The next company in my series of “thoughts on earnings” pieces (see Google here, Apple here and Facebook here) is Microsoft. I’ll be doing something on Amazon next, most likely. Microsoft is a complicated business, with many parts to it, so I’ll focus…

Apple’s earnings were out today, and so I thought I’d do a quick run-down of some of the most interesting numbers, as I did for Google last week. Time permitting, I’ll do this for some of the other major tech companies as they report too. Some of what’s below…

Along with Apple’s earnings yesterday, which I commented on here, Facebook also announced its results for the first quarter of 2014. Here are a few charts and thoughts on Facebook’s results and its overall trajectory.

This is the latest in a series on major tech companies’ earnings for Q1 2014. As with the others, I won’t aim to be comprehensive, but rather to pull out some key figures and draw some conclusions from them.