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Profit
hideProfit generally is the making of gain in business activity for the benefit of the owners of the business. The word comes from Latin meaning "to make progress," and is defined in two different ways, one for economics and one for accounting.
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News tagged with profit
Yahoo profits rise in 3Q, will revenue follow?
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has pumped up its profits by laying off workers and weeding out unpopular Internet services.
Google ready to open wallet again after stellar 3Q
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s earnings and stock price are soaring again - and so is the Internet search leader's optimism.
ASML returns to profit in third quarter, orders up
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- ASML Holding NV, a key supplier to computer chip makers, reported Wednesday a net profit of euro20 million ($29.7 million) for the third quarter, ending a nine-month streak of losses, and said new orders had increased ...
News Corp tests charge-for-content policy at Sunday Times: report
Aug 08, 2009 |
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Britain's Sunday Times newspaper will be the testing ground for News Corporation's new policy of charging for Internet content, a report said Friday citing industry sources.
Cisco lays off hundreds of workers
Jul 17, 2009 |
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US computer networking giant Cisco Systems has laid off between 600 and 700 employees at its headquarters in San Jose, California, in a bid to reduce costs amid slow sales, The Wall Street Journal reported ...
Google's slowing ad sales trump record 2Q profit
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. made more money than ever in the second quarter, even though its revenue growth slowed like never before.
'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.
IBM backs full-year profit forecast
May 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- IBM Corp. is again backing its forecast for profit of $9.20 per share this year.
Time Warner profit down, expects to spin off AOL
Apr 29, 2009 |
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US media and entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. reported a 14-percent drop in quarterly net profit on Wednesday and said it expects to spin off troubled Internet unit AOL.
Income slashed, web traffic falls when paper goes online-only
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Researchers from City University London have found that at least 75 percent of revenue can be lost and web traffic can actually fall when a newspaper moves from print and web to web-only.
Japan's Sharp reports 1.3 bln dollar annual loss
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 1.3 billion dollars, its first ever, due to a slump in sales, but it forecast a return to profit this year.
Yahoo's feeble 1Q triggers nearly 700 more layoffs
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter results tread familiar ground as the Internet company's financial erosion triggered another round of layoffs and management promised better days ahead.
Mixed feelings about Sun setting in Silicon Valley
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- If IBM Corp. had managed to buy longtime rival Sun Microsystems Inc., it might have been as incongruous as waking up to a big blue sun.
Sun, IBM buyout talks in limbo
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Representatives of Sun Microsystems met earlier this week with advisers for IBM in an effort to restart buyout talks that stalled earlier this month, but no deal was reached.
Adobe 1Q profit, sales drop, squeezed by downturn
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc., the company behind the popular Photoshop software, posted a decline in fiscal first-quarter profit and sales Tuesday, squeezed by the economic downturn.
