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The Day Ahead: Is too much of Oracle's Ellison a bad thing?
News In a terse statement ahead of a long weekend, Oracle announced Lane was departing as the company's operating chief. The translation: Ellison is more immersed in Oracle's day-to-day operations than ever -- and that's bad news to some investors.
[July 6, 2000, 13:55]
The Day Ahead: Economy at a crossroads
News Thanks to the Internet and the technological innovations that have impacted every conceivable aspect of our lives, things that were simply out of the realm of possibility just 10 years ago seem to happen with regularity every day.
[March 8, 2000, 11:33]
The Day Ahead: Applied Materials sees big profits in 2Q
News But, more importantly, the company reported orders of $2.36bn (£1.5bn) ahead of Wall Street expectations. These results were better than the consensus and well ahead of totals from a year ago. Worldwide traffic grew to 122 million page views per...
[February 16, 2000, 12:14]
The Day Ahead: Cisco puts face on economic slowdown
News Commentary: You know Cisco Systems was having a bad earnings day when the company's Web cast for its analyst conference call didn't work and the dial-in number produced sounds that sounded like an alien life form took it over.
[February 7, 2001, 13:01]
The Day Ahead: Dell puts Y2K hangover to rest
News The corporate sales outlook was topic of the day on Dell's first quarter conference call. Dell spotted the Intel glitches ahead of time and adjusted accordingly. Rollins said corporate accounts rebounded in mid-quarter and picked up late in the...
[May 12, 2000, 11:58]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium
News The reality is in the middle. Flatiron's Wilson, chairman of TheStreet.com's board, noted that he considers the financial news provider a real company. No future ahead, bankruptcies, massive layoffs are common themes.
[October 9, 2000, 12:18]
The Day Ahead: Intel call boosts Kumar's cachet
News Commentary: I've been back from a scenic vacation in Nova Scotia one day and I'm ready to run back to the highlands after hearing about all the handwringing over how analysts missed the boat on Intel's revenue warning.
[September 26, 2000, 13:11]
The Day Ahead: Amid slowdown, Oracle trumps Microsoft
News Connors: At the end of the day, the PC is the most important asset for the knowledge worker. Remember the contrast -- it's becoming pretty stark. Oracle officials said the company's pipeline was "astounding", and growth looked good for the fiscal...
[December 15, 2000, 14:18]
The Day Ahead: AOL Time Warner's $1tn dream
News Maybe Case was smoking too much synergy Wednesday at the company's first investor day. Officials reiterated projections that the company will post revenue of $40bn and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation of $11bn in 2001...
[February 1, 2001, 13:01]
The Day Ahead: DoubleClick may win expectations game
News In a research note ahead of DoubleClick's conference call, Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget said he never saw a company schedule a negative preannouncement conference call a day ahead of time (the release came out Friday).
[December 12, 2000, 12:43]
The Day Ahead: Web brokers' profits can't buy Wall Street's love
News The company has entered continuing operations profitability six quarters ahead of schedule, flexing its blue-chip Internet business model. E*Trade closed at $22 3/4 on April 12, the day of the earnings report, and hit $18 two days later in the tech...
[May 2, 2000, 11:42]
The Day Ahead: EMachines' Greenspan excuse doesn't fly
News To the many investors who were skeptical about eMachines from day one, the profit warning isn't that surprising. Stiff competition: Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have been very aggressive on the low-end of the PC market.
[June 20, 2000, 11:34]
The Day Ahead: Let Lycos be acquired in peace
News The companies said they will be able to generate pro forma 2000 revenue of about $500m with a combined 50m unique users and 175m page views per day. If you ask the Wall Street types, the answer is no.
[May 18, 2000, 12:21]
The Day Ahead: Is Wall Street's summer lull already over?
News Wall Street, which is usually ahead of the curve, has investors wondering if the usual summer lull already happened -- in the spring. June 28/29: The Federal Reserve holds a two-day meeting and decides on its next interest rate move.
[June 5, 2000, 12:36]
The Day Ahead: Can Pets.com's sock puppet save its stock?
News Yes, the famous Pets.com sock puppet, who has appeared in ads during the Super Bowl and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Of course, we may be getting ahead of ourselves with the sock puppet optimism.
[June 6, 2000, 11:23]
The Day Ahead: Time, appeals on Microsoft's side
News The government said it was a great day for competition. It was selling ahead of the news. The March quarter will be decent, but many analysts are expecting strong results for the June and September periods.
[April 4, 2000, 11:31]
The Day Ahead: Dump those tech shares, make a trader's day
News We heard from a day trader who's talking about playing the index shares such as the Nasdaq 100 tracking stock. The Dow Jones industrial average also saw its worst one-day point loss ever as it staggered to a close of 10,305.77 Friday.
[April 17, 2000, 12:30]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo!: Slowdown? What slowdown?
News Now the big questions: Where does Yahoo! easily beat the over-under revenue number of $290m in the third quarter. On the international front, Yahoo! The over-under revenue number was about $290m, said several analysts.
[October 11, 2000, 11:51]
The Day Ahead: Will Rediff.com be an IPO hit?
Talkback I had booked an Aiwa phone & had also received it, but the same was defective. Got in touch with the consumer support one Neeta Bhambri sent a reply back saying that send us the phone back & the same will be replaced within 7 to 10 days.
[July 25, 2006, 6:26]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 3) - The Virtual Road Ahead
Blog Looking at the virtual road ahead as the main section of this VMworld Europe 2008 conference closes, we can perhaps draw a few concluding thoughts from the exhibitors and attendees. For Herrod, the road ahead is about breaking rules and, as he put...
[February 27, 2008, 16:14]
