Apple Will Report Over $20 Billion In Quarterly Revenue…..??!!!-A Report…

Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software..

                    Apple's earnings report on the 18th goes anything like its last few, the company will announce that it blew past $20 billion in quarterly revenue.

Apple has a habit of comically conservative guidance, and then basking in glory when it blows out expectations. Guidance for Q4 revenue is $18 billion. Phillip Elmer-DeWitt points out that if Apple beats that number by its average margin for the past three quarters -- 19.3% -- it will announce a staggering $21.5 billion.

Almost no one is willing to predict that big a win. But of the nine unaffiliated analysts Elmer-DeWitt looked at, seven predict revenue will be north of the $20 billion barrier.

Wall Street analysts are far less bullish, with a consensus of $18.76 billion. But, as Elmer-DeWitt points out, Wall Street analysts have been much more credulous of Apple's guidance in the past, and they've ended up looking much sillier for it.

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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/09/was-this-apples-20-billion-quarter/

Microsoft buys Adobe Systems Inc?

On Thursday the shares of Adobe Systems Inc jumped sharply on new speculations that the company might be purchased by Microsoft Corp. The news was reported by the New York Times who said that Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer had met secretly with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at Adobe's San Francisco offices "recently"...




The two companies discussed the dominance of Apple in mobile phones market and considered several scenarios to withstand that and Microsoft’s acquisition of Adobe was at the agenda among the options.


Adobe’s shares climbed up as much as 17% to an intraday high of $30 before settling back. It closed up 11.5 percent at $28.69 on Nasdaq.


According to estimates such a deal could be worth $15 billion or more based on Adobe's current market value. The agreement would give Microsoft much advantage and renew its forces in a competition with Apple in Internet media and mobile industries.
An acquisition could make sense, Wall Street analysts said, as a way for Microsoft to integrate graphics and video capabilities into software for new phones and tablet computers, and to counter Apple, whose CEO Steve Jobs has railed against the quality of the Flash player and discouraged developers from using it in applications for the iPhone and iPad.
The only problem I see with a combined Adobe and Microsoft is that there would be a definite corporate culture clash. Microsoft is seen as a process-driven software bully and Adobe is seen as a free flow creative environment. If I was Steve Ballmer and I had a big budget for a major acquisition, then I would definitely set my sights on the company that makes the best photo and video editing software.


In your opinion, who would you buy if you were Microsoft and had $44 billion to spend?

Google presents the 1000 most-visited sites on the web

Google's free research and media planning tool formerly named Google Ad Planner, is to provide the deepest, most accurate insight into online audiences possible. This insight helps display advertisers select the best sites for their media plans and drive results for their campaigns.

Google's Doubleclick has released a list of top 1000 sites in the world Facebook and Yahoo lead the list with 540 million and 490 million visitors respectively.

One of the many data points that DoubleClick Ad Planner provides is site traffic data. In line with Ad Planner's mission, DoubleClick Ad Planner estimate and share this data in order to provide media planners, buyers and researchers with improved data quality and more data visualization options. 

The largest Indian site is Rediff at 234 rank with million  unique visitors per month. Google kept its own sites like Gmail out of the list.This is a part of promotion of Google ad planner which is a source for this post.here is a list of 15 sites.

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                                         Google's adplanner