fourth quarter

AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)

Kara Swisher in News on February 1 at 4:26 am PT

At AOL, down is the new up. No. Really.

Amazon Sees No Reason to Slow Its Spending

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1 at 3:40 am PT

Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly.

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.

Lucky 13: After More Than a Dozen Failing Quarters, How Will New Yahoo CEO Roll the Dice?

Kara Swisher in News on January 23 at 1:49 pm PT

Maybe Yahoo should take its earnings to Vegas and bet it all on red!

As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

Kara Swisher in News on January 19 at 5:10 am PT

More not-good news from Silicon Valley’s troubled giant.

Yahapocalypse Now? Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.

Kara Swisher in News on January 9 at 1:12 pm PT

A perfect storm for the Silicon Valley Internet giant or just another day at “The Office”?

For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

Kara Swisher in News on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.

Liveblogging Microsoft Q4 Earnings: I’m So Excited and I Just Can’t Hide It

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT

Microsoft had a solid fourth quarter, which is why the conference call with Wall Street analysts should be relatively short and sweet. Or sweet, at least.

The Anti-Nokia-Yahoo Charts: The Microsoft-Shoots-Scores-in-Q4 Data

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2011 at 2:29 pm PT

Microsoft has a lot to crow about in its fourth-quarter earnings today, including a 30 percent jump in profits and strong overall growth in its many divisions.

Apple: King of All Mobile PCs

John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

If the iPad truly is a PC and not the “media tablet” that some claim, then Apple is the largest mobile PC vendor in the world. According to DisplaySearch, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs in the fourth quarter of 2010–iPads, MacBooks and MacBook Pros–to claim a 17.2 percent share of the mobile PC market. That makes it the new global leader.