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Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 first quarter ended December 28, 2019. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $91.8 billion, an increase of 9 percent from the year-ago quarter and an all-time record, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $4.99, up 19 percent, also an all-time record. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue. Apple record results — Apple founded the trillion-dollar market value club“We are thrilled to report Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, fueled by strong demand for our iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models, and all-time records for Services and...

Happy New Year, everyone!! Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! President Trump should take the win in the Senate trial without dragging it out, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails, then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting spending and...

Unprecedented! The U.S. economy has failed to thrive under Big GuyÂ’s careful care and tending. First Quarter growth, originally reported to have at the robust pace of 0.2% in the first quarter, actually {{{horrors!}}} shrunk by 0.7%. That was far worse than the agencyÂ’s initial estimate that showed 0.2% growth, marking an abrupt reversal from the prior nine months when growth surged and the economy appeared on the verge of a long-delayed breakout.Long-delayed indeed: the recovery we've HOPEd for has been lurking around the corner for 6 years now. Yes, thereÂ’s light at the end of the tunnel, letÂ’s hope...

WE ALL KNOW IT'S PAST TIME TO COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION & PLEASE ASK OR TELL YOUR FRiends TO MAKE THEIRS! (It's a crying shame that FR can't run on Jim's good looks alone.) I've got to be honest and completely blunt with you all. Jim's awesome FReepathon Team is comprised of the very finest, most loyal and dedicated FReepers on the whole of Free Republic, but 2 Month FReepathons take their toll and now this one has gone into Month #3. Our Team have lives apart from our FReepathons and we're tired. I'm afraid we're losing...

