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Kelly Olsen and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10 at 5:30 am PT
After reporting a net loss of $5.7 billion for the last fiscal year — its fourth annual loss in a row — Sony Corp. said it expects to swing back to a profit this fiscal year as its consumer-electronics and component businesses recover.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 17 at 2:43 pm PT
While total spending on online travel continues to grow, it is the mobile travel market that has everyone excited.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 5 at 1:07 pm PT
eMarketer is predicting that this year apparel and accessories will beat books, music and videos as the fastest-growing e-commerce category.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 11:24 am PT
EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his mobile prediction line in the sand for 2012, and it is pretty jaw-dropping.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in News on December 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm PT
We’ve seen
several ad forecasters pull back their growth predictions in recent months, and here’s another:
Zenith Optimedia projects worldwide ad spend to increase 3.5 percent in 2011 and 4.7 percent in 2012. That’s down from an October
forecast of 3.6 percent and 5.3 percent, respectively. Web spending, per usual, will grow much faster –15.9 percent between 2011 and 2014, with Google now accounting for 44 percent of the digital market.
Kara Swisher in News on September 22, 2011 at 3:15 am PT
As Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker twists painfully in the wind, it’s up to its directors to move quickly to end the latest crisis at the Silicon Valley tech giant.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 13, 2011 at 4:53 pm PT
Despite Facebook pulling out of the deals business and questions swirling around Groupon’s pending IPO, the daily deals market is still growing.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Here’s some unpleasant deja vu: Summer’s over, the economy is wobbling, and analysts are starting to hack away at advertising forecasts.
Kara Swisher in News on August 19, 2011 at 10:40 am PT
In the 24 hours since Hewlett-Packard announced it was cutting production of its high-profile webOS devices and might spin off its huge consumer PC business, stock of the tech giant has plummeted 20 percent.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 12, 2011 at 6:27 am PT
A nearly 100 percent accurate view of the present tense, forecast back in 1993.
