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Even Touch Panel Makers Have It Hard

Going forward with the distressing news, even the touch panel market turned out to have enjoyed a less than favorable first month of 2012. Digitimes again plays the role of bearer of bad news, so to speak. Apparently, makers of touch panels saw their revenues drop on month by almost 20%. TPK Holding had it part...

7 February 2012
04:50 GMT

Zynga-Powered Gaming Brings In 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue

The success of social gaming developer and publisher Zynga has long been linked to the Facebook platform, but until now it was unclear how much the social network itself depended on gaming for its revenue streams. Official information delivered by Facebook shows that during 2011 Zynga alone was responsible for the c...

3 February 2012
15:11 GMT

Facebook Netted $1 Billion, 762 Million in 2011, Much of It from Zynga

Facebook's IPO filling was the first chance to get actual financial figures on the company. People have been speculating and estimating Facebook revenue for years now. It turns out, they weren't that much off. Facebook made $3.71 billion, €2.83 billion last year, a big jump over 2010, when it brought ...

2 February 2012
12:41 GMT

IBM Q4 2011 Net Profits Grow 4%

It appears that IBM had a good time in 2011, even though the economy is still struggling.For the fourth quarter, it scored a net income of $5.5 billion, 4% higher than the $5.3 billion of Q4 2010. That's 4.26 billion Euro compared to 4.10 billion.Meanwhile, for the whole year, IBM's net profit went up 7%, f...

20 January 2012
10:09 GMT

Microsoft’s Q2 FY2012 Results Are in: $20.89 Billion in Revenue

On January 19th, Microsoft announced its financial results for the second quarter of the financial year 2012, ended on December 31st, 2011, and posted $20.89 billion in revenues for the period. Microsoft’s operating income stood at $7.99 billion, while its net income was of $6.62 billion. The diluted earning...

20 January 2012
04:29 GMT

Zumba Fitness Franchise Gets to 6 Million Units Sold

Video game publisher Majesco has announced that the Zumba Fitness franchise has become the fastest selling product in the catalog of the company, with the two released games now over 6 million units in sales.Jesse Sutton, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Majesco, has stated in a financial results document that t...

19 January 2012
10:35 GMT

Google Saw an Estimated 30 Percent Revenue Growth in 2011, Like in the Good Old Days

Google is scheduled to reveal its fourth quarter financial results a few days from now, on January 19th. If the fourth quarter follows the trend set in the first three, Google should have made about $11 billion, €8.67 billion. That's a total revenue for 2011 of about $38.3 billion, €30.2 billion. Goog...

16 January 2012
13:31 GMT

ASRock Expects Sales of 10 Million Motherboards in 2012

Since the year 2011 is ending, rumors, reports and announcements about what IT players expect from 2012 are trickling in and as part of quite the steady stream too. This time around, it is ASRock's probable fate that users can catch a glimpse of. The company itself set the shipment target for next year, or at...

23 December 2011
16:31 GMT

China Dethrones US as the Largest Smartphone Market

Smartphone sales in China are going up, and the market has just claimed the top position in the world, a recent report from Strategy Analytics unveils. During the third quarter of the year, sales of smartphones reached a record 24 million units in China, which allowed the country to get in front of the United State...

23 November 2011
16:01 GMT

Power Management Chips Are Another Area That Will Evolve

It will happen more slowly that originally expected, but power management chips are going to see increasing sales and, thus, will lead to higher revenue. The automotive, solar and wind turbine markets, as well as motor controls, are considered the most promising markets for power management semiconductors. Also, ...

23 November 2011
08:10 GMT

HP Makes Billions in a Single Quarter, webOS Wastes a Truckload

HP's fiscal year ended on October 31, which means that, for it, the fourth quarter of 2011 was the August-October period, so, naturally, it revealed how its money situation evolved. Turns out that evolved is a very appropriate word, since the IT giant amassed a revenue of $127.4 billion for the whole FY 2011 ...

22 November 2011
04:28 GMT

NVIDIA's Finances Go Up in Q3 of FY 2012

The third quarter of NVIDIA's Fiscal Year 2012 ended on October 30, so NVIDIA decided to publish its financial situation, as well as the outlook for Q4. NVIDIA couldn't exactly brag about record earnings or anything like that, but it still succeeded in posting a rise in both revenues and profits. Net in...

