Posts Tagged ‘quarter

Although Yahoo’s last few months have been defined by its deal with Microsoft and a trimming of nonessential units, the company proved today that it has a little life in a yet.  Plenty of the stuff, really, as Yahoo’s third quarter earnings report beat analyst’s expectations.   Analysts thought Yahoo would reel in $1.5 billion [...]

Yahoo revenue is still down compared to last year, but stabilized in the third quarter while profits surged. (Credit: Yahoo) Updated 1:40 p.m. PDT with additional details from the release. Yahoo’s cost-cutting moves this year are starting to show up in the bottom line, as the company’s third-quarter profit exceeded analyst expectations by a wide [...]

Updated 1:30pm PDT with a few additional details, and again at 2:40pm following the conference call. Google’s revenue grew more strongly than expected during its third fiscal quarter, in a sign that ad spending is getting back on track. Excluding traffic acquisition costs of $1.56 billion paid to Google partners, the company reported revenue of [...]

For the fourth quarter in a row email open rates were up across a number of industries, according to a new report by direct marketing firm Epsilon. Open rates increased 18.2 percent from the second quarter of 2008 with click rates (5.9%) remaining stable. The quarterly analysis was compiled from 6.5 billion emails sent by [...]

Apple-related rumors may be annoying and tiresome, but at a certain point they usually start converging towards the truth. Lately, we keep hearing that the launch date for this fabled device is the first quarter of 2010 (February, most rumors agree, is very likely), and it’s confirmed in the latest rumor coming from Digitimes. According [...]


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