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IBM hits mark in gloomy week for techs
News During a Wednesday afternoon conference call with Wall Street analysts, IBM chief financial officer John Joyce emphasised that the company is less reliant on mainframes than in the past. Joyce addressed IBM's forecast for the remainder of the year...
[April 19, 2001, 11:35]
BT chief steps down
News His legacy is a company that is in good financial health, well managed and one that embraces change. The suggestion that BT is in good financial health may be questioned by some commentators: its quarterly pre-tax profits fell 30 percent year-on...
[April 8, 2008, 17:06]
Google's finances: Analysts debate downturn's effect
News The search giant, which makes the vast majority of its revenue when people click on ads next to search results, reports first-quarter financial results on Thursday after the US market closes. So far, however, financial analysts are mixed on whether...
[April 16, 2009, 8:48]
IBM demonstrates strong sales
News In a conference call, IBM chief financial officer John Joyce indicated that companies are opening up their pocketbooks for technology purchases. Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, as well as data storage specialist EMC, recently have...
[April 16, 2004, 8:30]
IT spending: What the analysts think
News Aberdeen Group tracks the financial performance of the 20 largest publicly traded IT vendors. Culpepper does a quarterly review of the financial filings of more than 290 companies. Software suppliers "plugged the revenue gap" by pushing...
[October 6, 2003, 15:00]
AOL to cut 1,200 from Net unit
News The company has set aggressive financial goals for the year of $40bn in revenue and $10bn in earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA). Last quarter, the company missed its revenue estimates, leading some on Wall...
[August 22, 2001, 9:36]
Trying times? 'Buy Big Blue'
News For example, content companies are concerned with the financial health of their potential advertisers -- IT managers worry about the companies that provide Web hosting services or Internet access. The startups' financial bind combined with the big...
[February 23, 2001, 12:23]
Late Entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria.
Blog Experience has shown that in the Nigerian Telecoms market, innovations and financial muscles is a major factor for acquiring subscribers. Etisalat is a clear leader with innovative products with foot prints in the Middle East market and many years...
[March 14, 2008, 16:09]
Late entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria
Blog Experience has shown that in the Nigerian Telecoms market, innovations and financial muscles is a major factor for acquiring subscribers. Etisalat is a clear leader with innovative products with foot prints in the Middle East market and many years...
[July 21, 2008, 14:03]
Dell reports 17pc fall in earnings
News New chief financial officer Brian Gladden presided over his first earnings call for Dell. It's an area Dell is growing quickly, but it's also one that Stahlman believes is not well-understood by the financial analysts watching Dell.
[August 29, 2008, 8:26]
Logica wins long-term £200m contract
News In particular, the growth in revenues from the telecom sector has slowed -- wiping out strong financial gains in its work with the public sector. See techTrader for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector.
[January 2, 2002, 12:30]
Dell product group gets reboot
News Dell will fall short of that $60bn revenue goal and is only expected to grow 6 percent next year, according to the average estimate of financial analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call. As a result, Dell has lost significant market share this year...
[December 13, 2006, 7:45]
Red Hat revenue climbs again
News Red Hat chief executive and chairman Matthew Szulik called the financial performance the company's best to date and promised continued growth based on plans to expand the company's offerings and geographic reach and to tap growing global demand...
[July 1, 2005, 9:05]
BT warned against selling off its networks
News This followed an earlier bid from Earthlease, a group financed by a group of US financial institutions, for BT's local loop -- the part of the network between local exchanges and individual homes. BT must figure out which business it wants to be in...
[August 8, 2001, 14:25]
Government revamps IT-project delivery
News The move, outlined in the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC's) newly published annual report, is part of an effort to help the government generate big financial savings. In this financial year, the OGC hopes to have an influence on £5.2bn of...
[October 31, 2008, 11:43]
Strong services revenue lifts IBM's second quarter
News During a conference call with financial analysts, IBM's chief financial officer Mark Loughridge said that the second quarter was one of IBM's strongest in years. IBM on Wednesday reported strong revenue and income growth for the second quarter of...
[July 19, 2007, 8:59]
Microsoft wants Yahoo for its users, say analysts
News This deal will break even or better in the second financial year," said Microsoft's Liddell. The online-advertising business relies on scale, pointed out Chris Liddell, chief financial officer for Microsoft, on a conference call on Friday to...
[February 1, 2008, 14:21]
Satyam 'bullish' under new governance model
News In the UK and Ireland, Satyam's existing clientele had signed $2.5m (£1.5m) worth of contracts with the company during the first quarter of financial year 2009, Satyam's UK and Ireland head noted earlier this month.
[July 6, 2009, 9:32]
Investors warm to clean technology
News Other institutional investors here at the conference echoed Welks' comments, saying that clean technology represents an attractive investment category for both financial and social reasons. Cleantech Venture Network's chairman, Nicholas Parker...
[September 22, 2006, 10:45]
IM buddy making more powerful friends
News Monday's endorsement comes as ActiveBuddy prepares to launch a financial "buddy" branded by Reuters, one of its two financial backers. Whenever you get a population in the hundreds of millions, developers are going to rush to build applications for...
[May 24, 2001, 10:33]
