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Yesterday, National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) reported a weak second quarter. As the economic conditions deteriorated, the company saw demand for its products weaken. It has cut back its forecasts, as have leading semiconductor players, TI and Broadcom. Read the full article »
The economic downturn has slowed down sales in the networking world: a recent report, “Service Provider Routers and Switches”, from Infonetics Research shows that sales of service provider switches and IP core and edge routers have declined 4% sequentially to $3.3 billion in Q308. Networking giant Cisco, which was the first to warn of an economic slowdown, has seen its revenue growth slow down and its market share slide while competitors have gained share. Let’s take a closer look. Read the full article »
EDA stocks were not looking up when the market was good, and they definitely aren’t any better now that economic conditions are bad. It’s time to take another look at the EDA companies. Read the full article »
Here is a quick analysis of a couple of media companies thqt announced rather lackluster quarterly results last month. News Corporation (NWS) had been on a roll till last quarter with impressive Q4 results. The Q1 results for their new fiscal were, however, disappointing. Read the full article »
Yesterday, Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leading chip maker with annual revenue of $2.9 billion, reported its third quarter results that beat estimates but missed its last quarter projections mainly due to weak demand in the PC market. Read the full article »
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the leading SaaS vendor, reported strong third quarter results on November 20 that beat Street estimates yet again in an increasingly gloomy economic environment: yesterday the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the US has been in a recession since December 2007. Despite the challenging market conditions, Salesforce.com is set to cross the $1 billion revenue milestone. I believe the SaaS sector is relatively recession proof, and Salesforce.com’s performance this quarter is more evidence of the sector’s strength. Read the full article »
Poor economic conditions are plaguing all industries and companies alike. In late October several newspaper stocks announced their Q3 results, and, as in Q2 of this year, all of them turned in a disappointing performance. Given that during Q3 viewership was up on account of the US presidential campaigns and the Beijing Olympics, the results were positively depressing. Read the full article »
TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the pioneer in digital video recorders (DVRs) with annual revenue of $120.4 million, reported Q3 results yesterday that beat earnings estimates due to litigation damages received from digital media equipment company EchoStar. This short-term boost, however, will not be enough to help TiVo gain market share as it moves beyond the set-top box. Read the full article »
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