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- Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?
- Apple in its fiscal second quarter shipped 2.29 million Macs to top even the most optimistic Wall Street projections. Apple had been expected to ship 2.1 million Macs, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of Apple's biggest supporters on Wall Street. Since...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Operational Accounting, Construction, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units
- Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal
- Google on Thursday allayed concerns about its paid click growth rate with first quarter earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations. Google reported first quarter net income of $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, on revenue of $5.19 billion. Excluding traffic acquisition costs TAC of $1.49 billion, revenue was...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Quarter, StreetView, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Nokia retains the crown in the 4th quarter, but Apple moves into third worldwide
- The well-known research firm Canalys released their latest smart mobile device report breaking down results from the 4th quarter of 2007, as well as summary results from the entire year. As expected, Nokia remained the global market leader with 52.9% of the market share in the 4th quarter. RIM finished...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Quarter, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Total BlackBerry user base passes 12 million
- The number of BlackBerry users worldwide has now passed 12 million. That's according to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, which reported its latest quarterly earnings today. This report encompasses the period from September 1-December 1. The company said revenue for the third quarter of fiscal...
- Tags: Tax, Net Income, Quarter, RIM BlackBerry, Taxes, Free Trade, Handhelds, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- We will all end up working for Microsoft...
- MSFT profits in its latest quarter exceeded GOOG's total revenues. Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share...
- Tags: Revenue, Quarter, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Amazon's third quarter fails to impress
- Amazon reported strong third quarter earnings and upped its outlook for the fourth quarter, but it's unclear whether that's good enough to keep the e-tailer in that elite club that has been carrying the Nasdaq. On Tuesday, Amazon reported third quarter net income of $80 million, or 19 cents...
- Tags: Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Revenue Outlook, Amazon Web Services, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers
- AT&T said Tuesday that it added 2 million wireless subscribers and more than doubled its U-verse TV customer base in a quarter. The telecom giant reported third quarter adjusted earnings of $4.3 billion, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $30.1 billion. Including charges, AT&T reported third quarter...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Quarter, TV, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Apple clears Mac, iPhone shipment hurdles; Earnings shine; Outlook strong
- Apple capped a strong fiscal fourth quarter and 2007 amid strong Mac shipments. The company reported Monday fourth quarter earnings of $904 million, or $1.01 a share, on revenue of $6.22 billion. That sum easily topped estimates. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 86 cents a share for the...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
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- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Britain releases its X-Files
- The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...
- Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- UK warned of China, India software threat
- Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for...
- Tags: Revenue, China, India, U.K., Tools & Techniques, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, software, Inda, services
- News items 2008-05-14
- MySpace's big spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?
- MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling--delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles--will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...
- Tags: MySpace, Stanford Wallace, User Engagement, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...
- Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...
- Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?DoubtfulAs I noted in my response to Paul Murphy, this looks a lot more like an HP that's run out of ideas and feels bound to play the serial acquisition game to disguise the fact, and maybe have some new cash cows ready for...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group
- AMD on Monday named a new head of its computing solutions group and created a central engineering unit to improve execution at the chipmaker. Among the moving parts: Randy Allen was promoted to lead the computing solutions group at AMD, which focuses on the...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Workstations, Processors, Human Resources, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn
- Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...
- Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
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