courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) wants to compete more and more with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for the iPad and with Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) for its Kindle. The…
Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) has been struggling with losses for the past four years and the ripple effects of those losses now include another downgrade to Sony’s corporate credit rating from Standard & Poor’s…
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has closed the previously announced sale of its About Group to IAC/Interactive Corp. (NASDAQ: IACI). The sale did include the websites About.com, ConsumerSearch.com and CalorieCount.com in the offering.…
Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced this morning that it had settled a pending patent suit against Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and that the two companies have entered into a…
via Wikimedia CommonsThe movie industry suffered through another bad weekend. Experts often have argued that people go to theaters less because of DVDs and streaming download services. Those assumptions could be tested now as…
Tens of millions of Americans continue to read, watch or listen to the news. Many must consider this news no better than entertainment, as their distrust of the media has reached an all-time high during the…
Premium content website Hulu, owned by several large multimedia companies, claims it will revolutionize how people get high-end video online and make a great deal of money in the process. VEVO claims the same thing.…
ClearwireIn a Friday filing with the SEC, Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) said it will sell its stake of 46.4 million shares of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) either to other shareholders or, if…
Wikimedia Creative Commons, JohnnyMrNinjaStreaming and rental video provider Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is currently involved in a negotiation with A&E Networks for a license to distribute the network’s content. The existing license expires Friday.…
A government investigation into J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) focuses on whether its monitoring of illicit money transactions was adequate. (Reuters) The U.S. will initiate a case at the WTO against China for…
Sirius XMSirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) now are at a crossroads about their future. Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA) is now even closer to getting that 50% plus one vote that it needs…
courtesy NintendoThe new Nintendo Wii U may be a super game console, but probably not super enough. The problems the product faces go well beyond the success of competitive products from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT)…
courtesy NintendoAfter more than a year since the product’s introduction, the Nintendo Wii U game controller finally has pricing, shipping dates, and more details on what the device can do. The company said that…
Nintendo will continue its effort to make a comeback in the video game console business. It will introduce its new Wii U in Japan on December 8. It is a wonder that the Japanese…
ZyngaMany traders thought the 7.7% rise in Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) stock after CEO Mark Zuckerberg made comments at a TechCrunch conference about the firm’s future made no sense. He said little beyond the fact…