Lauren Goode in Social on December 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm PT
StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.
John Paczkowski in News on June 14, 2011 at 4:32 am PT
According to the latest sales data gathered by NPD, the Mac is indeed kicking ass. And it’s going to kick even more after the new MacBook Air is released.
John Paczkowski in News on February 28, 2011 at 3:45 am PT
The second quarter is typically one of Apple’s weakest for Mac sales. Not this year, though. According to the latest data from NPD, Mac sales are already up more than 20 percent year-over-year this quarter, and they’re likely to rise higher still thanks to Apple’s recent refresh of its MacBook Pro line.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 31, 2011 at 6:33 am PT
If you’re going to push a sports chat app, this would be a good week to do it, right?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 21, 2011 at 12:44 pm PT
With the first-year anniversaries of the iPad and iPhone 4 fast approaching, and both devices destined for an update per Apple’s annual mobile device refresh cycle, the Apple rumor mill is undergoing a refresh of its own.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 15, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt tests an early-stage version of Google’s Chrome OS for computers–an attempt to challenge the Microsoft-Apple duopoly. One drawback of the new operating system, due next summer, is having to give up familiar local programs and dwell in the cloud.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 28, 2010 at 9:51 am PT
Nintendo warned last month that its first-half results would be lousy, and this morning the company delivered on that promise, posting its first half-year loss in seven years.
John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2010 at 6:50 am PT
April was another lousy month for the videogame industry. With overall revenue down 26 percent and hardware down 37 percent, it was the worst monthly year-over-year sales decline since last July, according to research house The NPD Group. It was also the 10th time in the last 13 months that sales have fallen year-over-year.
John Paczkowski in News on May 11, 2010 at 4:55 am PT
We haven’t even reached the midpoint of the June quarter, but it already looks like Apple’s financials for the period will be as strong, if not stronger, than they’ve been in quarters past. In a research note issued this morning, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says his checks suggest that sales for both the iPad and new MacBook Pro are strong.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 6, 2010 at 4:43 am PT
Surging sales of its Wii and DS led Nintendo to three straight years of record profits. But with the appeal of those devices now waning, the company needs to refresh them both lest it continue to post financials like those it announced today.
