Dell Inc. (DELL) reported third quarter 2010 EPS of 23 cents, below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 27 cents. Revenue Revenue for the quarter was $10.75 billion, down 17.0% from $12.97 billion reported in the year-ago quarter and up 1.0% from $10.62 billion reported in the previous quarter. The company’s third quarter reported revenue was adversely affected by the timing of the Windows 7 launch and due to backlog buildup in the company’s SMB and consumer businesses. Revenue by Segment Large Enterprise posted revenue of $3.4 billion, an increase of 4.0% sequentially and decline of 23.0% year-over-year. In the last quarter, the company expended its networking partnership with Brocade and Juniper, and introduced products like PowerEdge 11g servers and expanded PowerVault storage systems. Public revenue for the quarter was $3.7 billion, down 3.0% on sequentially and 7.0% from the year-ago quarter. Shipments were ...

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California May Ban High-Watt TVs

In California, an average residential customer’s 10% electrical consumption goes to television sets. However the regulatory apprehension is that with upgrade to larger television sets the consumption pattern for television sets will spike by as much as 8% annually. This is a worrisome

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Salesforce.com (CRM) reported third quarter EPS of 34 cents, which exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 16 cents per share. Revenue Revenue for the third quarter was $330.5 million, an increase of 20.0% from $276.5 million reported in the year-ago quarter and an increase of 4.5% from $316.1 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal 2010. This exceeded the company’s guidance range of $323.0 million to $324.0 million. The increase in revenue can be attributed to improvement in new business demand and lower attrition rate experienced by the company. Subscription & Support revenue of $306.9 million increased 21.0% from the year-ago quarter. Professional Services & Other revenue of $23.7 million increased 3.0% from the year-ago quarter. Geographically, the Americas contributed 70.0% of total third quarter 2010 revenue, growing 26.4% year-over-year. Europe contributed 18.0%, growing 13.0% year-over-year. Asia-Pacific contributed 12.0%, growing 33.2% year-over-year.   Customer...

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Chicago, IL – November 12, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Southern Copper Corporation (PCU), Logitech International (LOGI), Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (PHG).

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Southern Copper’s Earnings Jump

Southern Copper Corporation (PCU), one of the leading copper producers in the world, posted net earnings of 37 cents in the third quarter of 2009, better than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 31 cents. Earnings jumped 78.6% from 21

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Logitech International (LOGI) announced that it has agreed to acquire privately held LifeSize Communications of Austin, Texas for $405 million in cash. LifeSize is a global leader in high definition (HD) video communication solutions, with more than 9,000 video conferencing customers across 80 countries in large enterprises, small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and public healthcare, education and government organizations.   The acquisition will enable Logitech to extend its leadership in video communication beyond the desktop.

Logitech and LifeSize plan to pursue existing and new relationships with unified communications, collaboration and VoIP industry partners and competitors to drive the development of an open eco-system for interoperable video communication.

LifeSize expects approximately $90 million in revenues in CY 2009, with CY 2010 revenues expected to grow between 40% and 60%. Logitech expects the acquisition to be neutral to slightly positive to its operating income (excluding acquisition-related charges) in FY 2011, ending March 31, 2011, and

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ON Semiconductor (ONNN) reported second quarter earnings that beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4 cents. Revenue by End Market Revenue of $472.9 million was up 12.6% sequentially and down 18.7% year over year. The company saw sequential improvement across all end markets except communications and medical, although all end markets were down on a year-over-year basis. Consumer witnessed the strongest growth, increasing 47.3% sequentially. Automotive and computing also grew double-digits. Year-over-year declines moderated in all except the communications and medical markets. Computing was again the largest end market in the last quarter, generating 27% of sales, followed by automotive with 18%, comunications 17%, industrial/mil/aero with 17%, consumer 17% and medical 4%. Revenue by Segment The double-digit year-over-year decline was across all except the standard products segment, with Digital & Mixed Signal the weakest, followed by Computing & Consumer and Automotive & Power. ...

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its HP Total Care portfolio to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) build a strong technology foundation that increases their productivity and collaboration, reduces environmental impact and provides greater flexibility as they refresh technology in

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A recent press release from NCR Corp. (NCR) confirms that it has purchased the assets of a market-leading provider of kiosk and digital signage software applications, Netkey, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. We believe that after acquisition NCR is expected to integrate Netkey’s software with its own technologies to deliver world class enterprise solutions, including both hardware and software solutions to its clients.

This acquisition is expected to provide NCR with a good digital signage application platform, which is built on the same platform as Netkey’s kiosk applications, thereby helping the deployment and support of NCR’s solutions.

It will also enable NCR to help customers across multiple industries with kiosk and digital signage solutions that deliver more effective transactions, promotions and information which is the main reason for the merger. The more customer-friendly solutions are expected to attract new customers.

This should be a positive in the current environment, especially considering the

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Avnet, Inc. (AVT) recently reported revenues of $4.36 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, down 3.1% from a year ago. Excluding the negative impact of foreign currency exchange rates, revenues declined 0.6%.

Management stated that the impact of global slowdown led to the year-over-year decline, but the business environment is improving.

On a segment basis, Electronics Marketing (EM) sales came in at $2.44 billion, down 9.8% year over year (down 8.0% when adjusted to exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates). The rate of revenue decline moderated in the reported quarter and management is encouraged by pace of bookings for this segment in recent months.

Technology Solutions (TS) generated sales of $1.92 billion, up 6.9% year over year (up 10.5% when adjusted to exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates), driven by growth in Americas and Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA).

The company

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Millipore Corp. (MIL) reported third-quarter earnings per share of 71 cents, well below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 93 cents per share.

Revenues for the third quarter grew 4% from the previous year, totaling $412 million. Excluding a 3% unfavorable impact from changes in foreign currency, Millipore generated organic revenue growth of 7%. On a divisional basis, excluding changes in foreign currency, Millipore’s Bioprocess Division generated organic revenue growth of  8%, while the company’s Bioscience Division generated organic revenue growth of 4% from the previous year. In the Americas, revenue grew by 4% year over year while Asia recorded a 16% growth in revenues when compared to a similar period.

Bioprocess Division is sustaining its strong momentum and generating very attractive growth. The division’s performance has returned to tracking the strong fundamentals of the biotech industry and there was also an additional benefit of an increase in vaccine productions. The

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