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Google Hauled In $US10b Of Highly Relevant Money Last Quarter

11:15AM January 20, 2012 | Brian Barrett

Google just reported its earnings results from the most recent financial quarter, and while there’s not too much to go on yet, it’s notable that for the first time, the company took in over $US10 billion of revenue in a single three-month period. More »


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Microsoft Makes Great Gobs Of Cash Despite Sluggish PC Growth

8:00AM October 21, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Microsoft’s posted record first fiscal quarter revenue, bagging $US17.37 billion on the way to $US5.74 billion of net earnings. The usual suspects — Office, Servers and Tools, Xbox — did gangbusters, while Microsoft glazed over Bing and Windows Phone. Business as usual! More »


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Apple: iPhone 5 Rumours Hurt Sales

8:59AM October 19, 2011 | Mat Honan

Apple’s earnings call began with new CEO Tim Cook offering homage to Steve Jobs. He went on to note it set new records, sold a ton of phones, tablets and computers, and made a huge pile of money. More »


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No New iPhone Dinged Apple’s Earnings

7:43AM October 19, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Apple may have missed Wall Street’s sales expectations this quarter in most of their product divisions, but the millions of iStuff they did move was good for $US28 billion revenue, $US6.6 billion, and the continued good health of Cupertino’s 401ks. More »


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Google+ Has 40 Million Users, But How Many Actually Use It?

7:15AM October 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Google has announced its earnings for the most recent quarter, and — surprise! — they made lots and lots and lots of money, mostly off search revenue. Which is the same story that’s been written about Google earnings for the last 10 years. More »


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RIM Earnings Even Worse Than Expected

6:59AM September 16, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Oh dear. BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has coughed up its second fiscal quarter results, and they’re not pretty. In fact, they’re downright ugly. The company’s revenue was down 10 per cent from last year, and it managed to ship only 200,000 PlayBooks. More »


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Microsoft Just Made Less Money Than Apple

6:24AM April 29, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Our favourite stat in Microsoft’s earnings for the past quarter? That Entertainment & Devices, the division in Microsoft that makes the best stuff (Xbox, Zune, Windows Media Center, Windows Phone) has grown 60 per cent over the last year. (For a very long time, it wasn’t exactly a cash cow, which made us sad.) More »


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Apple Earns $US6b Despite iPad Sales Decline

6:34AM April 21, 2011 | Brian Barrett

iPad sales may have dropped 19 per cent between the Christmas quarter and this most recent one, but that didn’t stop Apple from setting record second-quarter revuenes and earnings. More »


Mobile

AT&T Holds Off Verizon In Fight For iPhone 4 Hearts

10:32PM April 20, 2011 | Brian Barrett

These last few months, for the first time since the iPhone was released, customers finally had a choice in who their carrier would be. They’d no longer be shackled by AT&T’s sucktastic network! And what did these customers do? Well, it seems like in a lot of cases they, uh, signed on with AT&T. More »


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A Quick Look At Telstra’s Mid Year Results

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10:24AM February 10, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Telstra today announced their mid year results, and there’s some interesting numbers in there. Let’s take a look. More »