Rating the Top 25 Newspaper Websites 2009
The struggle for large urban newspapers to stay in business has largely been an effort on the part of their managements to increase revenue on the Internet faster than it is lost in their…
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Newest first · Page 329A New And Improved XBox, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Electronics Ace
All the evidence points to the sales of the Nintendo Wii slowing. That would make sense. More than 20 million have been sold in the US. The market gets saturated at some point. The…
Media Digest 6/15/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The heads of the emerging markets, the so-called BRICs, held their first global summit. Reuters: Obama will be tested this week on financial reforms. Reuters: Rich nations are working on an exit from…
Video Game Sales Still Bleeding, Xbox And PS3 Gain Ground
Video game and game console systems sales plunged in the US in May. According to industry research group NPD, software sales were down 17% to $449 million and sales of players dropped 30% to…
QUALCOMM: Higher Demand, But Lower ASP’s (QCOM)
It seems that the sudden push for all the smartphone launches and the continued gearing down of the laptops to smaller mobile web devices is acting as a boom for QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM). …
Cramer’s Mobile Web & Digital TV Stocks (AAPL, RIMM, PALM, QCOM, ADI, BRCM, MRVL, RFMD, SNDK, STAR, SWKS, TXN, RSH)
If you are a fan of and an investor in the mobile web via smartphones and portable devices, then you do not even have to be a dedicated fan of Jim Cramer to become…
Sprint (S) Still Near Top Of MSN “Worst Customer Service” List
Palm (PALM) may not have had much of a choice in terms of which cellular company was going to market its new Pre. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) were probably not interested. Palm’s…
Can’t Kill The Sims (ERTS, AAPL)
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) is often known for its overwhelmingly popular Madden and sports game franchises. Yet the Sims is the series that just keeps on giving. Because you can play The Sims…
Cisco (CSCO) Video Traffic Forecast Trouble For Cable And Telecoms?
Cisco (CSCO) expected a staggering increase in IP traffic between now and 2013. A new report from the router company says that global IP traffic will quintuple in the five years ending in 2013. The primary…
The Failure Of The Web 1.0 Giants And The Case That Facebook and MySpace Could Be Worthless
Facebook recently took in a new $200 million investment which puts the value of the company at $10 billion. That is down from a $15 billion valuation based on an investment that Microsoft (MSFT)…
Sony (SNE) Will Have To Sell Its Studio Business, Could Get $6 Billion
Sony (SNE) is in trouble, and it is very deep trouble. For the fiscal year ending March 31, the conglomerate lost more than $1 billion on $79 billion in revenue. Sales were down by…
What Is Time, Inc. Worth?
There have been rumors recently that Time, Inc., the Time Warner (TWX) publishing division and the largest magazine operation in the country, might be spun off to shareholders in much the same fashion that…
Intel & Wind River: Much More Than Meets The Eye (INTC, WIND, MSFT, IBM, TXN)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has made what many will consider as a strange merger, but there is more to this merger than meets the eye and this will give Intel higher ticket sales with…
Nintendo Claims It Still Beats Rivals, Even If Evidence Says Otherwise
Nintendo says it is doing remarkable well, especially in America. Recent data from the industry show that sales of the company’s Wii have slowed considerably. Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) have released products meant…
Tivo’s (TIVO) Best Day, Ever
Tivo (TIVO) got its start as the original digital video recording device company. Consumer electronics hobbyists bought Tivos by the hundreds of thousands to put on top of their TVs to record shows to…