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Apple’s Mothra Quarter Was Actually More Impressive Than Their Godzilla Quarter
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Two quarters ago, Apple unleashed Godzilla. It was a quarter so spectacular that the only appropriate way to describe it was in pure expletive form. $46 billion in revenue. $13 billion in profit. 37 million iPhones sold. 15 million iPads sold. A gross margin of 44 percent. These weren’t just...
How a Minor Change by Facebook Resulted in a $92 Million Acquisition
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Can't beat them? Join them. One of the biggest newspaper companies in the world may be trying to get into the Facebook advertising game. Gannett Co., publisher of USA Today and scores of regional and local newspapers, is reportedly close to announcing a $92 million acquisition of BLINQ Media, which specializes...
Zynga Sees Limits To Growth: Sales Flatten As Marketing Costs Double (ZNGA)
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Zynga—the company behind Zynga Poker, FarmVille and Words With Friends—has been working hard to sustain its revenues as it enters a period in which the company expects slower sequential growth. So hard, in fact, that it doubled its Q4 2011 promotional budget sequentially from Q3, a period in which...
Facebook Killed Off 37% Of Spammers Since June 2012
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If you’ve ever gotten a fake friend request, you know Facebook has spammers. But it’s winning the fight against them. Facebook’s estimate of the total percentage of monthly users that are “undesirable” or spammer accounts dropped to 0.9% from 1.5% in June 2012. That’s means there’s only around 9.5 million of...
LIVE: IBM Announces Earnings
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Minutes away from IBM's Q3 earnings release, which will be delivered after the closing bell at 4:08 PM ET. A survey of analysts polled by Bloomberg revealed consensus earnings expectations of $3.61 per share in the third quarter. IBM is also expected to post revenues of $25.36 billion in Q3....
THE APPLE INVESTOR: Analysts Think There's A High Chance Apple Could Miss Expectations (AAPL)
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The Apple Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. AAPL Off As Markets Dive Stocks are off in early trading as global fears rock the markets again. Shares of AAPL are off on worry that the company will miss analyst expectations when...
Yahoo Q3 earnings in line with expectations, as search revenue rises
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In its first full quarter with former Google exec Marissa Mayer as CEO, Yahoo reported Q3 earnings in line with analyst expectations Monday afternoon. The company’s revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs was $1.08 billion, up two percent over this time last year, with net income of $0.23 per share. Analysts...
The DSL death march continues….
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The slow death march of DSL continues, especially at two of the largest phone companies in America. Last week, Verizon reported a loss of about 89,000 DSL connections and a boom in demand for its faster fiber optic service, FiOS, which added about 193,000 new subscribers. We are seeing similar trends...
Apple reports 'best quarter ever' for US education institution Mac sales
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Chief Executive Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are live on Apple’s Q3 2012 call to give opening remarks, and the execs just admitted Apple saw its best quarter ever for U.S. education institution Mac sales. Rutherford school district, for instance, purchased 6,000 MacBook Airs. Apple’s financial results conference call to...
Microsoft Earnings Come in on Target
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Microsoft has a lot riding on the success of its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet, so the company’s financials for the second-quarter — the first period to reflect the October launch of those products — are the first real indicator of how its so-called “re-imagining of Windows...
Oracle Beats Expectations In Q2 With $9.1B Revenue, $0.64 Non-GAAP EPS; Ellison Calls Sun Deal 'Most Strategic And Profitable'
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Enterprise technology giant Oracle this afternoon announced solid financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2013, which ended on November 30th. Oracle said it earned $9.1 billion in revenue during the second quarter, an increase quarter-over-quarter from its first quarter 2013 revenue of $8.2 billion and also up...
Oracle Beats Expectations In Q2 With $9.1B Revenue, $0.64 Non-GAAP EPS; Ellison Calls Sun Deal 'Most Strategic And Profitable'
Spoof 'banned' iPad mini promo [Video]
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You might have seen past “banned” Apple promo videos from John Elerick and crew on YouTube. Today the guys are out with their latest spoof Apple commercial, this time for the iPad mini. On a serious note, Amazon is taking note of some of the iPad mini’s shortcomings pointed...
Google blames premature earnings release on RR Donnelley
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Stock plummets after early release of quarter earnings by financial printer. No word yet on how this occurred. [Read more]...
iPhone 5 Represented 21% of Verizon's 3.1 Million iPhone Activations in 3Q 2012
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Verizon today became the first major U.S. iPhone carrier to report earnings for the third quarter of 2012, giving some insight into iPhone sales one week before Apple reports its numbers. In a conference call following the earnings release, Verizon revealed that it activated 3.1 million iPhones during the quarter,...
OpenTable announces earnings: It’s dessert time because they’re getting creamed
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OpenTable reported its first quarter earnings today. Here are the brass tacks: revenue for the quarter was $39.4 million, with profits of $4.8 million. The company earned $0.21 per share in the quarter. However, that $39.4 million in revenue was a slim 17% higher than what the company reported in 2011. 17%...
