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- Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light
- Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected. Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Retail stinks, but Amazon doesn't; E-tailer delivers strong fourth quarter
- Amazon managed to get stronger even as retailers across the U.S. struggled amid weak holiday sales. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $225 million, or 52 cents a share, on revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18 percent from a year ago. Those results handily topped Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Apple earnings preview: SEC inquiry, Jobs' health, iPhone vs. iPod Touch
- Wall Street analysts likely will have plenty of questions when Apple executives host a conference call to report first quarter earnings later today. Have the company been contacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission about its disclosures related to Steve Jobs' health? Speaking of Steve Jobs...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, SEC, Health Care, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Earnings, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Apple and Yahoo: Forget last quarter. What about this one?
- Once again, it's not the past performance that investors want to know about. It's the future. What are companies doing to ride the economic storm and what will that mean to the current quarter, as well as the full year bottom line? Today, the spotlight falls on...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Apple Q4 2008 earnings to be announced today (updated)
- Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its fourth fiscal quarter today (Tuesday, October 21, 2008) after the markets close at 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT. You can listen to the audio webcast of the conference call live on Apple's investor relations...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Earnings, CNET New, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Video: Tech earnings preview: Microsoft, Intel and SAP
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of enterprise giants Microsoft, Intel, and SAP. Dignan and Diaz share their views on the success of Microsoft's new ad campaign, Intel chip sales for the new Netbook, and whether...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Video, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Sales, Finance, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Tech earnings preview: Analyzing the enterprise
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of enterprise giants Microsoft, Intel, and SAP. Dignan and Diaz share their views on the success of Microsoft's new ad campaign, Intel chip sales for the new Netbook, and whether...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Earnings, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Microsoft, SAP, Intel
- Videos 2008-09-29
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce.com reported fiscal second quarter earnings that were on target with Wall Street estimates. The company on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings statement of $9.99 million, or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $263 million, up 49 percent from a year ago. According to Thomson Reuters...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Earnings, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 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
- Amazon earnings solid; Ups sales range
- Amazon on Wednesday reported first quarter earnings of $143 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $4.13 billion, up 37 percent from the year ago quarter. The company also increased its sales range for the second quarter and 2008. According to Thomson Financial, Amazon statement...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Amazon Web Services, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, 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
- Dell hopes to generate 'product lust' following mixed earnings bag
- Dell reported third quarter earnings of $766 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $15.6 billion amid strong demand for notebooks. CEO Michael Dell said the PC maker is hoping to generate "product lust" with better designs to grow. According to Thomson Financial, analysts were expecting...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
Additional Resources
- Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years
- Salesforce.com turns 10 Monday and in the last decade it has cemented its standing as a leading enterprise software vendor and leader of the software as a service and cloud computing charge. However, the next 10 years may be much more interesting. Salesforce.com, officially launched in a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco's jump into servers: It's just business
- When times get tough, the companies that weather the storm the best are those who 1) have a treasure chest of cash on-hand and 2) are smart enough to invest in technologies that will leave them well-positioned for the recovery. Sometimes, it means rocking the boat and recognizing that there...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint’s BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
-  Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more
- Updated: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was "open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft" following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled out a Microsoft purchase, but wants something better than the software giant's $31 a share offer. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft
- It's crunch time for the Microsoft-Yahoo saga. Yahoo reports first quarter earnings on Tuesday and if the results are good the company could get a little negotiating leverage against Microsoft, which is chasing Jerry Yang & Co. like a lovelorn teenager. Microsoft reports its earnings on Thursday and will be...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yang, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
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