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Telecom downturn weighs heavy on Cisco
News Wall Street analysts say Cisco has been hit hard by the recent disclosure in a Securities Exchange Commission filing that the company set aside $275m in a contingency account for possible losses during the first quarter that ended 28 October, up...
[December 19, 2000, 11:17]
Dell reports 17pc fall in earnings
News But Wall Street didn't like what it heard: Dell's stock was down more than 10 percent to $22.50 in after-hours trading. Dell does not provide guidance to Wall Street for the forthcoming quarter, which makes analysts more than a bit nervous.
[August 29, 2008, 8:26]
Samsung and InterDigital settle 3G, 2G patent feud
News However, a report in the Wall Street Journal cited a telecom analyst who put a value of $400m (£339) to $500m on the five-year agreement. According to the Wall Street Journal, the settlement announcement came on the eve of a decision by the US...
[November 26, 2008, 10:40]
BackWeb ready for UK 'push'
News According to Jo Ann Sager, director of corporate strategy, BackWeb is a "content-agnostic" service with a wide smear of content from about 50 providers from the Wall Street Journal through McAfee Associates to General Motors and many much smaller...
[April 15, 1997, 16:50]
The Day Ahead: Oplink IPO set to soar, but beware
News Given Wall Street's fascination with everything fiber optic, the first day runup of Oplink is almost a no brainer. Rivals Avanex and New Focus are two young companies that have made a big splash on Wall Street.
[October 4, 2000, 12:51]
Salesforce.com chief emerges from quiet zone
News But Salesforce.com's path to Wall Street took an unexpected detour when the US Securities and Exchange Commission delayed the offering because an overly chatty Benioff violated quiet-period rules by granting an on-the-record interview to The New...
[July 23, 2004, 11:00]
The Day Ahead: Go2Net poised to benefit from the dot-com shakeout
News The Wall Street standard is being raised. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 11 cents a share. But Wall Street still doesn't notice Go2Net Just about everything but Wall Street attention. Cash is king and Go2Net has a lot of it.
[April 18, 2000, 12:13]
The Day Ahead: Weakened Apple a PC price war casualty
News Wall Street expected a profit of 3 cents per share on sales of $1.6bn, for the quarter ending 30 December. In Apple's case, we're sure critics are going to start saying it's like the good old days when the company reported losses and disappointed...
[December 6, 2000, 12:54]
The Day Ahead: Dell tries Wall St. balancing act
News Given the conditions, Dell was doing its best to manage Wall Street's expectations. And then Dell hit Wall Street with its short-term outlook. A handful of analysts said slowing corporate sales could hurt Dell's quarter, but Wall Street didn't...
[January 27, 2000, 11:47]
The Day Ahead: Intel call boosts Kumar's cachet
News Folks, anyone watching Wall Street knows about the analyst game. Kumar did and now he's a media star (see that mug in the Wall Street Journal? Throw in the fact that analysts also work for firms that normally have underwriting ties, and you can...
[September 26, 2000, 13:11]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News In a series of spy attacks, hackers stole information about the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project and the Air Force's air-traffic control system, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Apple's first quarter fires on all cylinders
News But sales of 22.1 million iPods were well below Wall Street expectations of 24.7 million. While not specifically addressing the missed Wall Street target for iPod unit sales, Cook did say that iPod unit sales met the company's own expectations.
[January 23, 2008, 12:27]
The Day Ahead: AT&T's NCR finally shines
News Avaya, a Lucent spinoff, also hasn't set Wall Street on fire. But Wall Street has been eyeing NCR's data warehousing revenue, which was $230m for the third quarter, up 28 percent from a year ago. For starters, AT&T shares are struggling amid weak...
[October 30, 2000, 13:02]
Cisco may gain from old inventory
News Pro forma earnings are closely followed by Wall Street and form the basis of most analyst estimates. Wall Street analysts say pro forma results give investors a better look at the operations of a company, but critics note that it causes ambiguity...
[February 1, 2002, 13:16]
The Day Ahead: Dell cornered by growth expectations
News Wall Street got accustomed to 40 percent revenue growth from Dell, which was more than twice as fast as industry growth rates. Then Dell talked Wall Street down to revenue growth of 30 percent. And now Dell is talking Wall Street down again.
[October 5, 2000, 12:04]
Google goes public
Leader ZDNet UK take: Having the temerity to take on Wall Street and explicitly set out to redraw the rules for doing your company's IPO, in an professed bid to empower the smaller investor and reduce the profits for vested interests in Wall Street...
[August 16, 2004, 12:40]
PalmSource CEO steps down
News Dave was not respected on Wall Street," said Jamie Friedman of Fulcrum Global Partners. In its latest quarter, PalmSource met Wall Street's expectations and, more importantly, was in line with analysts' forecasts for the current quarter.
[May 24, 2005, 12:45]
The Day Ahead: Citrix hopes to take first turnaround steps
News Many Citrix watchers on Wall Street agree that the company's technology and market niche is first rate. It was a tough fall for Citrix, a former Wall Street darling. Commentary: No news has been good news this quarter for Citrix Systems.
[October 16, 2000, 12:23]
Cisco is Zen-like about earnings
News The upgrade of Cisco comes just days after another Wall Street brokerage firm, Salomon Smith Barney, said in an internal memo that the networking giant is placing orders and its contract equipment manufacturers.
[July 23, 2001, 15:21]
Compaq hits lowered targets amid slump
News Earlier this month, Compaq warned that its sales would be about $8.4bn (£5.9bn), below its prior forecast, but that it expected to post earnings in line with Wall Street estimates of 4 cents a share. Compaq noted that it was able to meet Wall...
[July 26, 2001, 16:51]
