Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tip-toed carefully through the mine field of his company's relationship with ISPs during his third-quarter earnings call on Monday.…
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More iPhone discounts point to new model coming soon
Target and Best Buy are joining Sprint in offering $20 to $50 discounts on iPhones with two-year contracts. Sales on current and older devices is yet another sign pointing to new models being around the corner. Apple is reportedly matching some of these discounts.…
Read MoreIs the iPad 2 cannibalizing the new iPad’s profits?
Apple's accountants are busy tallying its fiscal 2012 Q3 numbers, including the number of iPads sold and revenue from the iPad product line. Rags Srinivasan examines these two numbers and what they mean for the shelf life of the iPad 2.…
Read MoreAs promised, Apple delivers biggest iPhone (and iPad and Mac) quarter yet
In his first full quarter as Apple CEO, Tim Cook delivered. For the first fiscal quarter of 2012 Apple posted its most impressive quarter yet: record revenue of $46.3 billion and earnings of $13.87 per share. The company also sold a record 37 million iPhones.…
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Amazon is due to report quarterly earnings today, and Reuters took the opportunity to speculate that the company’s cloud computing division will…
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Intel has reported record quarterly revenues of $13.1 billion, slightly higher than analyst expectations. Customers continue to spend on data center equipment,…
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Oracle announced its first $10billion quarter when it reported earnings earlier this week. In the midst of the growth —which exceeded analyst…
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Amazon is in the news again, and again the news is not great. This time the issues are financial rather than technological,…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: Don’t Expect Another iPad in 2011
After today's earning report for the second fiscal quarter, Apple's conference call was something of a dénouement. In a relatively dry call without the presence of Steve Jobs, the main topic of interest was the iPad; the questions focused on supply problems, the answers avoided them.…
Read MoreApple Q2 2011: Macs and iPhone Up, Apple ‘Also Sold’ 4.69 Million iPads
Coming in below expectations on iPads, down on iPod sales, but up big on iPhones and Macs, Apple announced record second quarter earnings today. Apple reported earnings revenue of $24.67 billion and a net quarterly profit of $5.99 billion, or $6.40 earnings per share.…
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Yesterday we saw quarterly results from sector stalwarts such as IBM, Intel, Juniper and VMware, and there’s plenty to be happy about…
Read MoreApple Second Quarter Earnings Preview
With Apple announcing earnings next Wednesday, it's bound to be good news for stockholders. But it's good time to look at what that means for consumers, too. Could the earnings call provide hints about the future of Apple's hardware and software plans?…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: 6 Things You Should Know
Unlike last quarter, today's conference call did not include a cameo by iconic CEO Steve Jobs, who announced a leave on absence on Monday. In fact, his name didn't even come up, and that's one of five things Apple watchers should know about today's call.…
Read MoreApple Q1 2011: Apple Wins Christmas
With record revenue, profits, and products sold, Apple today posted the holiday quarter results to beat all holiday quarters, at least until next year. Total revenue topped $26 billion, besting the closest quarter on record by more than $10 billion.…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: Steve Jobs Goes Wild
He may or may not have taken off his mock turtleneck, but Steve Jobs did make a special appearance at the fourth quarter 2010 conference call, taking questions but no prisoners, and probably saying a few things that made his subordinates wince. It was indeed wild.…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: The Non-Boring Stuff
Apple's excruciatingly boring conference call for the third fiscal quarter has come and gone, but if you didn't listen, or couldn't stay awake, here are the top 10 items of interest (to me). Record Mac sales, antennagate and record revenue were some of the highlights.…
Read MoreApple Q3 2010: Record Mac Sales
Anyone who thought the Mac is dead needs to think different(ly). Apple sold 3.472 million Macs last quarter, along with 3.270 million iPads to sync them with. Out of sync, were iPod and iPhone sales, but for Apple it was another quarter for the record books.…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: “Future Product Transition”
In a question related to revenue for next quarter, the response included four factors: a stronger U.S. dollar, a Mac portable transition, the educational buying season, and a "future product transition."…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: Tablet-free Edition
Well, it was almost free of the tablet. On yesterday’s quarterly earnings conference call, when asked about a new product that might…
Read MoreApple Q1 2010: Mad Money and Macs
Earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2010 were insanely great with Apple selling a record number of Macs, and plenty of…
Read MoreGoogle: The Mobile Web Could Be Better Than the PC Web
Google did well in the fourth quarter, giving the company runway to talk about its next wave of initiatives. Executives said mobile should lead growth in the next year, with significant revenue to accompany widespread uptake of mobile devices that can handle data.…
Read MoreFor Better or Worse, Macs Dominate High-End Sales
Joe Wilcox at Betanews does some math with NPD’s June numbers and finds that Mac market share for computers costing $1,000 or…
Read MoreApple Conference Call: Yes on “Pro,” Cannibalizing iPods, No on Netbooks
Peter Oppenheimer and Tim Cook hosted Apple’s (s aapl) third-quarter fiscal 2009 conference call, the “best non-holiday quarter ever” for revenue, and…
Read MoreApple Q3 2009: MacBook Pros, iPhones for the Sales Win
Reporting results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009, Apple (s aapl) shattered expectations with big profits boosted by the all-new…
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