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IBM Did Well in Q3: 20% Increase in Net Income

IBM announced on Wednesday that its net income in the third quarter of the year went up 20 percent, while the profit forecast for the entire year seems to be quite accurate. Big Blue will present the report on its full financial results for the quarter on October 16th, and this announcement made only a week earlier i...

10 October 2008
03:01 GMT

Just Three in Ten Games Recover Their Production Costs

In what might seem to be a shocking statement, having in mind that the games industry keeps growing, former Sony CEO Chris Deering said that just 30% of the games produced manage to recover their costs, so developers must "explore new models" in order to survive. However, this does not mean that the industry is showi...

12 August 2008
04:17 GMT

Lenovo Notebook Business Sees Strong Q1

While ASUS' notebook business is going through a rough patch, competitor Lenovo appears to be doing quite well. The company announced today that its revenues were up 10% during the fiscal first quarter. According to the official line, the successful first quarter is due to the strong notebook sales and an expand...

8 August 2008
06:32 GMT

$60 Billion in Revenue for Bill Gates' Last Year at Microsoft

June 30, 2008 marked the last day of Bill Gates as a full-time Chairman of Microsoft and, at the same time, the end of the company's 2008 fiscal year. On July 17, the Redmond giant announced revenue of over $60.42 billion, representing a jump of 18% from the past FY. In just the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008, th...

18 July 2008
05:15 GMT

MSI to Reveal Its Plans for Computex 2008

Joseph Hsu, Micro-Star International (MSI) chairman, has recently revealed some information on the products the company plans to showcase at Computex 2008, which include motherboards and low-cost PCs. MSI is on its way to announce on June 3rd a series of new motherboards using the DrMOS over clocking and power saving...

29 May 2008
10:50 GMT

$14.45 Billion Q3 Revenue for Microsoft, $68.0 Billion by Mid-2008

On April 24, 2008, Microsoft reported what it referred to as a record third-quarter revenue of $14.45 billion. This figure is correlated with an operating income of $4.41 billion, which translates into diluted earnings per share of just $0.47. Although the Redmond company is presenting record revenue to its sharehold...

25 April 2008
03:36 GMT

AMD Posts $358 Million Loss, Foresees Better Times Ahead

AMD posted its first quarter financial results late yesterday, and the news is far from good. Despite the fact that the chip manufacturer managed to push its Barcelona server processors on the market, the company continues to face catastrophic losses reported at $358 million.Losses were expected, as Advanced Micro De...

18 April 2008
04:09 GMT

Intel Posts Revenue, Goes For AMD's Neck on Server Market

Intel has just posted its revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. Intel managed to achieve higher than expected revenue, but less profit, which should be taken as a sign that the company is starting to spend a little more. As compared to AMD, Intel is still doing fine, and it has even managed to snatch a bigger...

16 April 2008
04:22 GMT

AMD Starts Axing 10 Percent of Its Workforce and Might Split in Two

Advanced Micro Devices' president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer has sent an e-mail message to the company's employees that justifies the upcoming layoffs rumored last month. It seems that the company is gearing up for the gloomy Q1 revenue announcements.Dirk Meyer said that the job slashing is "pai...

9 April 2008
03:48 GMT

In-Game Advertising for Habbo Communities

After recently striking deals with Gearbox and NCsoft, advertising provider Double Fusion has landed a contract making it the exclusive advertising sales agency for the Habbo virtual communities in North America. As part of the deal, Double Fusion is to handle all activity related to advertising sales, sponsorship an...

8 April 2008
14:06 GMT

In-game Advertising Coming for City of Heroes

NCsoft has announced a deal with ad supplier Double Fusion on the option to advertise within the City of Heroes/City of Villains universe. The advertising that Double Fusion selects and adapts is to be presented using the billboards that are present within the game universe, which until now only have used fake advert...

7 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Yahoo! to Increase Revenue by 72%

Thwarting Microsoft's hostile bid to take over his company has become Jerry Yang's mission, as his actions in the past two months show. After running from possible alternative to viable mergers and back, the Yahoo! CEO was faced with a new wave of threats, turning up the knob for pressure on his shoulders. ...

