News tagged with first quarter
Cyber crooks cranking out new weapons experts warn
Cyber criminals are cranking out new weapons at a brisk pace, tailoring malicious software for a spectrum of gadgets including smartphones, tablets, and Macintosh computers, a security firm said.
May 23, 2012 |
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Samsung on top as mobile phone sales dip: survey (Update)
Mobile phone sales worldwide suffered a rare dip in the first three months of this year on softened demand in Asian markets, industry tracker Gartner reported Wednesday.
May 16, 2012 |
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Is Facebook worth the bet? Doubts amid the frenzy
Everyone knows it is a giant of the Internet that will make money for a long while. But is Facebook worth investing in at its elevated initial public offering price?
May 16, 2012 |
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Saverin dumps US citizenship ahead of Facebook IPO
(AP) -- Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move expected to save him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes stemming from the company's impending initial public offering.
May 15, 2012 |
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Groupon reports smaller 1Q loss, higher revenue
(AP) -- Online deals company Groupon Inc. posted a smaller net loss and sharply higher revenue in the first quarter, helped by increased demand from a growing customer base.
May 14, 2012 |
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US phone subscribers hang up on contracts
(AP) -- U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans.
May 10, 2012 |
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US online spending climbs
US online spending in the first three months of this year surged with a little help from shoppers using tablet computers to buy clothing and other items, comScore reported on Wednesday.
May 09, 2012 |
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Facebook gives more details on mobile usage
(AP) -- Facebook says the number of people logging into Facebook is continuing to grow more quickly than the number of ads delivered.
May 09, 2012 |
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Dish profit down 34 pct, but adds subscribers
(AP) -- Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. said Monday that it added subscribers in the first quarter, but net income dropped 34 percent and revenue growth fell short of Wall Street expectations.
May 07, 2012 |
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Social games star Zynga in the red, but optimistic (Update)
Online social games star Zynga stayed in the red in its second quarter as a publicly traded company but on Thursday promised better days ahead with the help of play on smartphones and tablet computers.
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Sprint loss widens on Nextel, iPhone lifts sales
(AP) -- The impending shutdown of the Nextel network doubled Sprint Nextel Corp.'s loss in the first quarter, it said Wednesday, as it wrote down the value of the network and subscribers kept leaving it.
Apr 25, 2012 |
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IBM raises dividend, approves stock buyback
(AP) -- IBM Corp. is raising its quarterly dividend and repurchasing $7 billion more of its stock under a new buyback program.
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Yahoo! dumping products in turn-around plan
Yahoo! is dumping products along with workers in a quest to return the faded Internet star to glory.
Apr 18, 2012 |
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SAP says profits up in first quarter
German software giant SAP said on Friday it was sticking to its full-year targets for 2012 after profits rose in the first three months.
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Google to split stock to keep power with founders
(AP) -- Google improved its short-term finances even as it seeks to preserve its long-term interests.
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day. By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days. To reconcile the calendar year with an astronomical cycle (which could not possibly be reckoned in a whole number of days), certain years contain extra days. Through further insertion of non-day units of time, the calendar year can be further synchronized; however, these extra units of time are not considered part of the calendar.
The Gregorian year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 with a length of 365 days in an ordinary year and 366 days in a leap year giving an average length of 365.2425 days. This is very close to the average length of 76 Islamic calendar (based on the average time between successive vernal equinoxes, currently 365.2424 days and increasing marginally). Other formula-based calendars can have lengths which are further out of step with the solar cycle, for example, the Julian calendar had an average length of 365.25 days, and the Hebrew calendar has an average length of 365.2468 days.
The astronomer's mean tropical year which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars, but astronomer's value changes over time, so William Herschel's suggested correction to the Gregorian calendar may become unnecessary by the year 4000.
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