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- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging'
- Updated: Dell's third quarter was a mixed bag. Revenue was down amid weak demand, but earnings were better than expected by a wide margin. The outlook was "challenging" as expected. The company reported third quarter earnings of $727 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.
- updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Internet ad revenues reached $5.9 bln in Q3 2008, growth of 11%
- IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 bln for Q3 2008, representing an 11% increase over Q3 2007. While double-digit annual growth continues, the QTQ curve remains relatively flat compared to recent past performance. The Q3 2008 figures are 2% higher than the Q2 2008 results....
- Tags: Revenue, Internet Advertising, Q3 2008 Figure, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps
- Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Mozilla Project ready for rough economic times
- The Mozilla Foundation has posted its 2007 financial statements and tax forms, and Mitchell Baker points out that Mozilla's revenue is up over 2006, and things look good for the future as well, even in a lousy financial market. But Mozilla's finances aren't the only part of Mozilla's picture that's...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Operational Accounting, Taxes, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Financial Planning, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance
- While General Motors executives are on Capitol Hill begging for money the automaker is also taking its case to Yahoo Finance's news section. And you can't escape GM's pitch. Based on a few dozen reloads it appears GM has bought a nice rotation in...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., General Motors Corp., Social Security, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
- Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Industry, Handset, Manufacturer, U.K., RFID, GSMA, Operational Accounting, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, mobile payments, GSM Association
- News items 2008-11-18
- 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
- Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle
- It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- i-Cards: the next SSN?
- When it comes to the new information cards - the digital wallet initiative backed by the likes of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle - think of this as Phase 1, the information gathering phase This week, another partner in the effort - credit reporting agency Equifax - launched an online...
- Tags: Card, Equifax, i-Cards, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs
- Sun said Friday that it will lay off 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce--or 5,000 to 6,000 people--as it restructures amid weak demand, a series of poor quarters and a business model that rallies around open source software. Add it up and Sun is looking...
- Tags: Job, Sun Microsystems Inc., Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Intel's fourth quarter unravels
- Intel said Wednesday that its fourth quarter outlook will fall short of projections the company made just a few weeks ago. The magnitude of the drop-off is steep given that Intel couldn't even make it to its Dec. 4 conference call to update its guidance. The damage:...
- Tags: Revenue, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Author royalties the test for Flat World
- Our model is a core, then we plug in other revenue streams, testing those which work. And whenever we generate any revenue the authors get the 20% royalty, so they're invested in it. We want them to feel it's the right relationship for them. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Revenue, Royalty, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn, Semester, Textbook, Flat World
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- AMR Research: Changing role of the CIO
- During a presentation at AMR Research's Business Technology Conference, J. Chris Scalet, Chief Information Officer of pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck discussed the changing role of CIOs in large organizations. Scalet said: The CIO role is at a key tipping...
- Tags: CIO, AMR Research, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Sprint Nextel lost 1.3 million customers last quarter
- News just came over the Reuters wire that Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile service, posted a quarterly net loss of $326 million, or 11 cents a share, in contrast to a profit of $64 million, or 2 cents, in the quarter a year ago. The suspected reason?...
- Tags: Sprint Nextel Corp., Customer, Sprint Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- 18-29-year-olds are significantly more likely to work less than 25 hours per week
- Employed 18-29 year-olds (23%) are significantly more likely to work 25 hours or less per week when compared with 30-49 year-olds (11%) and 50-64 year-olds (13%). Employed Americans in the middle age groups are significantly more likely, on the other hand, to work 41-50 hours a week. As noted in...
- Tags: Hour, 18-29-year-old, NB, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- YouTube: It's time to start cutting deals
- YouTube may be about to enter a key dealmaking phase kicked off by plans to run full-length ad supported movies on its site. However, the big missing element may be a better cut for the entertainment industry. Let's connect a few dots on YouTube: ...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Bharti Airtel Case Study
- IBM worked with Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom, to create an innovative model for IT delivery. For CIO Jai Menon, it means he can now focus more on launching and creating new revenue streams. And less on IT delivery. Want to learn how? Get the case study.
- Tags: Revenue, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
- White papers 2008-11-06
- SalesPage Easy Monster (zip)
- Create easy high-conversion sales letters by simply filling in the blanks. Insert customized site header, footer and product images in the sales page with ease. Input the sales page headline, sub-headline at strategic locations. Automatic insertion of testimonials that users provide. 100% compatible with any payment processor paypal and clickbank....
- Tags: Payment, Monster, Henry Zeng, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
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