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- The Bear Stearns fiasco: What tech vendors will take a few lumps?
- J.P. Morgan bought Bear Stearns for a whopping $2 a share, well below the investment bank's share price of $100 just a few months ago. The tech angle: J.P. Morgan's Federal Reserve inspired mercy killing has rattled Wall Street, financial services companies and most likely the technology spending plans of...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., IBM Corp., Bachman, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- The case of the missing iPhones
- Steve Jobs at Macworld noted that Apple had sold 4 million iPhones through mid January and 3.7 million at the end of December. But AT&T has activated about 2 million of those. Theories abound about where those missing iPhones may be stashed. Pondering the case of the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Theory, Apple Inc., Downside, Bachman, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
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- Dell: How bad is it?
- Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale. The company's first shot at an outlook for the quarter unraveled just a few weeks later amid weak PC demand. And when Dell reports earnings...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple on Tuesday moved to address a weakened consumer and its statement on a its refreshed MacBook lineup is telling. Since when does a premium brand like Apple worry about price and making its notebooks "far more affordable?" The company's latest MacBook lineup (live blog, Techmeme and...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- IBM: Beats earnings target but...
- IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...
- Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- 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
- iPhone in your business: Pondering the ROI case
- Apple has dressed the iPhone up in a business suit, but the real work is just beginning. Apple needs to convince chief information officers that there's a return on investment in a switch to the iPhone. The day after an Apple event is always the analysis day....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, ROI, Apple Inc., Keith Bachman, Roi/Tco, Team Management, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- 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
- Apple: Back to the Mac (and the future)
- Apple's Mac business is an unappreciated juggernaut--it's delivering big time, but the pyrotechnics from the iPhone and iPod overshadow old reliable. Apple's fourth quarter report on Monday will change that equation. Most earnings previews (New York Times, Tom Krazit and TheStreet.com) about Apple's September quarter note the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keith Bachman, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- HP's quarter by the numbers; channel stuffing chorus may rev up
- Hewlett-Packard continues to fire on all cylinders as rivals like Dell stumble, but dont be surprised if the channel stuffing chorus gets revved up. The company reported earnings of 65 cents a share excluding items on revenue of $25.1 billion....
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard, Printers
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Apple moves to Manhattan
- Apple sure knows how to keep itself on the front pages. The IT world is buzzing with news of their impending shift to Intel chips. Some herald it as a "seismic shift," others treat it like a meteorite wiping out the west coast. Some think they did it for technical...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., API
- Blog posts 2005-06-07
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