19 March 2008
13:06 GMT

Dell's Q4 Profit Misses Expectations, Spreads Panic Among its Shareholders

World's second largest PC manufacturer Dell has just received the revenue reports for the three month period that ended on February 1st. The company posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and warned that customers may rein in spending. Despite the lower-than-expected profits, the company had a great prese...

29 February 2008
06:06 GMT

$21 Billion Ads

Google was right to go strongly for online advertising, as the data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows. 2007 was the first time ever when the advertising revenue exceeded $21 billion, but that is nothing out of the ordinary. It was only natural for that to happen, seeing that the annual growth was always i...

26 February 2008
08:23 GMT

HP to Report $28.5 Billion in Q1 Revenue

Hewlett-Packard has just published its revenue for the three month period that ended on January 31st. The posted revenue looks more like bragging about it than delivering public information, but that's what happens when your pie charts show net revenue of $28.5 billion.Described as "strong results", Hewlett-Pack...

20 February 2008
07:04 GMT

Nvidia Strikes Record Jackpot for the Q4 Fiscal Year 2008

Nvidia has just drew the line over the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2008 revenue, and it seems that the company has nothing to worry about. The results have just kicked in and it looks like Nvidia has done a great job during the last quarter, with$1.20 billion in revenue and a lot of satisfied customers."Fiscal ...

14 February 2008
09:36 GMT

Fiscal Q4 and 2007 Results for Google

Google has just revealed its Fiscal Year and fourth quarter numbers, accompanied by a press release that underlined the operation magnitude of the Mountain View-based company. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, said that: "We're very pleased with our performance this quarter. […]It reflects strong momentum in our ...

1 February 2008
13:41 GMT

Vistas... by the Billions!

Windows Vistas... by the billions... According to the Redmond company, its latest Windows client enjoys an install base of over 100 million users. The figure was confirmed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates during his last keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6, 2008. V...

25 January 2008
09:22 GMT

AMD to Lose 1.72 Billion in Q4 - More Than Its Income

Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices posted a wider quarterly loss as a result of the $1.68 billion charge for having purchased the Canadian graphics chips company ATI. While Intel managed to generate revenue of $10.1 billion, operating income of $2.2 billion and net income of $1.9 billion, AMD could only whisper...

18 January 2008
02:48 GMT

Intel to Announce Its Highest-Ever Q4 Revenue

Despite the fact that Intel announced, on Tuesday, its second consecutive record-breaking quarter, the earnings are way below the company's sales expectations. Number one x86 CPU manufacturer reported highest-ever fourth-quarter revenue situated at an impressive figure of $10.7 billion with 38 cent earnings per ...

16 January 2008
05:10 GMT

IBM: The Q4 Revenue Has Exceeded all Expectations

Good news from IBM as the preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2007 just kicked in. According to the company's officials, fourth-quarter revenue stood at $28.9 billion, an increase of 10 percent over the same period in 2006, and have surpassed any expectations. The result is partly due to an aggressive ...

14 January 2008
10:56 GMT

IBM to Get $1 Billion from the Indian Business

India has become more and more appealing for big hardware and software corporations that raced in setting development, research or manufacturing units on Indian territory. AMD has recently opened a new research and development engineering facility in Bangalore, while IBM got quite a piece of revenue from the Indian m...

17 December 2007
10:08 GMT

China Gets Revenue Boost in Semiconductor Market

China's semiconductor market has experienced a comeback after a very successful third quarter. Although semiconductor manufactures have rolled on a descending trend until now, strong sales in the third quarter are likely to give a whole revenue of 15 percent this year. The figures for the semiconductor market ar...

13 December 2007
03:33 GMT

People Need More Storage Space, Report Says

Access to the Internet and the arrival of new high-definition content increase the users' demand for larger capacity of storage media. A recent report issued by the International Data Group (IDC) research company says that the capacity of disk storage devices that have sold across the world in the third quarter ...

