Microsoft said on Friday that strong demand for the just-released Windows 7 operating system and its popular Xbox gaming console lifted the company's financial results this quarter, beating expectations. by Andrew Nusca
EMC CEO Joe Tucci said that customers are "signaling more comfort spending their IT budgets." The company reported better-than-expected third quarter results. The storage giant reported third quarter earnings of $298.2 million, or 14 cents a share, on revenue of $3.52 billion, down 5 percent from a...
SanDisk CEO Eli Harari said he was encouraged by "improved industry fundamentals." And there's a good reason for that. The company crushed third quarter estimates with a blowout quarter. The flash memory card maker reported net income of $231 million, or 99 cents a share, on revenue...
Today Apple released earnings result for Q4 '09 - and it's a downturn-defying quarter! Not only is it Apple's most profitable quarter, the company also saw record Mac and iPhone sales. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...
Best Buy on Tuesday reported earnings of $158 million, or 37 cents a share, down 22 percent from a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 42 cents a share. Revenue was up 12 percent to $11 billion, which was ahead of Wall Street estimates calling for sales of...
No refresh hereI don't know who they're talking to. My company sure as hell isn't interested in a "refresh cycle" in 2010. They are not interested in spending any money right now period, much less buying everyone new computers and a pricey new OS so they can continue to do...
Salesforce.com delivered strong second quarter results and upped its financial targets for fiscal 2010. The company on Thursday reported net income of $21.2 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenue of $316 million, up 20 percent from a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings of...
A/S rents, launders, and supplies textiles and hygiene solutions to customers in the private and public sectors. Dynamic and flexible pricing is vital in this competitive market, where Berendsen serves more than 50,000 customers in Denmark. It needed to deploy an application infrastructure built on modern technology to ease growing...
EMC reported better-than-expected second quarter results and upped its outlook for the remainder of the year. The company said that IT budgets have stabilized and customers are more confident about their visibility. The storage giant on Thursday reported net income of $205.2 million, or 10 cents a...
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VMware delivered a better-than-expected second quarter and outlook for the three months ahead. The virtualization software company reported second quarter earnings of $33 million, or 8 cents a share, down from $52 million, or 13 cents a share a year ago. The company reported non-GAAP earnings of...
Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its third fiscal quarter tomorrow, Tuesday, 21 July 21 2009 at 2:00 p.m. PT, 5:00 p.m. ET. The conference call will be streamed via Quicktime natch from the company's Investor Relations Web site. CNet new...
Intel on Tuesday delivered an impressive second quarter relative to Wall Street estimates and didn't disappoint on its outlook either. The company, which predicted a bottom in its first quarter results, delivered strong results across the board. Intel reported net income of $1 billion, or 18 cents...
Sun Microsystems says its June quarter was horrible. Oracle contends that the Sun acquisition will be accretive to its operating profit---excluding all the bad stuff---in the first year after the deal closes. And Oracle's purchase of Sun closes soon. Something has got to give. And that something is...
Google reports its second quarter earnings on Thursday, but a few analysts are already looking ahead to the back-half of 2010 and a renegotiated deal with MySpace. Google inked an obscene $900 million guaranteed ad deal with MySpace in 2006. At the time, MySpace was the social...
With earnings season looming, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead at July and discuss what's on deck for the big four: Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. We all know ad spending has tapered, but what does that mean for Google? And will Windows...
updated: Research in Motion reported better than expected first quarter earnings Thursday, but revenue fell just short of expectations. Meanwhile, the company delivered a solid outlook for the next three months. The BlackBerry maker reported first quarter earnings of $643 million, or $1.12 a share, up from...
Adobe's fiscal second quarter results were in line with expectations, but earnings and sales were down from a year ago. The company reported second quarter earnings of $126.1 million, or 24 cents a share, down from $214.9 million, or 40 cents a share a year ago statement....