Electric car company Tesla Motors has filed for a $100 million IPO. There were rumors recently floating around that the company, which is led by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, would go public “soon.” One interesting tidbit from the filing: Musk only t…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc blew past analysts’ profit estimates in its closely watched holiday quarter and forecast revenue for early 2010 that topped already-high Wall Street expectations.
Microsoft has just posted the results of its fiscal 2010 second-quarter, which ended December 31. The company reported $19.02 billion in revenue and diluted earnings of $0.74 per share, beating analyst expectations of revenues of $17.8 billion and …
The tech world might be abuzz about how the iPad may or may not kill Kindle, but Amazon would like to take this opportunity to remind you how pervasive its e-reader has become.Specifically, the company is touting a number of Kindle-related stats in …
The holidays were good to Amazon, which just announced fourth quarter 2009 earnings. Sales were up 42 percent to $9.5 billion in the quarter, and net income shot up 71 percent to $384 million. For the full year, sales were $24.5 billion, and net i…
Nokia, still the world’s top mobile phone maker, reported a stronger-than-expected 65% rise in fourth-quarter net profit this morning. The Espoo, Finland-based company reported net profit of €948 million for the quarter or 26 eurocents a share, up…
Last week we asked you which is the best name for the Apple Tablet from among the top rumoured names so far: iSlate, iGuide, iPad, iTablet, or none of the above.The results are now in, and it turned out to be a very tight battle between two frontrun…
Yahoo announced their fourth quarter 2009 earnings just minutes ago. They reported better than expected earnings, with a decline in revenue of only 4%, year over year. Most of that decline came from a 15% drop in search ad revenue from Q4 2008 com…
Apple, as it is wont to do, blew the roof off with its first-quarter earnings today. Some of the most interesting comments from the company’s results call concerned the company’s work in its emerging market of enterprise mobility.
According to statistics released today by Dow Jones VentureSource, the fourth quarter of 2009 was a strong one in light of an overall bad year for venture deal activity in the United States.In Q4 2009, investors put $6.3 billion to work in 743 deals…