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What's behind AMD's earnings warning?

What's behind AMD's earnings warning?Pricing and brands.Both Intel and AMD are brands, names consumers choose.Not all competition is about cheapest.The problem for AMD might be that Intel's product line is now bringing back customers who or which had left.Does AMD track the market for each chip type? Some are...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, earnings warning, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

What's behind AMD's earnings warning?

AMD’s fourth quarter 2006 earnings warning is all about chip pricing. First, the background: AMD said in a Jan. 11 statement that its fourth quarter 2006 (4Q06) revenue, excluding its newly-acquired ATI business segments, would increase by 3% from the $1.33 billion it reported for 3Q06. But AMD...

Tags: Uncategorized, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Battery recall, games loss prompt Sony earnings warning

Battery recall, games loss prompt Sony earnings warningNT Rootkit Karma, lol :o):o)Message has been deleted.YAAAYOoops, did I say that out loud?:PExactly my thoughts.Wonder if ol' Ken feels so smug about his up-and-coming wonderbox still? Heh heh heh. :D

Tags: Engineering, Games, Sony earnings warning, games loss, Battery Recall, earnings warning, battery, Sony Corp., game

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

US Airways woes spark EDS earnings warning

US Airways woes spark EDS earnings warningHell, EDS may have been the prime reason !I bet a corrupt CEO in excahange for kickbacks handed a lucrative multi-billion $s contract to EDS to implement (sic - if that ever happens with EDS) stuff that could have been done for under...

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., EDS earnings warning, US Airways Group Inc., earnings warning

Discussion threads 2004-09-16

Additional Resources

Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...

Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-04

With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is in

With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is inLess Onerous?? How About Less Frequent???I am sick of the weekly "Genuine Windows Critical System Update".Once my copy of Windows has been validated, leave me alone. Go away, stop harassing me!Product activation is the work of Satan. And the "Genuine Horse Hockey"...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., piracy, Microsoft Windows 7, Genuine Horse Hockey, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual'

Cisco Systems said today that it earned a a third quarter profit of $1.3 billion, or 23 cents per share, down 21 percent from a year ago, on sales of $8.2 billion, which fell 16.6 percent from $9.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company reported net income...

Tags: John Chambers, Recovery, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Finance, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-06

HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employees

HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employeesMUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEEEEEEE! Yesssss!!!!!! Go for it, HP! Hopefully, you will put them out of business, just like you want to, after all two or three remaining competent people quit, and the other thousands have no place to go for answers and help. This is...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, pay cut, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., salary cut

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Peanut recall and supply chain worries

As the Peanut Corp. of America scandal rolls on, a new bit of information has thickened the plot: Chinese organic peanuts may have been the source of another Salmonella outbreak at PCA back in 2006.  Now that China is part of the story we have a full blown worst practice...

Tags: China, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Comcast loses subscribers, but hurdles fourth quarter targets

Updated: Comcast reported Wednesday that its fourth-quarter net income fell 32 percent amid rising competition, slowing subscriber growth and an asset impairment charge totaling $600 million. However, Comcast handily topped Wall Street estimates. For the fourth quarter, Comcast reported net income of $412 million, or 14 cents...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-18

SaaS frustration

I've just come off a call with Phil Wainewright, fellow Irregular and saas maven on ZDNet. Phil and I go back many years so calls are always jocular and not always SFSV Safe For Saas Vendors ears. We were ruminating on Phil's swipe at Sage Software,...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Vendor, Sage Software, SAP AG, Saas, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Citrix lays off 10 percent of workforce

A little birdie told me this morning that Citrix has begun following through with yesterday's warning that it would cut 10 percent of its global workforce, with some people in the Santa Barbara, Calif. office already receiving notice, according to the source, who is familiar with the proceedings. ...

Tags: Revenue, Citrix Systems Inc., Workforce, Employee Cutback, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-30

EMC: IT spending to fall; Little visibility into 2009

EMC joined the growing list of companies that can't see beyond a quarter. The storage giant said Tuesday that it expects 2009 IT spending "will decline as a percentage in the mid to high single digits compared with 2008." Meanwhile the company couldn't provide an outlook for 2009 due to...

Tags: IT-spending, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Cook issues veiled threat to iPhone competitors (Updated 2x)

One thing that stuck out to me in Apple's Q1 2009 earnings conference call was Apple COO and acting CEO Tim Cook's multiple mentions of competitors who might "rip off our IP" Intellectual Property relative to the iPhone. Well that and his raspy voice â€" get that man a lozenge!...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Pre, Intellectual Property, Network Technology, Smart Phones, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Intel: Fourth quarter sales worse than expected (again)

Updated: Intel said Wednesday that its fourth quarter, which was already dismal, was actually worse than expected. The chip giant forecast fourth quarter revenue of $8.2 billion, down 20 percent from the third quarter and 23 percent from a year ago. Intel warned about the fourth quarter...

Tags: Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Research & Development, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie

Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-03

SAP slapped with 'sell' rating; Pushback from customer base cited

Societe Generale analyst Richard Nguyen hit SAP with a sell rating on Wednesday citing increased odds of a fourth quarter profit warning and signs that customers are pushing back on the software company's attempt to upsell them following a maintenance price increase. Nguyen's report--he downgraded SAP shares...

Tags: SAP AG, Nguyen, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-26

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

Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring

Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-10

What are we breathing now? Let me guess...

There may be a partial answer at a newly created section of the EPA website. It lists all admitted toxic emissions from factories, government operations and other facilities around the U.S. Here's where you can go search your own zip code, or the one for your kid's school....

Tags: Food, ZIP Code, Refinery, Chevron Corp., Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Financial Statements, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-10