Topic: Earnings
Five days into its stewardship of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, NBC is now confident that it is in no danger of losing its shirt on the pricey event. Speaking to…
Don't expect a lot of new content on the Discovery Channel until after Shark Week, Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav told investors and journalists on the company's second quarter earnings…
Facebook generated $1.18 billion in second-quarter revenue, a 32 percent increase from last year and just clearing Wall Street estimates. Advertising contributed 84 percent of the company’s total revenue and…
Maybe AOL should engage in proxy fights with activist investors more often. In the same quarter that the company grappled with Starboard Value over the makeup of AOL’s board and…
Google’s earnings reports can be fairly humdrum. Google’s business is advertiser-dependent, and the majority of those ad dollars typically flow through Google-owned sites. Same share, larger scale. Still, Madison Avenue in…
Of course Yahoo had a not-so-terrible second quarter with no CEO readily able to take the credit. Newly-crowned CEO Marissa Mayer decided to skip the session, as did recent interim…
Viacom has increased its shareholder dividend to 27.5 cents, up 10 percent. The increase takes place starting with Viacom's next quarterly dividend, payable July 2. The media conglomerate has driven up…
AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong said he predicted business to rebound in the year after first-quarter revenue fell 4 percent year over year to $529.4 million on declines in U.S.…
Facebook’s first-quarter revenue jumped 45 percent year over year to $1.06 billion, but the company’s net income fell 12 percent to $205 million, according to an updated regulatory filing made…
To his credit, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson didn’t begin yesterday’s first-quarter earnings call with a taunt. The embattled executive has had a rough go of things in his first three…

