Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) shares rose on news that it would launch in the UK and Ireland. The US based company has been dogged by fears that a customer revolt again higher prices for…
Battered video provider Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is launching its streaming video service in the UK and Ireland today with a one-month free trial for customers who sign up through Facebook. The…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) lost 29% of its market cap on news that it might spin-off its NOOK e-reader operations. The book company is now worth only…
After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from…
Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have risen about 7% today and it’s hard to say whether the main cause is speculation that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) might buy the company or…
Ticket sales for movie theaters dropped in 2011 the most in 16 years, according to Hollywood.com. Some of the fall-off is due to a dearth of blockbuster films. But the industry also…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from Wall Street’s darling in 2011 to being Wall Street’s whipping boy. The company’s efforts under Reed Hastings could easily become the classic case study for “How…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new television product could do more to change the industry since the dawn of color TV, if an analyst at Sterne Agee is correct. The research firm said that…
A number of economists believe the U.S. debt burden, budget problems, recession and lack of growth will soon be the same as those now facing many EU nations. This would mean that…
Research firm ForeSee released its customer satisfaction ratings for the shopping season — its Holiday E-retail Satisfaction Index. The e-commerce ratings mirror, in most cases, the states of the parent companies’ revenue. Amazon.com…
The numbers do not add up. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has over 4,000 full-line and specialty stores. Same-store sales for the eight weeks that ended December 25 were down 5.2%. That figure…
During this year’s holdiday shopping season, some 92% of all online sales generated by mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) were made from devices running iOS from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). That number represents…
Investors walked away from several retail stocks late this year. Those companies probably will continue to falter in 2012 and 2013. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) will sell its LCD business to Samsung for $940 million. (Reuters) The yuan hits a high against the dollar and may gain 4% this year. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
Yahoo.comNew Comscore data shows the extent to which Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have become internet destinations while portals Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN lose ground. The social network…
