Ericsson sees profits fall 56 pct in second quarter

July 24th, 2009 Ericsson profits fall 61 pct in second quarterSTOCKHOLM — Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB on Friday said its second-quarter profits plunged 61 percent partly because of restructuring charges and losses in its mobile phone unit, Sony Ericsson. Ericsson said net profit in the April-June period was 800 million kronor ($106 million), down from 2 billion kronor in the same three months last year.

July 24th, 2009 Ericsson profits drop 56 pct in 2nd quarterSTOCKHOLM — Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB's second-quarter profits plunged 56 percent partly because of restructuring charges and losses in its mobile phone unit, Sony Ericsson, the company said Friday. The world's leading supplier of broadband networks said net profit in the April-June period was 831 million kronor ($111 million), down from 1.9 billion kronor in the same three months last year.

April 30th, 2009 Ericsson posts 35 percent drop in 1Q profitSTOCKHOLM — Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson on Thursday reported a 35 percent fall in first-quarter net profit due to weak results from its handset unit Sony Ericsson and higher restructuring costs. The Stockholm-based company said net profit in the quarter was 1.7 billion kronor ($210 million) compared with 2.6 billion kronor in the same period a year ago.

July 28th, 2009 Canon profits plunge 86 percent in 2QTOKYO — Canon Inc. said second quarter profit sank 86 percent as the global economic malaise weighed on sales of its copy machines, printers and digital cameras while a stronger yen took a bite out of overseas earnings.

July 16th, 2009 Sony Ericsson posts another loss in 2QSTOCKHOLM — Handset maker Sony Ericsson said Thursday it booked another loss in the second quarter as the global economic crisis continued to weigh on mobile phone sales. The LM Ericsson and Sony Corp.

July 16th, 2009 Sony Ericsson posts another loss in 2QSTOCKHOLM — Handset maker Sony Ericsson said Thursday it booked another loss in the second quarter as the global economic crisis continued to weigh on mobile phone sales. The LM Ericsson and Sony Corp.

February 11th, 2009 TORONTO - Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) plunged by 15 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange Wednesday after the global wireless communication giant forecast less-than-expected profits for the fourth quarter of 2008. In a statement, the Waterloo-based Canadian company said that it ``expects revenue for the fourth quarter to be at or near the mid-point of the previously guided range.

July 21st, 2009 Seagate posts 4Q loss on lower sales, big chargesSCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — Hard drive maker Seagate Technology on Tuesday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss, reversing a year-ago profit, but said it is seeing signs of improvement in the data storage market and lifted its revenue outlook for the first quarter.

January 22nd, 2009 SEOUL - Samsung Electronics Co, the leading South Korean electronics maker, posted its first quarterly loss, saying Friday that it was 20 billion won ($14.59 million) in the red in the final quarter of 2008. The world's largest maker of memory chips and liquid-crystal displays said the falling prices of memory chips and sinking demand for electronics during the global economic downturn was the cause for the loss after it had seen a profit of 2.21 trillion won in the same quarter a year earlier.

July 29th, 2009 Toshiba quarterly loss swells to $614 millionTOKYO — Toshiba's red ink swelled to 57.8 billion yen ($614 million) in the April-June quarter, hit by losses on asset sales and weakness at its consumer electronics and chipmaking businesses. The loss for the fiscal first quarter was five times bigger than a year earlier when the Japanese conglomerate, which makes everything from nuclear power plants to household electronics, recorded a 11.6 billion yen loss.

May 8th, 2009 Toyota sees losses deepening this yearTOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. said it sank into a 765.8 billion yen ($7.74 billion) net loss for the January-March quarter, bringing its loss for the full fiscal year to a bigger-than-expected 436.94 billion yen — its worst annual loss ever.

July 30th, 2009 Softbank profit shoots up 41 percent in 1QTOKYO — Mobile carrier Softbank Corp., the exclusive seller of the iPhone in Japan, said profit shot up 41.4 percent last quarter as it slashed costs and managed a slight increase in revenue despite the economic downturn. Softbank said net profit was 27.38 billion yen ($288 million), up from 19.37 billion yen last year.

July 23rd, 2009 Economy and iPhone subsidies trim AT&T's 2Q profitNEW YORK — AT&T Inc.'s earnings fell 15 percent in the second quarter as it subsidized a record-setting launch of the newest iPhone. The weak economy also continued to sap its landline business.

April 16th, 2009 HELSINKI - Citing an 'exceptionally tough environment', Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, Thursday reported lower sales and a sharp drop in operating profit for the first quarter of 2009. The Finland-based company posted a pre-tax loss of 12 million euros ($15.8 million), compared to a pre-tax profit of 1.6 billion euros for the corresponding business period in 2008.

July 24th, 2009 Samsung says quarter-2 net profit rose 5.2 percentSEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics says second-quarter net profit rose 5.2 percent from the same period last year as sales rose. Samsung Electronics Co.