17 posts and columns on year over year

Videogame Sales Lagged in 2010 Despite Xbox's High Scores

in Commerce on January 13, 2011 at 4:44 pm PT

Microsoft’s Xbox dominated the charts at the end of 2010, despite year-over-year revenue declines for both videogame hardware and software.

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EBay Rang Up $2 Billion in Mobile Sales in 2010

in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 12:43 pm PT

EBay said today that global mobile sales more than tripled in 2010, generating nearly $2 billion in gross merchandise volume. (GMV is the total value of all successfully sold items on eBay, regardless of whether the buyer and seller finalized the deal.) While that’s good news for the retailer, which has seen overall revenue growth slow down, it is still a small sliver of the overall pie. In comparison, eBay reported total GMV of $44.9 billion in the first three months of 2010. In the U.S., eBay said mobile sales grew nearly 175 percent year-over-year, generating nearly $850 million in GMV in 2010.

Cyber Spending Hits $16.8 Billion for the Holidays (So Far)

in Commerce on December 5, 2010 at 4:10 pm PT

In the first 33 days of the holiday season, e-commerce spending has already jumped to $16.8 billion, increasing 12 percent over the same period last year. ComScore said in the past week alone, four days exceeded $800 million in spending, including Cyber Monday, which became the heaviest online spending day on record at $1.028 billion.

A 4.3 Million Mac Quarter for Apple?

in News on November 15, 2010 at 2:24 pm PT

Apple is headed toward another record-breaking quarter for Mac sales. That’s the indication from the latest NPD retail data, anyway.
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Analyst: Apple Aims to Sell 100 Million iPhones in 2011

in Mobile on November 6, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT

If Apple’s 2011 plays out the way Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair figures, investors are going to need some new superlatives with which to describe its performance. In a rapturous note to clients Tuesday, Blair offered some numbers on Apple sure to drop investors’ jaws and set them to salivating at the same time.

NPD: Android Surging, BlackBerry Falling, Apple Flat

in Media on November 1, 2010 at 4:35 am PT

Here’s a chart pretty much guaranteed to get teeth grinding in Cupertino–new data from NPD showing Android extending its lead as America’s most popular mobile operating system.

Yahoo Surprises Slightly in 2Q Earnings, But Not on Revenues

in News on July 20, 2010 at 1:20 pm PT

Yahoo said it had earned 15 cents a share in net income–a rise of 53 percent compared to last year-in its second-quarters earnings today, after the markets closed, on an only slight rise in gross revenue. Wall Street had expected the Internet giant to earn 14 cents a share in the three months. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been touting improved margins and stronger operating income over longer-term worries about lack of innovative vision. But the lack of revenue growth is the real issue.

Year of the Mac, Indeed: Apple Headed for a 2.9 Million Mac Quarter

in News on March 15, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has declared 2010 the “Year of the Mac,” and it’s hard to disagree when looking over the latest retail sales data from the NPD Group: Mac sales during February were up 43 percent for the month–this after a 36 percent spike in sales during January.

Yahoo’s Bradford Bails

in News on March 15, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

February Expected to Be a Great Month for Mac Sales

in News on March 8, 2010 at 7:05 am PT

February 2009 was not the greatest month for Mac sales. They were down 16 percent year over year and 10 percent from January. And while that may have been unfortunate at the time, it’s good news for Apple and its investors today, because it provides a particularly soft number for comparing with Mac sales in February 2010.

Apple’s Big Plans for China

in News, February 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm PT

The Washington Post’s Sales Slump Gets Less Bad, Too

in Media, February 24, 2010 at 6:37 am PT

Apple Headed for Another Quarterly Blowout?

in News, February 16, 2010 at 1:01 pm PT

Video Game Sales Tank

in News, November 13, 2009 at 5:50 am PT

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

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

NPD: Mac Sales Up Seven Percent, iPod Sales Down 16 Percent

in News, September 14, 2009 at 1:15 pm PT

Videogame Industry in Massively Multiplayer Sales Decline

in News, September 11, 2009 at 5:05 am PT