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Here are some of the items that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street: Retailers will report; video games will rebound; Howard Stern will re-energize, and Groupon will retrench.

Tim Tebow is 5-1 as the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, but folks still says he's not an NFL-caliber quarterback. Well, there are plenty of gritty winners on Wall Street, too, making the most of their niche limitations to somehow come out on top.

In August, the Second Life community learned that the company responsible for their virtual world was planning to expand its universe. Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble has been vague, mentioning only that his company is working on a new mobile product separate from its pioneering project. Now we know more.

At least 5.2 million copies of Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops were illegally downloaded between its Nov. 9 release and the end of 2010. All told, more than 19 million people illegally downloaded five of the top-selling games of 2010. As broadband spreads, so does the piracy.

Ryan Jacob was arguably the most popular mutual fund manager a decade ago when, while still in his 20s, he ran one of the few funds focused on internet stocks. Kinetics Asset Management's Internet Fund was the best performing U.S. equity fund in 1998, enjoying a 198 percent return. It rose over 500...

UBS (UBS) revised its 2008 loss wider by around $1 billion, and said earnings will be at risk for some time to come. Switzerland's biggest bank, posted a 20.9 billion Swiss franc ($18 billion) loss for 2008, 1.19 billion francs wider than figures reported on Feb. 10, and said it remains "extremely...