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MS reports solid quarter, UK looks good
News Revenues for the quarter were $3.18 billion, up 41 per cent on the year-ago quarter and profits rose 86 per cent to $1.06 billion. Windows NT Server shipments doubled once again compared to the same quarter of the preceding year, and revenues for...
[July 18, 1997, 10:02]
US Report: iMac sales a third quarter homer for Apple
News According to International Data Corp, the iMac launch has been enormously successful, and helped Apple post the highest growth rate of all computer makers in the third quarter. The bad news is that Apple will at most have a three-quarter run with...
[September 16, 1998, 7:51]
AMD misses on fourth-quarter earnings
News Advanced Micro Devices last week reported a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss, despite revenue from processor shipments rising by 60 percent from the preceding period. The company, which has been working to burn off inventories of its older...
[January 20, 2003, 8:59]
Intel reports chipper quarter
News Intel reported third-quarter profits on Tuesday that exceeded analyst expectations, as revenue jumped 20 percent on strong demand for computer processors. The company posted a profit of $1.7bn, (£1.02bn) or 25 cents per share, for the quarter.
[October 15, 2003, 15:30]
EBay checks in with another strong quarter
News Online auctioneer eBay had no trouble topping Street estimates in its second quarter Tuesday, returning a profit of $13.2m, or five cents a share, on sales of $97.4m. First Call consensus expected eBay to earn three cents a share in the quarter...
[July 26, 2000, 12:31]
One Year Ago: Happy AMD posts profitable quarter
News The Californian chip maker made $12.9m on revenues of $551.9m, its first profit since the equivalent quarter a year ago. AMD is on a roll, following up its K6 processor release by posting a quarterly profit that took Wall Street by surprise.
[April 9, 1998, 7:00]
EBay posts big jump in fourth-quarter sales
News Online auction giant eBay said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 64 percent, as its earnings surpassed Wall Street expectations. While hundreds of other dot-com businesses have closed shop or posted declining revenue, eBay has...
[January 16, 2002, 12:02]
Sun faces dark quarter
News Sun Microsystems warned on Monday that its most recent quarter was a "particularly difficult" one and said it will post a significant loss. Although it has not yet finished its accounting for the first quarter, Sun said that it expects a loss of...
[September 30, 2003, 10:10]
Dell posts $2b quarter
News Dell has joined Compaq, IBM and Gateway 2000 in reporting another excellent financial quarter, posting sales of $2 billion for the July-September period, up 43 per cent on a year ago. Profits were $145 million, up sharply from $103 million for the...
[November 13, 1996, 11:10]
Autodesk says losing quarter was expected
News Autodesk chairman and CEO Carol Bartz said Friday that the company achieved its objectives this quarter and met expectations. The company reported net revenues of $119 million and a net loss of $53 million.
[May 19, 1997, 9:50]
Intel's $2b profit quarter delineates its might
News Intel underlined its enviable position of strength from which to take on the challenge of AMD and Cyrix by announcing a 39 per cent rise in revenues to $6.4 billion for the January-March quarter. In its most recent quarter, AMD had revenues of...
[April 15, 1997, 9:33]
Compaq reports $4.8b quarter
News World PC number one Compaq continues to wow observers with profits of $387 million on $4.8 billion revenues for its January-March first quarter. The numbers were respectively 66 per cent and 14.3 per cent up on the year-ago quarter.
[April 17, 1997, 9:01]
IBM says Notes sales helped good quarter
News IBM continued that trend by posting a better than expected first quarter, and said that the enterprise-wide success of products like Lotus Notes and Tivoli had helped. Hi-tech stocks may be failing but the fiscals of industry leaders continue to...
[April 24, 1997, 9:10]
Another rip-roaring quarter for Yahoo!
News earned $65.5m, or 11 cents a share, in the quarter. on Tuesday predictably topped analysts' estimates in its second quarter and said it's not worried about the decline of weaker Internet businesses. After market close Tuesday, the Internet portal...
[July 12, 2000, 10:07]
Sun announces upbeat fourth-quarter forecast
News Sun on Tuesday announced preliminary fourth-quarter results that were higher than Wall Street's expectations, sending its shares up more than 11 percent in after-hours trading. Sun said it expects to report fourth-quarter revenue between $3.7bn and...
[July 16, 2008, 8:57]
Tech M&A spending plummets in third quarter
News Tech mergers and acquisitions took a dive in the third quarter, with spending falling by a third compared with the same period last year, as Wall Street investment banks and financial institutions were rocked to the core, according to a report...
[October 3, 2008, 11:09]
SuSE expects break-even second quarter
News Break-even is planned for the second quarter," Burtscher said. SuSE now expects revenue to surpass expenses in the second quarter of this year, Burtscher said in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York.
[February 5, 2002, 15:42]
AMD: Second-quarter earnings to plunge
News Chipmaker AMD announced Thursday that earnings and sales for the second quarter of 2001 will fall far below estimates. The company said in a statement that second-quarter net income would be 3 cents to 5 cents a share.
[July 6, 2001, 8:58]
Intel posts mixed third quarter results
News The traditional third-quarter bump was a little light this year for Intel. The Californian chipmaker on Tuesday said it earned $1.9bn, or 30 cents per share, on sales of $8.5bn for the quarter that ended September 25.
[October 13, 2004, 9:45]
AMD reports net loss after tough first quarter
News AMD reported a first quarter net loss of $416m, or 66 cents a share, on revenue of $1.17bn, down 21 percent from a year ago. However, chief executive Dirk Meyer said on Tuesday that AMD is "more nimble" following the spin-off of its manufacturing...
[April 22, 2009, 15:43]
