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- News to know: Amazon-Zappos; eBay earnings; Windows server; AMD; Plastic Logic Reader; Apple-AT&T
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: A good fit: Amazon gobbles up Zappos Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Don't Forget to Turn Out the Lights,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Plastic Logic, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, Matthew Miller, Earnings, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Team Management, E-books, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to bite
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to biteGood article, Adrian...Apple have had an excellent quarter and it would be foolish to argue that, however market saturation is creeping in - Macs have plateaued, iPods have modest low single digit growth and...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Apple PC business, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, recession, Yoy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?
- Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- 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
- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Tags: Merger, Citrix Systems Inc., Workflow Studio, Citrix XenServer 4.1, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Intel quarter hints at AMD trainwreck
- Following Intel's decent--but not good enough to make Wall Street happy--second quarter it seems to be a good bet that AMD's financial results will be a debacle.We'll know Thursday when AMD reports its second quarter earnings, but Intel is willing to suffer self-inflicted wounds on the chip pricing front. And...
- Tags: Intel, Hardware Infrastructure, General, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Apple has a spectacular quarter
- Apple has a spectacular quarterI'm a bit surprisedthat they are expecting less revenue in the third quarter, which I believe is the quarter in which the iPhone will be released. I know it's not a huge quarter for consumer cyclicals, but this is supposed to be their new big product.Not...
- Tags: Desktops, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Has AMD busted itself trying to beat Intel?
- Has AMD busted itself trying to beat Intel?Thanks to AMDI hope AMD makes it again. If they do not customers are actually the losers and back to Intel monopoly, high prices and back to Intel processor technology strangulation. Intel advancement in processor technology has been mainly due to AMD technology...
- Tags: Research & Development, Processors, Semiconductors, Core 2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- Where salesforce.com's sale automation leaves off, OpenAir picks up automation of the resulting project
- Where salesforce.com's sale automation leaves off, OpenAir picks up automation of the resulting projectWe use Projity's Project-ON-Demand with SalesforceMy company tried both OpenAir and QuickArrow. They really are not Project Mangement applications. We got screwed when we opened our Microsoft Project files in their system and it totally messed up...
- Tags: Sales force management, Real estate, Tools & Techniques, Salesforce.com Inc., OpenAir Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- ZDNet reader poll so far: Microsoft's Zune can't win
- ZDNet reader poll so far: Microsoft's Zune can't winZDNet readers said,,,,XP will never take the market...XBox didn't have a chance...No one will buy Vista...This is the year of the Linux desktop, (for 5 years)...David, I think you need to stop reading the MS bashers and thinking they have anything to...
- Tags: Game players, Desktops, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, ZDNet-reader, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- NetSuite launches SuiteFlex to build out verticals
- It’s been interesting to watch NetSuite and salesforce.com grow up over the last few years. The chief executives at the two companies, Zach Nelson and Marc Benioff, share a common heritage of cutting their teeth at Oracle, but have taken different approaches to spreading the SaaS, multitenancy gospel. Salesforce.com...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Google CEO from Q2 to Q3: Partnerships promised and delivered!
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a man of his word, at least as far as his commitment to growing Google through partnerships. Schmidt extolled the power of partnerships at Googles Q2 earnings conference call in July:lets explore a little bit how the partnerships that were developing -- not just the...
- Tags: partnership, Google Inc., advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Will Google ever build another billion dollar business?
- Google’s oversized ambitions recall the 1980’s financial credo “greed is good.” Four hundred percent stock appreciation over two years, 50%+ search market share, 77% quarterly revenue growth, 25% profit margin…and Google wants more.Google repeatedly confirms its intention to obtain and control all the world’s information, including individuals’ personal information; Google...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Free Google GMail; The high price you pay
- Do you believe the contents of every personal and business email you ever write or send should be recorded and permanently archived on third party servers located in countries throughout the world, to which you have no access?If you are one of the millions of GMail users, you have indicated...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Blog posts 2006-09-10
- AMD to miss revenue target
- AMD to miss revenue targetLooks like AMD hit it's projections to meI think Wall Street types read whatever they chose to read into fiscal reports. I'd say AMD hit it's projections pretty accurately despite Intel's fire sale pricing. But you can bet the fools on Wall Street will punish AMD...
- Tags: Operational accounting, PC Market, stock, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- 0.35% of all e-mails sent resulted in a sale
- Order-per-email rates reached a new high of 0.35% in Q4 2004, up from the previous high of 0.3% in Q2 2003, DoubleClick reported. Click-to-purchase conversion rates in e-mail marketing campaigns increased 14% YTY in Q4 2004, from 4.2 to 4.8%. As e-mail volume rose, however, the average revenue per e-mail...
- Tags: Q4 2004, YTY, e-mail
- Blog posts 2005-03-30
- 0.35% of all e-mails sent resulted in a sale
- Order-per-email rates reached a new high of 0.35% in Q4 2004, up from the previous high of 0.3% in Q2 2003, DoubleClick reported. Click-to-purchase conversion rates in e-mail marketing campaigns increased 14% YTY in Q4 2004, from 4.2 to 4.8%. As e-mail volume rose, however, the average revenue per e-mail...
- Tags: e-mail, Q4 2004, YTY
- Blog posts 2005-03-30
- Novell delays open-source project
- Novell delays open-source project"Novell delays open-source project" is a BOGUS LEDE!Yet another ZD distortion. C'mon guys!So Manuel (way too optimistic, sometimes) says late 2003 and Novell reports a little creep to Q2 2004. SO? Why beat up on Novell? M$ "delays" run into years, not months.Unnecessary roughness...What?The headline is not...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Development tools, Novell Inc., Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., critical user, Mono, open source
- Discussion threads 2003-11-18
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