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Siebel, BMC warn on earnings

Delays in buying decisions by some customers have been put forward as a reason for a drop in earnings by the software companies Read more

8 July, 2004 by Dawn Kawamoto

Nokia calls in an earnings warning

The Finnish mobile company is forced to adopt more realistic expectations after mobile phone growth slows Read more

12 June, 2001 by Melanie Austria Farmer

Apple shocks with earnings warning

Apple blames slow sales of Cube PCs for profit warning Read more

29 September, 2000 by Larry Barrett

HP issues earnings warning and fails to forecast

HP has issued a profits warning on its first quarter fiscal results, blaming poor consumer and corporate spending and weak economic conditions. Read more

12 January, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Oracle's profits prophecy sets lawsuits flying

...been hit by 12 lawsuits in the US since it issued an earnings warning last month for third quarter expectations. Law firms in California and... Read more

4 April, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Bad days for B2B: Commerce One continues downward trend

B2B company Commerce One has issued a first quarter earnings warning just a day after industry rivals Ariba and i2 announced they... Read more

4 April, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Dell pledges to beat revised sales forecasts

Dell expects to beat its fourth quarter earnings warning with total annual sales of $32bn for the financial year ending... Read more

2 February, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Sun posts a loss on declining revenue

...loss of $65m, or nine cents a share. Sun, which issued an earnings warning last week, missed analysts' revised revenue projections of $3.06bn, according... Read more

31 October, 2008 by Dawn Kawamoto

Loss of momentum for feisty AMD

Analysis: While Intel stumbled, underdog AMD had quite a run. Now a profit warning may have it back on the defensive Read more

15 January, 2007 by Tom Krazit

EDS announces massive job cuts

...including EDS stock-hedging efforts and the events leading up to its earnings warning for the third quarter of 2002. In addition, the SEC has... Read more

13 September, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

BEA's results outshine shake-up

...adjusted forecast, which it issued earlier this month. Before BEA gave its earnings warning on 2 August, analysts polled by Thomson First Call expected earnings... Read more

13 August, 2004 by Martin LaMonica

Sun makes $2bn pact with Microsoft

...that it plans to cut 3,300 jobs after it issued an earnings warning. The company also named Jonathan Schwartz, 38, previously executive vice president... Read more

2 April, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

EDS expects huge loss

...and the events leading up to the company's third-quarter 2002 earnings warning. The expected loss of up to $75m mentioned in the filing... Read more

16 March, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

HP lures Sun customers with gifts

...fence-sitters out there," Schadler said. "When you look at Sun's earnings warning, you have to consider that migration of customers from Unix to... Read more

6 October, 2003 by Matt Hines

IBM wins new IT services contract

...a string of troubles over the past several months, including a dramatic earnings warning in September, a formal SEC probe into the earnings warning and... Read more

24 March, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

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