SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. semiconductor equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc (NVLS.O) posted disappointing margins and a wider than expected loss, but a robust forecast helped limit share losses in late trade. Many investors had bet on a gradual recovery in ...Read More
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I'm taking some notes as we go.
The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but won't specify how much and that's ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table. Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating software, including Motorola ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networkingcompany valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, isgenerating sales of more than $4 million a year. The revenue comes from companies that pay to use Twitterdata, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said today ...Read More
* Q3 adj EPS 20 cts tops Street view of 7 cts * Net sales down 12 pct, miss Street view * Sees Q4 sales down from pvs qtr, drop in gross margin * Shares down 2.8 percent (Recasts; Adds comments from company, ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell Inc. says its latest quarterly profit dropped 54 percent as the company battles a slump has caused it to lose its ranking as the world's No. 2 personal computer maker. Rivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and Acer Inc. have ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO—A key element of Dell Inc.'s turnaround strategy has been a vow not to cut prices as aggressively as rivals just to keep market share. The tactic has allowed competitors such as Acer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to steal ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs — more than a third of its work force — as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage. Major job cuts ...Read More
* Q1 loss of 10 cts/shr vs Street view for 16 cent loss * Sees Q2 profit of 29-32 cents vs Street view for 37 cents * Shares little changed BOSTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Intuit Inc (INTU.O), maker ofQuickBooks accounting software, posted ...Read More
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn't such a huge deal but it's definitely worth mention. Twitter's prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been "What are ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage.
Major ...Read More
* Q3 adj loss/shr $1.04; Street view loss $1.09 * Kmart same-store sales up for first time in four years * Shares down 3.3 percent (Recasts to reflect falling stock price; adds analyst comment,details) WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corpposted a smaller-than-expected quarterly ...Read More
* Q3 44 cents per ADS vs Street view 48 cents * Q3 revenue $128.8 million vs Street's $138.7 million * Shares fall more than 8 pct after hours * Sees higher sales, marketing costs in near future * Eyes four game releases by ...Read More
* Lets companies build internal social networks * Aiming at competing products from IBM, Microsoft * Can pull information from Facebook, Twitter (Adds comments from CEO, details on product) SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc(CRM.N) introduced am internal collaboration tool for businessesthat ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - Contained in the nearly 2,000-page House healthcare bill is a little-noticed provision -- worth $300 million to California -- that would increase federal Medicare payments to doctors in a wide swath of the state in response ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — For hundreds of hardcore “Twilight” fans who stood in line for hours at this year’s Comic-Con, pining for a peek at their heroes, the choice was simple: Team Edward or Team Jacob. Last year, it was Robert Pattinson ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Wednesday that early demand for its latest electronic reader was higher than expected in advance of the holidays and shipment delays could result. A Sony spokesman said the $399 e-book reader, called the ...Read More
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff jokes about having 5,000 of his closest friends on Facebook. As result, he says, he knows more about strangers than his employees. Wednesday, at the company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce Chatter, ...Read More
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavor to a technology that's largely been for personal use.
Salesforce Chatter lets employees set up profiles to connect with coworkers, issue ...Read More
We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third ...Read More
