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- HP's Hurd: 'Business is stabilizing'; Units (except for services) still take revenue hit
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday that "business is stabilizing" and the company will be an early beneficiary of an economic turnaround. The company also raised its fourth quarter earnings target. As expected, HP's quarter was a mixed bag (statement, preview). The company delivered better than...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Non-GAAP Earning, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Motorola: Android device launches get us back in the smartphone game
- Updated: Motorola's Sanjay Jha, co-CEO and head of the company’s mobile device unit, says that new Android-based smartphones are on track for the holidays. Jha added that Motorola is planning a barrage of Android-based devices that will put the company back in the smartphone race. ...
- Tags: Game, Smart Phone, Handset, Motorola Inc., Android, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals
- Microsoft's fourth quarter earnings were better than expectations excluding items, but the software giant's client Windows revenue skidded 29 percent compared to a year ago. For the three months ended June 30, Microsoft's client revenue was $3.1 billion, down from $4.36 billion a year ago. That slide in Windows revenue...
- Tags: Revenue, PC, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Client Revenue, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Amazon: Shares tumble late as Q2 sales fall short; quiet about Kindle
- Amazon made headlines this week by looking ahead with the announced acquisition of online shoe retailer Zappos. But the second quarter performance was all about the Kindle e-Book reader. The online retailer today reported second quarter net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per share, down...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake
- Updated: Time Warner's first quarter was weighed down by its AOL unit, which saw revenue fall 23 percent. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes reiterated that the company is looking for "the right ownership structure for AOL" and the company plans to buy back a 5 percent stake owned by Google. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Company, IPO, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- SAP software revenue skids in first quarter; Maintenance terms tweaked
- SAP's first quarter software revenue---an indicator of maintenance and services health skidded 33 percent due to a "difficult operating environment" and a tough year ago comparison. Meanwhile, SAP altered its maintenance pricing plans to allay customer concerns. SAP on Wednesday reported first quarter net income of €204...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Customer, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Vinnie Mirchandani, Upgrades, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- eBay: Operating smarter?
- eBay's first quarter results were better than expected and the company argued that it is operating with more discipline and smarter. For the quarter ending March 31 statement, the company reported net income of $357.1 million, or 28 cents a share, on revenue of $2.02 billion, down...
- Tags: Revenue, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?Obamasiah will not allow drilling or new Nuclear powerObamasiah has banned off-shore drilling and building of any new power plants.So I hope everyone enjoys the 25% ENERGY TAX coming this summer, get ready to have electricity crisis along with high fuel cost...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Extreme Capitalism, accountability, Obamasiah
- Discussion threads 2009-03-08
- Gartner: Research, consulting revenue projected down in 2009
- Gartner is feeling the squeeze of the economic downturn as research, consulting and events sales are projected to fall in 2009. That outlook, provided on Gartner's fourth quarter earnings report, shows research revenue falling 3 percent to 6 percent from 2008 with consulting revenue falling 15 percent...
- Tags: Revenue, Gartner Inc., Consulting, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- What is American?
- What is American?hear hearI agree wholeheartedly, JohnCompletely agree! Great post.I completely agree with your post, John. I hate it when people try to impose what being an American means. Being American means being someone who is willing to learn and word hard to achieve his dreams, not someone who thinks...
- Tags: H-1B program, H-1B
- Discussion threads 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
- Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short
- Microsoft said Thursday that it will cut 5,000 jobs across multiple areas like research and development and marketing over the next 18 months with 1,800 layoffs immediately. Meanwhile, Microsoft's earnings fell short of expectations. As for Microsoft's second quarter earnings, the company reported net income of $4.17...
- Tags: Revenue, Job, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Financial Accounting, Microsoft Windows, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Palm Pre sales guesstimate: 1.5 million
- Palm's Pre introduction has won over a lot of folks--including some Wall Street bears. And one is predicting 1.5 million units 12 months after the Pre launches sometime in the first half. In a research note, Citi analyst Jim Suva upgraded the Palm to a "hold" from...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Sales, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says
- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst saysSOA marketingWell, to a lot of people, there is a good deal of skepticism about SOA. We've seen a lot of sales pitches, but most of those seem to be centered around selling a Consultant as opposed to any other product. SOA could...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Companies, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Free? The 'Wired' Economy Is Still 80% Atoms, Not 100% Bits
- Chris Anderson is in the “propagating ideas business.†The idea that he is propagating now is that “if the unitary cost of something is approaching zero, sell it for zero and make your money in something else.†Fundamentally, he says the Internet will be...
- Tags: Revenue, Wired Inc., Chris Anderson, Internet, Operational Accounting, Storage, Finance, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- "Net neutrality" is stupid
- "Net neutrality" is stupidThe problem, mixing social with business.The problem here is Robin is trying to treat a massive business investment billions in captial investment as if its a socialized publicly owned utility which it is not.Other countries subsidise connectivity/ISPs because they believe having broadband everywhere is critical to their...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Net Neutrality, Google Inc., service level, telecommunications company, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Making clouds a move forward
- Making clouds a move forwardWindows Azure Is NOT VaporI was able to get a simple data-backed ASP.NET Web forms app installed and running in a Windows Azure instance in less than 15 minutes after testing it with the local (on-premises) Development Storage and Fabric facilities. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/azure-storage-services-test-harness.html for more details.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Data Ownership, Pie-In-The-Sky, Windows Azure
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt
- Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago. The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid. Wall...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, WiMAX, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Netflix: Coming to a Samsung Blu-ray player near you
- Netflix said Thursday that its movie rental service will be embedded into Samsung's next-generation Blu-ray DVD players. The move is the latest turf grab for Netflix, which offers its own player in partnership with Roku and distributes its service via Microsoft's Xbox platform. Netflix also has an...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
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