Consumer Electronics

The future of the movie industry has been a hot topic in recent years, with more individuals turning to in-home viewing, and more movie studios reaching out to 3D technology to compete. According to Sean Phillips, executive producer of Yahoo! Movies (Nasdaq: YHOO), ticket sales for the current...

A leading provider of high definition (HD) audio technology, DTS Inc. (DTSI) entered into a partnership with Digital Rapids, a premier provider of encoding and transcoding solutions.   Under the terms of the agreement, DTS and DTS-HD audio support will be integrated into the prospective versions...

Following flat sales in the month of July, video game sales plunged in August, according to market research firm NPD Group. NPD does not include sales from PC games in its monthly game sales data. Overall US revenues decreased 10.0% year over year to $818.9 million, in sync with analysts’...

Housing and auto sales, the 2 cyclical industries that most directly affect the U.S. economy and are the largest consumption decisions in day to day life, have rebounded off the worst levels of 2008 and early 2009 when most Americans were in a cocooned like state.  Yet despite record mortgage rates...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to keep interest rates near zero, and holding off on further measures to try and get a handle on the strengthened yen. The decision by the nine-member Policy Board was unanimous to keep rates at .1%. The rate has not changed since December 2008. The BOJ held an...

For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – September 8, 2010 – Zacks.com Analyst Blog features: Electronic Arts (ERTS), Dolby Laboratories Inc. (DLB), Activison Blizzard (ATVI), Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO) and BB&T Corp. (BBT ). Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with...

A leading developer and publisher of video games, Electronic Arts (ERTS) studio –Black Box is adding Dolby Laboratories Inc.’s (DLB) Dolby Axon voice chat technology to its hugely popular multiplayer online (MMO) racing action game – Need for Speed World. Dolby Laboratories is a leading...

Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares(ETF) (NYSE: FAZ) led the decliners among the ETFs today, as the financial stocks continued to move higher. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) had a great trading session, with an increase of 5.37%. FAZ fell 5.93%, and closed at $13.64. Direxion Daily Tech...

Gartner’s View Research firm Gartner Inc. (IT) lowered its worldwide personal computer (PC) growth expectations to 15.3% year over year in the second half of 2010, down 2 percentage points from its previous outlook. Lower consumer demand for PCs in established or mature markets and caution at PC...

Deutsche Bank is out with its report on company's it speculates could be added to the S&P 500 index. It posts a list of 25 companies, and the newest additions are Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT), Ashland (NYSE: ASH), which both made it to the top 10 of the list. BorgWarner (NYSE: BWA), Jefferies...

Neonode Inc. (NEON.OB), the leading provider of optical touch screen solutions for hand-held and small to midsize devices, today announced that Sony (NYSE: SNE) has launched its new product line of Sony Readers, which uses Neonode´s optical touch screen technology that has been customized for Sony.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has sent out invitations to the media and analysts to its technology event scheduled to be held in San Francisco tomorrow, September 1st. The company has traditionally used this platform to unveil new products and revamp or refresh its existing products -- particularly the iPod...

Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) said it could miss 3D television sales targets after an "unexpected" pricing war with Samsung Electronics Co. "No one can keep up" with price cuts by Samsung in the world’s biggest TV market, Yoshiiku Miyata, a managing executive officer at Osaka-based Panasonic’s...