Amazon pummeled in stock market despite strong quarter
By Todd Bishop on Friday, April 23, 2010, 1:01pm PDT
Seattle technology bellwethers Microsoft and Amazon.com aren't finding any friends on Wall Street today, despite beating analysts' projections in their respective earnings reports yesterday. Amazon, in particular, is taking a serious hit. The problem is the company's outlook for operating profits for its current quarter, which fell short of expectations. MarketWatch has a good analysis of the situation, explaining that some analysts believe the company is being conservative in its guidance for the quarter. In addition, the company saw a run-up in its stock in the days leading up to the earnings reports. | | SPONSORED POST | Powerful Connections breakfast, April 30th
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By Todd Bishop on Friday, April 23, 2010, 9:30am PDT
Six months after Windows 7's release, there's a sense inside Microsoft that the company is back in the game. Users are happy, PC sales are rising, and the dark days of Windows Vista are starting to feel like a distant memory. "Quite honestly, folks believe in Windows and Microsoft again," said Brad Brooks, the Microsoft corporate vice president responsible for marketing Windows to consumers. "There was a little bit of testing of that faith for a while — we all know it — but everybody looks at this ... and we're on a roll again." But there's also a sense in the industry that the game is no longer the same. | | SPONSORED POST | Seattle University Software Engineering
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By Todd Bishop on Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:39am PDT
Once a week, Cleveland Clinic endocrinologist Dr. Christian Nasr gives a checkup to five of his patients — but they don't need to come to his office. In fact, they're not even in the same room, or aware it's happening. Nasr logs on to a secure portal and reviews data that the patients have uploaded from their homes, using devices that measure their progress against diabetes, including pedometers, blood-pressure monitors and glucose meters. The doctor then sends them messages with observations about their numbers, words of encouragement or suggestions for improvement. It's a supplement for in-person visits, not a replacement. But how's it working? Some of the patients have gotten so engaged with the process that they'll respond by pointing out trends in the data, such as changes in weight, that Nasr might not have mentioned in his messages. "In real life, nobody would get a doctor to look at their sugars every week," Nasr said. "They feel that we're becoming part of their daily or weekly life, and somebody is following them." | DEMO comes to town to listen to Seattle's best startup pitches
By John Cook on Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:25am PDT
VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall is looking for a few good (strike that, great) startups. And he's hoping to discover the most cutting-edge early-stage companies when he comes to Seattle May 4 for an all day "pitch" session from Seattle's best and brightest. In addition to running the technology news site, VentureBeat, Marshall also oversees the tech conference DEMO. | The Daily debuts U. District blog with Next Door Media network
By Todd Bishop on Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:05am PDT
Next Door Media, the community blogging network known for My Ballard, PhinneyWood, Fremont Universe and several other neighborhood news sites, this week added a ninth blog to its stable, but this one is different. The Daily, the University of Washington's student newspaper, will be running U District Daily as a means of expanding coverage to the surrounding neighborhood and trying its hand at community blogging. | Microsoft: Windows consumer growth rate outpaces Macs
By Todd Bishop on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 5:13pm PDT
Buried in Microsoft's earnings report today is an interesting statistic that suggests the company's new Windows 7 operating system may be having some success in beating back Apple in the critical consumer market. In the financial data accompanying its earnings release, Microsoft said worldwide Windows consumer licenses grew by more than 35 percent in the recent quarter. By comparison, Apple this week reported an increase of 33 percent in Mac sales over roughly the same time period. That was impressive, too, of course, but Microsoft is growing from a significantly larger base of sales to begin with, making its higher growth rate considerably harder to achieve. "Of course we're going to outsell them on a unit basis, but on a rate basis, on a market share basis, we actually outgrew Apple Mac in the third quarter worldwide," said Brad Brooks, a Microsoft Windows corporate vice president, referring to the quarter in the context of the Redmond company's fiscal year, ending in June. | Windows saves the day, but rest of Microsoft business mostly blah
By Todd Bishop on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:31pm PDT
Microsoft's strong earnings report today was fueled by solid sales of Windows 7, but digging deeper into the numbers, it's clear that many of the company's businesses have seen better quarters. Despite a a big in advertising revenue, increased expenses pushed the company's online business ever deeper into the red. And Microsoft's business-software units continued to show the effects of sluggish corporate spending. Here's a division-by-division breakdown of the results. | |
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