微軟公司 |
Microsoft |
????2012年《財(cái)富》500強(qiáng)排名:第35位 ????2012年利潤(rùn)(單位:百萬(wàn)美元):16,978 ????沒(méi)有哪一家公司愿意看到財(cái)年最后一個(gè)季度出現(xiàn)首次季虧。然而,,在aQuantive網(wǎng)絡(luò)廣告業(yè)務(wù)上下錯(cuò)的賭注迫使微軟不得不在去年6月份的第四財(cái)季財(cái)報(bào)中公布減值62億美元,。自那以后,這個(gè)軟件巨頭一直在試圖完成自我救贖,。去年秋季,,微軟發(fā)布了Windows 8操作系統(tǒng),盡管個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)市場(chǎng)萎靡不振,,但上個(gè)季度公司銷(xiāo)售額躍升23%,。雖然微軟的智能手機(jī)和平板電腦產(chǎn)品尚未對(duì)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手造成重創(chuàng),,但受Xbox熱銷(xiāo)和云計(jì)算業(yè)務(wù)開(kāi)拓的提振,微軟正恢復(fù)增長(zhǎng),,不斷向分析師預(yù)期的水平邁進(jìn),。——T.Z. |
????Fortune 500 rank: 35 ????2012 profit (millions): 16,978 ????Reporting your first quarterly loss ever is not the way a company wants to end its fiscal year. But a bad bet on online ad unit aQuantive forced Microsoft to report a $6.2 billion writedown in its fourth-quarter results last June. The software giant has redeemed itself since then. Microsoft released Windows 8 last fall, and despite a dying PC market, sales jumped 23% last quarter. The company's smartphone and tablet offerings have yet to make a dent against their rivals, but with boosts from the Xbox and a move to cloud computing, Microsoft is growing again and meeting expectations.—T.Z. |