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Lenovo releases Q3 earnings report, shipments rise, profits soar

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Lenovo turned in another stellar earnings report yesterday, following up on a huge Q2 with an encouraging Q3. For the fiscal quarter ended December 31st, the PC maker saw its net profits reach $153 million, marking a 54 percent increase over last yea…


Nikon posts Q3 2011 earnings, sees significant losses due to Thailand floods

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Nikon posted its Q3 earnings report this morning, and there isn’t a whole lot to smile about. The cameramaker had to swallow a one-off loss of ¥10.9 billion last quarter (approximately $143.1 million), due to widespread flooding that devastated i…


Sony’s Q3 earnings are in: wider than expected full year loss, lowered sales projections

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Sony already revealed Kazuo Hirai will take over for Howard Stringer as CEO and President April 1st last night, and with the big shocker out of the way it’s time for the fiscal Q3 reports. After posting a net loss of $346 million last quarter, Sony is…


Sharp struggles with TV competition, Q3 2011 results reveal 86 percent drop in profit

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It’s pretty tough out there for TV manufacturers. Sharp’s reporting its financial results for April-December last year, announcing a profit of 9.14 billion yen ($120 million), a drop of 57.37 billion yen since the same period in 2010. Despite announci…


Toshiba announces Q3 earnings: revenues down, posts $136 million loss

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The economy may be starting to look up, but that doesn’t mean the suffering is over. Toshiba is just the latest company to announce that it had a rough quarter to close out the calendar year 2011. The quarter ending December 31st of 2011, saw the comp…


Nintendo releases quarterly earnings report: 61 percent drop in profit, grim forecast

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Nintendo released its latest quarterly earnings report this morning and, as with last quarter’s report, there’s not a whole lot to celebrate. The company posted profits of ¥40.9 billion (about $631.6 million) for the October – December period, re…


RIM reports Q3 2011 earnings: $5.2b revenue, $265m net income and 14.1 million handsets shipped

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News out of Waterloo isn’t all bad today, as Research in Motion has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. While the company previously had to scale back its earlier earnings projections of $5.6 billion in the quarter, it’s …


Gartner’s Q3 2011 smartphone figures: Samsung on top globally, Android tops 50 percent share

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Yahtzee! Now that Canalys, IDC and Strategy Analytics have had their turn, it’s Gartner’s go to serve up its summary of the smartphone world as seen in Q3 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the headlines aren’t changing much, with Samsung becoming the nu…


NVIDIA reports Q3 earnings: $1.07 billion in revenue, $178.3 million in net income

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Just yesterday, ASUS announced the first-ever quad-core tablet, packing NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 SoC, and now the chipmaker is making an announcement of its own. It may be a slightly less exciting reveal, but NVIDIA’s just taken the wraps off of its Q3 earning…


Dish Network’s Q3 profits rise 30 percent, but subscriber base diminishes

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The third fiscal quarter of this year saw the best of times and the worst of times for Dish Network. On the positive side of the ledger, the company saw net revenues grow by 12.3 percent since Q3 2010, reaching $3.6 billion. Profits, meanwhile, jumped …