News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
The software group reported an 18 per cent fall in first-quarter profits, but cuts in operating costs helped it to beat analysts’ forecasts of a steeper decline in earnings. The company, which released Windows 7 to mostly favourable reviews, said...
News Source: The Mercury News
| about 1 month ago
A surge in home sales, Microsoft earnings, and Amazon and Netflix shares soar. Home sales at two-year high U.S. home sales were sharply higher last month as buyers raced to finish deals before a federal tax credit expires Nov. 30, the National...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
Microsoft Corp., fresh from yesterday's Windows 7 launch, this morning reported a 14% slip in sales and an 18% plunge in profit for its fiscal first quarter. Its shares immediately soared, briefly flitting to a 52-week high of $29.35...To understand...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Consumers may be shopping for computers again, but Microsoft Corp. still needs businesses to start doing the same. Microsoft said Friday its revenue kept falling and its net income dropped 18 percent in the last quarter, partly because of the...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Analysts were pleased with Microsoft's first-quarter performance for fiscal 2010 (ended Sept. 30), complimenting the company on the "nice quarter." It was the first positive earnings call the company has had in a long time. The stock is up about 6...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
The Redmond, Washington-based software giant said net profit fell 18 percent in the first quarter of its fiscal year to 3.57 billion US dollars, or 40 cents per share, from 4.37 billion US dollars, or 48 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue declined...