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Microsoft Sees 14% Decline, But Remains Enthusiastic

Microsoft reported its quarterly earnings today with a 14% decline in revenue from the same period a year ago. The company reported revenue of $12.92 billion for the quarter. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $4.48 billion, $3.57 billion and $0.40 per share, which represented declines of 25%, 18% and 17%, respectively, when compared with the same period last year.

Revenue Decline at TheStreet.com

Between the decline in newspaper performance and the dominance of financial reporting in the news, you would think that online financial publications would be one area that is flourishing in this economic downturn.

SEC Is Investigating Apple's Profits

With all the bad economic news flying around including massive Microsoft layoffs, Intel’s first performance concerns in a long time and IBM job cuts, Apple had its best quarter ever as reported in the WSJ.

Judging Monetary Success Of A Blog

The trend among some top bloggers is to publish monthly earning reports showing how much income they have generated the previous month. While it may seem impressive to earn $1,000, $5,000 or even $35,000 a month from your blogging efforts, I feel that the raw number can be a crude way of judging the “success” of your blog and will not be as meaningful as using other metrics.

Google Economics: Bad Quarter Hid Good News

The usual and customary reaction to missing earnings predictions got under way after Google's reported 11 cents less than what analysts expected. Google explained why they should relax.

8 Theories For AdSense Fluctuations

Recently, many web-publishers reported drastic drops in their Google AdSense earnings and offered up many theories as to why that occurred. The problem was reported in web forums, on popular SEO blogs, and in the comments section of the last WebProNews article on the subject. After all that, we've narrowed it down to 8 possible explanations.

Microsoft's Earnings, Enough to Buy Yahoo

I missed Microsoft’s earnings release last week (I was on a flight back from my vacation), so here’s a look back. Microsoft’s revenue for its second quarter were up 30% to $16.37 billion, and profit was up 92% to $6.48 billion.

After Hours, Investors Flee Google

Google mildly missed analyst expectations for Q4 2007 (the company famously does not provide guidance) and late trading has punished the stock.

Amazon's Earnings Call Goes Okay

Amazon's earnings in the fourth quarter of 2007 weren't at all bad.  Shares have still dropped, however, and there's some concern over the company's future operating income.

Google's Got Headcount Under Control. Really?

A Google recruiter dropped a pitch to a Yahoo staffer into our inbox (and we know why, and who the target was); it looks like Google isn't quite over its hiring binge yet.