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- VMware posts solid third quarter, tops estimates
- VMware's third quarter financial results were better than expected based on maintenance renewals and federal IT spending. The company reported net income of $38 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $83 million, or 21 cents a share a year ago. Non-GAAP net income of $95...
- Tags: Revenue, Quarter, VMware Inc., Operational Accounting, Virtualization, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Back-to-school demand saves PC market; Slight growth in third quarter
- Global PC shipments came in at 80.9 million in the third quarter, up 0.5 percent from a year ago, according to Gartner. OK, a 0.5 percent increase is a bit of a joke in most years, but after the shellacking the tech industry took in late 2008...
- Tags: PC, Quarter, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Palm: 823,000 smartphone units shipped; Outlook lumpy
- Palm's first quarter had multiple moving parts. The company shipped 823,000 smartphones, announced plans to raise capital, beat estimates, delivered a mixed outlook and said the company's fortunes will be tied to product launches. Got all that? The big question, however, remains. Can the...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Quarter, Palm Pre, GAAP, Smart Phones, Operational Accounting, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Financial Accounting, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Nvidia offers hope with Q2 results; Shares jump in after-hours
- Nvidia said Thursday that its second quarter loss had narrowed from a year ago and offered some hope that things may be turning around. For the quarter, the company reported a net loss of $105.3 million, or 19 cents per share, an improvement over the year ago loss of $120.9...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Quarter, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites
- eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Marketplaces business. For the quarter ending June 30 statement, the company reported net income of $479...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- No surprise: Apple beats for Q3; Jobs "thrilled" over iPhone sales, app store downloads
- Apple once again beat Wall Street's estimates - highlighting the 5.2 million iPhones it sold during the third quarter - pushing shares up in after-hours trading. The company said today that its third quarter net income was $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per share, on sales of $8.34...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Quarter, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Smart Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better
- Intel on Tuesday delivered an impressive second quarter relative to Wall Street estimates and didn't disappoint on its outlook either. The company, which predicted a bottom in its first quarter results, delivered strong results across the board. Intel reported net income of $1 billion, or 18 cents...
- Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Earnings, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Oracle bucks economic trends; beats Q4 estimates
- Oracle, bucking Wall Street trends by continuing to beat quarterly estimates, said today that it earned $2.3 billion, or 46 cents per share, on sales of $6.9 billion, a 5 percent revenue dip but still enough to beat Wall Street's estimates of 44 cents on $6.47 billion in sales. Earnings...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Earnings Per Share, Quarter, Software License Revenue, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light
- Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected. Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Oracle delivers solid third quarter; Strong dollar dings fourth quarter outlook
- Oracle's fiscal third quarter earnings were better than expected and the company declared its first-ever dividend as a way to spin off its excess cash directly to shareholders. The applications and database giant reported net income of $1.33 billion, or 26 cents a share, on revenue of $5.45 billion,...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Software License, Dividend, Quarter, Earnings, Database Revenue, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- IT VC funding plunges to lowest level since 1998
- Investments in the IT industry fell to their lowest level since 1998, a 39 per cent drop compared with the year ago period. Overall, US venture capital investments fell 30 per cent, compared with the year ago period, to their lowest level since 2005 reports Dow Jones Venture Source. ...
- Tags: Finance, Information Technology, Investment, Quarter, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-01-17
- Oracle's second quarter in line; Ellison takes aim at Salesforce.com
- Oracle's second quarter was roughly in line with expectations as earnings excluding charges hit targets on lower than expected revenue. Meanwhile, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who picks on a competitor every quarter, said the company had "several recent wins over Salesforce.com" for on-demand software. Oracle reported second...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Software License, Quarter, Earnings, Larry Ellison, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- RIM reports Q3; says Q4 is off to a strong start
- As expected, Research in Motion reported third-quarter earnings today that fell below its original forecast. For the quarter ending Nov. 30, the company reported adjusted income of $477.3 million, or 83 cents per share, on $2.78 billion in revenue. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on...
- Tags: Revenue, Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie
- Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.
- updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Online advertising growth stalls from second quarter to third quarter
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers said that third quarter online ad revenue was nearly $5.9 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Compared to the second quarter, however, Internet ad revenue was up 2 percent courtesy of "strong economic headwinds." In a statement, IAB put...
- Tags: Quarter, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Online Advertising, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Global software market in Q2 2008 reached $3.1 bln
- According to IDC, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 19th consecutive quarter of YTY growth in Q2 2008 with revenues of $3.1 bln, a 14.2% increase over Q2 2007. This was the first time that the worldwide storage software market surpassed $3 bln in revenues in Q3 2008. The...
- Tags: Software, Storage Software, Storage, Hardware, NB, Quarter
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- T-Mobile: Churn spikes in third quarter
- T-Mobile said Thursday that it added 670,000 new customers in the third quarter to end with 32.1 million customers. The rub: The carrier's blended churn is the increasing. The company said its net income was $442 million, down from $452 million a year ago, on revenue of...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Quarter, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- NetSuite's Q3 revenues top $40.4 million but...
- Today is turning out to be a good day for saas/on-demand fans. Dreamforce got off to a jolly start and NetSuite recorded a third quarter, exactly in line with Wall Street expectations, with revenue at $40.4 million, a 44% increase over the third quarter of 2007 at $28.6 million, and...
- Tags: Revenue, NetSuite Inc., Quarter, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Operational Accounting, GAAP, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Microsoft's first quarter: Outlook light; Recession assumed; Office shines; Online doesn't
- Microsoft on Thursday handily topped its revenue targets and slid by Wall Street estimates with solid fiscal first quarter results, but cut its outlook for the December quarter. CFO Chris Liddell noted on a conference call that business "clearly weakened" at the end of the third quarter and carried over...
- Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Recession, Microsoft Office, Quarter, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
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