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- HP: We're fine for the fourth quarter, 2009
- Hewlett-Packard delivered something as rare as the do-do bird these days: An upside earnings surprise. HP reassured Wall Street on Tuesday by releasing preliminary fourth quarter earnings and an outlook that was better than expected statement. The company said its fourth quarter revenue would...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Wall Street, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- BearingPoint earnings call - part 2
- A Winter of Discontent? There were some other nuggets in this call. BearingPoint BE has retained the restructuring firm AlixPartners. Moreover, BE is replacing its CFO with an AlixPartners person. Again, we quote from the earnings announcement: "The Company has also appointed AlixPartners managing...
- Tags: Earnings, BearingPoint Inc., CFO, BE, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- BearingPoint's Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint's BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- NetSuite Q3 earnings announced - SaaS still growing
- NetSuite makes big Q3 year over year improvement in revenue NetSuite today announced its Q3 financials. The big headline was the increase in Q3 revenues. Year over year comparison shows a 44% increase to over $40 million. That alone tells me that SaaS is still getting a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Earnings, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Microsoft's Fiscal 2009 Q1: The good, bad and (not so) ugly
- There are a lot of write-ups around the Web aboutMicrosoft's first quarter earnings for fiscal 2009, which the company announced on October 24, so I won't waste a lot of time recapping them here. Instead, here are a few links to interesting tidbits revealed during yesterday's earnings call. by Mary...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Financial Accounting, Finance, Mary Jo Foley, Revenue, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Apple reports Q4 2008 earnings (updated 3x)
- Apple's held its fourth quarter 2008 earnings conference call today. Highlights: Revenue of $7.9 billion ($6.22 billion in Q4 2007) Net quarterly profit $1.14 billion ($904 million in Q4'07) Net quarterly profit $1.26 per diluted share ($1.01 in Q4'07) Gross margin was 34.7 percent...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple Inc., Earnings, Q4'07, Operational Accounting, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Yahoo meets estimates, plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
- Yahoo's third quarter earnings weren't the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff. The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter. Yahoo statement, reported net income of $54.3 million,...
- Tags: Revenue, Cost Management, Yahoo! Inc., Earnings, Workforce, Profits, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Apple and Yahoo: Forget last quarter. What about this one?
- Once again, it's not the past performance that investors want to know about. It's the future. What are companies doing to ride the economic storm and what will that mean to the current quarter, as well as the full year bottom line? Today, the spotlight falls on...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Apple Q4 2008 earnings to be announced today (updated)
- Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its fourth fiscal quarter today (Tuesday, October 21, 2008) after the markets close at 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT. You can listen to the audio webcast of the conference call live on Apple's investor relations...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Earnings, CNET New, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Apple earnings: An example of Citizen Wall Streetin'
- Apple earnings: An example of Citizen Wall Streetin'Wall Steetin'could you please go to your room if, at @50 years old, you still need to pout?what are sales figures of PC over the last 6 months vs Apple %Yeah I thought so-you dont bother to research-make 'make em up as you...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Citizen Wall Streetin, Apple Inc., earnings
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Apple earnings: An example of Citizen Wall Streetin'
- You've no doubt heard of a citizen journalism, the concept that everyday folks with blogging tools can track and report the news faster and, in some cases, better than mainstream journalists. Now, we have regular folks who are tracking companies and making Wall Street-like observations that can have an impact...
- Tags: Blog, Wall Street, Apple Inc., Earnings, Amateur, Wall, Blogging, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- ebay beats Q3, adjusts guidance for Q4, FY08
- eBay reported third quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the third quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $592 million, or 46 cents per share. GAAP profits were $492 million, or 38 cents per share. Analysts had been expecting...
- Tags: Earnings, eBay Inc., GAAP, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- IBM: Beats earnings target but...
- IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...
- Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Lawson Q109: 'sloppy execution'
- Harry Debes, CEO at Lawson Software doesn't mince his words. So when the company announced its missed Q1 fiscal 2009 results PDF yesterday it came as no surprise that during the earnings call he had this to say about the way the company performed: ...some of this was sloppy...
- Tags: Revenue, Lawson Software Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Video: Earnings preview: Will Apple deliver?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about whether recent product announcements will have a positive impact on Apple sales. Dignan and Diaz also discuss the hiccups with the iPhone 3G launch, the new Nano, and whether Apple will refresh its...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Video, Earnings, 3G, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Cellular Phones, Financial Accounting, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Video: How will the Internet bellwethers fair this earnings season?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of Internet heavyweights, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. Dignan and Diaz share their views on Google's search business, Yahoo's prospects after Microsoft, and whether the current energy crisis is helping Amazon's...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Earnings, Internet, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Search, Financial Accounting, Sales, Marketing, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Earnings preview: Will Apple deliver?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about whether recent product announcements will have a positive impact on Apple sales. Dignan and Diaz also discuss the hiccups with the iPhone 3G launch, the new Nano, and whether Apple will refresh its...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Earnings, 3G, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Cellular Phones, Financial Accounting, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Finance, Apple
- Videos 2008-09-30
- Video: Tech earnings preview: Microsoft, Intel and SAP
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of enterprise giants Microsoft, Intel, and SAP. Dignan and Diaz share their views on the success of Microsoft's new ad campaign, Intel chip sales for the new Netbook, and whether...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Video, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Sales, Finance, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- How will the Internet bellwethers fare this earnings season?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of Internet heavyweights, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. Dignan and Diaz share their views on Google's search business, Yahoo's prospects after Microsoft, and whether the current energy crisis is helping Amazon's...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Internet, Sales Strategy, Search, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Yahoo, Google, Amazon
- Videos 2008-09-29
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