Logitech sales rise nearly 14% as work from home boosts demand

Logitech sales rise nearly 14% as work from home boosts demand

Logitech, which makes webcams, keyboards, mouses as well as video conferencing devices and software, said its fourth-quarter sales rose to $709.2 million, compared with $624.3 million a year ago. Non-GAAP operating income rose 23.3% to $79 million in the quarter that ended in March. For the full year, the company reported a rise of 6.7% in sales, meeting its FY20 outlook for a mid to high single digit percentage rise, while its annual non-GAAP operating income, at $387 million, beat its FY20 target range of $365 million-$375 million....

Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Looks to Dalio, Marks to Boost Returns

(Bloomberg) -- SkyBridge Capital, the investment firm founded by Anthony Scaramucci, is turning to some of the biggest names in the hedge fund industry to boost returns after its portfolio lost almost a quarter of its value this year.The firm is investing $100 million each in Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates and Howard Marks’s Oaktree Capital Group, according to a letter sent to clients on Monday. The fund-of-funds will allocate an additional $90 million to Dan Loeb’s Third Point. Scaramucci said all three performed well in the last financial crisis and in other periods of market dislocation.“We believe our investors will be better served -- in good and bad markets -- by greater diversification across different strategies and across different managers,” he wrote. “We learned hard lessons in March, and we are taking decisive corrective action.”SkyBridge’s flagship fund lost nearly 24% in the first four months of the year. After investing heavily...

ZoomInfo Moves Ahead with Rare Crisis-Era U.S. Tech IPO

(Bloomberg) -- ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., a business-intelligence platform owned by private equity firms, plans to go public as early as June in what could be one of the first technology listings since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The Vancouver, Washington-based company may launch a virtual roadshow to market its stock as soon as this month, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.ZoomInfo on Monday updated its filing for an initial public offering with its latest financial information. Following its February 2019 deal to combine with DiscoverOrg, the company’s revenue almost doubled to $102 million in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, according to the filing. Meanwhile, its net loss for the quarter shrunk to $5.9 million from $40 million in 2019.The company also said in the filing that in April, the annualized...