E-Books Now Make Up 21 Percent Of Hachette Sales In U.S., 9 Percent In UK
E-books now make up about a fifth of “big six” publisher Hachette’s U.S. sales, but net sales for the quarter were down overall. Read more »
Not The Best Buy After All: Carphone Warehouse JV To Shut UK Shops
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Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S. — impacting pricing for other… Read more »
BT Vision Becomes Fastest-Growing Pay-TV Service
BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has become the fastest-growing pay-TV service in the UK, adding more customers in a quarter than BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for… Read more »
News Corp.: Net Income Down On $91 Million In Hacking, BSkyB Charges
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The aftershocks of the phone-hacking scandal that erupted at News International in the UK over the summer are still being felt by its parent… Read more »
AOL’s Armstrong: ‘Benefits Are Coming Into View’
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong offered a much more triumphant sounding note when he began the Q3 earnings call, seeking to convince long-… Read more »
AOL Arrests Revenue Declines As Global Display Remains Up
AOL (NYSE: AOL) certainly went into Q3 with lowered expectations and it appeared to have beaten those benchmarks, as global display advertis… Read more »
Leap, MetroPCS See Different Results From Chasing Smartphone Opportunities
Tough times continue for wireless carriers at the lower end of the spectrum as they struggle to move into the smartphone era. Things got a l… Read more »
Perform Group Eyes More Acquisitions With On-Track Business Growth
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Online sports broadcasting firm Perform Group says it sees a “promising pipeline” of potential acquisitions it will buy using funds raised i… Read more »
Yandex Profit Booms But Google Is Regaining Lost Ground In Russian Search
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Russia’s leading search engine’s Q3 profit almost doubled to 1.7 billion rubles ($56.9 million) as advertising sales went from strength to s… Read more »
Cablevision: More Video Subscriber Losses, But Rate Appears To Be Slowing
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There seems to be no escaping the cable industry’s continuing decline in basic video subscribers, and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) was no excepti… Read more »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
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Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… Read more »
Bulls In Wall Street’s China Shop: Baidu Soars, Another IPO Planned
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Beijing-based Chinese portal Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) had the pleasure of telling the Nasdaq, where its stock is listed, how Q3 net income is up n… Read more »
WPP Downgrades Its Growth Forecast
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Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has slashed its full-year growth forecast to 5%, after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in the third quarte… Read more »
Updated: Smartphone Growth Helps Motorola Earnings, Xoom Shipments Plummet
Smartphone shipments were up during Motorola’s third quarter but already anemic tablet shipments fell off a cliff as the Xoom appears destin… Read more »
E-Book Sales Grow By 564%, Now Make Up 5.5% Of Bloomsbury Sales
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Bloomsbury Publishing, which operates in both the U.S. and UK (and is the UK publisher of the Harry Potter series) is seeing “unprecedented”… Read more »
Time Warner Cable Video Losses Continue, ‘Cord-Cutting Continues Apace’
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable’s earnings suggest that cable companies are not done seeing a steady erosion of video customers. The company s… Read more »
Virgin Wrings More Money From Customers
“Appetite for next-generation services is growing faster than we anticipated,” Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett told City analysts… Read more »
France Telecom, Everything Everywhere See Revenues Decline
France Telecom’s Q3 profit dipped by 5.2 percent to €3.99 billion. All regions in which it operates except Spain turned in negative result… Read more »
Sprint Beats Earnings Estimates, But Investors Raise Eyebrow At iPhone Cost
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Earnings day hasn’t been a pleasant experience for Sprint (NYSE: S) in recent years. The company beat earnings estimates for its third quart… Read more »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CF… Read more »
Amazon Earnings Down Sharply For Q3 2011, Even As Sales Rise
With the $199 Kindle Fire tablet shipping in a little over two weeks, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced $10.88 billion in revenues for Q3 2011,… Read more »
Mail.ru Revenue Grows On Russian Ad Boom, Site Integration
Russian portal and social network operator Mail.ru Group’s half-year growth continued in to Q3, during which revenue was 59.1 percent higher… Read more »
Netflix’s Hastings: No Grand Gestures Needed To Win Back Consumers
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Following the disappointing Q3 results, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings dispensed with the usual earnings report overview that accomp… Read more »
Netflix Fails To Meet Lowered Expectations On Subscriber Losses
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Although Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has recently tried to make up for the PR disaster it fell into when it announced a major price hike for its DV… Read more »
Verizon Sees Slight Ebb In iPhone Demand But Beats Expectations
Verizon faced the same problem as rival AT&T (NYSE: T) during the last quarter: Apple’s iPhone 4S wasn’t ready until October. Still, the lar… Read more »
Microsoft Earnings On Target As PC Business Still Stagnant
The PC business is not the most dynamic place to be these days, but fortunately for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) it has a growing presence in the… Read more »
AT&T: 100 Million Wireless Users But Q3 Growth Slowed Without New iPhone
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AT&T (NYSE: T) continues to benefit from smartphone adoption, crossing the 100-million subscriber mark during the third quarter. Although li… Read more »
NYTCo’s Robinson: Paywall Hasn’t Dented Pageviews — Much
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The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’… Read more »
NYTCo Swings To Profit, Beats Estimates; Hits 324,000 Digital Subs
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In various investor settings over the past few months, New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) executives had made sure to mention that advertisi… Read more »
Smartphone Competition And Restructuring Push Nokia To Q3 Loss
Nokia’s Q3 swung to a total €151 ($208.49/£132.13) million pre-tax loss after device sales slipped marginally and the company took hundre… Read more »
BSkyB Has 1.6 Million Sky Go Users
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has declared its Sky Go live and on-demand service – with which subscribers can watch over PC, Mac, Xbox, iPad and iPhone… Read more »
Yahoo Beats Estimates — But Don’t Call It A Comeback
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The power of low expectations among analysts’ forecasts for Yahoo’s Q3 earnings helped lift the company’s stock price about 3 percent to $15… Read more »
Updated: Apple Earnings: A Rare Miss, 17 Million iPhones, 11 Million iPads
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Apple’s long track record of underpromising and overdelivering when it comes to expectations of the financial community seems to have finall… Read more »
Online And Print Cancel Each Other Out At UBM
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Latest online growth and print decline have cancelled each other out at UBM, leaving the business publisher’s combined marketing category re… Read more »
Newsquest’s Ad Revenue Down 7.9 Percent, Online Rising
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Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns titles including the Glasgow-based Herald and the Argus in Brighton, has reported a 7.9 p… Read more »
Gannett’s Digital Revenues Gain, As Profits, Circ Shrink
Gannett’s profits slipped a bit due to the economic weakness, a sign of tougher times for newspaper publishers in general as the Q3 earnings… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Move To All-Smartphones Cannot Come Soon Enough
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the JV between the consumer electronics company Sony and mobile equipment giant Ericsson, may be the… Read more »
Google’s UK Q3 Revenue Seven Percent Higher Than Last Year
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) revenues rose by a recession-defying 7% in the UK in the last three months with online and mobile advertising generating… Read more »
Q3 2011 Earnings Snapshot
Google Sales Remain Strong, But Profit Gains Ebb A Bit; Investors Cheer
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Whenever an online advertising forecast is issued, whether analysts see a reason to pullback or raise expectations, it mostly has to do with… Read more »
