Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and DVD-by-mail market…
Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a few years.…
Web site visitors didn’t set any records last month, but they also didn’t lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall though, more…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is suffering from the most obvious management blunders of 2011 for media companies. This stock has been punished after changing its pricing structure. The company apologized, but it…
The number of adults using e-readers like the Kindle from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the Nook from Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) has nearly doubled in the past year, from 8%…
According to Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings, the company’s recent diving stock price reflects a failure on his part to communicate clearly what the company is doing. That sort of…
Some companies become so badly damaged because of changes in the competitive markets or due to poor management decisions that their employees lose hope. This may be due to the fact that…
Parties of Merkel and allies parties beaten in Berlin elections. (Reuters) Obama jobs plan geared toward Democrat voters. (Reuters) Greece must take more austerity measures to get bailout money. (Reuters) Moody’s bias…
The first votes are in on the pricing scheme introduced in July by Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and it appears that the company’s subscribers are voting with their feet. Netflix now expects…
Best Buy needs new leadership. The current CEO, Brian J. Dunn, has had his chance to turn the company around. Nearly every news report about Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) poor earnings carried…
If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, then try baffling them with your footwork. That appears to be how Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is selling its weak second quarter…
Updated throughout the day. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will create a digital library (WSJ) Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will not longer pay a recurring dividend to Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) based on co-ownership of Verizon…
The California legislature has passed a bill that gives Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) until September 2012 to pay state taxes on its e-commerce sales there. Governor Jerry Brown still has to sign the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Carol Bartz resigns from Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board. (Reuters) Lagarde disputes reports of an IMF study that shows a $372 billion capital shortfall among Europe’s banks. (Reuters) Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC)…
The job market has remained relatively stagnant since 2009. To make matters worse, the educational requirements of the average U.S. employer have increased consistently from 2005 to 2009, recently outpacing the growth…
