Amazon Financial results (Q3): $ 170 million in losses only for its Fire Phone

Terribles have shekels Amazon's financial results for its latest fiscal quarter. Confirmed on Yahoo Finance about historical losses in net income reaching US $ 427 million, including 170 million (40% of total) because of the disaster in sales that has been their first smartphone, the Fire Phone , presented in June this year. Another statistic: 85 million units of the equipment are still waiting buyer .

Analysts expected a loss of just 76 cents per share, but all surprised that the strategy of producing and promoting Fire caused Phone came to 95 cents. Sure, there may be other factors affecting the profit and loss -señalan at VentureBeat causes as the decline in income over their cloud services and even billion dollar investments such as the recent purchase of Twitch - but almost half is caused by a single item is alarming what are wrong? How is it that the biggest online store in the world suffer so much trying to sell a mobile simple?

The Fire Phone, plus innovative features 3D does not add anything different to that offered by the competition. Worse, to have a modified version of Android optimized to have a meter software Google to promote only their ecosystem services, many users, as has been seen in their negative recommendations within the sales page Team at Amazon.com , talk about how bad they have found it.

But there is something far worse: the price. Yes, after that does nothing different, is powered by a high price and only one operator in the United States. Anyway, it is quite difficult to ask the impossible ...

More info: Amazon Financial results (Q3 2014)

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Microsoft Financial Results (Q1): great with Xbox and Surface Pro 3

And of course, Microsoft has also made ​​public and the financial results for its fourth quarter (Q1, the first in its fiscal year 2015) which show satisfactory probably due to the change in control that has represented the retaking of a visionary towards hands of its new CEO Satya Nadella. Among other things, the tablet for professionals Surface Pro 3-of which we spoke in depth - Xbox consoles and even the Lumia range, have experienced significant increases in sales compared to the same period in the previous year.

Numbers: In the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 (September to November 2013) were reported revenues of $ 400 million in the range of Surface tablets. Well, at the same time but a year later, revenues have more than doubled reaching 908 million;Meanwhile the number of Xbox sold grew by 102% thus reaching 2.4 million consoles sold though considering the arrival of Xbox One to 28 new markets.

Also there is talk of a 25% increase in the number of users of Office 365 Home and Personal already reaches 7 million subscribers and nearly 6% increase in sales of Lumia phones (9.3 million units), now recognized as mobile Microsoft Lumia , compared to the same quarter last year (8.8 million). In the business sector, as detallábamos a couple of days ago, also maintains its leadership in cloud computing services .

Finally, spare not recommended to thoroughly review its balance sheet for "scarce" resources that the company has resources that allow passage think of how much more will maintain its global relevance: Nearly 90 billion in cash (including investments short term) of $ 112 billion in current assets, more than 3 billion in inventories, among other "minutiae".

More information: Press release for Microsoft Investors - Q1 FY15 Earnings Release

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