courtesy of Sony Corp.Sales video game consoles nearly doubled year-over-year to $187 million in May, and overall spending on hardware and software rose 52% to $586 million in the month. The PlayStation…
thinkstockJune 16, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday but quickly bounced to positive territory. The IMF cut its forecast for U.S. GDP growth this year and investors will be cautious for the…
ThinkstockNuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) owes its fortunes back to the days of Lernout & Hauspie in the 1990s. Now the independent speech recognition leader is seeing its shares surge on reports…
courtesy of Ford Motor CompanyTwo factors are about ready to collide, and if history is any guide, the outcome could be ugly, at least for the short term. Since 1960, there have…
Intel reached a 52-week high after it announced its sales would be better than it had anticipated earlier in the year. Intel's news is almost certainly good for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
thinkstockJune 13, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday and even a weak report on consumer sentiment couldn’t keep equities down for long this morning. All three major indexes were pointed at weekly…
Samsung ElectronicsSamsung Electronics introduced its latest tablets on Thursday, the Galaxy Tab S in 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch models. Both have higher resolution displays than the iPad Air and the iPad Mini from…
ThinkstockIf you have followed the business segment serving PCs in recent years, you know that the rise of smartphones and tablets has cannibalized the PC market for quite some time now. But…
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is raising guidance. On top of that, the company is claiming that this is “As a result of stronger than expected demand for business PCs.” If that is…
ThinkstockShort sellers may have many reasons to be short a stock. One reason could be as a hedge against other positions, but often this is simply because short sellers are betting against…
bfishshadow via Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions in the same handful of Nasdaq stocks, but among them, short interest in Sirius, the Nasdaq-traded stock with the largest short position,…
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, aka E3, officially opens Tuesday, but the big players in the world of video games have the honor of announcing their new lineups early.
For the first time in eight years, Sony has nabbed the lead in video game console sales from rival Nintendo. Sony sold 18.7 million game consoles in its most recent fiscal year.
Microsoft launches its new Xbox One, which is a full $100 less than the earlier model -- and the same price as Sony's PlayStation 4.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at the leaders and laggards in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It turns out that as of Friday's closing bell, seven of the 30 Dow stocks…
