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Microsoft ‘slips’ on Surface
weigh the bad results of the tablet

Slow sales in the PC. And the stock of unsold tablet amounted to $ 900 million

Into The Microsoft booth at the Computex exhibition in Taipei (Reuters / Chuang)

Quarterly lower than expected for Microsoft. The technology giant from Redmond ended the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013, with a turnover down 10% to $ 19.9 billion, disappointing the expectations of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg amounted to 20.72 billion. To penalize the software giant has been a cut in prices of Surface RT tablet that has weighed on the group’s accounts for 900 million dollars. Lower than Wall Street expectations, but growing, sales of the Windows division and the server respectively € 4.4 billion (Bloomberg estimated at 4.77 billion) and 5.5 billion (Bloomberg estimates 5.65 billion). As regards profits Microsoft closed the quarter ended June 30, with profits of 4.97 billion compared to losses of 492 million registered in the corresponding period of 2012. SLOW THE MARKET PC – In terms of earnings per share, the result is passed to 59 cents from a red 6 cents a share. Excluding the unusual items as he stopped at an al titude of 52 cents. The market had a total figure to 75 cents per share. The weak performance of the stock also weighs the slowing down of the personal computer market.

WELL SUPPLIES TO COMPANIES – The good news for the Redmond come instead from the field of supplying businesses, which recorded a jump in sales of 14% compared to the same quarter last year, reaching $ 7.2 billion. The loss follows the announcement, arrived last week, a restructuring plan by CEO Steve Ballmer wanted it plans to stake everything on the services and mobile devices. While waiting for the day, arrived after the closure of Wall Street, the title sold 0.84% ??to $ 35.44 per share. In the after-hours was punished coming to lose almost 7% to approximately $ 33.09 per share.

disappoint ALSO GOOGLE – But it’s not better in Mountain View. Google from April to June of this year has seen an increase in revenue of 20% to 1 4.11 billion dollars, up from 22% the previous two quarters. Revenues totaled $ 11.1 billion ($ 9.56 per share), compared with 11, 4 billion expected by analysts, namely $ 10.78 per share. This is data that rekindle the concerns repeatedly raised in the house Google, the impact that the development of mobile devices – smartphones and tablets – has on the prices of online advertising. The result is that in after-hours trading the title of the group fell by 5%.

DOWN EVEN THE PHONE – Yesterday Nokia announced that it has recorded in the second quarter of 2013 a turnover of 5.7 billion euro, down 24% compared to 7.54 billion a year ago, while sales of Devices & Services division showed a decline of 32% to 2.72 billion euro. The net loss of the Finnish phone amounted to € 227 million, a figure which compares with a loss of 1.4 billion a year ago. The adjusted operating income was instead equal to 303 million eu ro. The market was expecting a red 258,800,000 and revenues of 6.27 billion. Male also Vodafone which closed its first fiscal quarter with revenue down 3.5% to 10.2 billion pounds. The multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom reported to suffer in the countries of southern Europe. Vodafone Italy for example closes the quarter with service revenues amounted to 1,558 million euro, a decrease of 9.9% organic net of ‘ impact of the reduction in mobile termination rates (-17.6% including the impact of terminations). “The quarter – the company said in a statement – has been particularly affected by the difficult macroeconomic environment that continues to determine a lower propensity to consume (in fact significantly grow revenues from integrated packages: +81.5% thanks to the donations commercial), the strong competitive pressure, as well as the impact of regulatory intervention. & #8220;

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