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5 Things To Watch Next Week: Murdoch Mania, Gaming, Soda Wars and More
4:00PM 8/05/2011
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Company News, Technology, Investing, Earnings, Media, Electronic Arts, JC Penney, Macy's, Bed Bath & Beyond, News Corp, Stocks in the News, Streetwise
Even as investors reel from the stock-market roller coaster this week, Wall Street is moving on, with plenty of news on the way. Next week will bring headlines about retail and gaming earnings, as well as quarterly reports from News Corp., SodaStream and some newly public Chinese firms.
For Las Vegas Sands, the House Edge Is Geographic Diversity
8:30AM 5/13/2011
Las Vegas Sands benefits from being more geographically diversified than its major competitors. With a casino resort presence that spans the U.S., Macau and Singapore, LVS is a strong player that can ride out local downturns, and one stock analysis firm thinks its stock is undervalued by 10% to 15%.
Microsoft Kinect Sales Soundly Beat Company Forecast
6:30PM 3/01/2011
Microsoft soundly beat its 2010 sales forecast for the Kinect, a motion-sensor device that enables players to use body movements -- instead of controllers -- to play games on the Xbox console.
Given recent valuations for the likes of Zynga, you'd think investors would be frothing at the mouth for any IPOs in this sector. But only a few players look serious about going public soon, and investors aren't putting as much pressure on them to jump as you'd expect.
In Las Vegas you can bet on cards, dice, slots, horses, football, baseball, hockey ... but you can't bet on the Oscars. You can't bet on who will be the last survivor on Survivor. You can't bet which pooch will take first place at the Westminster Dog Show. Thanks to a change in the local...
Activision Discontinues 'Guitar Hero,' Narrows Earnings Loss
6:30PM 2/09/2011
Activision Blizzard's shares fell after the video-game maker forecast that 2011 sales would fall short of analysts' estimates and announced that it would cease creating Guitar Hero games because of lackluster sales.
Electronic Arts Shares Rise on Solid Adjusted 3Q Earnings
7:20PM 2/01/2011
Electronic Arts says its fiscal third-quarter net loss widened as revenue fell, but adjusted results surpassed Wall Street's expectations -- and an optimistic outlook and stock buyback plan helped push its shares higher.
Sony Unveils New Portable Gaming System
7:33AM 1/27/2011
Company News, Technology, Media, Google , Sony, Retail
Sony (SNE) unveiled its new PlayStation Portable device, the Next Generation Portable Entertainment System, or NGP.
The hand-held device has greater motion sensitivity and allows gamers to connect with other users online, Sony said in a statement. The company plans to release the device at the...
More Downloads, Fewer Discs: U.S. Video Game Sales Remain Flat
7:00PM 1/13/2011
U.S. gamers spent about the same amount of money on video games last year as they did in 2009, even as sales of consoles and other hardware took a plunge. Purchases of physical game discs slid 5%, in spite of the record-breaking success of "Call of Duty: Black Ops," but downloadable and social-network games made up the difference.
Is the Era of Nintendo Wii Leadership Coming to an End?
12:00PM 1/07/2011
How long can Nintendo Wii maintain its position as the reigning video-game console? Microsoft shipped an astronomical 8 million Kinect game systems in the past two months, undermining Wii's leadership -- already weakened by competition from the Xbox and PlayStation 3.
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