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Demand Media’s Q1 Earnings: Kung-Goog Panda Did Not Kill Us!

Kara Swisher in News on May 8 at 2:16 pm PT

Take that, Po.

Yahoo Beats Q1 Expectations (as Expected) — Now, Will New CEO Outline More Strategery on Investor Call?

Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 1:15 pm PT

An upside non-surprise as we await pearls of wisdom from new CEO Scott Thompson.

With Chrome OS, Samsung Makes a Bet on Future of Computing–Again

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 12, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Samsung’s decision to partner with Google on the Chromebook isn’t the first time the company has opted to bet on a radically different computing idea. Five years ago, the Korean electronics firm teamed with Microsoft on Project Origami–a bold bet that computing would shift to a light device that was cheap and had all day battery life. Unfortunately, the technology wasn’t quite ready yet.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its Content Act

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income. Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits. On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.

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E-Book Boom Boosts Simon & Schuster

Peter Kafka in Media on May 3, 2011 at 1:21 pm PT

All of those Amazon Kindle sales — and, presumably, sales of competitive e-book readers from Barnes & Noble and Apple — have made an impact at publisher Simon & Schuster. The CBS unit says Q1 digital sales doubled over the previous year, and now represent 18 percent of the company’s revenue. Overall sales were up only 2 percent, to $155 million, but the higher margin on those digital sales means profits “more than doubled” to $7 million.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm PT

MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.

Yahoo's Q1 Earnings: The Revenue Growth Drought Continues Due to MicroHoo Search Fall-Off

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 1:41 pm PT

Yahoo announced its first-quarter earnings today, showing a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to declines in search revenue from its partnership with Microsoft. The Silicon Valley Internet giant reported revenues of $1.06 billion, down six percent from a year ago, on net earnings of 17 cents a share, down 28 percent.

Apple Analysts: Screw Everything, Everything, We're Doing $550

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Evidently a 78 percent net income increase in Apple’s fiscal first quarter was all it took for the market to put aside concerns about CEO Steve Jobs’s indefinite medical leave. Analysts following the company issued a fusillade of bullish notes celebrating the company’s leviathan quarter and raising their guidance for the year ahead. The most bullish target price of all: $550.