Reports have been out that television advertisements are now around 90% sold out for the available 2013 Super Bowl television commercial spots. Even in early August the reports showed that the Super Bowl ads were about 80%…
What would the autumn be without the release of the U.S. News & World Report ranking of best colleges and universities. And what would the list be without Harvard — founded in 1636 and…
Global shipments of TV sets has fallen for the third consecutive quarter according to the latest research from the NPD Group. The decline, which has picked up steam since beginning in the last quarter…
A look at the headlines across Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and the New York Times business section shows that all cover the same major stories in much the same way.…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO) faces the same dilemma many multimedia firms do: it has a print division. Print is no longer a viable medium for these firms in many cases. Though a shutdown…
U.S. retail sales of video games, controllers and gear fell 20% in August compared with sales in the same month a year ago, according to a report from research firm NPD Group. The biggest…
It’s not too much to say that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) changed the music business when it released its first iPod in 2001. Selling single tracks for less than a dollar absolutely cannibalized CD…
At first glance, the most interesting fact in the new eMarketer study of mobile ads is that Twitter will get more revenue from this source in 2012 than Facebook will. The figure represents another example…
Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock is up 40% this year. That is not as good as Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) nearly 60%, but it thrashes the 5% rise in Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The differences…
ZyngaZynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has been in deep trouble since its IPO has made so many short sellers that much more wealthy. Virtual farm animals just haven’t been the continual draw that the company…
There has been speculation that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was going to reset its employee stock options or that it was going to accelerate the period where certain insiders and/or employees could sell shares.…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) just cannot seem to catch a break. Despite having millions and millions of subscribers, the all-you-can-eat movie and television service is getting hit hard on news that rival Amazon.com Inc.…
That did not take long. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it has signed a deal with premium entertainment network Epix to offer Epix content to Amazon Prime customers. Until last Friday, Netflix…
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is trying to trade up this Tuesday. There are two research notes which may get in the way, and it is important to know that Friday’s close of $18.06 is…
ZyngaEmbattled online game firm Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), its stock down over 80% this year, and its business prospects in question, lost two more senior executives today, according to Bloomberg: Zynga Inc. vice presidents Bill Mooney and…