Tag: Profits
Windows 7 helps Microsoft to 35% jump in quarterly profits
Windows 7 isn't only the best Windows operating system Microsoft have ever put together, it's also proving to be quite the cash-cow. Following its release, Microsoft have seen a 35% jump in quarterly profits, the release of their latest financial…
Samsung top the list of world's biggest tech companies
Samsung has been announced as the largest technology firm in the world, with sales of their devices hitting the $117.8 billion mark. The figure sees them overtake HP, who managed an impressive $114.6 billion, making them the second largest tech…
iPhone app developers Tapulous make $1 million a month
Tapulous, the iPhone app developers famous for their popular rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge, have claimed that they are now making close to $1 million (£619k) a month from sales of their iPhone applications. Tap Tap Revenge was originally a…
Elsewhere in exciting financial news – Motorola is getting HAMMERED
So first this week we had Apple saying it’s made loads of money, then we had analysts saying Microsoft’s about to announce it’s made loads of money too. Happy days!
So where’s all this money coming from?
It’s being hacked off Motorola’s bottom line, pretty much, with the company reporting a whopping 33% drop in sales in 2007 compared to 2006, with mobile sales raking in a total of $4.8 billion…
Microsoft is making money too – and even Vista's starting to take off
As well as Apple bragging about how much money it’s raked in so far this year, Microsoft is expected to announce some rather pretty upwards-pointing graphs this week too.
Analysts are predicting a huge 66% rise in profits for MS over the last year, as despite the numerous financial disasters going on around the globe people are still buying new computers so their internet loads faster and World of Warcraft looks a bit prettier…
Apple rakes in $831 from every iPhone sold
iPhone’s exclusive American operator AT&T ends up paying out $18 a month to Apple just for the privilege of stocking the thing, thanks to data revealed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Plus iPhone doesn’t come with any old mobile contract – poor Americans are LOCKED DOWN into it for a full two years, hence all the fuss about unlocking it. Then you’ve got the price of the phone itself on top of that. It all comes to $831 winging its way to Apple…
