Sony's earnings report for the year 2017 suggested they'd sold a whopper of an amount of units of their current gaming console, PlayStation 4. After selling 76 million+ PlayStation 3 units over the product's lifetime, Sony's on track to sell that many by the end of the current financial year. That's no small feat - but it's still a while away from the greatest selling home console of all time - PlayStation 2.
Apple has announced record revenue in its first quarter for the fiscal year, having raked in an all-time quarterly record of $88.3 billion. This represents a 13-percent year-on-year increase, according to Apple, which says that 65-percent of Q1's revenue was from international sales. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook credited the new iPhone lineup, and the iPhone X in particular, with helping spur the company's biggest quarter ever.
Apple released Q1 2018 earnings this afternoon with iPhone revenue up, but unit sales down, year over year. Because units went down but revenue went up, we can assume only one thing: People are spending more cash on their iPhone. That very likely means that the iPhone X took a big chunk of sales this quarter, and also likely means that iPhone sales tended to trend higher - the larger of the two standard iPhone 8 models, and iPhone X.
Apple has announced its fiscal Q4 2017 quarterly results, saying that it achieved record revenues during the quarter that ended on September 30. Overall, the company raked in $52.6 billion during the past quarter, a 12-percent increase over the same quarter last year. It marked good times for the company's Services, too, which had its best quarter ever. Overall, Apple says that 62-percent of its revenue last quarter came from international sales.
Tesla just reported their Q3 Vehicle Deliveries and Production results for the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. This was apparently the company's all-time best quarter for deliveries on both the Model S and the Model X - by just a tiny bit - at a 4.5% increase over this same quarter in the year 2016. Quarter-by-quarter, though, Tesla's production rose a cool 17.7% (over Q2, 2017).
Apple's latest earnings call says that Services Revenue is the big winner for the quarter - while the rest is up for the third quarter in a row. That includes quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion compared to this same quarter one year ago at a revenue of $42.4 billion. "With revenue up 7 percent year-over-year, we’re happy to report our third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue," said Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Apple has just announced the results of its third fiscal quarter 2017, and detailed among the numbers is word about the iPhone's performance. The company has revealed that its iPhone sales were better than had been expected, increasing 1.6-percent year-on-year to hit the 41.03 million unit mark this past quarter; this is compared to the 40.4 million units it moved in the same quarter last year.
We've been anticipating such an announcement for a couple months, and now it's finally here: Samsung has officially bumped Intel down a peg, taking over the top slot as the world's premiere chipmaker. It has been expected for a couple months now that Samsung would announce record-breaking profits in its latest Q2 report, and that's exactly what happened. Among the details is a big tidbit: Samsung's chip business had higher sales revenue than the entirety of Intel this past quarter.
The LG G5 was an utter flop last year. But if LG was hoping the G6 would be its salvation, better luck next time. The Korean giant has just released its second quarter financials and, while it’s doing OK over all, its mobile division isn’t turning out to be so healthy. LG says that its mobile business basically saw no change compared to second quarter of 2016. And that’s all due to the “weaker than expected” sales of premium smartphones, a.k.a. the LG G6.
Tesla's first quarter fiscal results are in and things are looking up. The company reports a huge 64-percent vehicle production increase year-on-year; during Q1, the automaker delivered 25,051 vehicles to customers. This ultimately resulted in $2.7 billion in GAAP revenue, though year-on-year losses increased this past fiscal quarter due to 'operations improved' during its most recent fourth fiscal quarter. All things considered, Tesla says that it is still on track for the initial Model 3 production to kick off in July.
HTC's latest financial report for the three months ending on December 31st, 2016 show the company in flux. The first several financial highlights the company made in this call were of positive revenue but an operating loss and a net loss after tax. Revenue for this quarter sits at NT$22.2 billion with a gross margin of 10.5%, while HTC's quarterly operating loss was a cool NT$3.6 billion with an operating margin of negative 16%.
Apple has announced its latest first quarter earnings, revealing good numbers mostly across the board, including an all-time quarterly revenue record. iPhone sales are particularly exciting, with company CEO Tim Cook announcing that Apple sold more iPhones over this past holiday season than ever before. It wasn't all good news, though, as the iPad -- while climbing a bit over the company's Q4 2016 numbers -- saw significant year-on-year decreases.