing power and data storage via the Internet by stepping up sales of sophisticated software, data a

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Making More From Less. achen. Tue, 11/29/2016 - 14:44. The directors at many nonprofits today are finding that, by some measures, working for the common good has never been so tough. The budget gap for nonprofits has widened because of a slump in their three sources of funds—donations, grants and portfolio returns. Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8% from the previous year to $42.3 billion, according to Giving USA. 1 Also, from fiscal year 2009 until fiscal year 2016, federal ag

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

2016 Year-End Planning Letter. achen. Sat, 11/19/2016 - 15:45. . Takeaways. A Republican sweep of Congress and the White House increases the possibility of changes to the law in areas like tax, health care and trade. While there will not be any firm proposals until 2017 at the earliest, we will be looking for and analyzing changes that may have an impact on our clients.

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