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Liberty Global posts $100m profit for Q2

Liberty Global has reported healthy growth for its second quarter, boosting revenues by 11% to $5.07 billion, with profits lifting to $101.1 million.

• 05 Aug 2016

Nokia continues to feel heat after 11% Q2 revenue dip

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has cited challenging market conditions and the ongoing Alcatel-Lucent integration as reasons for declining revenues in Q2 2016.

• 04 Aug 2016

Sony backs off smartphones and posts a profit

Sony has released its quarterly results reporting a profit of $205 million on revenues of $15.6 billion, in a quarter which proved to be of mixed fortunes.

• 29 Jul 2016

AWS earnings confirm breaking the $10 billion barrier is a very realistic possibility

AWS has continued its promising progress towards breaking the $10 billion barrier, after reporting revenues of $5.4 billion for the first six months of 2016, a boost of 60% from the same period last year.

• 29 Jul 2016

Fibre and autonomous cars cost Google, but ad biz runs riot

Google has reported its Q2 numbers, continuing a strong run of performances within the technology industry, though efforts to diversify its overall business are not paying off just yet.

• 29 Jul 2016

S7 series leads charge as Samsung reports profits of $7.22 billion

Samsung has announced its strongest profits for two years, reported profit of $7.22 billion, up 18% year-on-year, largely due to a strong performance from the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge across the period.

• 28 Jul 2016

EE acquisition swells BT revenues 35% despite dip in earnings

The completed acquisition of EE earlier this year saw BT’s revenues swell by 35%, despite bringing in reduced earnings year on year.

• 28 Jul 2016

Facebook bigs itself up as a conversation platform – watch out Twitter

Facebook has reported healthy growth in advertising revenues over the last quarter, and also outlined its ambitions to take on Twitter and traditional search engines.

• 28 Jul 2016

Declining iPhone sales see Apple revenues drop 15%

Apple has seen a 15% decline in its revenues for Q3, led by falling iPhone sales, revenues and average selling price.

• 27 Jul 2016

Half year earnings backup Verizon’s move into mobile media

Verizon has released its half year earnings reporting a larger than expected decline, as the business continues its efforts to diversify its proposition.

• 26 Jul 2016

EE sale props up $3.5bn profits at Orange

Orange has released financials for the first half of 2016 where the team reported profits of $3.48 billion, largely due to the $12.5 billion sale of EE to BT, which was completed in late January.

• 26 Jul 2016

Sprint gains 173,000 postpaid connections, but reports loss of $302m

Sprint has released its quarterly figures which demonstrated healthy gains in the postpaid business, up 173,000 connections, but did post a $302 million loss for the period.

• 25 Jul 2016

Huawei posts 40% revenue growth for H1 as smartphone biz gathers momentum

Huawei has released financials for the first half of 2016 demonstrating a 40% revenue boost to $37 billion, partly owing to a healthy performance in the consumer business unit.

• 25 Jul 2016

AT&T posts 23% revenue growth but TV subscribers drop by 49k

AT&T has reported a year-on-year revenue hike of 23% to $40.5 billion, largely due to the integration of DirecTV, however there was a net-loss of 49,000 TV subscribers across the quarter.

• 22 Jul 2016

Data centres fuel Intel growth despite PC decline

Intel has reported 3% growth, including a 5% boost in its data centre business, though the client computing unit continues its slow decline.

• 21 Jul 2016

Microsoft continues cloud transformation with 100% Azure growth

Microsoft has reported 5% revenue growth to $22.6 billion as the Intelligent Cloud business unit led the charge, with the Azure cloud offering more than doubling in revenues and compute usage.

• 20 Jul 2016

TalkTalk talks up Business business

TalkTalk delivered mixed news at its end of year financial report as the fixed operator continues to recover from last year’s hefty cyber attack, claiming impressive growth in its Business business.

• 12 May 2016

Nokia speeds up cost-cutting after “disappointing” Q1 sales

Nokia has reported a growth in operating profit for Q1 2016 despite a drop in sales and revenue for the quarter, and will be accelerating its cost-cutting plans following the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition.

• 10 May 2016

BT announces network spending spree to ease Openreach pressure

BT has announced a major new investment plan to boost broadband speed and availability across the country and consequently stave off regulatory pressure over Openreach.

• 05 May 2016

Sprint to trial 5G over millimetre wave in June

Sprint has announced it will be trialling 5G millimetre wave technology at the Copa America football tournament this June.

• 04 May 2016