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The Day Ahead: Cash cow Cisco whets acquisition appetite
News Cisco Systems continues to wow Wall Street as it gobbles up networking startups, integrates them and grows revenue. While Cisco, Nortel Networks and other networking powers post stellar earnings, Lucent Technologies, former Wall Street darling, is...
[February 9, 2000, 14:58]
Microsoft prepares smartphone challenge to Apple
News The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Microsoft is getting ready to launch an online marketplace akin to Apple's App Store. Microsoft is gearing up to take on rival Apple in the smartphone market.
[February 10, 2009, 9:50]
The Day Ahead: Cabletron's IPO kids are all right
News Cabletron which has been busy transforming itself into a holding company, finally gave Wall Street what it wanted -- clear IPO and revenue projections for its four baby Cabletrons. Way back in February, Cabletron announced plans to transform itself...
[June 29, 2000, 12:16]
Yahoo reportedly near decision on new CEO
News Yahoo is said to be wrapping up its search for a new chief executive, and a decision could come as early as next week, according to a report late Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, citing people close to the search pioneer.
[January 9, 2009, 7:53]
Oracle's woes may extend beyond Asia
News In addition, the applications business has consistently missed Wall Street expectations. The company warned earlier this month that its fiscal third-quarter results would fall short of Wall Street expectations and broke out a novel reason: business...
[March 13, 2002, 12:30]
Yahoo beats expectations despite net loss
News Yahoo cleared Wall Street's pessimistic earnings expectations for the fourth quarter and matched anticipated revenue, but charges swung the internet pioneer to a net loss for the quarter. The company reported a net loss of $303m (£212m) for the...
[January 28, 2009, 8:10]
VMware reports leap in quarterly earnings
News Wall Street was expecting earnings of 26 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters. But despite beating Wall Street's expectations and posting growth, VMware fell 3.17 percent to $21.40 a share in after-hours trading.
[January 27, 2009, 8:25]
The Day Ahead: Will Handspring shares fare better than Palm?
News And Handspring's IPO may also have a tough time following an initial Wall Street honeymoon. Palm and Handspring are two handheld personal device makers connected in so many ways they could almost be clones.
[June 19, 2000, 13:45]
Intel beats Q3 estimates, offers bright outlook
News Wall Street was looking for earnings of 28 cents on revenue of $9.06bn. Wall Street was expecting Intel to deliver fourth quarter sales of $9.52bn. Intel has reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped estimates, and the company said it...
[October 14, 2009, 8:55]
Yahoo-Google deal sparks fresh concerns
News A consumer group, legislators and Wall Street weighed in this week on Yahoo's proposed search-advertising deal with Google. With the companies having granted the US Department of Justice (DoJ) two extensions to issue a decision on the deal, a fresh...
[October 30, 2008, 7:41]
Microsoft seeks allies for fresh Yahoo bid
News According to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Microsoft has approached media firms, including Time Warner and News Corp, to aid it in the bid. Microsoft is trying to find partners to help it launch a fresh bid for Yahoo's search business...
[July 2, 2008, 14:24]
Bleak Year ahead for Nigerian Handset Market.
Blog According to Wall Street Journal, the global economic downturn and weakening demand, handset makers and vendors affiliated with cell phone components are probably headed toward a large shakeup in 2009.
[February 9, 2009, 9:26]
The Day Ahead: Compaq wins credibility back, now must grow
News Capellas hasn't wowed anyone, but he's starting to win credibility points on Wall Street. Now, he'll have to stick his neck out a bit more to get Wall Street buzzing. In what amounted to his one-year anniversary, Capellas was pleased to announce...
[July 26, 2000, 12:11]
XenSource seeks to emerge from VMware's shadow
News IT professionals could be forgiven for thinking there is only one virtualisation supplier in the market as Wall Street today prepares for an initial market listing of VMware, which is being touted by some brokers as possibly the biggest new...
[August 15, 2007, 14:15]
Verizon in DSL deal with NorthPoint
News The telco formed through the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE also announced second quarter results, boosting profits, but falling below Wall Street expectations. Verizon Communications, which is entering the third day of a strike by 85,000 union...
[August 8, 2000, 13:04]
Four Net backbone servers hit by glitch
News Four out of 13 computers that control the flow of Net traffic worldwide partially failed Wednesday night as the result of a technical glitch, reported the Wall Street Journal. The problem was dealt with quickly, so users remained unaffected.
[August 25, 2000, 12:00]
Yahoo sees drop in profits
News The figure fell short of Wall Street expectations of 11 cents a share, prompting the share price to drop more than eight percent in after-hours trading. Yahoo saw a drop in net profit for the first quarter from a year ago, but met its revenue...
[April 18, 2007, 12:03]
EC may oppose Time Warner-AOL-EMI link
News The European Commission may hinder or entirely block the proposed link-up of America Online, Time Warner and EMI, according to documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal. Commission antitrust officials fear the merger of AOL and Time Warner, and...
[September 1, 2000, 9:50]
PC business drags down Dell's earnings
News The company reported revenue of $14.4bn (£7.3bn), sharply below Wall Street's already reduced estimates of $14.9bn, for its fourth fiscal quarter ending on 2 February. Dell's nightmare of a fiscal year is over, but it didn't exactly go out in style.
[March 2, 2007, 8:21]
The Day Ahead: Wall St research versus PR
News Commentary: Don't fear for Wall Street analysts in a bear market -- there's always public relations. Any remaining doubt that many sell-side analysts are merely company mouthpieces should have evaporated after reading a few research reports about...
[December 5, 2000, 11:54]
