Earns schedule for selected technology companies

The Associated Press

Later this month, several technology companies will begin releasing their earnings reports for the latest quarter. The reports will generally cover the July-September period, though some companies have fiscal quarters that depart from that.

Last week, Samsung Electronics Co. forecast another record quarterly operating profit, likely driven by strong sales of high-end smartphones that offset weak semiconductor orders. Samsung estimated that its July-September operating income nearly doubled to 8.1 trillion won ($7.3 billion) from 4.25 trillion won a year earlier. The result was better than the market consensus of 7.6 trillion won. Full results are expected later this month, though a specific date is not yet known.

Here's the schedule for selected technology companies. Dates for many companies are not yet known.

— Oct. 16: Intel Corp., IBM Corp.

— Oct. 17: eBay Inc.

— Oct. 18: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.

— Oct. 22: Yahoo Inc.

— Oct. 23: Facebook Inc., Netflix Inc.

— Oct. 24: Zynga Inc., AT&T Inc.

— Oct. 25: Apple Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Amazon.com Inc.

— Oct. 26: Comcast Corp.

— Nov. 1: Sony Corp.

— Nov. 8: Groupon Inc.

— Nov. 13: Cisco Systems Inc.

— Nov. 20: Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc.

— Dec. 20: Research In Motion Ltd.