RIM shares jump after hours on earnings reportGive credit where credit is due.It always kills me how the Monday Morning Quarterbacks like to criticize the people and companies who are actually out there taking risks and developing technology. RIM just gave great guidance and their stock is up because of...
VMware's first quarter as a public company was an impressive one. The company on Wednesday reported third quarter earnings of $65 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $358 million. Revenue was up 90 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, VMware reported net income...
Vista sales strong: Ballmer can breathe a sigh of reliefC'mon, now, be honest.I'm always a little cynical when I read, "thanks to Vista sales." Be honest, would sales be less if XP were being shipped to the OEMs instead of Vista? It's probably impossible to say for sure, since most...
HP delivers first earnings report post-FiorinaHP and services.Okay, here's your business decision for the day.You've spent a lot of money to imitate a competitor far ahead of you in a highly profitable part of your market. This part of the market is people-intensive, relying on connections between provider and...
Intel shares fall on earnings reportIn a nut shell - The competition is better than Intel !In virtually every PC market segment Intel is losing share, revenue and reputation. AMD has Hammered Intel big time in both PC and server processors. Now they are also hurting Intel with 32/64 bit...
The software company beats the Street, but doesn't announce the massive layoffs that some were predicting. Rival i2 holds its own, meeting estimates. Siebel Systems topped analysts' estimates in its first quarter Wednesday, raking in $76.9 million, or 15 cents a share, on sales of $588.7 million.In...
Positive quarterly reports and a benign CPI number spurred tech gains at midday Wednesday. The Nasdaq rose 119.96 to 2,738.51 and the Dow Jones industrial average was up 14.23 to 10,666.89. Story. --Tiffany Kary, ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor by ZDNN Staff
Shares of Adobe Systems adbe fell about 10 percent Thursday after the stock was downgraded to "neutral" by an analyst, who cited valuation concerns and a tech slowdown. Story. -- Tiffany Kary, ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor Shares of Adobe Systems adbe fell about 10...
A strong third quarter earnings report from Nokia nok helped to lift the tech sector Thursday as wireless handset and chip makers surged. Shares of Nokia jumped 22 percent to 36.68. Wireless handset maker Nokia, which bumped up its earnings report a week amid market...
Symantec Corp. shares fell $7.63, or 20 percent, to a 52-week low of $32 Thursday after analysts downgraded the security software developer in the wake of its second-quarter earnings report. Story. -- Larry Barrett, ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor by ZDNN Staff
In its most anticipated earnings report ever, Yahoo! Inc. yhoo easily beat the over-under revenue number of $290 million in the third quarter. Yahoo's results shot down most of the worries that were surrounding the company's earnings report. Now the big questions: Where does Yahoo...
European online travel specialist Ebookers.com EBKR announced second quarter results Monday and said it expects to reach profitability ahead of schedule. Shares rose 2 3/4 to 9 1/4 on the news. The company cited revenue and gross profit above expectations since its November IPO plus rocketing customer numbers and...
Adobe Systems Inc. flew past analysts' estimates in its first quarter Thursday, posting a profit of $64.6 million, or 51 cents a share, on record sales of $282.2 million. First Call consensus expected the software developer to earn 43 cents a share in the quarter. Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) shares...
Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), the world's largest personal computer maker, on Tuesday posted third-quarter net profits of $140 million that edged ahead of analysts' diminished expectations as the company suffered a 16 percent drop in commercial PC revenues. Compaq...
Shares of Internet auction house eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) dropped 10 points in after-hours U.S. activity on Tuesday after posting third-quarter earnings, traders said. The stock fell to 142-1/8 after closing up 1-1/8 at 152 on Nasdaq. ...
It's time for a clever cleantech company to make a home testing kit for BPA. Maybe another one could be used by groceries that are tyring to provide truth in labelling. BPA would be biphenol-A a component of some of plastics now uibiquitous in our food packaging here in America....
Netflix's streaming movie and TV service will be made available to Sony's 9 million PlayStation 3 customers under a distribution partnership announced Monday. Netflix said it will begin streaming through the PS3 next month (statement, Techmeme, PlayStation blog). The move gives Netflix another leading game console for...
EBay's third quarter results weren't too shabby, but the company's outlook disappointed some on Wall Street. In addition, the company said it was "cautiously optimistic" heading into the holiday season. The company reported net income of $349.7 million, or 27 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $501.5...
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