eBay Posts Strong First Quarter Earnings
Good news for e-commerce giant eBay, as today they report solid first quarter results. For the first quarter ending March 31st, eBay reports $2.5 billion in net revenue, which is a 16% increase from the same period last year. The … Continue reading →
LinkShare Growth Signals Affiliate Opportunity
LinkShare has announced a 37-percent overall same-store, year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter of 2011 for its performance marketing network of online advertisers and Web publishers, significantly outpacing overall e-commerce growth. According to Forrester Research, e-commerce is expected to grow at a compound growth rate of 10 percent… [[ This is a content summary […]
Tech Boom 2.0: Intel Surges to Record Profits
Intel has blown past Wall Street’s estimates with its first-quarter earnings report, providing further evidence that the PC market and the…
Nokia, Tencent and Sina to launch new Location-based Service in China
Nokia’s Ovi Map is widely popular in China and the mobile maker giant is eyeing to provide location-based service in China through its partnership with local Internet giants Tencent and Sina. The new location-based service will be built on top of Ovi Map and set to launch during the first quarter of this year, according […]
Yahoo Beats Q4 Estimates, But Held Back By Forecast
The fourth quarter of 2010 could have gone much worse for Yahoo, judging from the earnings report the company released this afternoon. Yahoo’s numbers were generally higher than what analysts expected, perhaps earning Carol Bartz a few points in unhappy shareholders’ eyes. A low Q1 forecast threw a long shadow, however. To first cover the […]
The Things Google Did in 2010 (The Second Quarter)
We’re looking at the things Google has done over the course of the year. For the first quarter, read this article. Now we’ll pick up in the second quarter. Allow me to include the disclaimer from the previous post: I have not included every single Google-related story of the year. That would require a book (and […]
The Things Google Did in 2010 (The First Quarter)
I started off aiming to write an article about all of the things Google has done over the course of the year, and quickly realized that this would be one massive article, even if I only briefly mentioned everything. So I have decided to split the article up into quarters, so you don’t have to […]
Microsoft Chalks Up Win With Earnings Report
The three-month period ending September 30th – which Microsoft almost inexplicably refers to as the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year – was good to the company. Microsoft shared its earnings report this afternoon, and it beat analysts’ estimates by a large margin. The consensus estimate regarding revenue, for example, was $15.8 billion. Microsoft […]