Microsoft posted strong quarterly revenues off sales of Kinect and other products, but faces challenges in online services. Net income totaled $6.63 billion. – Numberswise, Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings suggest a lot of upside
for the company, with a stronger-than-expected $19.95 billion in revenue and
$6.63 billion in net income. However, many of its latest and most high-profile
initiatives including Windows Phone 7 and cloud software have yet …
Apple posted record revenue and profits Tuesday, a day after the company announced that its iconic founder and chief executive Steve Jobs was taking a medical leave of absence for unspecified health problems. The health of the company however has never seemed brighter. Apple said it had record revenue of $26.74 billion in the fourth [...]
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Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues rose modestly in the third quarter, according to IDC. – Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the third calendar quarter of 2010 (3Q10) increased 2.1 percent and 2.5 percent respectively, compared to 2Q10, according to the latest PC processor study from IT research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Compared to 3Q09, worldwid…
Google may say it didn’t launch Instant to make more bucks from Google.com searches, but that’s exactly what has happened since Instant launched Sept. 8. – When Google launched Google Instant to the market in September, financial
analysts assumed the company designed the predictive search technology to boost
search revenues.
Analysts believed Instant, which displays changing results on the fly
as users type, would help users conduct quicker search…
Microsoft reported strong results for the fiscal quarter, buoyed by strong sales of Windows 7 and Office 2010. But smartphones remain a looming question. – Microsoft announced strong results for its first fiscal
quarter 2011, with revenues of $16.20 billion and net income of $5.41 billion.
That represents a 25 percent rise in revenues over the same quarter last year,
when the company was combating the fallout of a massive global recession.
Net inc…
Intel lost market share to AMD during the third quarter, which saw dismal growth but nonetheless set a record for CPU revenue, thanks to increased selling prices. – The x86 processor market, again led by Intel, set a record for revenue in the third quarter of 2010, despite posting growth that was well below expected for the season, according to a new report from Mercury Research.
The average selling price per CPU increased in the third quarter, making it a…
SAP reported robust revenue and profits for the most recent quarter, but competitive pressures and an Oracle lawsuit could darken its horizon. – SAP reported robust revenue and profits for third-quarter
2010, although competitive challenges and an upcoming lawsuit with Oracle both
cloud what would otherwise be a crystal-clear story of economic recovery.
SAP reported quarterly software and software-related service
revenues of $3.19 billi…
Despite a weakening consumer demand for PCs, Intel still saw a record high in revenues in the third quarter, thanks to spending by businesses and in emerging markets. – Intel officials in August warned the industry that weakening
consumer PC sales in the third quarter threatened what had been an
extremely strong year for Intel and its competitors.
However, corporate spending on technology helped Intel grow
revenues to $11.1 billion, the first time they had reac…
SAP reported rising software-related revenues and net profit, thanks to increased spending by business customers in the wake of a long-term global recession. SAP’s recent Sybase acquisition positions it to make an aggressive play in the mobile-software market. – SAP benefited from increased spending on
business software in the second quarter, reporting software and
software-related revenues of 2.26 billion euro ($2.9 billion) and a net profit
of 491 million euro ($638 million). Revenues experienced a year-over-year rise
of 16 percent, while net profit r…
Microsoft’s week involved Windows Phone 7 reaching its "technical preview" milestone, and the company announcing stronger-than-expected quarterly results. – Symbolically, it could have
been a very bad week for Microsoft: As the company headed into the July 22
earnings announcement for its fiscal fourth quarter, a number of Wall Street
analysts were predicting quarterly revenues of $15.2 billion. That would be
more than enough for most companies, but…
Microsoft has taken an "all in" approach to cloud computing, but its revenues from software such as Windows 7 suggests it will need to leverage its traditional, more desktop-bound products for some time to come. – Microsofts quarterly revenues of $16.04 billion exceeded
many industry analysts expectations, and suggested that the economy–at least
the portion of it that purchases software is indeed slowly reviving from the
deepest global recession in a generation. However, a deeper analysis of those
results…
Microsoft posted revenues of $16.04 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter, surpassing analyst estimates. Microsoft reported some 175 million Windows 7 licenses sold so far. – Microsoft posted revenues of $16.04 billion for its fiscal
fourth quarter, surpassing analyst estimates. Revenue across its key divisions,
including Windows and Online Services, also improved.
Heading into the earnings call, analysts had predicted
Microsoft would post revenues of $15.2 billion. …
AMD saw revenues in the second quarter grow 40 percent over last year, thanks to strong growth in the mobile PC chip business. AMD’s graphics business also did well, though AMD officials expressed frustration with the server numbers. – Advanced Micro Devices followed rival Intel’s announcement of record
second-quarter financial numbers with strong results of its own, though its
high revenues were tempered by a net loss of $43 million.
AMD officials announced
second-quarter revenues of $1.65 billion, up 40 percent from the same…
HP overtook IBM in worldwide server revenues in the first quarter on the strength of its ProLiant sales and IBM customers waiting for refreshes of that vendors Power and mainframe offerings, according to Gartner and IDC. Overall, the global server market grew in both revenues and shipments, the analyst firms said. – Hewlett-Packard grabbed the worldwide market share lead from IBM
in the first quarter as sales globally continue to rebound, according to market
research firms IDC and Gartner.
Both firms said HP saw server revenues jump while IBM
figures slid in the quarter.
HP and IBM were both helped
by inc…
The upswing for drives naturally follows that of personal computer shipments, which are starting to increase as the world economy improves and users choose to take advantage of newer, faster models at roughly the same prices as older machines.
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Following a decline in 2009, global revenue from shipments of both hard disk
and optical drives is expected to rebound sharply in 2010, industry researcher
iSuppli reported March 12.
The upswing for drives naturally follows that of personal computer shipments,
which are starting to i…
Cisco, Juniper Networks and other top vendors saw double-digit revenue growth in their router businesses in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Dell’Oro Group. Overall, revenue in the worldwide service provider space jumped 15 percent sequentially in the quarter, and Dell’Oro says it expects the trend to continue into 2010.
– Like other sectors of the tech industry, the global service provider router
market showed continuing recovery in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to
research company Dell’Oro Group.
In a report issued Feb. 22, Dell’Oro said the sales of routers
for service providers jumped 15 percent over t…
Dell reports it saw strong revenue growth across all of its businesses in the fourth quarter, but issues such as high component prices and increased holiday sales of low-margin PCs led profits to fall by 5 percent. Dell isn’t seeing the same sort of increase in consumer business that rivals HP and Acer are, but revenue in commercial products rose 26 percent, the company says.
– Dell saw its fourth-quarter 2009 revenues jump on the strength of commercial
products such as servers and storage, but profits declined thanks in part to
weakness in the consumer PC business.
The mixed bag of financial results that Dell executives
announced Feb. 18 were in contrast to the strong…
Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent.
– Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent.
For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, Red Hat reported
revenues of $194.3 million, up 18 percent over the same period a year
ago and beating expectations. Meanwhile, the open source…
