Earnings

TicketMaster To Carry $750 Million In Debt; HSN and Interval To Have Net Debt As Well - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 23 Jun 2008 08:28 PM PST

Back in May, when IAC released the first details of its five-way split, it said it would saddle the spincos with debt and that the proceeds would go back to…

Amazon E-Book Sales To Hit $2.5 Billion In 2012; Will Add $330 Million To Op Income: Analyst - 5 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:43 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat ever given out is…

Earnings: Economist.com Users Up 39 Percent, Annual Revenues Up Eight Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 06:07 PM PST

At three million, Economist.com got 39 percent more unique users in a year that saw eight percent higher revenue. Results for the year to March 2008 showed 199 million page…

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After Layoffs At McClatchy, A Focus On Pruitt’s Pay; What Are McClatchy’s Digital Goals? - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 17 Jun 2008 02:04 PM PST

In the aftermath of McClatchy’s (NYSE: MNI) big layoff announcement, attention naturally turns to top management, and its culpability for the state of affairs. Despite the continued decline in the…

Earnings: Adobe Revenue Up 19 Percent, Income Up 29 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 16 Jun 2008 01:46 PM PST

Software maker Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), a major beneficiary of online video, reported quarterly (its Q2) revenue of $886.9 million, a 19 percent increase from $745.6 million in the year-ago quarter.…

Yahoo-Google: Analysts: Yahoo Trading Relevance For Cash; No Regulatory Slam Dunk; MSFT-YHOO Still? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 13 Jun 2008 06:39 AM PST

You already know how the market reacted to yesterday’s news: Shares of Yahoo got slammed, as an ad deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was seen as a poor substitute to…

Time Warner CEO Bewkes: News Corp.-MySpace Looked Dubious At First, Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:53 AM PST

Looks like Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes might be answering questions about the Bebo deal for awhile. He’s already admitted that the company might have overpaid for the…

Earnings: Take-Two Q2 Revs Soar On GTA Sales, Profit Beats Expectations - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 05 Jun 2008 02:06 PM PST

It looks like game maker Take-Two might have a hit on its hands with this Grand Theft Auto thing… the company reported Q2 revenue of $539.8 million, compared to just…

Earnings: TiVo Q1 Revs Flat; Net Income Up On Lower Subscription Acquisition Costs - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 May 2008 01:15 PM PST

After announcing some fresh content deals this morning, DVR maker TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has announced Q1 revenue of $60.8 million, up slightly from $60.4 million in the year-ago quarter. The…

Earnings: Shanda Q1 Revs Up 46.5 Percent; Income Falls On Absence Of Stock Sale - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 May 2008 04:35 AM PST

Chinese media firm Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) reported Q1 revenue of $111.1 million, a 46.5 percent year-over-year increase. Growth was driven by its core MMO business, which had revenue growth of…

Earnings: Rediff FY08 Revenues At $32.25 Million, Profit At $5.03 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 23 May 2008 10:13 AM PST

From ContentSutra: Indian online portal company Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) has announced earnings of $32.25 million for the fiscal year ending March 31st 2008 (FY08), up 13 percent from the previous…

Earnings: Netease Q1 Revs Up 17 Percent; Net Income Drops On Tax Change - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 22 May 2008 05:10 AM PST

Maturing MMO gamer Netease (NSDQ: NTES) isn’t quite showing the lights-out growth of some of its Chinese internet peers. The company announced Q1 revenue of $93 million, a 17 percent…

Earnings: Napster Revs Up 5.7 Percent; Net Loss Narrows; Watch That Positive Cash Flow - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 21 May 2008 01:17 PM PST

Will this be enough to fend off the barbarians at the gate? Music subscription service Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has reported quarterly revenue of $30.7 million, a modest increase of about…

Current TV: Ad Revenue Drops At Al Gore’s Network; Losses Widen En Route To IPO - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 05:49 AM PST

Not the trend you want to be showing as you work towards an IPO: In its Q1 ended March 31, Current TV had ad revenue of just $2.5 million, a…

Lee Enterprises Takes $722 Million Charge On Pulitzer Acquisition - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 15 May 2008 07:38 AM PST

Back in March, newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) warned that it would take a $500-$700 million non-cash hit related to its $1.4 billion purchase of Pulitzer in 2005. We’d…

Earnings: Blockbuster Swings To Profit In Q1 As Revenues Drop 5.4 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 15 May 2008 06:04 AM PST

While movie renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) saw Q1 profits of $45.4 million ($0.20 per diluted share) compared to last year’s $49 million net loss, the closing of over 400 retail…

Earnings: Vivendi Q1 Profits Fall 5.6 Percent; Universal Music Digital Up 33 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 14 May 2008 08:16 PM PST

Entertainment and telecom conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) said its Q1 EBITA dropped 5.6 percent to $1.86 billion (€1.203 billion) from $1.91 billion last year. Although not exactly an indication of…

Earnings: Sina Q1 Revs Up 39 Percent; Net Income Up 87 Percent; Stock Spikes After Hours - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 14 May 2008 05:18 PM PST

The Chinese internet stocks have all killed it this quarter: Sina (NSDQ: SINA) reported Q1 revenue of $71.3 million, up 39 percent year-over-year, and comfortably ahead of a previous forecast…

Earnings: Sony Quarterly Revs Down 6.5 Percent; Games Revs Fall But Higher Profits Seen - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 14 May 2008 04:15 AM PST

Another characteristically all-over-the-map earnings announcement from Sony (NYSE: SNE), which reported quarterly revenue of $19.5 billion, a decline of 6.5 percent. Operating loss narrowed to $47 million and net income,…

Earnings: UK’s Johnston Takes Big Investment To Off-Set Ad Declines, Debt - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 May 2008 01:49 AM PST

Debt-ridden UK regional news publisher Johnston Press is buying (or rather, selling) itself a financial lifeline in the struggling regional classifieds market by taking a £212.3 ($414 million) investment from…

Earnings: Electronic Arts Revs Up Strong; Net Income Passes Estimates - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 May 2008 01:02 PM PST

With a hostile bid for Take-Two still out there, video game maker Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has reported quarterly revenue of $1.12 billion, an 84 percent rise from $613 million…

10-Q Watch: Mediabistro’s Q108 Revenues: $2.2 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 13 May 2008 05:39 AM PST

We have previously reported on Jupitermedia’s (NSDQ: JUPM) Q108 revenues, as well as its subsidiary Mediabistro’s full year 2007 revenues. Now in its latest quarterly 10-Q, filed yesterday with SEC,…

Earnings: DISH Q1 Revs Up 7.5 Percent; Sub Growth Slows On Competition, Economy Hurts Churn - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 May 2008 04:54 AM PST

Satellite operator DISH Network reported Q1 revenue of $2.84 billion, a 7.5 percent increase from $2.64 billion in the year-ago quarter. Net income was up 64 percent to $258 million…

Earnings: XFMedia Q1 Revs Up 120 Percent; Acquisitions Provide Lift; Blames Deep Loss On SarbOx - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 12 May 2008 06:32 PM PST

Some volatile numbers at Chinese media and advertising company Xinua Financial Media, which reported Q1 revenue of $36.7 million, for a 120 percent year-over-year increase. But on the bottom line,…

10-Q Watch: Google: DoubleClick Growing 17 Percent; What About YouTube? - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 12 May 2008 02:48 PM PST

So what kind of results is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) getting from its recently completed $3.2 billion acquisition of DoubleClick? In its just-filed 10-Q, the company provides pro-forma group financial data—as…