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- AMD posts loss; sees seasonally down quarter ahead
- AMD reported a first quarter net loss of $358 million, or 59 cents a share, on revenue of $1.50 billion. The results were in line with AMD's previous profit warning. AMD's results included charges of $50 million, or 8 cents a share, from the ATI acquisition. First quarter...
- Tags: Revenue, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Palm can't execute; The downside of Centro
- The squeeze is on for Palm and patience with the company has to be wearing thin. After market close Thursday, Palm issued a profit warning for its fiscal second quarter statement. Palm said it will report revenue between $345 million and $350 million, down from the company's...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Construction, Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- 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
- Five questions: SAP's acquisition of Business Objects
- SAP took a rather big plunge with its $6.8 billion acquisition of Business Objects and left the business intelligence market much smaller than it was a day ago. Here are some lingering questions that remain to be resolved: Can SAP digest a large acquisition? Business Objects is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Cognos Inc., Business Objects, SAP AG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Tech earnings: So far so good
- A trio of technology companies reported earnings and provided a rough sketch of industry conditions. Here's a quick survey of the landscape. Overall, the results weren't bad--with the exception of Tibco, which turned in a poor quarter. Combined with earnings from the likes of Oracle and Red Hat...
- Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Cognos Inc., Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Earnings, Wall, Application Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Start the Zander countdown: Motorola warns (again)
- Motorola issued a profit warning Wednesday and the latest misstep can't be good for the tenure of CEO Ed Zander. The latest stumble: Motorola sees second quarter sales of $8.6 billion to $8.7 billion. The company had predicted $9.4 billion. Meanwhile, Motorola sees a loss from continuing operations of 2...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Motorola, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Motorola CEO Zander drops out of CTIA keynote
- When executives bow out of speaking engagements--whether its a trade show or investment conference--interested parties go hmmm. Put on your hmmm hats folks because Motorola CEO Ed Zander has backed out of giving the CTIA Wireless 2007 keynote in Orlando. ...
- Tags: Motorola Inc., Motorolas, CTIA
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Symantec woes spur spending diet
- For Symantec, first comes the profit warning then comes the spending diet. Symantec delivered a clunker of a fiscal third quarter and said its going to cut $200 million in expenses. "The company has identified a...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Security, Symantec, Symantec Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- News to know: Inside MySpace's IT; Oracle patches; Jobs is a $20B asset
- Notable headlines:Small drives cross performance threshold.AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison.Inside MySpace.coms IT: Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social networks computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with...
- Tags: General, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Will Intel show any price war wounds?
- When AMD issued a profit warning last week due to pricing pressure, Intel watchers could take it two ways:--Intel is kicking the snot out of AMD;--Or theres a price war thatll hurt both parties.Well get more color on whether Intel had any price war wounds when it reports its fourth...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intels
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- AMD thumped by price war; 'Barcelona' may help
- Can AMDs first quad-core processor--Barcelona--due in mid-2007 give it more ammo against Intel in a pricing war? John Spooner thinks so and argues as much in the ChipLand blog. AMD issued a profit warning and has been widely panned by Wall Street. To wit: ...
- Tags: General, AMD, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Palm whistles by the elephants in the room
- Palm is trying to dance around a bunch of elephants in the room--increased competition, inconsistency and the need to expand--but its getting difficult. To wit: Palm made a big deal about the sellthrough of 617,000 for its smartphones on its fiscal second quarter earnings conference call. Arguably it had no...
- Tags: Palm, Mobile, Personal Technology, General, Palm Treo, palmOne Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- News to know: Enterprise 2.0; Vista and malware
- Headlines of the day: Its review and preview season: Dion Hinchcliffe has the Enterprise 2.0 year in review. Richard MacManus has 2007 Web predictions. More IT that mattered in 2006 and Dan Farbers year in pictures. It was a dismal year for data breaches.January is the month of the Apple...
- Tags: General, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
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