Leap, MetroPCS See Different Results From Chasing Smartphone Opportunities
Tough times continue for wireless carriers at the lower end of the spectrum as they struggle to move into the smartphone era. Things got a l… Read more at paidContent »
Perform Group Eyes More Acquisitions With On-Track Business Growth
Online sports broadcasting firm Perform Group says it sees a “promising pipeline” of potential acquisitions it will buy using funds raised i… Read more at paidContent »
Yandex Profit Booms But Google Is Regaining Lost Ground In Russian Search
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Russia’s leading search engine’s Q3 profit almost doubled to 1.7 billion rubles ($56.9 million) as advertising sales went from strength to s… Read more at paidContent »
Cablevision: More Video Subscriber Losses, But Rate Appears To Be Slowing
There seems to be no escaping the cable industry’s continuing decline in basic video subscribers, and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) was no excepti… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… Read more at paidContent »
Bulls In Wall Street’s China Shop: Baidu Soars, Another IPO Planned
Beijing-based Chinese portal Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) had the pleasure of telling the Nasdaq, where its stock is listed, how Q3 net income is up n… Read more at paidContent »
WPP Downgrades Its Growth Forecast
Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has slashed its full-year growth forecast to 5%, after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in the third quarte… Read more at paidContent »
Virgin Wrings More Money From Customers
“Appetite for next-generation services is growing faster than we anticipated,” Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett told City analysts… Read more at paidContent »
France Telecom, Everything Everywhere See Revenues Decline
France Telecom’s Q3 profit dipped by 5.2 percent to €3.99 billion. All regions in which it operates except Spain turned in negative result… Read more at paidContent »
Sprint Beats Earnings Estimates, But Investors Raise Eyebrow At iPhone Cost
Earnings day hasn’t been a pleasant experience for Sprint (NYSE: S) in recent years. The company beat earnings estimates for its third quart… Read more at paidContent »
Don’t look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz
“Other,” the revenue category in Amazon’s reports that encompasses Amazon Web Services, is growing like mad — 70 percent over last year, in fact. This matters because it likely means AWS is outpacing its projected growth and is rapidly approaching a $1 billion run rate. Read more »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CF… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Earnings Down Sharply For Q3 2011, Even As Sales Rise
With the $199 Kindle Fire tablet shipping in a little over two weeks, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced $10.88 billion in revenues for Q3 2011,… Read more at paidContent »
Mail.ru Revenue Grows On Russian Ad Boom, Site Integration
Russian portal and social network operator Mail.ru Group’s half-year growth continued in to Q3, during which revenue was 59.1 percent higher… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix’s Hastings: No Grand Gestures Needed To Win Back Consumers
Following the disappointing Q3 results, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings dispensed with the usual earnings report overview that accomp… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Fails To Meet Lowered Expectations On Subscriber Losses
Although Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has recently tried to make up for the PR disaster it fell into when it announced a major price hike for its DV… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers in third quarter
Netflix’s subscriber attrition in the wake of a price hike and separation of its streaming and DVD businesses is even greater than first thought. The company ended the quarter with 23.8 million subscribers in the third quarter, which is down 810,000 from the previous quarter. Read more »
Verizon Sees Slight Ebb In iPhone Demand But Beats Expectations
Verizon faced the same problem as rival AT&T (NYSE: T) during the last quarter: Apple’s iPhone 4S wasn’t ready until October. Still, the lar… Read more at paidContent »
Verizon iPhone sales nip at AT&T’s heels in Q3
Verizon sold 2 million iPhones during its fiscal third quarter, the carrier announced Friday. AT&T said it activated 2.7 million iPhones during the same time period. Though Verizon is still a newcomer to selling iPhones, its earnings show it’s building momentum and gaining on its rival. Read more »
Microsoft Earnings On Target As PC Business Still Stagnant
The PC business is not the most dynamic place to be these days, but fortunately for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) it has a growing presence in the… Read more at paidContent »
AT&T: 100 Million Wireless Users But Q3 Growth Slowed Without New iPhone
AT&T (NYSE: T) continues to benefit from smartphone adoption, crossing the 100-million subscriber mark during the third quarter. Although li… Read more at paidContent »
NYTCo’s Robinson: Paywall Hasn’t Dented Pageviews — Much
The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’… Read more at paidContent »
NYTCo Swings To Profit, Beats Estimates; Hits 324,000 Digital Subs
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In various investor settings over the past few months, New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) executives had made sure to mention that advertisi… Read more at paidContent »
Smartphone Competition And Restructuring Push Nokia To Q3 Loss
Nokia’s Q3 swung to a total €151 ($208.49/£132.13) million pre-tax loss after device sales slipped marginally and the company took hundre… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB Has 1.6 Million Sky Go Users
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has declared its Sky Go live and on-demand service – with which subscribers can watch over PC, Mac, Xbox, iPad and iPhone… Read more at paidContent »
China is now Apple’s second-most important market
China isn’t just where Apple manufactures products. It’s now the country delivering the most revenue for them after the U.S. In the most recent quarter, China accounted for 16 percent of the Apple’s sales, and the company says it will continue to increase its presence. Read more »
Yahoo Beats Estimates — But Don’t Call It A Comeback
The power of low expectations among analysts’ forecasts for Yahoo’s Q3 earnings helped lift the company’s stock price about 3 percent to $15… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Apple Earnings: A Rare Miss, 17 Million iPhones, 11 Million iPads
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Apple’s long track record of underpromising and overdelivering when it comes to expectations of the financial community seems to have finall… Read more at paidContent »
Why Apple sold only 17.1 million iPhones
Apple sold a lot of iPhones, iPads and Macs during the most recently quarter, yet Wall Street is very displeased. Based on the questions from analysts during the company’s investor call Tuesday, concern seems to center on the number of iPhones Apple sold during the quarter. Read more »
Apple Q4 2011 earnings by the numbers
Apple released its fourth quarter 2011 earnings Tuesday, reporting revenue of $28.7 billion, and earnings of $6.62 billion or $7.05 per share. That misses what Wall Street analysts had been expecting–revenue of $29.45 billion and earnings of $7.28 per share–but is above what Apple had forecast. Read more »
Online And Print Cancel Each Other Out At UBM
Latest online growth and print decline have cancelled each other out at UBM, leaving the business publisher’s combined marketing category re… Read more at paidContent »
Newsquest’s Ad Revenue Down 7.9 Percent, Online Rising
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Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns titles including the Glasgow-based Herald and the Argus in Brighton, has reported a 7.9 p… Read more at paidContent »
Gannett’s Digital Revenues Gain, As Profits, Circ Shrink
Gannett’s profits slipped a bit due to the economic weakness, a sign of tougher times for newspaper publishers in general as the Q3 earnings… Read more at paidContent »
Sony Ericsson’s Move To All-Smartphones Cannot Come Soon Enough
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the JV between the consumer electronics company Sony and mobile equipment giant Ericsson, may be the… Read more at paidContent »
Google’s UK Q3 Revenue Seven Percent Higher Than Last Year
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) revenues rose by a recession-defying 7% in the UK in the last three months with online and mobile advertising generating… Read more at paidContent »
Q3 2011 Earnings Snapshot
Google Sales Remain Strong, But Profit Gains Ebb A Bit; Investors Cheer
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Whenever an online advertising forecast is issued, whether analysts see a reason to pullback or raise expectations, it mostly has to do with… Read more at paidContent »
