Worries about competition from other tech companies and spending cuts from government customers drove Dell shares lower in premarket trading Wednesday. On Tuesday, the computer maker said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 18 percent to $764 million, and its revenue prediction for the current quarter was short of Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Like other PC makers, [...]

Dell CEO Michael Dell Stronger sales to businesses during the fourth quarter weren’t enough to help Dell offset a slump in sales to consumers and businesses, as the Round Rock, Texas-based company posted fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of expectations Tuesday. Dell shares fell 4.89% in after-hours trading. The PC maker posted net income of [...]

Enlarge image Dell Forecast Trails Estimates Amid Sluggish Computer Sales David Paul Morris/Bloomberg A Dell Ultrabook at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A Dell Ultrabook at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Feb 21 (Bloomberg) — Ashok Kumar, senior technology analyst at Maxim Group [...]

Dell CEO Michael Dell Stronger sales to businesses during the fourth quarter weren’t enough to help Dell offset a slump in sales to consumers and businesses, as the Round Rock, Texas-based company posted fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of expectations Tuesday. Dell shares fell 4.89% in after-hours trading. The PC maker posted net income of [...]

Like us on Facebook Dell, which closed its fiscal year Jan. 31 like most major retailers, is also expected to report full-year net income of $2.12 a share on revenue of $62.03 billion, far better than 2011′s net of only 35 cents on revenue of $61.49 billion. Last quarter, Dell, generated nearly 20 percent of [...]

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Japanese stocks meandered around the break-even line in early Tuesday trading, as investors awaited word from Europe on a new Greek bailout deal. The Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:NIK -0.17% slipped 0.2% after briefly trading positive, while the Topix slipped 0.1%. With the U.S. markets closed for holiday, and European finance [...]

20 February 2012 DDD Group PLC (Other OTC: DDDGF.PK – news) Year end trading update – licensing agreements drive revenue momentum DDD Group plc (AIM: DDD, ‘the Group’), the 3D solutions company, announces a trading update for the financial year ended 31 December 2011. Trading is in line with the Board’s expectations as the Group [...]

February 18, 2012, 12:23 AM EST By Patricia Hurtado Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer was freed after his conviction for stealing the bank’s high-speed trading code was reversed by a U.S. appeals court. Wearing a grey sweatsuit, white tennis shoes and a huge grin, Sergey Aleynikov, 42, left [...]

Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surfing, the government says, and it’s asking carmakers to curb those distractions when vehicles are moving.