The future is Azure coloured

Microsoft’s latest results show that its future is rapidly depending on the rise of the cloud and its Azure product.

Trying to be Zen about it

Mega x86 chip outfit Intel is predicting a pretty flat 2017 after announcing mixed results for the last quarter of 2016.

Cloud based money

Hard drive maker Seagate has done better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted this quarter.

Note 7 and bribery scandal can be safely glossed over

Samsung might have been having a trying time this year, but at least none of it appears to have kicked it too hard in the bottom line.

Still better than Wall Street predicted

Biggish Blue has reported its 19th straight quarter of declining revenue, but forecast full-year earnings above what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street thought.

Profit leapt by 50 percent

Samsung’s bottom line was not really harmed by the Note 7 fiasco and the outfit saw its fourth-quarter profit leap 50 percent from a year earlier to its highest level in more than three years.

Poor lambs

AMD executives can’t really get a break, even when the company is doing well. Normally when execs start flogging off their shares it is because the company is going to announce something unpopular which will send share prices downwards. However, in AMD’s case they did the opposite.

E Ink Holdings expects shrinkage

E-paper maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) has warned that its consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2016 will decrease on quarter because shipments peaked in the third quarter.

Europe looking good

In a slap in the face for Brexit, British mobile phone outfit Vodafone reported a better-than-expected 4.3 percent rise in core earnings in the first half of the year, helped by improving trading in big European markets like Germany and Italy.

Nothing Zen about this

As we predicted, the GPU maker named after a Roman vengence daemon, Nvidia, has produced a really good set of results with a record revenue of $2 billion, up 54 percent from a year ago.