8 December 2007
06:56 GMT

$10 Billion Revenues from Mobile Games

Mobile games revenues generated by end-users will reach $10 billion by 2009, according to a study performed by Juniper Research, due to the fact that casual gaming's popularity is increasing and the range of mobile phones supporting high quality 3D graphics for core games becomes wider. By 2009, at least 460 mil...

9 November 2007
09:28 GMT

Apple Receives USD 800 for Each iPhone Activated in the US

Apple's share on the iPhone's revenues seems to be larger than previously thought. The same goes for AT&T, not just for the European deals that the company recently landed, which show the fact that Apple makes more money through the share from the operator's services than by selling the device.AT&T pay...

30 October 2007
04:09 GMT

Intel Increases Its Revenue Outlook

In the same day that AMD decided to finally officially launch its native quad core processors, Intel posted a new and improved revenue forecast for the third quarter of the year as the central processing units manufacturing company cited a growing demand for the Intel branded processors. Intel increased its revenue f...

11 September 2007
09:00 GMT

5.7 Billion Dollar Revenues from Mobile User Generated Content

A recent report from Juniper Research shows that social networking services will play an important role in the continuously growing market for mobile user-generated content and, by the year 2012, the income generated by users from social networking, personal and dating content delivery services will reach $5.7 billio...

24 August 2007
09:53 GMT

Google - $3.87 Billion in Revenues

Google today published its financial results for the second quarter of this year, reporting $3.87 billion in revenues, an increase of 58 percent compared to the same period of last year. In comparison with the first quarter of the year, Google recorded a 6 percent increase. Some experts say that the Mountain View com...

20 July 2007
05:44 GMT

Seagate Sees Income Rising

Seagate just posted its latest fourth quarter financial data and it reported a boost in incomes thanks to a higher revenue and a one-time tax benefit. Seagate is the largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the U.S. and one of the most important in the whole world. Its income increased to $541 million, compared to onl...

20 July 2007
05:02 GMT

IBM Is Focusing On Developing Economies

More and more of the IT industry is focusing on the emerging countries and their developing economies for various reasons: cheaper labor force, bigger market shares and increased profits. One of the IT giants and the father of the desktop PC, IBM, is currently receiving a big part of its impressive revenues from emer...

19 July 2007
09:47 GMT

Microsoft to Apple: Mine Is Bigger Than Yours!

Microsoft's is bigger than Apple's. This is an indisputable status quo. While Apple claims that it has "ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh" Microsoft is dominating the operating system's market wit...

27 April 2007
06:48 GMT

Could AMD Go Bankrupt?

Since Intel Core microarchitecture, AMD has had some pretty rough weather, but it seems they might be a species on the brink of extinction, at least that's what the numbers tell us. From the reported revenues for the first quarter of 2007, AMD made a cool $1.233 billion, even more than the expected $1.225 billio...

23 April 2007
09:05 GMT

YouTube Wants to Pay Its Uploaders

Although Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, sustained that the online video sharing service will soon get a new update, meant to make YouTube avoid copyright problems, it seems like the parent company is preparing a more powerful move that will improve the functionality of the service. According to Variety.com, YouTub...

20 April 2007
06:31 GMT

AMD is Close to its END

Once upon a time, there was this company that had many followers, but a big bad wolf came and stole their ideas, modified them and put their name on them, sold them as something else and buried the company into the ground. Even though the company made a desperate move to stay on top of their game, the situation was ...

20 April 2007
03:23 GMT

Top Hardware Manufacturers Show Off Their First-Quarter Revenues

From time to time companies publish their incomes: net income, operations income and total revenue. This is done on a year long basis, each company sharing with the rest their successes or failures four times a year. To us simple numbers of how rich companies are and how much money they make isn't quite the subj...

18 April 2007
07:10 GMT

AMD Takes the Road of Solitude

If you're not doing well, as a normal person would, you take a vacation, some prescription medicines, a day off from work, and more. But what happens when you are a multi-million dollar company with a reputation to respect and hundreds of employees and millions of customers? You can't exactly "take a day of...

10 April 2007
04:01 GMT




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