Operating profit for the computer segment rose to $628 million, from $414 million in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue from Comcast's digital phone segment rose 45percentto to $731 million.
Profit at its international retail segment rose 55.6percentto to 168 million euros ($230 million).
Revenue from education publishing rose 10percentto to $844.2 million, while operating profits in the segment rose 9percentto to $255.2 million.
But dollar sales in the segment rose only 2 percent, raising concern that the higher volume stemmed from heavy price promotions.
The company said sales at its United States retail segment rose 4percentt, helping to offset a 16percentt decline in the bakeries and food service unit.
The company said revenue at its international segment rose to $2.95 billion, from $2.5 billion, but results were hurt by fuel costs and declining import volumes.
Investment-banking revenue jumped 15% from a year earlier, and revenue at Goldman's investing and lending segment rose 46% from a year ago, to $2.07bn.
The Commerce Department said groundbreaking for single-family homes, the largest portion of the market, rose 4.7 percent, while starts for the more volatile multifamily homes segment rose 12.8 percent.
According to Microsoft's estimates, the PC market grew 25 percent during the last quarter, with the consumer segment rising 30 percent and business market rising 14 percent.
Operating profit in the agricultural services segment rose $6 million, to $171 million, amid volatile commodity markets, regional instability in the Middle East and Japan's earthquake and tsunami.
