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Nintendo Gives Itself High Fives for Wii and DS Franchises

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 8:13 am PT

Now that the year has wrapped up, Nintendo is claiming to have broken two industry-wide records in 2010 to make its portable DS franchise and the Wii two of the best-selling game systems of all time. But is past prologue?

Why We Can't Stop Playing

Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Not since the invention of bacon and eggs has the collision of fowl and swine tasted so good. A game called Angry Birds is dominating the best-selling-applications charts for Apple’s iPhone with a simple, whimsical premise: Players turn different species of scowling birds into projectiles with which to crush a collection of grunting pigs scattered around various ramshackle structures. More than 12 million copies of Angry Birds have been sold since it went on sale late last year, most of them 99-cent downloads for iPhones and iPod touches, according to Rovio Mobile Ltd., the Finnish company that created the game.

The Secret Behind the Kindle’s Best-Selling E-Books: They’re Not for Sale

Peter Kafka in Media on December 29, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Want to sell a book to readers who own one of Amazon’s Kindles? Better make sure the price is very, very low. As in zero dollars and zero cents.

China Unicom: “iPhone Will Become China’s Best-Selling Smartphone.” We’re Just Not Sure When.

John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

A month after the iPhone’s sluggish launch in China, sales seem to be picking up. Though it sold just 5,000 handsets during its first weekend at market, China Unicom, Apple’s carrier partner in the country, says it has now sold more than 100,000 units of the super-smartphone since it went on sale on Oct. 30.

Amazon's Blowout Q3

John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2009 at 1:04 pm PT

According to comScore, Web traffic to Amazon in the U.S. rose 14.8 percent, far outstripping that of overall U.S. Internet traffic, which grew just 3.5 percent. “It appears that Amazon is gaining share the old-fashioned way,” ThinkEquity analyst Ed Weller noted last week, “by acquiring more and more customers…and selling more to each of them.” Judging from the nice gain in third-quarter earnings the company posted after Thursday’s closing bell, that would seem to be the case.

Amazon’s Blowout Q3

John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2009 at 1:04 pm PT

According to comScore, Web traffic to Amazon in the U.S. rose 14.8 percent, far outstripping that of overall U.S. Internet traffic, which grew just 3.5 percent. “It appears that Amazon is gaining share the old-fashioned way,” ThinkEquity analyst Ed Weller noted last week, “by acquiring more and more customers…and selling more to each of them.” Judging from the nice gain in third-quarter earnings the company posted after Thursday’s closing bell, that would seem to be the case.

BlackBerry Curve More Popular Than iPhone

John Paczkowski in News on May 4, 2009 at 7:19 am PT

Question for you: What was the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009? What’s that? Apple’s iPhone? Wrong. According to market researcher NPD, it was Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve, which slipped past the iconic device in market share bolstered by Verizon’s Buy One, Get One promotion.

BlackBerry Curve More Popular Than iPhone

John Paczkowski in News on May 4, 2009 at 7:19 am PT

Question for you: What was the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009? What’s that? Apple’s iPhone? Wrong. According to market researcher NPD, it was Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve, which slipped past the iconic device in market share bolstered by Verizon’s Buy One, Get One promotion.