Oracle's earnings surpass forecasts
News Oracle generated revenue of $3.08bn in the quarter, up 9 percent from the $2.83bn reported for the period last year. Oracle on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings just above analysts' expectations, but its revenue fell slightly short of Wall Street...
[June 16, 2004, 10:40]
Who is the mystery Salesforce mega-customer?
News Total fourth-quarter revenue was $144m (£74m), up 58 percent over the previous year, and up 11 percent over the previous quarter. For the full year, the company reported revenue of approximately $497m, an increase of 60 percent from the previous 12...
[February 22, 2007, 15:23]
AMD and Fujitsu combine flash operations
News AMD will own 60 percent of the new organisation, 10 percent more than its share of the old joint venture, and 60 percent of the new company's revenue and expenses will appear on AMD's balance sheet. In 2002, however, AMD dropped down to No.in terms...
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
Salesforce sees strong second quarter
News The SaaS (software-as-a-service) pioneer on Thursday reported net income of $21.2m (£12.8m), or 17 cents a share, on revenue of $316m, up 20 percent from a year ago. Wall Street analysts had expected earnings of 15 cents a share on revenue of $312.7m.
[August 21, 2009, 17:12]
Linux-to-Windows Move Lifts Availability of Airline's Online Booking to 99.9 Percent
White Papers Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) needed to gain every revenue increase and cost reduction possible from its most profitable sales channel - its e-commerce Web site. Agility, as measured by the frequency of software updates to meet business...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
HP posts healthy fourth-quarter results
News Revenue climbed 7 percent to $24.6bn. Revenue increased 10 percent compared with last year led by notebook revenue, which was up 24 percent. Revenue from consumer PC purchases was up 19 percent, while commercial growth was just 4 percent, in line...
[November 17, 2006, 8:20]
Red Hat revenue climbs again
News Red Hat reported on Wednesday that first-quarter revenue climbed 46 percent as more companies and governments opened their wallets for its open source tools and support services. Revenue from enterprise subscriptions, or contracts with big...
[July 1, 2005, 9:05]
BT loses majority share of fixed-line market
News BT's retail broadband revenue grew by 19 percent in the last quarter, while the company's internet telephony business grew by 23 percent in the same period. During 2006, O2 overtook Vodafone for the first time as the mobile network achieving the...
[August 23, 2007, 10:56]
Cisco revenue falls 25 percent
News Cisco Systems' fourth-quarter financial results met analysts' expectations on Tuesday, but revenue dropped 25 percent and profits fell 86 percent. Last year, with the Internet downturn just starting and the spending slowdown not yet under way...
[August 8, 2001, 10:27]
Apple rakes in profits after strong quarter
News Mac shipments accounted for 60 percent of the company's revenue during the quarter, and grew by 33 percent compared with last year. Revenue for the quarter was up 24 percent to $5.4bn, as compared with $4.37bn for the same period a year ago.
[July 26, 2007, 8:17]
Net ads making a comeback?
News For the most recently available period, online advertising revenue totaled $1.79bn in the third quarter of 2001, down about 4 percent from the previous quarter, according to industry trade group the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
[May 14, 2002, 8:53]
McAfee buys security-in-the-cloud provider MX Logic
News Second quarter revenue of $468.7m was up 18 percent from a year ago. McAfee said that its enterprise revenue was up 21 percent in the second quarter to $291m. In McAfee's consumer business second quarter revenue was up 13 percent to $177m.
[July 31, 2009, 16:03]
IBM cruises in record Q4
News Services revenue jumped to $7.1bn, a 20 percent gain over the year-ago quarter and software sales improved 9 percent to $4.1bn. Geographically, North American sales represented $11.3bn of the quarter's total revenue followed by Europe/Middle East...
[January 22, 1999, 9:34]
Excite@Home buys Bluemountainarts.com for $780m
News Currently, Excite@Home's @Media unit, which includes Excite and Matchlogic, accounts for about 60 percent of the company's revenue. Excite@Home plans to leverage the Bluemountain.com audience reach and page views almost immediately to create more...
[October 25, 1999, 15:44]
Intel misses Q2 estimates, predicts better Q3
News Over the last six years, Intel has averaged third quarter revenue growth of 7.3 percent, although the actual increase ranged as low as 3.3 percent in 1997 and as high as 13.6 percent last year. Fourth quarter revenue increases averaged almost 12...
[July 14, 1999, 8:09]
The Day Ahead: Ixia has a lot to talk about
News Revenue for the first nine months of 2000 was $49.5m, up 223 percent compared with a year ago. The company, which makes analysis systems for fibre optic and broadband gear, has real revenue, profits and a strong market to target.
[November 13, 2000, 11:46]
Flash memory flares up
News The worldwide flash memory card market generated $1.7bn in revenue in 2002, and research firm IDC estimates that total increased by more than 100 percent in 2003. Still, the flash market is far larger, accounting for billions of dollars a year in...
[January 16, 2004, 16:05]
Intel dominates chipset market
News The drop in demand and a chipset price war has led to a decline in revenue for all chipset makers, IDC said. In the meantime, the growing dominance of Intel's Pentium 4 processor has allowed Intel to turn the tables on its competitors in the...
[September 2, 2002, 15:12]
AOL edges by 2Q expectations
News Second quarter revenue increased to $1.6bn, a 41 percent gain year-over-year. Subscription revenue gained 36 percent year-over-year to almost $1.1bn. AOL 5.0 now handles almost 60 percent of sessions.
[January 20, 2000, 9:07]
Boeing's sky-high Net access takes off
News Multiplying these numbers, prospective revenue will come to $5bn to $8bn annually, depending on the variables plugged into the equation. Connexion by Boeing, the company's wireless technology subsidiary, is in the midst of rolling out its in-flight...
[February 7, 2003, 8:00]



