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Amazon and Apple: Two Tablet Makers, Two Drastically Different Fourth Quarters

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 30 at 5:00 pm PT

Amazon is expected to report a giant fourth quarter tomorrow, but the results couldn’t be more different from Apple’s monstrous fourth-quarter results reported last week.

Nokia Pushes Smartphone Share Back Up to 40 Percent

John Paczkowski in News on January 28, 2010 at 7:36 am PT

Painful as it was, Nokia’s savage cost-cutting is clearly paying off. This morning, the company posted a stronger-than-expected 65 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit on rising handset sales–smartphone sales in particular.

Apple’s Federal Reserve Green Christmas: Record-Setting iPhone Shipments, Strong Mac Sales

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 30, 2009 at 10:01 am PT

By most measures, 2009 has been an outstanding year for Apple. Quarter after quarter, the company posted strong earnings and sales regardless of the econalypse, which has knocked the stuffing out of so many of its peers. Apple is poised to do so once again for the three-month period ending December, says Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu.

Sprint: Even Fewer Dropped Calls, Callers

John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2009 at 6:55 am PT

Good thing Sprint expects to lose fewer customers this quarter than in previous quarters. Because if the company continues to lose them at its former rate–well, things are going to get even uglier. Reporting a wider third-quarter loss than expected this morning, Sprint said it lost 545,000 wireless customers and 801,000 more in the crucial postpaid category.

Blow a Sad Trombone for Microsoft

John Paczkowski in News on July 20, 2009 at 10:05 am PT

Microsoft is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings Thursday and if last quarter is any indication, they won’t be pretty. In April, when the company reported its first-ever year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue, CFO Chris Liddell said the weakness would persist through the next quarter.