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JEFFREY JOERRES For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG We have mobile gaming at 3 percent of all data revenue for cell phone carriers, and that's going up ...
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ACHIM BRUECKNER I think we can reach a 15 percent conversion rate with these cells, and other researchers do as well...
CRAIG GRIMES We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.
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BRIAN GENDREAU I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy...
CARLY FIORINA We've seen phenomenal growth over the world since whale watching began in California in 1955 to the ...
ERICH HOYT We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
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KAREN HAUS Ultimately the Internet economy will become THE economy. So right now, everybody needs 10 percent, 1...
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GEORGE SCALISE Ten-percent growth in software is a very good number. That's the kind of thing we want to see. That'...
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SEAN WARGO The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction...
CLINTON MORRISON The PBX market came in at our expectations in 2005, and from a global perspective is doing very well...
MATTHIAS MACHOWINSKI There was a lot of disappointment about revenue. It's especially true for technology stocks - if you...
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ALAN LEVENSON In the grand scheme of things, we might see growth of 5.6 percent instead of 5.7 percent.
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