Blockbuster (BBI), the world’s largest movie rental chain, has all sorts of problems. It is nearly insolvent. Its model of renting DVDs from stores has been largely bypassed by online operations such as…
These are ten of the top research calls we have seen in the form of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street analysts this Wednesday morning: Akamai Technologies Inc. (NYSE: AKAM) Raised…
The New York Times reports that Walmart (WMT) has bought video on demand hardware and software company Vudu. The firm’s service is built into set-top boxes and Blu-ray devices. The paper reports that Vudu recently “announced…
Deciding who wins and who loses in movie rentals has proven to be a difficult task other than stating the obvious…. Online distribution and delivery distribution have major benefits over being a…
The key to a media business model is the size of the market and the demographic of the consumer. eMarketer is forecasting the number of monthly Internet users in the US will…
These are some of the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning: Dish Networks (NASDAQ: DISH) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. DirecTV (NYSE:…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have a link over to VSInvestor.com for each story with more details and analysis: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is…
These are this Thursday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at Barclays Capital. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:…
Reuters: The Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls grew to 8 million. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) is considering selling its real estate unit. Reuters: Wall St. will fight Obama’s plan for the banking system. Reuters: Obama…
YouTube, the highly popular but unprofitable video-sharing operation owned by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will begin to offer movie rentals. This is presumably a way to make money. YouTube is set to launch the services with movies from the…
Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may leave China due to attempts to hack into its service there. Reuters: Oil dropped below $80 on US inventory news. Reuters: China markets fear tighter money policies from…
Like visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, the chiefs of the Hollywood studios and their bosses at the major media conglomerates want to extend the profits that they make on…
Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based on internet revenue. The poll results come from…
These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN) Started as Buy at Roth Capital. Cintas Corp. (NASDAQ: CTAS)…
These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Akamai Technologies, Inc.…
