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HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks

HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...

Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

HP's second quarter solid; Focus remains on EDS

Hewlett-Packard delivered strong second quarter results Tuesday with revenue up 11 percent from a year ago, but analysts are likely to remain fixated on the EDS acquisition. The company said second quarter net income was $2.1 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28.3 billion,...

Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating Profit, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

HP: No tech slowdown here

HP on Tuesday quelled a lot of worries by delivering stronger than expected fiscal first quarter earnings and raising its outlook for the second quarter. The IT giant, viewed as a proxy for enterprise spending, delivered net income of $2.1 billion, or 80 cents a share, on...

Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating Profit, Earnings, Software Business, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Printers, Finance, Sales, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Toshiba profit drops, NAND chip outlook wary

Earnings below expectations as company cites flash-memory competition, price drops, and HD DVD woes. Japanese electronics group Toshiba posted a worse-than-expected 25 percent drop in quarterly operating profit after tumbling flash memory chip prices ate into margins. The world's No. 2 NAND flash memory chipmaker now expects...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Operating Profit, CBS Interactive Inc., NAND, Toshiba Corp., Elpida Memory Inc., Flash Memory, Chip, Semiconductors, Hd Dvd, Network Technology, Memory, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Networking, Components, Reuters, Processors & semiconductors

News items 2008-01-29

HP: Outlook on target; solid results throughout

Hewlett-Packard reported better than expected fourth quarter results Monday and delivered a solid outlook for its upcoming quarter. HP said its fourth quarter earnings were $2.16 billion, or 81 cents a share, on revenue of $28.3 billion. Excluding charges, earnings were 86 cents a share. Fourth quarter revenue was...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

German solar firms boost capacity to meet demand

Demand for alternative energy inside and outside of the country helped companies to grow; access to silicon affected results. Germany's solar companies are driving up capacity to meet strong demand for renewable energy, while access to silicon remained the make-or-break factor for their second-quarter results on Tuesday. ...

Tags: Silicon, Renewable Energy, Germany, Solar Cell, Operating Profit, Analyst, Q-Cells, SolarWorld, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Reuters, Home

News items 2007-08-14

HP reports profit growth, raises sales forecast

The computing giant posts revenue of $20.1 billion in its second quarter--a company record. Hewlett-Packard's net income increased 34 percent to $884 million for its most recent quarter, boosted by strength in servers, printers and services. For its fiscal second quarter, which...

Tags: Revenue, Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales Forecast, Operating Profit, Sales, Operational Accounting, Servers, Finance, Hardware, Stephen Shankland

News items 2004-05-18

Amazon winning the price wars

The e-tail giant sees its net loss drop steeply as its revenue soars in the third quarter. CEO Jeff Bezos chalks up the improvement to the company's new pricing strategy. Amazon.com saw its net loss drop steeply while its revenue soared in the third quarter, the company reported on...

Tags: Revenue, Operating Profit, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Troy Wolverton, Technology News

News items 2002-10-25

Expedia takes off on first operating profit

The online travel agency easily tops analysts' estimates and raises its sales and earnings targets for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2002. Online travel site Expedia topped analysts' estimates in its third quarter Monday, posting an operating profit of $4.4 million, or 9 cents a share,...

Tags: Expedia Inc., Agency, Operating Profit, Analyst, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Barrett, Technology News

News items 2001-04-30

Expedia turns first operating profit

Online travel site Expedia topped analysts' estimates in its third quarter Monday,...

Tags: Expedia Inc., Operating Profit, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2001-04-30

Expedia books its first operating profit

The online travel agency says it will report its first operating profit in the third quarter, though losses including charges will be steep. Online travel agency Expedia said it will report its first operating profit in the third quarter, though losses including charges will be steep....

Tags: Expedia Inc., Agency, Operating Profit, Travelocity.com LP, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Tiffany Kary, Technology News

News items 2001-04-16

Expedia to book its first operating profit

Online travel agency Expedia said it will report its first operating profit in the third quarter, though losses including charges will be steep. The company's outlook was accompanied by some bullish reports on the online travel sector. Full story. -- Tiffany Kary ZDII by ZDNN Staff

Tags: Expedia Inc., Operating Profit, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2001-04-16

Adobe beats estimates, moves Chizen to CEO

The maker of graphics and publishing software reported a fiscal fourth-quarter operating profit of ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Operating Profit, Financial Accounting, Finance, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-12-14

Additional Resources

Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?

MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...

Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Android army keeps growing as Dell enlists; Will the mobile OS war follow PC history?

Well, this is exactly what MS wanted to do with Win Mobile - that fizzled.I think that was mostly due to that fact that Win Mobile was is so bad.But, Android is the real thing, and is a great OS, to the point that nobody is even talking about Win...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Operating systems, PC, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Win Mobile, mobile, operating system, manufacturer

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications

No government healthcareIf the Gov goes with this socialist health_care scheme it will be the end of the free market.With Billions in waste from fraud in medicare/medicade and welfare running rampant with no checks in place.All we need is this community leader telling people we need to go TRILLIONS more...

Tags: security, security certification, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Psystar: From Hell's Heart, I Stab at Thee!

No matter who they have to sueApple will never allow competition.agreedthey want as much profits as they can make.too bad their computers aren't very good for anything other than the basics and some visual/audio work ;)with that said, i believe that apple will have its future in their i-products (ipod,...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Apple Inc., hardware, Psystar, OSX

Discussion threads 2009-11-02