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Kindle's Widescreen Debut Confirms Earlier Rumors

The new model, with a 9.7 inch diagonal screen, is two and half times larger than the second generation model revealed in February. Overall, its size nears the scale of a standard sheet of paper. The storage on the device jumps to 3.3GB, enough to ...

From SETH GILBERT, ETF Investor,  6 May 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company

Apple Apps Hits Billion Download Milestone in Huge Lead over Competitors

The iPhone is a great device, there’s no denying its innovations, but the phone’s greatest competitive advantage may well be the platform not the product. A few minutes ago, Apple’s (AAPL) supporting “App Store” passed a billion downloads. It took ...

From SETH GILBERT, ETF Investor,  24 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Apple, Inc.

February Gaming Sales: Still a Growing Industry

Leading up to another month of retail statistics reflecting the health of the gaming industry, analysts were mixed on their forecasts. Some thought the video game sector would slip slightly in February while others predicted steady, but modest, growth. ...

From SETH GILBERT, Seeking Alpha,  20 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Microsoft Corporation,  Capcom,  Activision, Inc.

Seattle's P-I Collapses: Traditional Media Searches for New Revenue Models in Digital Age

The occasional journalist Mark Twain famously told a newspaper reporter that the report of his death was an exaggeration. For the staff at Seattle’s daily Post-Intelligencer, reports of the paper’s death were anything but. After weeks of rumor, failed ...

From SETH GILBERT, ETF Investor,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Google Inc.,  American Society of Newspaper Editors

Midway Games' Bankruptcy: More to the Story Than Meets the Press

Monday, several stories seizing on a blog post from Gawker Media’s Kotaku suggested struggling Midway Games (MWY) might be in the process of selling off its Mortal Kombat game franchise. Several of the articles (on the basis of part of the story, as ...

From SETH GILBERT, Seeking Alpha,  4 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Midway Games Inc.,  Gawker Media

Nintendo Rules Across the Gaming Board: NPD January Data

If you follow the earnings announcements from gaming companies, it might be easy to conclude the industry is taking its share of licks from the recession just as other sectors are. There’s a bankruptcy here. Plenty of guidance revised downward. Missed ...

From SETH GILBERT, ETF Investor,  18 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Microsoft Corporation,  Activision, Inc.

Midway Gets Wiggle Room with New Forbearance Agreement

Much is relative. Last week was bad for Circuit City; on a comparative scale, not so much for gamer Midway Games (MWY). Despite the crippling pressure of massive lingering debt potentially due ahead of its time, the company managed to do what the big ...

From SETH GILBERT, ETF Investor,  13 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Midway Games Inc.,  Circuit City

Has the Economy Finally Caught Up with Nintendo?

Nintendo released its third quarter earnings last week (PDF file). Unit sales over the holiday period were great but having to convert overseas purchases from foreign currency to yen wasn’t. Profits took a hit. It was all largely as expected. Same as ...

From SETH GILBERT, Seeking Alpha,  1 Feb 2009

Inside the New York Times' Billionaire Bailout

Upwards of 90 percent of the Times Co.’s revenue comes from its news media businesses. The relative lack of diversification, and simultaneous dependence on advertising in the currently weak market, has squeezed operating profits heavily. As of the end ...

From SETH GILBERT, Seeking Alpha,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Carlos Slim Helu,  Boston Red Sox,  France Telecom S.A.,  Wall Street Journal,  MCI

Blockbuster, Sonic Solutions Partner to Lead On Demand Movies

Movielink and CinemaNow were among the early entrants to pace digital movie delivery. Investors ponied up tens of millions to the promise: movies beamed on demand straight to viewers over the Internet. Movielink and CinemaNow both burned out; ideas ...

From SETH GILBERT, Seeking Alpha,  16 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Sonic Solutions,  Netflix,  Microsoft Corporation,  Sony,  TiVo Inc.

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