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Oracle revs up to go speeding into Q4
News Oracle shattered analysts' estimates in its fourth quarter Tuesday, posting a profit of $926m, or 31 cents a share, on sales of $3.4bn. Officials were also bullish on the first quarter outlook. A survey of analysts by First Call expected the...
[June 21, 2000, 9:05]
Sun back in the black
News Sun Microsystems returned to profitability in its most recent quarter and named a new top sales executive, but the server maker expects to slip back into the red in the current quarter. The posted net income of $20m on revenue of $3.4bn for the...
[July 19, 2002, 8:54]
Chizen talks on major moves
News Adobe's $3.4bn purchase of Macromedia has been one of the big stories in software this year. With the deal approved in the US and on the verge of being approved in Europe, Tony Hallett, editor of ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com, caught up with...
[November 10, 2005, 11:20]
Study: Software licence cheating costs £18bn
News Improper software licensing resulted in a loss of $34bn (£18bn) worldwide in 2005, a $1.6bn increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The study, conducted by information-technology research firm...
[May 24, 2006, 9:15]
NTL-Telewest merger finalised
News NTL completed its £3.4bn acquisition of Telewest Global on Monday, losing the Telewest name in the process. The combined company will be simply NTL. Former NTL stockholders now own approximately 75 percent of the combined company with former...
[March 6, 2006, 12:05]
Eidos faces lawsuit from Columbine parents
News Eidos, the UK company that created Lara Croft and the Final Fantasy computer game series warned on Wednesday that it was facing a £3.4bn lawsuit from the parents of the teenagers killed in the Columbine massacre of 1999.
[June 6, 2001, 16:49]
Juniper prepares for a battle at the "low end"
News Telecommunications hardware maker Juniper Networks is going where it hasn't gone before -- into security and the low-end corporate market. The company's announcement on Monday that it will exchange stock worth about $3.4bn for security hardware...
[February 10, 2004, 10:20]
Adobe's designs on the future
News When you inhabit a market populated by the likes of Microsoft, Oracle - and yes, include Google in the mix - there's no sense thinking small. So it was that Adobe chief executive Bruce Chizen earlier this spring engineered a $3.4bn (£1.9bn) deal to...
[August 30, 2005, 17:55]
Web content: Will users ever pay?
News Some entrepreneurs get crowned in the record books as spectacular successes. Others find themselves lumped into the losers list of spectacular flameouts. Louis Borders is that rare businessman whose name appears on both sides of the ledger.
[August 4, 2003, 13:25]
Nortel announces job cuts as earnings plummet
News Nortel Networks, North America's largest maker of phone equipment, reported its biggest quarterly loss in seven years amid a worsening economy. The company, which has been struggling to get back on track since the last economic downturn in 2001...
[November 11, 2008, 8:22]
Gartner predicts ray of light for solar tech
News Renewable-energy technology will be less affected by the global economic downturn than other technologies, according to research by analyst company Gartner. The analyst house has predicted that the photovoltaic market will grow at a 17 percent...
[March 17, 2009, 15:51]
Adobe's Macromedia takeover clears final hurdle
News Adobe's multi-billion dollar takeover of rival software developer Macromedia has received regulatory clearance, and is expected to be completed on 3 December. Adobe announced late on Thursday that it and Macromedia have either received or been...
[December 2, 2005, 13:15]
RIM delivers solid Q4 results on BlackBerry sales
News Research In Motion reported strong fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations and sent shares soaring in after-hours trading. For the quarter ending 28 February, the company reported net income of $518.3m (£352m), or 90 cents per...
[April 3, 2009, 9:28]
IBM pulls away from server rivals
News IBM increased its lead in a growing server market, nibbling away share from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun, according to figures to be released on Wednesday. Sales of servers worldwide increased 5.5 percent to $11.5bn in the third quarter of 2004...
[November 24, 2004, 7:30]
Adobe gets shareholder OK for Macromedia takeover
News Adobe took another step towards completing its takeover of digital media company Macromedia on Wednesday, after both company's shareholders approved the deal. Of the 75 percent of outstanding Adobe shares voted, approximately 99 percent were cast...
[August 25, 2005, 12:55]
Adobe's Macromedia deal to be probed
News US Federal antitrust regulators have requested additional information about Adobe's proposed purchase of Macromedia, the companies said Monday. The Justice Department apparently is taking a closer look at the competitive landscape for multimedia...
[July 12, 2005, 10:10]
Linux everywhere: The Penguin goes mobile
News Today, most of the attention in the handheld world is trained on the battle between Palm -- which makes the ubiquitous organiser of the same name -- and Microsoft, whose Windows CE operating system and Pocket PC device so far have been...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Alcatel-Lucent has potential, but dangers too
News Lucent Technologies last week landed a DSL deal with the only US regional Bell that Alcatel had failed to partner with, Qwest Communications International, and that could make the courtship of the two equipment behemoths just sweet enough to make...
[May 29, 2001, 10:47]
Oracle scrapes by in latest quarter
News Oracle edged past analysts' estimates on Monday as fourth-quarter revenue dipped slightly from a year ago. The database giant earned a fourth-quarter profit of $855m (£632m), or 15 cents a share, compared with last year's fourth-quarter profit of...
[June 19, 2001, 10:32]
Macromedia upgrades Web conferencing software
News Macromedia has unveiled the latest version of its online video conferencing application, adding support for VoIP among other upgrades. Known as Breeze 5, the Web conferencing tool unveiled on Monday is the company's latest effort to expand the...
[May 4, 2005, 17:15]
