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Nokia wins praise for quarterly results
News Nokia's enterprise division saw a particularly strong rise in quarterly sales of 120 percent, to €670m. Analysts have heaped praise on Nokia for its "great" results in the fourth quarter of 2007. Released on Thursday, the results show handset...
[January 25, 2008, 12:41]
BT profits still hampered by Global Services
News BT's Global Services arm is still dragging down profits at the telecommunications and IT group, which posted its quarterly results on Thursday. The Global Services division's quarterly earnings were down by 66 percent, from £182m to £62m, although...
[July 30, 2009, 14:48]
Oracle's woes may extend beyond Asia
News When Oracle reports its quarterly results on Thursday, the company is likely to have some explaining to do, analysts say. One of the challenges the company continues to face in promoting future growth in license revenues is the successful...
[March 13, 2002, 12:30]
PC shipment growth grinds to a halt in Q4
News After several years of seemingly tireless 15 percent quarterly growth, the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008. Overall PC shipments worldwide dropped 0.4 percent to 77.3 million units during the fourth quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide...
[January 15, 2009, 9:08]
Indian outsourcers warn salary costs are rising
News Wipro this week beat market predictions with a 44 percent rise in quarterly profits to $131.5m for the three months ending on 30 June, but its shares dropped by 5.5 percent after it warned wage rises will hit its 24.6 percent operating margin by...
[July 21, 2006, 17:45]
Oracle's fight for Wall Street cred
News Analysts have continuing complaints about Oracle, especially the way it slices and dices its quarterly results. Why did you compare only the most recent quarterly results? What if its NetWeaver middleware is pulling down its results?
[May 17, 2006, 12:20]
Companies brace Wall Street for Q4 results
News Typically, companies usually wait until they report their quarterly results and at that time offer up a forecast of how they think they'll do for the coming quarter and year. Historically, for every two companies issuing negative preliminary...
[October 7, 2008, 8:47]
Can HP's quarter make or break merger?
News Hewlett-Packard will report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings early on Wednesday--an otherwise routine quarterly check-up that could impact the course of its proposed mega-merger with Compaq Computer.
[November 14, 2001, 9:39]
HP posts revenue increase
News HP reported on Wednesday a dip in quarterly profit, but an increase in revenue that was driven largely by PC and printing sales. It's our strongest quarterly revenue growth since the year 2000. The world's largest PC maker's results narrowly beat...
[May 17, 2007, 11:35]
Google's IPO seeks $2.7bn
News In Warren Buffett's words, 'we won't smooth quarterly or annual results: if earnings figures are lumpy when they reach headquarters, they will be lumpy when they reach you. In our opinion, outside pressures too often tempt companies to sacrifice...
[April 30, 2004, 8:30]
Online ad sales gain again
News The quarterly total was also the highest in two years, since the third quarter of 2003 when the dot-com bubble started to deflate. The IAB and PwC's "Advertising Revenue Report" is issued quarterly, and third-quarter data represents an aggregate...
[December 10, 2003, 11:35]
Dell fudged numbers to meet quarterly targets
News What we know now is that Dell's finance department was apparently willing to fudge numbers to ensure it would hit or surpass its quarterly earnings forecasts. I think every company that's public feels the pressure of being a public company and...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
IT spending: What the analysts think
News Year-over-year quarterly revenues increased a nominal 6.1 percent. Sequential quarterly revenues increased 3.6 percent over Q1 2002. Culpepper does a quarterly review of the financial filings of more than 290 companies.
[October 6, 2003, 15:00]
SAP meets earnings projections
News SAP said its quarterly software license revenue rose to $609m, meeting previously reported estimates and representing an increase of about 15 percent compared with the year-earlier period. The software maker also broke out its performance in the...
[July 23, 2004, 11:55]
Yahoo celebrates ongoing recovery
News That alliance has helped fill Yahoo's coffers and now contributes 20 percent of the Web company's overall quarterly revenue. Fees: Revenue from Yahoo's collection of paid services rose 38 percent from last year to $79.4m and showed a quarterly gain...
[October 9, 2003, 16:20]
RIM reports healthy profits, BlackBerry sales
News The maker of the BlackBerry has reported a 107 percent year-on-year increase in quarterly revenue. At £482.5m, quarterly profits also more than doubled year-on-year. RIM announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 on...
[June 27, 2008, 15:13]
Microsoft earnings hit by weak PC, server markets
News Microsoft on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue and again declined to offer a forecast for the current quarter. Microsoft did not give a sales or earnings forecast when it reported its last quarterly numbers in April.
[July 24, 2009, 8:52]
RIM report stuns analysts
News Shares of Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry handheld wireless communications device, soared on Tuesday, a day after the company announced it had crushed Wall Street's expectations for quarterly sales and earnings.
[December 24, 2003, 8:25]
Forget the iPhone, the Mac is back
Blog Siliconvalley.com is reporting that Apple's latest quarterly results show that sales of the Mac are up 39.9 percent year on year to 10bn - a record sales year. What is more, sales of the Mac are growing at twice that of the overall PC market.
[October 29, 2007, 8:10]
Overture extends key Microsoft deal
News But Overture said earlier this month that it would top quarterly results despite losing the Earthlink deal. The company said last week that it would report a second straight quarterly profit. Overture, formerly known as GoTo, allows advertisers to...
[February 13, 2002, 6:31]
