June 20, 2013

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Viacom Profit Increases by 52% But Misses the Revenue Estimates

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Viacom Inc posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday on cost cuts and improved advertising sales, but a decline in DVD sales caused revenue to miss Wall Street estimates. The results, released Thursday, marked a full year of rising profits for Viacom. Coming out of a recession that put a huge dent in the budgets [...]

Toyota Reports $2.2 Billion Last Quarter Profit

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Toyota Motor Corp. Senior Managing Director Takahiko Ijichi. center, is surround by reporters during a news conference at Toyota’s Tokyo head office Wednesday, Aug. 4. The world’s biggest automaker reported a quarterly profit of $2.2 billion, reversing from red ink a year earlier as global car sales recovered and raised its full year earnings forecast. [...]

Xerox 2Q Earnings Estimates 62% Profit Increase

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Xerox Corp.’s profit jumped 62%, topping expectations, as small- and mid-sized businesses continued to show renewed interest in spending. The printer-and-copier maker, which earlier this year branched out into technology services, also raised its 2010 per-share earnings forecast to between 88 cents and 92 cents from 85 cents and predicted a third-quarter, per-share profit of [...]

Qualcomm has 4% Profit Increases in Q3 But Down Revenue

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Cellphone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc’s fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue beat Wall Street estimates on strong smartphone demand, sending its shares up 3.4 percent after hours. Qualcomm disappointed investors the previous two quarters as prices for phones fell sharply and cut into royalty payments. Qualcomm sells chips to phone makers and collects licensing fees from [...]

Intel Earns Record Quarter Profit of $2.9 Billion in this Second Quarter

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Intel just reported its best-ever quarter with a $2.9b profit on $10.8b in revenue. That’s an increase of $445m in profit from last quarter and a whopping $3.3b from last year, all driven by record laptop and server chip revenue, as well as a 16 percent increase in Atom revenue.