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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Tu] Despite its first quarterly loss as a public company, Microsoft on Thursday reported solid fourth-quarter results, ending its fiscal year on a firm footing. As expected, the company posted a quarterly net loss -- of $492 million -- stemming...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported a net loss of $492 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. It is the first loss for the company ever since it went public in 1986. Share This Story Microsoft fourth quarter 2012 results that were announced on...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Microsoft has posted its first ever quarterly loss since joining the stock market in 1986. But there is no need to panic, and here are the six reasons why. Reports in the last 12 hours have focused on the headline-grabbing figure of Microsoft 's...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
US computing giant Microsoft has reported the first unprofitable quarter since it became a public company in 1986 after it wrote down the value of its failing online ad business, reported RIA Novosti. The loss of $492 million in the fourth quarter...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 10 months ago
Microsoft Corp. posted a rare quarterly loss because of a previously announced charge for its money-losing Internet business, but the software giant continued to show signs of strength in selling software to corporations. The $492 million loss...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Microsoft posted its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company on Thursday as it declared a struggling online ad business a bust and prepared for one of the biggest product updates in its history.
The software company had...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Eyder Peralta Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer comments on the Windows 8 operating system before unveiling Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer comments on the Windows 8 operating system before unveiling...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Microsoft paid $6.3bn for aQuantive, the biggest deal in its history before last year's $8.5bn acquisition of Skype. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters Microsoft reported its first ever quarterly loss as a public company as the software giant made...
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The Beacon Herald
| 10 months ago
Microsoft Corp reported its first quarterly loss as a public company on Thursday as it took a previously announced charge for writing down the value of its ailing online unit. The world's largest software company reported a net loss of $492 million...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
Microsoft posted its first ever loss on Thursday, shedding $492 million in the fourth quarter due to a massive $6.2 billion write-down to reflect the slump in value of its online operations. Microsoft still posted an annual profit of $16.98 billion...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
ET Click the chart for more info on Microsoft shares. Microsoft announced a 4% jump in revenue Thursday versus the same quarter last year, ahead of the highly anticipated release of its Windows 8 operating system this fall.
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
Microsoft earned record revenue of $18.06 billion for its financial fourth quarter, but its massive write-off of ad company aQuantive still made the company post a $192 million loss, the company announced today. The company had revenue of $18.06...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Thursday posted a loss of $US492 million in the past quarter, the first ever for the software giant, as results were hit by a previously announced writeoff. In reporting its fourth fiscal quarter results, Microsoft said it posted an annual profit of $...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
But while that loss can be downplayed as a mostly symbolic blow to a company that has been a reliable money maker for decades, weak sales in Microsoft's Windows business cannot. Microsoft said on Thursday that the revenue it brings in from Windows...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
The world's largest software company reported a net loss of $US492 million, or 6 cents per share, compared with a profit of $US5.87 billion, or 69 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Sales rose 4 percent to $US18 billion, dampened by slowing PC...
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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Tu Nokia reported it sold 4 million Lumia Windows Phones worldwide in its fiscal second quarter -- double what it sold in the first quarter, according to The Associated Press . The Windows Phone sales, however, were not enough to offset the losses...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Share This Story For Microsoft , though, it will be a record fourth-quarter loss, as the Redmond, Wash.-based developer has announced it will take a one-time charge of $6.2 billion to write off its 2007 acquisition of aQuantive, an online advertising...
