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- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?
- Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...
- Tags: PC, Inventory, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- SAP revenues slump, in line with analyst expectations, bottom line up
- SAP has revealed its Q2 2009 numbers and as widely predicted, top line software revenues are off 40%, down from €898 million in 2008 to €543 million this time around. Software services, support and maintenance was also off, 5% from €2,061 million to €1,953 million. That left total revenues down...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?
- Michael Hickins at BNet accuses Oracle of 'lying' about its competitive position vis-a-vis SAP. Such statements are always fraught with difficulty for several reasons: The year ends are five months apart The economy has been changing over time Currency rates are...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Financial Management, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- HP cuts base pay for execs and employees; Will tweak benefits to cut costs
- Amid a tough fiscal first quarter report and weaker than expected demand, HP is cutting base pay for executives and its workers. The cost cutting was mentioned by HP CEO Mark Hurd on the company's earnings conference call on Wednesday. HP met Wall Street expectations in the...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Benefit, Mark Hurd, Action, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- iPod and iPhone sales so far
- iPod and iPhone sales so farLooks like I called it, iPhone sales plummetThose who believed that Q4 sales of the iPhone were going to be representative of sales figures in upcoming quarters have been proven wrong, as I stated 2 months ago.Interestingly enough, in 1.5 years Apple has sold fewer...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple Inc., phone, iPhone sale
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Apple Q1 09 results
- Apple Q1 09 resultsProbably worth noting that"Q1 09" represents sales for 1 October, 2008 to 31 December, 2008. That's one of the peak retail buying periods and since Apple is primarily focused on the consmer electronics market, it makes sense that it's their biggest quarter.The real test will come...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Microsoft Windows, Wireless and Mobility, Apple Inc., Apple Q1, Apple iPhone, sales
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter
- Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...
- Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- SuccessFactors ups guidance
- SuccessFactors is not a company many ZDN readers may have heard about but you should. This is an on-demand vendor that primarily sells talent management solutions. My Irregular colleagues Jason Corsello and Thomas Otter follow this space. For the last year, they have been saying that talent management represents one...
- Tags: Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., On-demand, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Growth of display ads by industry
- Industry Estimated Spend Q2 2007 Estimated Spend Q2 2008 % Change Financial Services $1,513,499,500 $1,107,215,800 -27% Web Media $903,731,700 $ 895,871,500 -1% Retail Goods & Services $657,760,600 $611,790,900 -7% Telecommunications $541,705,300 $512,837,800 -5% Automotive $208,170,300 $301,249,900 45% Consumer...
- Tags: Advertisement, Advertising & Promotion, Goods, Management, Marketing, NB, Networking, Strategy, Telephony
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Online brand-jacking increasing
- With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...
- Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Hints of Apple's new strategies in its Q3 financial call
- Setting aside the news of a very strong quarter â€" stronger than predicted and accomplished in a consumer market worried over the emerging economic slowdown aka recession â€" Apple revealed renewed strength in some key segments and geographies. At the same time, executives gave a hint of Apple's vision of...
- Tags: Strategy, Financial, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- News to know: Apple; Windows updates; Google mobile ads; Denial of service attack 101
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" system Forbes: Apple Buys Chip Designer...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Update, Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results
- Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial resultsWhat's going on?Apple has just released successful results that ordinarily exist only in someone's business fantasies. They exceed their own targets and Analysts estimates in ever product category, and are poised for unprecedented major software and hardware introductions this year. They have amassed...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Notebooks, financial, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results
- In a conference call today with analysts, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) discussed financial results of the second fiscal quarter of 2008 which runs from 01 January â€" 31 March 2008. Apple's revenue was up 43 percent year-over-year. The company posted revenue of US$7.51 billion and...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Sales Strategy, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Revenue, Growth, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Apple iPod, Finance, Financial, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today
- Just a reminder that Apple will announce their Q2 2008 financial results in a conference call today (23 April 2008) at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET.Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has a little preview: So there are two things to watch for on Wednesday: 1) Apple’s sales figures...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Decoding AMD's 45nm processor announcement
- After a dismal 2007, AMD is trying to regain its footing. The company made several technology announcements at a computer tradeshow in Hannover, Germany last week--including progress on 45nm processors. But it remains to be seen whether AMD can deliver on all of this, and be more competitive in 2008....
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Penryn, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away
- Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Lidell summed it up: Microsoft's Q2 fiscal 2008 earnings were "outstanding." On January 24, Microsoft reported earnings of $4.7 billion, or 50 cents a share, on revenue of $16.36 billion for its second quarter of fiscal 2008. Even more impressive, the company...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Microsoft Windows, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook
- Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlookGood for XBOX, when Ultimate Rebates coming?XBOX has been beaten up, it is good to see them making a profit for once. I do wonder though when the rebates for all those who purchased Vista Ultimate will be forthcoming. Also, the first...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Financial accounting, Operational accounting, Operating systems, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, fiscal year outlook, earnings, United Parcel Service of America Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
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