Two Quarters Two Profit Warnings. and the iPhone still has miles to go. Intel is still selling the chips. Blu ray is not going anywhere soon. PS3 is a saving grace
Following up disappointing earning results from both Research in Motion (RIMM) and PALM last week, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB issued another profit warning Friday, saying second-quarter sales and profit would be hit by slowing demand and a delay in shipping new products.
The profit warning is the second in as many quarters as the mobile-phone maker continues to be hit hard by a weakening economy in Western Europe, hurting demand for the mid- to high-end handsets it specializes in. In contrast, rival Nokia Corp. has a much broader portfolio of devices in the low and midtie...
Sony Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, design, manufacture, and sale of electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer and industrial markets in Japan, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company’s products include audio and video equipment, liquid crystal display televisions, personal computers, monitors, semiconductors, components, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Disc. It develops, produces, manufactures, markets, and distributes home-use game consoles and software, such as PlayStation2, PlayStation Portable, and PL...
Sony's stock has been a dog, mostly because the company has been in a funk for years. They blew their portable music player franchise and it seemed as though they were about to do the same in video games. However I recently read and article in GameDaily which reports that iSuppli is predicting that Nintendo Wii owners will seek PS3 as a second console in 2008 and that this will be a turnaround year for Sony in video game consoles. This makes sense. My kids have a Wii which they love and now that Blu-Ray has won the HD DVD war, a lot of adults will buy PS3s by Xmas as a two-in-one purch...
Is it unsportsmanlike to gloat? Microsoft (MSFT) is crowing their Xbox 360 walloped Sony's (SNE) PS3 in sales on Black Friday:
Retailers reported Xbox 360 console sales over the Black Friday weekend were on pace to beat previous years, outselling the PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one ratio and estimating a 25 percent increase from Xbox 360 Black Friday sales figures from 2007.
Not bad. But given Microsoft is making no mention of Nintendo's (NTDOY) Wii, we're guessing the Wii continued its dominance of the game console market.
Quantum Of Solace, the latest James Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko, has just been released, and is supposed to have more product placements than any of the other James Bond movies. There are many publicly traded companies that have paid to have their product appear in the film and several companies that benefit from the Bond movie.
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Ford Motor (F) for the Aston Martin, and the Ford Car that Camille drives.
Today is "Cyber Monday," the day that comScore says is supposed to be an "accurate bellwether" for holiday e-commerce shopping. So what does it say that Amazon's (AMZN) best-selling electronic gadget, according to Amazon, is its back-ordered Kindle e-book reader -- which won't ship for three months?
It's possible, of course, that Amazon's chart is broken. Or that third-party "used and new" Kindle transactions are occurring so rapidly that they're pushing it to the top. Some 34 used Kindles start at $450 and go up to $1,500. Maybe people are buying today to avoid paying twice as much in two w
Last week Microsoft's (MSFT) Massive Entertainment signed a deal with THQ (THQI) to be the exclusive provider of ads into THQ video games on the Xbox 360 and PC. But Massive doesn't want to go so far as working with Sony's (SNE) rival PS3, so ad network Double Fusion is filling the void.
Double Fusion today announced it would be the exclusive ad provider for THQ's PS3 games. That's just one part of a series of deals Double Fusion scored: The company will also be the exclusive ad vendor for PS3 games by publishers SEGA, Eidos Interactive, and Midway (MWY).
Did anyone see this coming? Honestly, I didn't think that Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, would be the number-one movie over the five-day Thanksgiving time period. According to preliminary data at Boxofficemojo, the holiday flick took in more than $46 million at domestic theaters for the Wednesday-through-Sunday frame. I've seen the ad campaign for Christmases, and I have no intention of taking in a screening of it. I guess it was the right
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