David Needle

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) credited big gains in display advertising and margins for third quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations on the profit side. The company fell short of revenue forecasts, but earned $396 million or 29 a cents a share for the quarter. Excluding traffic-acquisition costs, revenue for the quarter came in at $1.12 billion, […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported bang-up results for its fourth quarter, including record revenue of $20.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion. Those numbers are up over the same quarter a year ago when Apple reported $12.21 billion in revenue and $2.53 billion in quarterly profit. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected […]

Google’s enterprise search solution, the Google Search Appliance (GSA), now reaches beyond an organization’s data repositories to connect to cloud-based sources of content. The new Cloud Connect feature for the GSA lets users get personalized results from cloud sources including Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) own Google Docs and Sites as well as Twitter, blogs and industry […]

The surprise appointment of former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker to the top spot at HP last month continues to generate controversy. In a letter to the New York Times Monday, HP’s new chairman, Ray Lane, defended Apotheker against charges by Timescolumnist Joe Nocera that the hiring had more to do with getting back at Oracle […]

Event organizers and planners have for years tried to get a better handle on the effectiveness of meetings. There’s also been an ongoing push to make events more valuable to attendees by getting them more involved with the content via things like voting on conference topics and post-session surveys. But a lot of that manual […]

How do you take on PowerPoint, by far the most popular presentation software in use today? Upstart SlideRocket figures the best way is to offer something different that it hopes users will find has compelling value. Just as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has gone after Microsoft’s Office suite with a cloud-based set of applications, SlideRocket is […]

Endeca’s solution is powered by its MDEX engine technology, which it describes as the industry’s only hybrid search-analytical database that collects information regardless of data type, format or source to provide both search and analytics features. Endeca calls the approach, ‘No data left behind.’. Enterprise search provider Endeca Technologies says its latest release makes typically […]

IT managers looking to keep their budgets under control would be well-advised to check their spending on energy-related costs to run their data centers. A new report by research firm Gartnerconcluded that energy-related expenses account for approximately 12 percent of overall data center costs and are the fastest rising data center expense. Despite the wide […]

Gmail users now have a new option for how they can view emails. Wednesday, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that Gmail users will have the choice of turning off Gmail’s “conversation view,” an innovative feature in Gmail that the company admits not everyone embraced. The threaded, conversation view combines the back and forth of online messaging […]

AOL announced it has acquired TechCrunch, the hard-edged, tech industry news and gossip site along with associated properties that include a conference group and several vertical sites including MobileCrunch, GreenTech and TechCrunchIT. The two companies said Silicon Valley-based TechCrunch and related sites will retain their editorial independence, while operating as part of the AOL Technology […]