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RSS forecast in newsMicrosoft web store kills off Windows Marketplace
News Online retailer Amazon.com issued a cautious note regarding holiday sales when it reported its third-quarter financial results last month, while eBay lowered its fourth-quarter forecast. Microsoft is doubling down on... [17 Nov 2008]
Nokia lowers handset sales predictions
News Consequently, Nokia's shipments forecast for the whole of 2008 dropped from 1.26 billion units to 1.24 billion. Nokia has downgraded its outlook for the fourth quarter of the year, blaming a "sharp pull-back in global... [17 Nov 2008]
Mass layoffs as Sun cuts 15 per cent of staff
News Sun announced a seven per cent drop in fiscal first-quarter revenue last month, coming in the midrange of its previously lowered earnings forecast. Sun Microsystems announced on Friday a restructuring that involves... [14 Nov 2008]
World IT spending still to grow next year
News Industry analyst firm IDC is revising its yearly forecast on the IT budgets of companies around the world. Emerging markets like Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America will still... [14 Nov 2008]
Britain's £28m Xmas shopping lunchtime
News The researchers forecast £1.2m will be spent on apparel in the period, a growth of 25 per cent on last year, while alcohol sales will reach £233m during Q4 2008 and £24m will be bought in the first week of December alone. [12 Nov 2008]
Stormy markets freeze C&W demerger
News The group said it was confident in its outlook and increased its group Ebitda guidance for the year to March 2009 to at least £780m at an exchange rate of $1.88 to the pound, compared to an earlier forecast range of... [10 Nov 2008]
BT Global Services head resigns
News Profits for the division were initially predicted to be £200m this quarter but that forecast has now been downgraded to £120m. The head of BT Global Services, Francois Barrault, has resigned, ahead of the company's... [03 Nov 2008]
Yahoo! to slash 10 per cent of staff
News The balance of cost containment and weakening advertising showed chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen's forecast about fourth-quarter results. Yahoo! on Tuesday reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third... [22 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News For the third quarter, eBay expected to hit the low end of its revenue forecast of $2.1bn to $2.15bn. But it said it would exceed the high end of its earnings forecast range of 39 cents to 41 cents per... [07 Oct 2008]
Online retail hasn't killed the high street
News Researchers at IBM forecast nearly 40 per cent of retail sales will be influenced by the web in some way by 2012 and that cross-channel shopping will bring in 20 per cent of total revenues by that time. [02 Oct 2008]
Tech jobs and budgets defy economic gloom
News IT budgets and staffing levels are forecast to defy the gathering economic gloom over the next 12 months. Almost half of IT directors expect to increase IT staffing levels in that period, according to figures released by... [15 Aug 2008]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Massive growth in wireless broadband services is being forecast, with the market set to be dominated by cellular technologies. Telecoms analyst Analysys Mason predicts there will be a total of 2.1 billion wireless... [05 Aug 2008]
Microsoft Windows set to retire?
News The system is forecast to be a cloud computing service, making it less reliant on a specific piece of hardware than existing versions of Windows. Microsoft Windows' future appears to lie in the cloud, with details... [05 Aug 2008]
Motorola announces profit for Q2
News Motorola had actually forecast it would lose about two cents per share. Motorola surprised Wall Street Thursday by reporting a small profit and steady market share in its troubled handset business for the second quarter... [01 Aug 2008]
Intel: PC market won't suffer credit crunch blows
News He said: "We gave a relatively upbeat business forecast, saying that despite the economic problems in the United States our business is so international that we didn't see any slowdown in the PC market. [31 Jul 2008]
