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- Google: Nice quarter, but...
- Google's expense management enabled the company to handily top its earnings targets, but there were Wall Street worries about the company's lack of revenue growth. Revenue per click was also a worry. The company today reported second quarter revenue of $4.07 billion, beating Wall Street's estimates of...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; Vizio; Treknology; Green tech
- 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. Ed Bott: Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozy Sean Portnoy: Surprise! As HDTVs price rise, sales drop and Vizio becomes...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory'
- Updated: Google reported first quarter net income of $1.42 billion, or $4.49 a share, on revenue of $4.07 billion, excluding traffic acquisition costs. Excluding various charges, Google reported earnings of $5.16 a share, well ahead of Wall Street estimates of $4.93 a share. In a statement, Google...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Earnings, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Can Twitter's backbone handle sudden jump in popularity?
- For the past week or so, I've been noticing - and hearing some rumblings about - a greater-than-normal number of overload errors spewing from Twitter. Even though the overloads likely are stemming from the recent mainstream Twitter craze - which is a good thing - it's clear that Twitter is...
- Tags: Backbone, Jason Perlow, Twitter, Mainframes, Storage, Telecommunications, Servers, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Layoffs at large software firms - Fact or Fiction?
- Did SAP & Oracle cut loose staff? There have been a number of web sites reporting planned or executed layoffs at various software firms. Some of the rumored layoffs are supposed to occur at venerable firms like SAP, Oracle, Infor and others. Seeking Alpha...
- Tags: Software, Layoff, Oracle Corp., Cut, Workforce Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic
- Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...
- Tags: Revenue, Shareholder, EBITDA, Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ivory Investment Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Yahoo meets estimates, plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
- Yahoo's third quarter earnings weren't the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff. The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter. Yahoo statement, reported net income of $54.3 million,...
- Tags: Revenue, Cost Management, Yahoo! Inc., Earnings, Workforce, Profits, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
- Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...
- Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering
- Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Google goes investing
- The news that Google is close to launching its own venture capital fund may raise a lot of hopes, but the history of corporate investment isn't fantastic and comes with a heavy price for portfolio companies that win a corporate sweepstakes. It also tells a lot about Google's own sense...
- Tags: Google Inc., Investor, Investment, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan:Â Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Linux Kernel, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Twitter, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Linux, Channel Management, Mainframes, Open Source, Telecommunications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Servers
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Google's quarter falls short of expectations; Social networking not monetizing well
- Google on Thursday reported fourth quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, on revenue of $4.83 billion, up 51 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges Google reported earnings of $4.43 a share. All of those figures missed Wall Street estimates. According to Thomson...
- Tags: Social Networking, Revenue, Google Inc., Network, Sergey Brin, TAC Google, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- News to know: Vista SP1; Microsoft earnings; MacBook specs; VOIP
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1 Larry Dignan: Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook Jeff Jones err Microsoft: Vista more secure than everything Is Microsoft tinkering with Live...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Linux, Web Site Development, Telephony, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, VOIP, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Networking, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media
- Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week now eWeek, there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online, it...
- Tags: Blog, Blogging, CBS Interactive Inc., David Berlind, Information, Investor, Media, Media Company, Microsoft Windows, PC Week, Twitter, Web, Windows Sources, Ziff-Davis Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
- On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?Google is a long ways away from having a monopoly. Should we protect MS andYahoo???Abuse of monopoly power is illegalnot monopoly itself. Microsoft and their insecurities, not just in their second rate software. Maybe, just maybe Google can win on merit instead of cheating?Paraphrasing...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Google earnings fall short of expectations
- Google reported second quarter earnings of $925 million, or $2.93 a share, but that wasn't enough to satisfy Wall Street. Excluding charges, Google had earnings of $1.12 billion, or $3.56 a share. According to Thomson Financial Google was expected to report earnings of $3.59 a share. On the revenue...
- Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Office bloat may not affect the skin on George's nose. But, about that skin in his wallet....
- My colleague George Ou (the official internal David Berlind-whip at CNET Networks) has taken issue with my opinion that Google Office [sic] will compete with Microsoft Office even though Googles CEO says it wont because of the green field opportunity Google has to strike at the 10 percent of the...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Office 2.0, Personal Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...
- Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- How Google falls: Unprofitable in 2009
- Ive been a Google skeptic for a long time. Each"blow-out" quarter reported only increases my scepticism, because every time revenue increases, so do costs. Except for a single critical year, 2005, when the companys momentum drove advertisers to it in droves, costs have increased faster than revenues. In 2006, costs...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
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