quarter results

Entertainment company Walt Disney reports lower-than-expected fourth-quarter results as consumer confidence falls.

Microsoft on Thursday handily topped its revenue targets and slid by Wall Street estimates with solid fiscal first quarter results, but cut its outlook for the December quarter.

For its first quarter ending Sept. 30 (statement and presentation), Microsoft reported net income of $4.37 billion, or 48 cents a share, on revenue of $15.06 billion.

Intel got an upgrade on Tuesday on the theory that its third and fourth quarter results will be decent amid a weak global economy.

Piper Jaffray analyst Auguste Richard upgraded Intel to buy from neutral based on the theory that the chip giant can top low expectations.

Research in Motion’s second quarter results fell short of estimates and the third quarter outlook was weaker than expected too.

RIM said Thursday (statement) that it reported net income of $495.5 million, or 86 cents a share, compared to $287.7 million, 50 cents a share, a year ago.

Adobe’s third quarter earnings handily topped Wall Street estimates and the company projected fourth quarter results that are in line to better than what analysts were expecting.

The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T.

In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be the winner.

Sun fell more than 12 percent in early morning trading, as the company posted declining fourth quarter results amid a slowing U.S. economy.

Symantec’s strategy of selling security and storage together is apparently paying off as companies consolidate the number of vendors they use.

The security and storage management software company reported strong fiscal first quarter results (statement) as net income more than doubled from a year ago.

Comcast's second quarter results show that competition between cable and phone companies is heating up, which could lead to better pricing packages for consumers.

Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens outlined strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was strong and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale.

Ahead of its earnings report (statement) Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official.