News tagged with first quarter
LinkedIn's 4Q revenue doubles, stock soars 8 pct
(AP) -- LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Disney 1Q revenue misses estimates but profits up
(AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. says net income rose 12 percent in the final quarter of 2011, as revenue inched higher amid company cost cutting.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Taiwan's HTC expects 30 percent sales plunge in 1Q
Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC forecast Monday that its revenue in the three months to March may plunge 30 percent from a year ago, as competitors Apple and Samsung take their grip on the market.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Apple doubles iPhone sales in 1Q (Update)
The iPhone is taking over Apple. For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones, accounts for more than half of the behemoth company's sales.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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EBay reports higher 4Q earnings, revenue (Update)
(AP) -- EBay reported on Wednesday that its net income grew sharply in the fourth quarter, helped by a gain from the sale of its remaining investment in Skype. Its results beat Wall Street's expectations, ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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China Telecom launches British mobile venture
Telecoms giant China Telecom is launching a mobile virtual network in Britain in partnership with Everything Everywhere, targeting Chinese residents and visitors, the British company said Wednesday.
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Long-awaited Facebook IPO looms in New Year
Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has deflected talk of going public for years but it looks like it is finally going to happen in 2012.
Jan 01, 2012 |
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Infineon sees lower 2012 sales as crisis bites
German semi-conductors giant Infineon said Wednesday it expected sales in its current business year to decline by around five percent as customers increasingly hold back in the current economic gloom.
Nov 16, 2011 |
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S. Korea's SK Telecom signs deal to buy Hynix
South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chip maker.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Cisco's latest results show signs of turnaround
(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, is showing signs of pulling a turnaround, exceeding analyst sales expectations for the second quarter in a row.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Baidu profit up 80 percent, forecasts more growth
(AP) -- Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, said Friday its latest quarterly profit jumped 80 percent as strong growth in usage of its site helped to drive advertising revenue higher.
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Microsoft's fiscal 1Q earnings hit analyst target (Update)
(AP) -- Microsoft's Windows franchise regained some of its vigor during the company's latest quarter, but that might not be enough to overcome the perception that the world's largest software maker is being ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Taiwan's Acer swings to loss in second quarter
Taiwan's leading computer vendor Acer Inc said Wednesday it suffered a loss of Tw$6.8 billion ($236 million) in the three months to June, swinging from a profit of $41.53 million in the previous quarter.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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China's Baidu quarterly profit up 95 percent
Baidu Inc., which operates China's dominant search engine, said Tuesday its quarterly profit jumped 95 percent on traffic growth and strong spending by big advertising customers.
Jul 26, 2011 |
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India's Infosys posts profit rise but shares fall
India's second-biggest outsourcer Infosys said Tuesday that quarterly net profit rose nearly 16 percent, but its shares fell after the company gave a muted outlook.
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day. By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days. To reconcile the calendar year with an astronomical cycle (which could not possibly be reckoned in a whole number of days), certain years contain extra days. Through further insertion of non-day units of time, the calendar year can be further synchronized; however, these extra units of time are not considered part of the calendar.
The Gregorian year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 with a length of 365 days in an ordinary year and 366 days in a leap year giving an average length of 365.2425 days. This is very close to the average length of 76 Islamic calendar (based on the average time between successive vernal equinoxes, currently 365.2424 days and increasing marginally). Other formula-based calendars can have lengths which are further out of step with the solar cycle, for example, the Julian calendar had an average length of 365.25 days, and the Hebrew calendar has an average length of 365.2468 days.
The astronomer's mean tropical year which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars, but astronomer's value changes over time, so William Herschel's suggested correction to the Gregorian calendar may become unnecessary by the year 4000.
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