Google reports earnings after the closing bell tomorrow and analysts weigh in on that they expect.
Sorry for the jargon, folks, but the analysts following Google aren't really the literary type. Reading through, there's not too much surprising here-- analysts are all expecting a blowout quarter for Google, due in large part to the holiday season. Let's check in on how much they see Google pulling in and what that'll do MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 19, 2011 3:46 PM ET
TripIt was an innovative startup that helps users organize travel. Concur is an entrenched leader in the corporate travel world. Their fates tied together will be a playbook--or a warning--for the current generation of startups.
By Chadwick Matlin, contributor
Tripit on mobile devices
For the past four years, a small travel startup called TripIt has been quietly rethinking the way we travel. Overwhelmed with separate confirmation codes for your flight, hotel, and MORE
Jan 19, 2011 12:36 PM ET
Just kidding. We didn't hear anyone say they were sorry for blowing this quarter's estimates
This is bizarre. Having once again failed to anticipate Apple's (AAPL) quarterly revenue results -- missing the boat, in many cases, by billions of dollars -- Wall Street's analyst raced to issue their morning-after reports.
Some were shocked, shocked by the company's spectacular performance. Some of the worst prognosticators actually patted themselves on the back for the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 19, 2011 11:51 AM ET
Apple's acting chief dismisses them as "heavy," "bizarre" and nothing but "vapor"
Photo: Apple Inc.
The biggest surprise in the earnings results Apple (AAPL) released Tuesday has to be the number of iPads it shipped in its Christmas quarter: 7.33 million, up nearly 75% from the 4.19 million sold in the previous quarter.
Given how many me-too products were displayed or announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 19, 2011 10:22 AM ET
In the quarterly battle between outsiders and the insiders, it's the amateurs by a mile
Amateurs in blue, pros in peach. Click to enlarge.
This one wasn't even close.
In our ranking of the best and worst Apple (AAPL) analysts for Q1 2011, which lists them based on how accurately they predicted seven key numbers -- revenue, earnings, gross margins and unit sales -- the unaffiliated analysts (blue in the chart at MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 19, 2011 8:05 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"It's a 'scaled-up smartphone' -- that's a bizarre product in our view." -- Apple COO Tim Cook on current Android tablets (TechCrunch)
Apple announced a record first quarter with sales of $26.7 billion, up 70.5% compared with last year, profits of $6 billion, up 77.7%, iPhone sales of 16.2 million units, up 85.8%, iPad sales of 7.33 MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 19, 2011 6:00 AM ET
Apple COO Tim Cook
Since Monday's announcement that Steve Jobs would take his third medical leave of absence from Apple (AAPL), much attention has been focused on his #2, COO Tim Cook.
"I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple's day to day operations," Jobs said in his letter to the Apple team, which was also released to the media. "I have great confidence that Tim and MORE
Jan 18, 2011 6:26 PM ET
Profits up 78%, revenues 71%. 16.2 million iPhones, 7.4 million iPads crushed expectations
Source: Google Finance
Steve Jobs' health problems were all but forgotten as Apple (AAPL) reported all-time record earnings Tuesday afternoon. The stock, which lost $7.83 during the day, quickly jumped more than $11 in after hours trading.
Sales for nearly every Apple product blew past analysts' expectations, but sales of iPads and iPhones were particularly strong.
"We had a phenomenal MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 18, 2011 5:01 PM ET
1.75 billion Facebook ad impressions were purchased by the Microsoft proxy.
In a post called "Facebook Books $1.86B in Advertising; Muscles In on Google Turf," Adage details Facebook's growing advertising pool. Here's a chart of social networking's biggest ad sources. Obviously, Facebook is most of that.
Two notables stand out...
Interestingly, Google itself was the fifth-biggest advertiser for the same period, as it was looking to market its Chrome web browser. Curiously, the third-biggest advertiser MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 18, 2011 4:04 PM ET
Fortune has learned that Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent part of 2009 at a hospital in Basel, Switzerland seeking treatment for neuroendocrine cancer, which he had surgically treated in 2004.
By Doron Levin, contributor
Steve Jobs
In early 2009, the tech and investing worlds were trying to untangle a puzzle about Apple. The company was putting out incredible devices, but it was unclear why the legendary leader wasn't there. As Fortune reported [See: MORE
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