Apple Profits Quadruple as iPod Sales Surge
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Apple Computer Inc.'s first-quarter earnings more than quadrupled, dramatically exceeding Wall Street expectations, based on strong holiday sales of laptop computers and its wildly popular iPod music players.
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NEW YORK, October 14  - Apple Computer (AAPL.NAS) reported its highest fourth-quarter sales in the past nine years for 4Q FY04, while the company&#39;s quarterly profits more than doubled on ay/y basis.
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Apple reported strong earnings for its fourth quarter on Monday, boosted by record Macintosh computer sales and the shipment of 1.12 million iPhones.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit more than doubled, on strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook computers and said revenue and earnings for the current quarter would top Wall Street estimates.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that more than quadrupled on skyrocketing sales of its iPod digital music players and strong demand for its PowerBook notebook PCs.
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Apple Computer Incâs quarterly profit has more than doubled on sales of 2 million iPod digital music players. Q4 earnings per share of the company have beaten Wall Street expectations by 50 per cent.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that more than quadrupled  on skyrocketing sales of its iPod digital music players and  strong demand for its PowerBook notebook PCs.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- With Apple Computer&#39;s stock trading at more than twice where it was a year ago, Piper Jaffray raised the bar for the shares even higher due to an anticipated benefit from increased iPod sales.
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Apple Computer Inc. shares rose to a four-year high, erasing the slump triggered September 2000 by a disappointing profit forecast, as demand for the iPod digital music player surges before the year-end holiday shopping season.
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Apple Inc.  on Wednesday  said its quarterly profit rose 73 percent from a year earlier,  zooming past expectations on strong Macintosh computer sales  and helping to send its shares up nearly 10 percent.
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Apple Computer said that profit in its first quarter more than quadrupled - its biggest increase ever - on strong holiday sales of its iPod music player.
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Sales of Apple&#39;s flagship iPods are booming in recent weeks, though sources claim the company&#39;s recently introduced iPod photo is not such a hot ticket.
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Apple Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profits jumped 67 percent and easily beat Wall Street expectations, capping a record-breaking year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Mac business, ceaseless consumer interest in its iPod players and a successful introduction of its newest endeavor, the iPhone.
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Apple Computer Inc. stock jumped to a four-year high Monday after a major Wall Street firm nearly doubled its price target on the stock, saying that customer satisfaction with its iPod music player is creating "wildfire word-of-mouth marketing" for its Mac computers and other products.
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Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player continues to help the company grow revenue at dizzying rates, leading Apple to its highest fourth-quarter revenue in nine years, the company said Wednesday.
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By Allen Wan  Shares of Apple surged Thursday after Morgan Stanley increased its 2007 earnings estimates for the company on expectations for higher sales of iPhones.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting.