Has Wall Street in its hands

Software King of the World Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by the first acceleration of Azure cloud computing revenue growth in eight quarters amid a pitched battle with Amazon.com cloud unit.

Rocking at Round Rock

Dell has released its third quarter results but only upped its revenue by two percent compared to the same period last year.

 
Spain and Italian issues going away

Vodafone increased its full year earnings guidance, reflecting improving organic growth trends as difficult markets in Spain and Italy start to ease and it integrates its German cable acquisition.

Blacklist?  What Blacklist?

Huawei appears to have shrugged off being blacklisted in the US.

According to beancounters Canalys, the Chinese tech giant and smartphone maker Huawei has seen a 66 per cent annual growth and reaching a staggering 42 percent market share in China, which is the largest smartphone market in the world.

A combination of keen pricing, technical innovation and patriotism has turned its strong domestic position into a dominant one.  All this has happened at the expense of Apple, whose market share has dropped to 5.1 percent, as well as other Chinese vendors such as Vivo and Xiaomi.

Canalys said: "Huawei is in a strong position to consolidate its dominance further amid 5G network rollout. The Shenzhen tech giant knows that the impact of the blacklist is limited by unwavering support at home, where the headline loss of full-fat Android, its biggest international issue, has no impact -- Google's software and services are unavailable in China, while completely removing US-made semiconductors and components from its phones and networking gear."

Full year revenue growth of six percent

Chipmaker Xilinx topped Wall Street's targets for its fiscal second quarter but predicted trouble ahead which spooked its investors.

Predicts shedloads of cash due to data centres

Intel beat the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s predictions for third-quarter revenue and profit and raised its full-year revenue forecast, powered by sales to data centres and easing concerns about slowing demand during the US-China trade war.

Surprising desktop figures 

Dell beat the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street profit estimates thanks to a surprising higher demand for desktops, as well as a focus on more profitable contracts within its server unit in China.

Cloud services doing well

Salesforce forecast third-quarter and full-year revenue above what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street expected.

Core business back to normal

The chipmaker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia has surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by posting results ahead of what analysts expected.

If only there were some management software it could use to help out

SAP, the maker of expensive esoteric software, which no-one really knows what it does, has told its shareholders not to expect a major improvement in margins before next year.