Perhaps online search habits do not always lead to purchases, but, if they do, Nintendo and Apple (AAPL) are in for strong sales in Europe during the holiday season. According to comScore,…
If there is one thing you still hear about as being immune from a weak consumer and from any Christmas spending concerns it is that Nintendo’s Wii is in such high demand…
According to Reuters, Nikon is seeing a sharp increase in demand from LCD makers. Reuters writes that the housing slump will last through 2009 and some home prices will drop 30%. Reuters…
For several years, Apple (AAPL) has said with pride that its Mac computers and OS are more secure than products from Microsoft (MSFT), especially Windows, which have been a huge target for…
SAP (SAP) is launching sales force automation products that will work on the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. As much as any initiative so far this begins to move the handset away its role…
Vista is Microsoft’s (MSFT) flagship now. But, in a series of ads Apple (AAPL) and taken a juvenile and merciless approach to news that the new operating system from Redmond may have…
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) have pulled back a lot recently and now trade at a little over $33. Not long ago, they were are $37.50. A look at the Thomson/First Call analyst…
Douglas A. McIntyre The head of video game company Activision (ATVI) has good reason to see the prices on video consoles Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3 come down. If they sell more…
Nasdaq released short interest in stocks listed on the exchange for the period ending November 15 compared to the numbers on October 31. Short sellers made substantial bets that some financial and…
According to Reuters, GM (GM) will begin to build hybrid cars in China next year. Reuters writes that BHP Billiton (BHP) is insisting that a merger with Rio Tinto (RTP) will not…
Google (GOOG) will offer PC users the chance to store data like word files and videos on its servers instead of individual computer hard drives. It is part of the company’s remote…
Data from Japan show that Sony’s (SNE) PS3 sales are up since the company cut the price on its latest game console. The PS3 outsold the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox…
Google (GOOG) is still trying to break the hold that Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine has on its local market. The US company is not having much success. The Chinese government…
According to comScore, "online retail spending was strong on both Thanksgiving Day (up 29 percent to $272 million) and “Black Friday” (up 22 percent to $531 million), outpacing the season-to-date growth rate."…
Wall St. broadly accepts that the next frontier for online search and web use will be the cellphone. That assumes, of course, the consumers want to use tiny screens to access the…