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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
- 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
- Google beats for Q3, Wall Street looks ahead
- updated: In after-hours trading, shares of Google shot up more than 11 percent within 20 minutes after the company reported strong quarterly earnings. In regular trading, shares initially declined early in the day but rallied late in the day to close up more than 4 percent at $353.02. Early headlines...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Wall Street, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- IBM's one-day tumble: Tough quarter or fluctuating dollar?
- The perfect storm may be brewing for Big Blue. Clearly, the economy is slowing. Also, the impact of Wall Street's activity this week, as well as the troubled financial sector that IBM serves, could start to trickle down. And, the dollar is fluctuating. As a result, IBM's stock dropped by...
- Tags: Dollar, Wall Street, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, E-mail, Finance, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
- The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...
- Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Wall Street slams tech on bailout bill's failure
- updated: Wall Street reacted sharply to news that Congress failed to pass a $700 billion bailout bill this morning, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a downward plunge more than 777 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, not immune to the financial ripple-effect that stems from the financial crisis, was down...
- Tags: Plunge, Financial, Recession, Yahoo! Inc., Wall Street, Apple Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- I have a lot of sympathy for Sridhar Vembu. CEO of AdventNet, the parent company behind Zoho. His last two posts reflect much of the fear and frustration behind what I am hearing in the startup world. But amid the gloom, Sridhar offers a glimmer of hope. A few snippets....
- Tags: Capitalism, Financial, Alchemy, Wall Street, Zoho, Alchemy Analogy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Wall Street's Pain = Tech's Gain
- The Dow is down just 28 points, to 10,993, as this gets typed at midday Friday. Maybe everyone who wanted to head to the exits already has. In meantime, the dysfunction on Wall Street should redound to New York's advantage -- in technology. The reason: Wall Street...
- Tags: New York, Wall Street, Venture Capital, Investment, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- EIC Podcast: Wall Street; Sarah Palin's email; Web 2.0
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Wall Street, Sarah Palin's email being hacked and the state of Web 2.0. The technology sector took a back seat to Wall Street this week. That's where the drama was. We had meltdowns and bailouts and a...
- Tags: Web, Wall Street, Feds, Web 2.0, E-mail, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Wall Street woes? Silicon Valley is hiring
- I caught a great post by Claire Cain Miller on the New York Times' Bits blog last night about the upswing, so to speak, of the current economic crisis: that is, that if you can't keep a job on Wall Street, Silicon Valley will take you: ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Hiring, Wall Street, Recruitment & Selection, Venture Capital, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
- Don't you wish you had the same tools at your disposal to assess the riskiness of securities you hold, now that Wall Street is going through a Monday as black or blacker than the one in 1987. Bear Stearns, gone. Lehman Brothers, bankrupt....
- Tags: Asset, Stock, Wall Street, Risk Management, XLoss, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Financial, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Financial Service, Goldman Sachs & Co., Wall Street, Morgan Stanley, IPO, Data Centers, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy; Microsoft's big move
- Wall Street is a big prediction market and traders are increasingly getting antsy about Microsoft's next move regarding Yahoo. Thus far, Microsoft has kept people guessing, but may reveal its plan on Wednesday. As we all know, Microsoft's negotiate or else deadline passed on Saturday and it...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wall, Wall Street, Corporate Governance, Construction, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?
- Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval. In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture SOA infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products." ...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Middleware, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Microsoft: Yahoo 'unrealistic'; Deadline stands; Quarter mixed
- Update: Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell said Thursday that Yahoo had "unrealistic expectations" about the price it could fetch and reiterated the software giant could walk away from the deal. Liddell's comments came on Microsoft's third quarter earnings conference call (for live coverage see News.com and Silicon Alley...
- Tags: Revenue, Yahoo! Inc., Income, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units
- Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales
- Update: Intel's first quarter results on Tuesday matched Wall Street's earnings estimates and topped revenue targets. Given the worries about Intel those results are good enough to chalk up as a win. By the numbers statement, Intel reported net income of $1.4 billion, or 25 cents a share,...
- Tags: Revenue, Intel Corp., Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
- Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...
- Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- No more talk of proprietary innovation please
- Yahoo! (Picture from Yodel Anecdotal.) One of the most popular claims here by open source opponents is that proprietary companies do all the innovating. Those days are done. Spending your stock, your cash, and the change under your seat cushions for an operating competitor...
- Tags: Innovation, Fact, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Leadership, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
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