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Chip-equipment orders rise slightly
News Semiconductor equipment orders rose in February, after getting off to a slow start this year. Orders booked rose to $712m, a 10 percent increase over SEMI's revised $645m figure for January bookings. North American semiconductor equipment makers...
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Google sees profit almost treble
News Google's fourth-quarter revenue rose 67 percent and profit nearly tripled on continued strength in its paid-search business. Total revenue for the quarter rose 67 percent to $3.2bn, compared to $1.92bn a year ago.
[February 1, 2007, 8:26]
Dell turns in another stellar quarter
News Revenues rose 57 per cent to $2.4 billion in the fourth quarter ending February 2, and profits jumped 170 per cent year on year to $188 million. Sales for the whole of fiscal 1997 were up 47 per cent to $7.8 billion while income rose to $518...
[February 26, 1997, 10:18]
Google has 'very good quarter' as revenue rises
News In what could be a positive sign for online advertising, Google said on Thursday that its second-quarter revenue rose from a year ago as ad spending in certain areas recovered and the company did well at managing expenses.
[July 17, 2009, 11:43]
IBM misses targets
News IBM's first-quarter revenue and profit rose 3 percent but fell short of its financial targets, the company reported on Thursday. Excluding the effect of the weaker US dollar, revenue rose just 1 percent year-on-year, the company said.
[April 15, 2005, 9:20]
Chip market heats up in July
News In a sign of continued growth in the chip industry, global sales of semiconductors rose to $12.9bn (£8.21bn) in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Sales of microprocessors were up 5.6 percent from June, while sales of...
[September 3, 2003, 15:55]
Marconi in takeover talks
News Shares in Marconi rose sharply on Monday morning after the UK telecoms manufacturer confirmed it is in talks about a possible merger or acquisition. Shares in Marconi rose by over 10 percent on Monday morning, to 305p, on the back of this report...
[August 8, 2005, 11:50]
IT workers in US 'less anxious' about job market
News Information technology workers' confidence in the job market -- and in their ability to hold on to their jobs -- rose again in August, a study found. Hudson on Wednesday said its "employment index" for IT workers rose to 115.9 in August, up from...
[September 2, 2004, 9:50]
More job cuts at HP
News HP announced additional job cuts Thursday after it reported that fourth-quarter earnings rose 7 percent, exceeding analyst expectations. Unit sales of consumer notebooks rose 48 percent, Hurd said. On a year-over-year basis, consumer hardware...
[November 18, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft warns of rise in scareware, PDF exploits
News The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats such as PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realised people are getting smarter about recognising spam and phishing emails...
[April 8, 2009, 15:54]
PC boom boosts Dell
News Dell reported on Thursday that its second-quarter earnings rose 26 percent, meeting analyst expectations, thanks to increases in unit shipments. Desktop PC unit shipments rose by 25 percent, while server shipments grew by 27 percent.
[August 15, 2003, 12:55]
Google earnings fall short of forecasts
News Google's second-quarter revenue rose 58 percent from a year ago on continued strong search-advertising sales, while profits rose 28 percent, slightly lower than analyst expectations. Shares of Google fell by about seven percent to $507.60 (£247.73...
[July 20, 2007, 7:52]
Oracle's earnings hit target
News Oracle reported on-target first-quarter earnings on Friday that rose 28 percent over the same period last year, despite a downturn in new software licence sales. Oracle reported that software licence sales were down 7 percent to $525m in its fiscal...
[September 12, 2003, 15:15]
Disk storage faces gloomier outlook
News Sales of a key kind of data storage hardware rose 5.1 percent in the second quarter, but the outlook for the product category is less rosy, according to a new report from research firm Gartner. EMC's revenue jumped 17.4 percent to $745.6m in the...
[September 3, 2004, 11:45]
Tech investment grows after years of decline
News Venture investing in technology companies rose to $11.3bn last year, reversing three years of consecutive declines as the market returned to more normal patterns of investing, according to a venture capital report scheduled to be released on Friday.
[January 21, 2005, 16:40]
Servers and workstations make up for PC plunge
News Compaq server shipments rose 10.7 percent from 1999. Dataquest Monday reported worldwide server shipments rose 21 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, while workstations posted a more modest 11.3 percent gain.
[February 5, 2001, 14:26]
Job vacancies are on the up and up
News Opportunities for permanent staff rose across a number of sectors, including: engineering, science, and secretarial. Opportunities for IT jobseekers also rose, signalling the first surge in demand in the sector for a year.
[May 8, 2002, 17:22]
'Short' sellers continue to thrive
News According to the Nasdaq, short-interest levels rose to 4,062,490,704 compared with 4,013,408,493 for July, setting a new record for the third month in a row. But the investors who shorted the stock this late in the game may not have been able to...
[August 29, 2001, 8:10]
Revamp IT teaching in primary schools, says review
News The review by Sir Jim Rose, a former inspector with schools watchdog Ofsted, found that IT teaching has failed to keep pace with young people's increasing computer literacy. It is important to ensure that technology is at the core of the primary...
[December 9, 2008, 11:05]
Apple's Tiger draws Mac developer's ire
News Arlo Rose is outraged at the similarity of Apple's Dashboard, previewed earlier Monday by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, to his Konfabulator, a $25 (£13.72) Macintosh program. It's insulting, is what it is," Rose said in a telephone interview.
[June 29, 2004, 9:10]
