Americans have certain rights. Among them are to own a car and have a square meal everyday. Most, but not all citizens enjoy those things. Now, Nintendo wants to add to that…
According to Reuters, the pace of capital spending in China rose quickly, making a rate increase likely. Reuters writes that an investigation into the finances of Fannie Mae (FNM) is likely after…
According to Reuters, Barclays (BCS) took a $2.7 billion write-down due to exposure to subprime markets. Reuters writes that IBM (IBM) will push into the business of running huge data centers for…
E-Commerce sales for the first month of the holiday season, October, showed a modest increase of 19% to $8.4 billion (excluding travel). The categories that drove online sales were video games and…
Markets in Asia were off sharply.’ The Nikkei was down 2% to 15,772. NTT (NTT) was down 3.7% to 509000. Sony (SNE) was down 2.4% to 5390. Toyota (TM) was down 4.2%…
According to Reuters, Google (GOOG) launched a new mobile phone initiative with a number of handset makers and cellular carriers. Reuters writes that an analysts covering the financial industry expects more write-dwons…
China e-commerce company Alibaba moved up 165% after its IPO. Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fell .1% to 16,250. Honda (HMC) fell 3.3% to 3190. Sony (SNE) fell 1.8% to…
Just when shares in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Apple (AAPL) were doing so well, it appears that, in Japan, consumers are moving toward game consoles and smart phones for their daily…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .8% to 16,870. Canon (CAJ) rose 3.7% to 5960. NTT Data fell 5.8% to 493000. Softbank rose 5.2% to 2810. Sony (SNE) rose 3.4%…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .3% to 16,651. NTT (NTT) fell 1.9% to 522000. Sony (SNE) fell 1.4% to 5640. The Hang Seng rose .3% to 31,697. China Mobile…
Douglas A. McIntyre Nintendo, which makes the DS portable videogame device and Wii console, said it hoped to start by unveiling new features for the DS next year that would be more practical than entertaining,…
Nintendo says there will be no price cuts on its wildly popular Wii game console. And, why should there be. The firm barely has enough manufacturing capacity to keep up with current…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Asia rose The Nikkei moved up 1.3% to 16,506. Hitachi (HIT) rose 3% to 744. NTT (NTT) rose 1.4% to 520000. Sony (SNE) rose 8.8% to 5560. The Hang Seng…
Douglas A. McIntyre Nintendo had another monster quarter. Group net profit soared to ¥132.42 billion ($1.16 billion) in its fiscal first half from ¥54.35 billion a year earlier. Group sales more than doubled to ¥694.80billion…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to The Wall Street Journal: "Sony posted a group net profit of ¥73.7 billion ($645 million) in its fiscal second quarter, compared with ¥1.7 billion a year earlier." The company’s game…
