Novell profitable as revenue drops
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Flat new year Novel expects a drop in revenue for its current, fourth quarter and is predicting a flat 12 months, despite rising Linux sales and a Microsoft sales boost.â¦
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3M Co  said on Tuesday  fourth-quarter earnings fell as last year's results included a  gain for selling a business.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.  on Friday reported a lower third-quarter profit as revenue fell amid intense competition for its products from rivals and generic drugs.
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The chemical maker reported a quarterly profit that was lower than expected, in part due to weak demand from the housing and auto markets.
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Rupert Murdochâs media company said quarterly profit fell 24 percent from a year earlier, when it had a one-time gain from asset sales.
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Novell Thursday posted a quarterly profit as revenue rose, but the company warned that spending on information technology by companies remained weak.
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U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley  MWD.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit dropped 34 percent  amid reduced trading revenue, falling well short of Wall  Street's already-lowered expectations after a summer of  sluggish market activity.
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Warner Music Group Corp  on Friday posted a fourth-quarter profit, but revenue sagged in line with broader weakness in the recorded music and music publishing businesses.
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Business software maker Novell Inc.  posted a preliminary quarterly profit on Tuesday, bouncing back from a year-earlier loss when it took a $38 million restructuring charge.
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Google Inc  reported a  lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday and predicted  further spending to shore up its operations, sending its shares  down as much as 9.5 percent.
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Electronics testing equipment maker Agilent Technologies Inc.  said on Thursday that its first quarter earnings fell from a year earlier, when the company reported a large gain from the sale of its semiconductor products business.
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Dell Inc., the world's second-largest personal computer maker, reported on Thursday a sharply lower quarterly profit while revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down 1.7 percent.
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Asset manager Federated Investors (FII.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday reported lower quarterly profits as the firm&#39;s assets declined in difficult market conditions.
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Weak home and hardware sales drive lower fourth-quarter profits.
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The newspaper publisher reported profit of $365.7 million on the sale of several newspapers. Excluding the gain, earnings fell on weaker advertising.
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Novell earned $23 million, or six cents a share, on revenues of $305 million in its fiscal third quarter ended July 31. It derived $12 million in revenues from its presumably unprofitable SUSE Linux business
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Business software maker Novell Inc.   posted a preliminary quarterly profit on Tuesday,  bouncing back from a year-earlier loss when it took a $38  million restructuring charge.