11 November 2011
02:45 GMT

As E-Readers Sell Like Bread, E Ink Rakes in $1 Billion

With e-readers selling about as well as ever, it was inevitable that E Ink, being the prime supplier of displays for such items, would profit from it. E Ink just published its financial results, at least those that it can safely speak about since the year is not done yet. Then again, any company would feel the ur...

9 November 2011
07:39 GMT

Square Enix Sees Less Revenue, More Profit Because of Deus Ex

Video game developer Square Enix has announced that during the second fiscal quarter of this year it has managed to generate sales of 47.516 billion Yen (about 735 million dollars or 533 million Euro), which is a decrease of about 15 percent when compared to the same period of last year.For the same time period profi...

7 November 2011
07:31 GMT

ARM Ships One Billion Chips in Three Months, Double Profits

Some may have been skeptical about the odds about a year and a half ago, but it looks like ARM's gambit to expand its horizons to bigger devices has paid off very well, according to its recent financial results. People who assumed that ARM was doing well for itself have been proven right by the company's ...

25 October 2011
06:02 GMT

Rambus Makes Profits for Something Other than Lawsuits This Time

Rambus is one of the most infamous patent trolls out there, but it looks like, this once, it was able to rake in some profits without any settlement payments. Rambus made the news quite a few times last year, and the years before, for how it got into patent litigations with a whole bunch of companies. As such, it...

21 October 2011
20:01 GMT

SanDisk Also Reports Its Financial Situation, Good Tidings

SanDisk issued a press release in which it said that it finished the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 on October 2, with better than average results, to put it lightly. While the recession doesn't seem to be as bad as it was a couple of years ago, it still hasn't completely gone away. As such, it is so...

21 October 2011
20:01 GMT

Verizon Wireless Posts Strong Financial Results for Q3 2011

Mobile phone carrier Verizon has just announced its financial results for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and posted strong revenue for the time frame. The wireless carrier announced a number of 1.3 million total new connections for the third quarter of the ongoing year, 882,000 of which were retail postpaid ...

21 October 2011
11:00 GMT

Seagate Makes $140 Million in Q1 of FY 2012

Seagate has already completed the first quarter of its fiscal year 2012 so, naturally, the company weighed its gains and losses, finally publishing its financial results. Seagate appears to be doing more or less well for itself, even now that its unlooked for advantage over Western Digital has yet to come into play...

21 October 2011
07:44 GMT

Intel Reports Record Revenue and Profit in Q3

Semiconductor giant Intel has managed to finish another strong quarter with a record breaking revenue of $14.3 billion (10,38 billion Euros), up $3.2 billion (2.32 billion Euros) or 29 percent year-over-year, according to the latest financial results posted by the company.The chip maker also set new records for micro...

19 October 2011
02:35 GMT

Google Revenue Nears $10 Billion, 7.26€ Billion Sets New Record

Google has revealed its quarterly revenue report. In the third quarter, Google saw a big jump in revenue and income, past what analysts were expecting. The positive results led to a six percent spike in share price in after hours trading. "Google reported revenues of $9.72 billion [7.06€ billion] for the qua...

14 October 2011
03:50 GMT

AMD Third Quarter Finances Not Stellar, Chip Yields to Blame Again

During much of 2009 and 2010, TSMC had such poor 40nm chip yields that both AMD and NVIDIA suffered financially, what with undersupply of products, and it looks like something similar has happened on AMD's 32nm front, though a different party is responsible this time. Since the month of October, 2011 is almo...

11 October 2011
03:48 GMT

Transcend Bypasses DRAM Woes with Strong NAND Sales

Had Transcend not spent the past few years diversifying its business, it might have seriously suffered because of the DRAM demand problem but, as it is, September turned out to be quite the favorable period. Many users are probably tired of hearing about all the problems plaguing the DRAM market segment, even if th...

8 October 2011
08:49 GMT

Samsung Profits Slide Down On Year

Since another month has begun, companies are, naturally, letting financial details slip, with Samsung being, in this case, the outfit that got reported on by market watchers. Recent reports from Digitimes reveal that Samsung had a mostly mixed third quarter, financially-wise. More specifically, while profits ...

8 October 2011
05:58 GMT

Twitter Has 1,600 Advertisers, Is Only Getting Started

With the kind of funding it's gotten through the years, Twitter can take its time before starting to make some real money. That said, Twitter is as mainstream as it's going to get at this point and there doesn't seem to be much growth left, at least not in the US and the markets where it achieved early...