Your article would post as follows: Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ Time to Get Serious! If You Love Free Republic You Can Keep It By Making Your Donation! PLEASE Go Monthly IF You possibly & reliably can! RUSH:  You know, it's interesting to try to pinpoint exactly when the Tea Party began.  Now, the modern incarnation of the Tea Party as we understand it is a television phenomenon, and that was Obamacare.  Obamacare and the stimulus, the debt and the spending, is what motivated people who were already thinking in a different way. Some people...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ WE 'Conservatives' renounce the clowns on the right. WE 'Conservatives' have yet to see you, 'LIBERALS', renounce the clowns on the left. We 'Conservatives' are not holding our breath. THIS is what makes us different than you. WE are beholden to principle, not party. WOO-HOO & AMEN! PLEASE Make Your Donation TODAY! Go Monthly if you possibly & reliably can!VERY Generous FReeper Sponsors are donating $10 for every New Monthly Donor! I get it. Right now, it looks like everything SUX except our families, our TEA Party and our Patriots...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ "I have two speeds ... humor and righteous indignation."~Andrew Breitbart FReeper andrew Dearest FReeper-Patriot-FRiends, I'm getting this posted early, so we can have an entire day and night to try to "Git-R-Done"! Andrew Breitbart was a patriot warrior and a FReeper before he was famous. Like Jim Robinson, Andrew was all about truth and patriotism. God love Andrew and God hold him dear. And, Thank God, we have Jim. Regrettably, we're into the first day of the third month of our 1st Quarter FReepathon with $5.4k to go. It's been...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ Rush has his Golden EIB mic! We have Free Republic! Free Republic is Your Voice and Your Forum!FR Really Needs and Appreciates Your Loyal Support! PLEASE Make Your Donation Today, GO Monthly, if You possibly & reliably can! Today's the last day of February and we still have $6.7k to go ... We're on the home stretch, and perhaps it's a stretch to think we can get this one done by midnight today or is it? Let's go for the green! We can do this if we all pull together!...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ Free Republic is Your Voice and Your Forum!We Really Need and Appreciate Your Loyal Support! PLEASE Make Your Donation Today, Monthly, if You POSSIBLY & RELIABLY can! Dearest Wonderful, Fabulous, Awesome FReeper-Patriots, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Like I mentioned, Jim and our Fresno/Central Valley Chapter are going to FReep the cowardly Marxist today, when he steps off Air Force One in Fresno, CA! WOO-HOO!!! PLEASE allow for a little time lapse for the posting of your wonderful, generous donations, because Jim will be operating from his tablet, but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ Graphic by Meshuge Mikey, via Rush! Free Republic is Your Voice and Your Forum!We Really Need and Appreciate Your Loyal Support! PLEASE Make Your Donation Today, Monthly, if You POSSIBLY & RELIABLY can! Dearest Wonderful, Fabulous, Awesome FReeper-Patriots, Thank you so much for giving Free Republic such a big boost over the past few days! PLEASE keep your contributions coming in! All of us love coming to Free Republic every day, so please know that know that EVERY Donation counts, no matter the amount! EVERY Donation is truly and greatly...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ Speaker Boehner is not a patriot, he is a politician and a sorry one at that. We are TEA Party Patriots!His needed votes came primarly from Reps from CA, IL, MI, NY, NJ, NY, VA & WA Dearest Wonderful, Fabulous, Awesome FReeper-Patriots, Thank you so much for giving Free Republic such a big boost over the past few days! PLEASE keep the Big Mo going! Our New Monthly Donor count is now at 35, which includes 3 New $1-a-Day Donors! We have 4 wonderful, fabulous, awesome and very generous FReeper...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ "When you compromise with Evil, you do not get a lesser version of truth, rather you get a lesser version of Evil." "People are going to say whatever and try to claim whatever to try and take us out. They have an irrational fear of us. They want us on a leash. We're not going to be on a leash. They want us to dance. We're not going to dance with them." ~Andrew Breitbart Happy Birthday to Sarah Palin! May God always bless and keep her and her precious family,...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ TRUTH Trumps Slander SPEAK It Unafraid Keeping Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!PLEASE Make Yours Today, Monthly if you can! We're now at 45 percent and we have 24 New Monthly Donors! We also have 101 Dalmations Donations of $100 or more, as per our 300 Club and I-be-TC's original Challenge. Were half of our regular users to reliably donate $5, $10, $20 or $30 Monthly, this FReepathon and all FReepathons would be things of the past. PLEASE consider Donating Monthly. We have 4 very generous FReeper Sponsors, (Tijeras_Slim, upchuck,...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ CONTACT SPEAKER Boehner "here" TODAY!NO DAMN AMNESTY!NO IMMIGRATION REFORM! ALSO, PLEASE GET ON THE PHONES! 202-224-3121 - CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD WE ARE TEA PARTY PATRIOTS, NOT REPUBLICANS, BUT THERE ARE ONLY 2 MAJOR PARTIES!PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION OR SIGN UP TO DONATE MONTHLY, RIGHT HERE! First off, PLEASE make you calls and send your e-mails! We're winning the amnesty issue, BIG TIME! Make DC listen!! Karl Rove's American Crossroad's donations were down OVER 90%! That spells DOOM for the GOP-e and GLORY for our completely independent, citizen army of "TEA Party"...

Click here to pledge your support via secure server ^ We are FReepers - Patriot TEA Party Conservatives! Like Andrew Breitbart, we FReepers also "Speak Truth To Power, and do so Boldly, Courageously, and without Apology." FReepers: We Need to Ramp It UP! We're already into the second month of our 1st Quarter FReepathon with only 36% of our goal met. There's good reason for Jim keeping Free Republic fiercely independent and self reliant. We needn't look any farther than our Canadian neighbor and sister site, FREE DOMINION , which was shut down after a libel ruling! Don't think for...

Euro zone contracted by massive 2.5 pct in Q1 Euro zone economy contracted by massive 2.5 percent in Q1, fourth straight decline Pan Pylas, AP Business Writer On Friday May 15, 2009, 7:24 am EDT Buzz up! Print LONDON (AP) -- The economy in the 16 countries that use the euro shrank by a massive 2.5 percent in the first quarter as a global recession sapped the industrial exports that Europe relies on for growth and jobs. Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, saw output plunge by 3.8 percent as demand for its cars and factory machinery collapsed -- its...

First quarter net revenues increase 15 percent over prior year quarter to approximately $34 million. First quarter income from operations grows 44 percent over prior year quarter. ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTMD - News), a leading manufacturer and supplier of innovative product solutions for patient care, occupational safety and management of infectious and hazardous waste for the healthcare industry, today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. Highlights from the first quarter of 2005 include: Net revenues increased 15 percent over the first quarter of 2004 to $33.7 million; *...