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Newspapers’ Bad News Get Less Bad–But Not by Much

Peter Kafka in Media on September 21, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Is the newspaper advertising slump about to end? Nope. But it’s continuing to get a little bit less awful. A survey of some of the remaining analysts covering the industry, as well as people who actually work in it, concludes that Q3 ad revenue will be down 25 percent. Awful by any standard except those of this year: Q1 was down 28.3 percent and Q2 was 29 percent.

The Mystery of the Vanishing Videogame Boom Solved: Gamers Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Peter Kafka in Media on July 6, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

Videogame players are spending more time playing videogames than ever. But that won’t do the videogame business much good unless those players actually start buying new games again.

Weekend Update, 4.04.09

Oliver J. Chiang in News on April 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm PT

Welcome once more to Weekend Update! I’ll be filling in today for your regular host Beth Callaghan, who’s on vacation. And what sane person wouldn’t be, after the slew of Silicon Valley silliness inspired by April Fools Day this past week? Digital pranks were the name of the game, and Google and others heaped so many tepid hoaxes upon us that we wanted to call April Fold so as to quickly end this round of gags.

Loss Leader Not in Apple's Vocabulary

John Paczkowski in News on March 6, 2009 at 5:27 am PT

This year will see one of the worst slumps in the PC industry ever. But as grim as things may get, they will perhaps not be so bad for Apple. According to TBR analyst Ezra Gottheil, the company has so far avoided the “permanent and structural” collapse of overall average selling prices for PCs and the related decline in revenue.

Loss Leader Not in Apple’s Vocabulary

John Paczkowski in News on March 6, 2009 at 5:27 am PT

This year will see one of the worst slumps in the PC industry ever. But as grim as things may get, they will perhaps not be so bad for Apple. According to TBR analyst Ezra Gottheil, the company has so far avoided the “permanent and structural” collapse of overall average selling prices for PCs and the related decline in revenue.