5 October 2011
10:34 GMT

Lithium Ion Batteries See Spike in Demand

Analysts have been speaking a lot about PCs and tablets lately, but there are other items that are poised to see massive growth over the next decade or so, like lithium ion batteries.Analysts have reached the conclusion that smart power grids will be a major market for lithium ion batteries.A smart grid is a utility...

24 September 2011
06:05 GMT

Genesys Logic Expects Great Things from USB 3.0

As the latest iteration of the universal serial bus standard gains prominence, companies involved in the market see good things ahead, and this goes especially well for Genesys Logic. Right now, Renesas is the major supplier of USB 3.0 controller chips in the world. In fact, the company has held that spot sinc...

23 September 2011
10:22 GMT

Facebook Made $500 Million from $3.2 Billion in Revenue in First Half 2011

Facebook has been very secretive about its financial details, anything else about its business that it can keep private. But the site is known to be driving up revenue and income. The latest numbers, coming from people familiar with the matter, via Reuters, show that Facebook made $1.6 billion in the first half of...

8 September 2011
08:55 GMT

Acer Suffers Abysmal Second Quarter, Loses $234 Million

HP's decision to completely let go of its PC business might not be the only thing that will shock the consumer base once they learn of just what kind of turn Acer's finances took during the second quarter. Consumers' minds might still be reeling after hearing that HP has not only abandoned its webOS ...

24 August 2011
10:31 GMT

Itanium Uncertainties Strike at HP Business Critical Revenues

Intel may still be speaking of the Itanium and that it plans to keep pushing it forward, but the waves caused by Oracle's decision to drop support for it were far reaching enough that HP's revenues swayed.HP and Oracle ended up taking things to court after the latter said it would no longer support the In...

20 August 2011
05:36 GMT

Lenovo Profits Almost Double on Year

Coming to act as proof of how general finances are at least partially recovering, Lenovo experienced a very promising first quarter of its fiscal year 2012, amassing revenues of almost $6 billion.When it comes to finances, 2011 has, so far, been a year of promising upturns, despite a short slide here and there.Grant...

18 August 2011
07:18 GMT

Tegra Does Much to Boost NVIDIA Revenues in Q2

As one would have likely expected, the Tegra line of ARM-based mobile SOCs (system-on chip devices) can be attributed much of the credit for the way NVIDIA saw revenue growth.Those keeping track of such things will likely have already learned of NVIDIA's favorable financial performance during the second FY2012 ...

12 August 2011
07:57 GMT

NVIDIA's Finances Grow in Q2, Rise Will Continue

NVIDIA's second quarter of the fiscal year 2012 has proven lucrative for the Santa Clara, California-based company, now that its financial results have turned out favorably.AMD's Fusion was supposed to remove NVIDIA's low-end and even mainstream GPUs from the competition, or at least start off by crip...

12 August 2011
03:40 GMT

ASUS Revenues Up 38% in July, Strikes Monthly Record

It looks like at least one company has had a good last month, financially-wise, as it struck record performances in both revenues and shipments of notebooks, though its other business outlets did not go by ignored either.With each passing month, companies and market analysts look into the financial aspects of IT bus...

9 August 2011
08:42 GMT

Almost $70 Billion Revenue for Microsoft in FY2011

Microsoft’s revenue jumped 12% in fiscal year 2011 compared to the previous year to almost $70 billion. The Redmond company’s latest fiscal year ended on June 30, 2011, and the software giant reported record revenue for both the last quarter and the past 12 months. $69.94 billion in revenue for FY 2011 m...

22 July 2011
08:26 GMT

Earnings Season Continues With Samsung's Profit Woes

Samsung has finished inspecting its financial performance during the second quarter and it looks like its finances haven't been doing so well, despite what one might call a very successful performance on the mobile market.Since a quarter of a year lasts three months, one can always expect IT companies to start ...

8 July 2011
05:52 GMT

Despite Mixed Finances, OCZ Still Scores Record Sales

Companies more or less periodically post their financial evolution for the IT industry to see, and it looks like OCZ has now taken its turn at posting the accomplishments and losses it sustained during the first quarter of its Fiscal year 2012.The solid state drive market doesn't seem to be doing too badly late...

