nightly business report is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it s solid sales for microsoft in the company s most recent quarter. suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft s office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. microsoft earned 68 cents a share in its fiscal first quarter, in line with wall street forecasts. revenues, however, were a bit better than expected, coming in at $17.3 billion. tom: microsoft shares traded slightly lower after-hours, despite the solid numbers. still, some wall street analysts think the stock s a buy. erika miller reports. reporter: a lot has changed in the world in the past decade, but not the price of microsoft stock. it was trading in the mid-20s back in october 2001, and it s about
and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it s solid sales for microsoft in the company s most recent quarter. suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft s office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. microsoft earned 68 cents a share in its fiscal first quarter, in line with wall street forecasts. revenues, however, were a bit better than expected, coming in at $17.3 billion. tom: microsoft shares traded slightly lower after-hours, despite the solid numbers. still, some wall street analysts think the stock s a buy. erika miller reports. reporter: a lot has changed in the world in the past decade, but not the price of microsoft stock. it was trading in the mid-20s back in october 2001
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. another amazing quarter for apple. susie, once again the company blew past wall street s expectations. susie: tom, its quarterly profit jumped 95%! apple earned a record $6 billion, or $6.40 a share. wall street was looking for $5.37. the company sold 18 million iphones. that s more than double than a year ago, thanks to verizon wireless unveiling its version of the popular smartphone in february. these rules came out the same day reuters reported a new iphone could hit the market in four months. while not commenting on tonight s conference call with analysts, apple s chief operating officer tim cooked called iphone success much larger than we thought we could do. the manager editor of the internet magazine joins us tonight from the nasdaq. if all the reports are accurate that we heard before the earnings call today on apple
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. another amazing quarter for apple. susie, once again the company blew past wall street s expectations. susie: tom, its quarterly profit jumped 95%! apple earned a record $6 billion, or $6.40 a share. wall street was looking for $5.37. the company sold 18 million iphones. that s more than double than a year ago, thanks to verizon wireless unveiling its version of the popular smartphone in february. these rules came out the same day reuters reported a new iphone could hit the market in four months. while not commenting on tonight s conference call with analysts, apple s chief operating officer tim cooked called iphone success much larger than we thought we could do. the manager editor of the internet magazine joins us tonight from the nasdaq. if all the reports are accurate that we heard before the earnings call today on apple
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. another amazing quarter for apple. susie, once again the company blew past wall street s expectations. susie: tom, its quarterly profit jumped 95%! apple earned a record $6 billion, or $6.40 a share. wall street was looking for $5.37. the company sold 18 million iphones. that s more than double than a year ago, thanks to verizon wireless unveiling its version of the popular smartphone in february. these rules came out the same day reuters reported a new iphone could hit the market in four months. while not commenting on tonight s conference call with analysts, apple s chief operating officer tim cooked called iphone success much larger than we thought we could do. the manager editor of the internet magazine joins us tonight from the nasdaq. if all the reports are accurate that we heard before the earnings call today on apple