Microsoft Posts Strong Q4 Earnings While Windows Division Was Flat
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) topped analyst estimates for both revenue and profit during its fourth fiscal quarter, perhaps calming fears that a P… Read more »
NYT’s Nisenholtz: ‘We’re Not Naive About Google’
A revealing bit of conversation at the end of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) earnings call between an analyst, digital head Martin Nisenholt… Read more »
NYT’s Robinson: Advertising On NYT iPad App Sold Out Through Q3
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With the NYTimes.com’s metered paywall having reached 1 million subs (281,000 paid) in Q2, and plans for the Boston.com paywall underway, Ne… Read more »
NYTCo Swings To Loss; Digital Rises Double Digits, About Continues To Fall
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In addition to seeing its advertising revenues continue to decrease due in part to the weak economy, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) swun… Read more »
AT&T Surprises Wall St. With Subscriber Gains, Slight Revenue Increase
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A day after AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile was assailed for potential anti-trust issues by a key senator, the telco had a lot to smile… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-21-11: Nokia; AT&T; LulzSec; Mobile Games; Mobile Ads; CNN
A look at some of the top stories today in mobile:
– Nokia (NYSE: NOK), AT&T earnings: The Finnish handset maker is due to report earning… Read more »
Apple’s Runaway Train: 9.25 Million iPads, 20 Million iPhones Sold In Q3
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One of these days Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may see a slowdown in its business, but it most emphatically did not happen over the last three months.… Read more »
Yahoo Revenues Hobbled By Hobbled By Display Ad Sales Changes
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) pinned its 23 percent revenue decline on the divestiture of HotJobs and on changes to the search agreement with Microsoft… Read more »
Gannett: Focus Is On Growning Digital Business, Not Margins
With Gannett’s digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company’s Q2 earnings call noted that t… Read more »
Yahoo Helps Boost Digital At Local Gannett Papers; USAT Digital Revs Jump
The growth rate for Gannett’s local newspaper websites’ ad revenues in Q2 have held steady with last year’s results, thanks in part to the s… Read more »
Android By The Numbers: 550,000 Activations Daily Across 400-Plus Devices
Larry Page provided some hard data Thursday to support the assertion that Google’s's Android mobile operating system is the world’s most pop… Read more »
Page: Google Plus Passes 10 Million Subs In First Two Weeks
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Larry Page, who just completed his first quarter as the company’s CEO, touted the fast growth of Google+, the… Read more »
Google Shares Soar 10 Percent After Results Beat Expectations
Internet titan Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reported blockbuster earnings results Thursday, handily beating Wall Street expectations and sending its… Read more »
Google Earnings Preview: All Eyes On Mobile, Social, Local (and Larry)
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Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the compan… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Phorm Still Losing Millions, Raising Millions
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Four years after it started, the web’s purported advertising saviour is still losing millions, and still raising new financing.
Phorm, whic… Read more »
‘Chinese Facebook’ RenRen Slims Its Loss After Nasdaq Float
RenRen – “the Chinese Facebook” – expects to make $30 million revenue during the quarter in which it went public on the Nasdaq last month. Read more »
Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com
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As Barnes & Noble’s board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a bu… Read more »
Economist Group Defies Gloomy Media Trend With Upbeat Results
Almost all British-based newspaper and magazine publishers are contemplating losses or declining profits. But the Economist group, as it doe… Read more »
When It Rains, It Pours: Nokia ‘Substantially’ Downgrades Q2 Forecast
We all know about Nokia’s trials and tribulations in the smartphone market today — the declining sales that have led its CEO Stephen Elop t… Read more »
PSN, Qriocity Hack Will ‘Significantly Decrease’ Sony Sales
Sony (NYSE: SNE) concedes the outage caused by the hacks of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will lead 2011/12 income to “signi… Read more »
Daily Mail’s Digital Revenue Up 50 Percent From Last Year
Digital revenue from Mail Online and Metro.co.uk rose to £8 million in the six months to April 3 – up 50 percent from a year earlier. Read more »
Tablets Tip Future To First Digital Profit
Future says tablet magazine sales of over £100,000 ($161863.16) per month pushed its digital activities in to their first ever profit durin… Read more »
Euromoney’s Subs And Ads Are Up But Could Fall Back
Business publisher Euromoney says it will plough more money in to technology and digital products this year, after finding its digital busin… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-18-11: Ericsson/Nortel/Clearwire; Apple Trademark; Lodsys
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: As news hits of a new outsourcing deal with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) c… Read more »
Yell’s Digital Overhaul Coming This Summer
Yell Group has set a July timetable for announcing the conclusion of its strategic review, which it set in motion early this year in the fac… Read more »
Half Of New BT Customers Choosing Fibre-To-The-Cabinet
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From BT’s quarterly earnings report…
High-speed Infinity broadband (>40Mbps) is adding 5,000 customers a week (total 144,000). Read more »
Bingo Full House Hurting Mirror.co.uk
Digital sales at Trinity Mirror’s national publishing are falling, because its pay-to-play bingo site goes on suffering from heightened comp… Read more »
Centaur Eyes 50-50 Print-Digital Income Split With More Web Fees
B2B publisher Centaur took 26 percent of its revenue from digital in 2010. But now it’s targeting 50 percent in the “medium term”. Read more »
CEO: Disney Interactive Media Group Is A ‘Work In Progress’
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Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger used the corporately correct equivalent of ‘take the needle out of your arm’ when an analyst on today’s earn… Read more »
Once The Belle, Disney Disappoints; Interactive Losses Grew
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) brought in more than $9 billion in revenues last quarter but that number — and earnings — were lower than… Read more »
As WMG Prepares For Handover, Digital Now More Than 30 Percent Of All Sales
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Warner Music Group’s losses widened and revenues were up slightly in Q1, the company’s next to last quarter before it gets taken over by par… Read more »
WaPo Reduces Print Declines, Display Rises More Slowly
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The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co.’s print revenue was flat in Q1, as advertising declines stabilized. Meanwhile, display growth rates for… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
Demand Media Reports A Better-Than-Expected Jump In Sales
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Traffic to some of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) sites may have fallen because of updates Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made to its search algorithm, b… Read more »
Cablevision: Not Giving Up On Newsday; Advanced Ads Drive Revenue Gains
Since Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) doesn’t break out results for Newsday any more, it’s hard to know exactly how bad the Long Island newspaper is… Read more »
Scripps Networks’ Shopzilla Continues Turnaround Ahead Of Sale
Although Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) was able to reduce the drag on profits and revenues by struggling comparison shopping engi… Read more »
Perform Group Reports 51 Percent Higher Revenue Rise
Digital sports rights company Perform has reported a 51 percent rise in revenue to £21.7m in the first quarter, the first market update sin… Read more »
Cablevision Revenues, Profits Rise As Video Subs Decline Slightly
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Financially, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) had a pretty solid quarter as profits and revenues edged up nicely, while advertising dollars at were u… Read more »
MySpace Losses Grow Despite Cuts; News Corp Buoyed By TV But Disappoints
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Despite its running costs having been cut in a recent restructure, ongoing falling advertising and search income at MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) was… Read more »
