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- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app
- Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?
- Apple in its fiscal second quarter shipped 2.29 million Macs to top even the most optimistic Wall Street projections. Apple had been expected to ship 2.1 million Macs, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of Apple's biggest supporters on Wall Street. Since...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Operational Accounting, Construction, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units
- Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal
- Google on Thursday allayed concerns about its paid click growth rate with first quarter earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations. Google reported first quarter net income of $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, on revenue of $5.19 billion. Excluding traffic acquisition costs TAC of $1.49 billion, revenue was...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Quarter, StreetView, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Nokia retains the crown in the 4th quarter, but Apple moves into third worldwide
- The well-known research firm Canalys released their latest smart mobile device report breaking down results from the 4th quarter of 2007, as well as summary results from the entire year. As expected, Nokia remained the global market leader with 52.9% of the market share in the 4th quarter. RIM finished...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Quarter, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Total BlackBerry user base passes 12 million
- The number of BlackBerry users worldwide has now passed 12 million. That's according to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, which reported its latest quarterly earnings today. This report encompasses the period from September 1-December 1. The company said revenue for the third quarter of fiscal...
- Tags: Tax, Net Income, Quarter, RIM BlackBerry, Taxes, Free Trade, Handhelds, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- We will all end up working for Microsoft...
- MSFT profits in its latest quarter exceeded GOOG's total revenues. Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share...
- Tags: Revenue, Quarter, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Amazon's third quarter fails to impress
- Amazon reported strong third quarter earnings and upped its outlook for the fourth quarter, but it's unclear whether that's good enough to keep the e-tailer in that elite club that has been carrying the Nasdaq. On Tuesday, Amazon reported third quarter net income of $80 million, or 19 cents...
- Tags: Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Revenue Outlook, Amazon Web Services, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers
- AT&T said Tuesday that it added 2 million wireless subscribers and more than doubled its U-verse TV customer base in a quarter. The telecom giant reported third quarter adjusted earnings of $4.3 billion, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $30.1 billion. Including charges, AT&T reported third quarter...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Quarter, TV, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Apple clears Mac, iPhone shipment hurdles; Earnings shine; Outlook strong
- Apple capped a strong fiscal fourth quarter and 2007 amid strong Mac shipments. The company reported Monday fourth quarter earnings of $904 million, or $1.01 a share, on revenue of $6.22 billion. That sum easily topped estimates. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 86 cents a share for the...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
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- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
- Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. NEW YORK--Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. ...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- What is the "product transition" Apple alluded to?
- During Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO and Tim Cooke COO both mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. Both executives punted on several analyst questions for more "color"...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Product Transition, iTablet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Bausch & Lomb puts new CIO in charge of customer service
- Eye care company Bausch & Lomb has given its CIO the customer service reins. On Wednesday, the company named Alan Farnsworth, senior vice president of customer service and information technology and chief information officer. Cutting through the rather bloated title, it appears that Bausch & Lomb has...
- Tags: Customer Service, CIO, Bausch & Lomb Inc., Information Technology, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 166 Frames of Fame
- "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...
- Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- AT&T's quarter hits mark; Wireless churn falls; iPhone 3G sells well
- AT&T on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings of $3.8 billion, or 63 cents a share, on revenue of $30.9 billion. Adjusted earnings were 76 cents a share, a tally that met Wall Street estimates. In the second quarter a year ago, AT&T reported net income of $2.9...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale
- updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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