8 July 2011
05:22 GMT

E Ink Reaps Much Profit From E-Paper Sales

The market for e-readers and any other devices that utilize e-paper displays definitely gave E Ink, the world's prime supplier of such things, something that qualifies as a more than substantial financial boost.Even though tablets are, at the moment, the talk of the IT industry, they aren't the only device...

8 July 2011
03:53 GMT

Makers of Solar Panels Also Grow in June

Though one might not immediately think of it, the solar cell market is one that has grown quite a bit over the past years, a trend that has reportedly continued during the month of June.Though it was most definitely not a fortunate development, the economic recession did have some ultimately positive consequences.On...

4 July 2011
10:24 GMT

Wintek and Powerchip See Some Financial Progress

It appears that even though things are still uncertain on the overall IT market, some companies are, nonetheless, managing to see some improvement on the financial level, as Wintek and Powerchip can attest.One can definitely say that the past quarter, perhaps the whole first half of the year (2011) is one full of ir...

4 July 2011
09:54 GMT

AMD Shares Drop Even Though Supercomputing Status Rises, Intel Benefits

Apparently, AMD is going through another paradoxical period at the moment, with one facet of the business growing while another, or the overall financial outlook, is sliding downwards.Advanced Micro Devices has definitely been making the news with all the Fusion APUs and assorted motherboards from its partners.Still...

30 June 2011
09:53 GMT

RIM Posts Higher Revenue YOY, Ships 500,000 PlayBooks

– Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2012, and revealed that its revenue went up by 16 percent to reach $4.9 billion, when compared to the $4.2 billion it registered in the same quarter a year ago. Compared to $5.6 b...

17 June 2011
08:53 GMT

Server Market Grew 9% in 1Q11, Revenues Jump

It seems that the first quarter of the ongoing year proved to be quite lucrative for the server industry, as there was a significant upwards evolution in terms of sales and finances, though not exactly equal.With all the new connected electronics getting released and sold, the strain on the existing web infrastructu...

27 May 2011
07:53 GMT

HP's Finances Go Down and Up at Once

Showing off billions and billions of dollars, HP has published its financial situation after the completion of the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2011, and it seems that results were more or less mixed.HP is the world's greatest supplier of computers, so it stands to reason that its finances would involve massiv...

18 May 2011
04:36 GMT

NVIDIA's Finances Go Up and Down

NVIDIA is currently in the second quarter of tis Fiscal year 2012, and it looks like it has finished analyzing its performance during the first one, as revealed in a recent press release,like all other companies in the industry, NVIDIA has to periodically offer updates on its financial situation, especially once a y...

13 May 2011
03:47 GMT

E Ink Revenues Drop in April, Overall On-Year Result Still Good

E Ink may have scored a sort of record during the last quarter of 2011, but it looks like not every month so far returned positive financial results, although the situation is still one that favors the company.The one thing about finances is that they change with the times and can vary from splendid to dismal, somet...

9 May 2011
10:14 GMT

TSMC About to See Increased Revenues, Tablets to Blame

It appears that tablets have started to show up as the culprit behind a whole bunch of happenings, both good and bad, on the IT market, in this case related to the finances of a certain worldwide foundry.Like any product that rose in popularity fast, tablets have become a very disruptive presence on today's IT ...

5 May 2011
11:01 GMT

AOL Display Revenue On the Rise, but the Picture is Still Bleak

AOL has posted its Q1 financial results and they're not looking great. That's not much of a surprise, AOL has been losing revenue and profits for years now and, in that light, the numbers are not that bad, they're above Wall Street expectations, in fact.AOL revenue for Q1 was $551.4 million, down from ...

4 May 2011
09:00 GMT

Samsung Doesn't Do That Well in 1Q11

It appears that Samsung has finally made the official update on its finances, this once dealing with the first quarter of 2011, and it looks like things didn't go very well because of weak memory demand and slow display sales. Samsung has finally come forth and supplied the Internet with the information on i...

30 April 2011
03:46 GMT

All Eyes on Windows for Microsoft’s Latest Record Third-Quarter Results

As expected, Microsoft reported strong results for the past fiscal quarter, beating analyst estimates, which had forecasted a 12% growth. Instead, revenue for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2011, increased by 13% compared to Q3 2010, to no less than $16.43 billion. And while Windows did manage to steal the limelight fr...

29 April 2011
04:00 GMT


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