Samsung doubles profits, but bill for legal loss awaits
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Samsung Electronics says stronger-than-expected sales of its Galaxy smartphones sent operating profits up 90 percent in the latest quarter, but analysts warned its results could take a hit in the coming months as it books legal damages owed to Apple. The South Korean electronics giant reported on Friday an...
Google To Resume Trading At 3:20 ET, Posts Its Official Earnings Release
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Google will resume trading at 3:20 PM EDT, reports Reuters. Google accidentally posted its Q3 2012 earnings earlier than expected today, thanks to a leaked SEC document. The company blamed financial printer RR Donnelley for the mistake. The document showed Google reporting $14.10 billion in revenue and EPS of $6.53, which missed most analyst...
LinkedIn reports Q2 earnings: Revenues of $228 million, earnings per share of $0.16
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Today LinkedIn reported its second quarter financial performance, which included revenues of $228 million, and earnings per share of $0.16. Analysts had expected revenues of $216 million, and earnings per share of $0.16. Essentially, LinkedIn outperformed on its top line, and met expectations on its bottom. Year over year, its...
eBay Stock Causes Nonbuyer's Remorse
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Buyer’s remorse is so last century. Thanks to eBay Inc., millions of people world-wide who had never engaged in auctions can now experience bidder’s remorse. Its e-commerce businesses have proved more durable and profitable than many believed. In fact, a glance at eBay’s share price, up 73 percent over the...
Google reports Q2 revenues of $8.36 billion, and earnings per share of $10.12
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Today Google reported its second quarter earnings, with revenues during the period of $XX billion, and diluted earnings per share of $10.04. Analysts had anticipated earnings per share of $10.04, and revenues, once traffic acquisition costs were deducted, of $8.41 billion. Google’s share price has declined since its last earnings report. It’s massive purchase of...
HTC’s struggles continue, revenue plummeted 45% so far this year
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HTC’s revenue during the first two months of 2012 has plummeted 45% compared to the same period last year. The popular vendor on Tuesday published its unaudited results for February 2012, during which it pulled in an estimated NT$20.3 billion, down 37% from the NT$32.1 billion it earned in the...
Newly Public Jive Beats the Street
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Social enterprise software player Jive Software, whose IPO in December capped an eventful year for tech offerings, reported its first quarterly results as a public company today, and they weren’t half bad. Sales grew by 53 percent over the year-ago period to $22.5 million, which beat the average estimate of...
Did Google's Earnings Gaffe Spook the Street on Tech Stocks?
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Man, it was a rough morning for Google on the Nasdaq. Close to midday on Thursday, Google’s financial printing partner, RR Donnelly, published the search giant’s earnings release draft hours before it was supposed to. The result: Shares of Google dropped sharply by nearly 75 points almost instantly, with the...
Zynga Falls Short Of Analyst Estimates For Q2: $332 In Revenue, Bookings Decline From Last Quarter
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Zynga didn’t meet analysts’ already-low estimates in its just-released earnings release for the second quarter of its fiscal year, in which it showed revenue of $332 million and lost 3 cents per share. Analysts had predicted the company would earn 5 cents per share on revenue of $344 million. Bookings,...
What a Successful Facebook Mobile Strategy May Look Like
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Even Mark Zuckerberg concedes that the biggest challenge on Facebook's plate is developing a viable mobile strategy. The question is: How? In recent announcements, the company has shown that it's thinking hard about the answer. Here are some things Facebook's mobile engineers should consider. The problem is devilish: Moving Facebook to smartphones...
AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)
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AOL said it earned 23 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenue of $576.8 million, compared to 65 cents per share on $596 million in the same quarter a year ago. Wall Street analysts had expected the New York-based Internet company to earn 16 to 17 cents...
Google's Stock Takes A Dive After Mid-Day Earnings Release, Trading Halted
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Google just released it’s Q3 2012 earnings report far ahead of schedule. It’s not clear if Google accidentally filed the report early (which currently still has some editorial comments in it) or if this was on purpose, but a mid-day earnings release like this is very unusual. One thing that is...
Autonomy, Not So Autonomous Anymore: HP CSO Bill Veghte Steps, Founder Mike Lynch Steps Down
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Within HP’s quarterly results today, a bit of a development on Autonomy, the company’s $10.2 billion enterprise software purchase from last year that was profitable when HP bought it but in the last quarter saw “significant” declines in its core licensing revenue: its founder and head Mike Lynch is stepping...
Video search firm Blinkx reports six-month revenue of $82m, net profit of $2.7m
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Blinkx, a listed pioneer in online video search technology, today reported its financial results for the six months ended September 30, 2012. The company, which has offices in San Francisco and London, booked $2.7 million of net profit on revenues of $82 million during the period, compared to $2.2 million...
Google dives after reporting $14.10 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $6.53
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Update: Trading of Google has been halted. The exact cause of the cessation is not yet known. TNW is on the case. More shortly. Today Google announced its quarterly earnings, reporting some $14.10 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $6.53. The market reacted negatively, sending the company’s stock...
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