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- eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app
- Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- NetSuite's earnings on target
- In its first earnings report since the IPO, NetSuite came in pretty much on analyst expectations for the final quarter of 2007. Compared to other SaaS providers Salesforce.com, Concur and Taleo, this is a middling performance although it indicates the SaaS market in the SMB space is holding up well....
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Earnings, GAAP, Software As A Service (SaaS), IPO, Financial Accounting, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Financial Services, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter
- AMD on Thursday reported a fourth quarter net loss that equaled its revenue total. AMD reported a net loss of $1.77 billion, or $3.06 a share, on revenue of $1.77 billion. Revenue was up 8 percent from the third quarter and was flat from a year ago....
- Tags: Loss, Impairment, non-GAAP, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Apple, the $20 iPod touch update and GAAP
- Apple, the $20 iPod touch update and GAAPIf it really was GAAP, then Apple would have to charge for the ATV upgrade!I agree with you on this. Firmware upgrade usually contain new feature, so why are they not being charged for? Current Apple TV users are getting a free upgrade...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, GAAP, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Apple, the $20 iPod touch update and GAAP
- Since my post yesterday about the $20 iPod touch software update several readers have contacted me to explain how Apple had to charge for this update because of generally accepted accounting principles GAAP. This issue, so I'm told, is much the same as the way Apple had to charge $1.99 the 802.11n...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Digital Media, GAAP, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- BEA faces rough crowd
- BEA Systems reported better than expected third quarter results, but all the company got was skepticism about the way it came up with its earnings tally, hackles about its software license growth and questions on why the company thinks it is worth $21 a share. Simply put,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Analyst, Outlier, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Forsee out at Sprint
- The inevitable has finally happened: Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee is out. Maybe it was the lackluster earnings. Maybe it was the customer service debacle. Maybe it was this stock chart. In any case, Forsee is gone. Who will Russell Shaw pick on now? According...
- Tags: Board, Earnings, Sprint Communications, CEO, Corporate Governance, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, GAAP, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operational Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- BlackBerry-maker announces FY 2008 1Q numbers: 9 mil+ users
- BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion starts their Fiscal Year at the end of the first quarter of each calendar year. Because we are coming up to July 1, that means the end of 1Q FY'2008.Here are the numbers RIM thinks you should know:Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2008...
- Tags: News, Corporate Stuff
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Cisco gets 25,000 Salesforce subscriptions
- Salesforce.com ended its fiscal year with 646,000 paying subscribers and a large enterprise that accounts for 25,000 subscriptions. The company didnt name the customer in its earnings statement, which CEO Marc Benioff called "the largest on-demand CRM customer ever." However,...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, Cisco, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Is Apple getting ready to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?
- Is Apple getting ready to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?Typical AppleThere are 2 pathetic things about this:1. This is a blatant money grab.2. The Mac zealots will praise it as being a wonderful thing.bundled with leopard upgrade?Too bad, that is odd. When will it be included in new...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Desktops, Notebooks, GAAP, Apple Inc., IEEE 802.11n, accounting, Apple Macintosh, software, macbook
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- VizEdge Plus (zip)
- VizEdge 1.1 Plus is Dynamic Accounting. It comprises Business Setting as data input unit. Users put in daily life data in doing business then receive financial report instantly. Financial Report comprises Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement and Ratios. Financial Report is properly reconciled using US Generally Accepted Accounting...
- Tags: Financial, VizEdge 1.1, Financial Report, VizEdge_Display, GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-08-15
- Top 5 Financial Systems Issues for not for Profit Organizations Today-Level 100
- Join us for a one-hour webcast that explores the unique business systems' needs of NFP Organizations. The NFP environment has become more competitive, funding has become tighter and organizations must focus attention on servicing members while accessing, securing and tracking both the usage and effectiveness of the funds. Learn how...
- Tags: Financial, Webcast, Financial System, Microsoft Corp., Member, NFP Environment, GAAP, Digital Media, Financial Accounting, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Peoplesoft Gives Ford the Ability to Operate Globally as One Company, With Accounting, Analysis, GAAP Reporting, and Statutory Reporting on One System
- Ford Motor Company was running a disparate combination of local and regional accounting systems that created architectural and administrative barriers to the smooth operation of Ford's global finances. Ford's systems required a high level of maintenance expense, and were challenging to update in a global environment. Ford chose to upgrade...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Accounting, Analysis, Ford Motor Co., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, GAAP, Finance, Financial Accounting
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- Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
- Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...
- Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along
- Adobe's second quarter results and third quarter outlook were better than expected. After the market closed Monday, Adobe reported net income of $214.9 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue of $886.9 million. Excluding charges and other items, Adobe's earnings were 50 cents a share, 4...
- Tags: Revenue, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Creative Suite, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Market Alternatives for Sun
- Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Market disconnects
- Last November 12th, the day of the 1:4 reverse stock split, Sun's shares closed at $20.33 for a market cap of around $15.7 billion. Six months later, on May 12th, they closed at $13.42 for a market cap of about $10.3 billion - a 34% decrease over...
- Tags: Shareholder, Market Capitalization, Trader, Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- IAC: Shareholder value or money pit?
- IAC reported its first quarter earnings on Wednesday and it's the usual mix of mental hurdles, GAAP reconciliations and imagining what it could be. The big question: Is IAC really worth your time? IAC, an Internet conglomerate that's Barry Diller's baby, is planning to break itself up...
- Tags: Shareholder, IAC/InterActive Corp., Conglomerate, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
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