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The Three Roadblocks to Sony’s Turnaround
Sony Corp. (NYSE ADR: SNE) is facing the first consecutive annual loss of its 63-year history.
The Tokyo-based company lost $1.1 billion (98.9 billion yen) last year, and it expects to lose another $1.4 billion (120 billion yen) in its fiscal year ending March 31. That would be Sony’s first back-to-back annual loss since the company went public in 1958.
And despite renewed optimism within its ranks, Sony still faces a plethora of challenges, including a questionable direction, cost-conscious consumers and a strengthening yen.
The onetime bellwether of the electronics industry has seen its market share crumble in almost every category: Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s (OTC ADR: NTDOY) Wii game console has supplanted Sony’s PlayStation brand, Sony has given up its lead in portable…
Is a divergence building in Apple?
Yesterday I produced a video on how to trade divergences in the S&P 500. Today, I’m following up that video with a divergence I see developing in one of the biggest tech stocks in the world, Apple (NASDAQ_AAPL).
In this short four minute video, I’ll explain some of the possible negative divergences that are building for [...]
‘New Reality’ for Newspaper Publishers Forces Search for New Revenue Streams to Tap Into
As traditional print media continues its steep declines in advertising sales and circulation, publishers are struggling to come up with new and creative ways to generate revenue.
Ad revenues in the newspaper industry plunged 16.7% last year to $37.8 million r, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The 2009 take is estimated to fall another 17.3% to $31.6 billion according to Alan Mutter, a Silicon Valley executive who once lead the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and San Francisco Chronicle and now writes a blog titled “Reflections of a Newsosaur.”
Mutter’s estimate would put ad revenues at their lowest levels since 1965, when the industry took in $4.42 billion, or $30.22 billion when adjusted for inflation, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) reported.
While the worst…
Hot Stocks: Motorola Throws Hat Into Smartphone Ring
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) last Thursday charmed investors when it revealed its Cliq smartphone, which will compete head on with Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry.
Motorola’s stock is up nearly 12% since the announcement, as investors are hoping the new phone will be enough to win back some of the company’s lost market share.
However, saving Motorola’s mobile division – which the company plans to spin off – is a daunting task. The company – which invented the cell phone, as well as a plethora of other communication devices used by police and military – has seen its global market share of wireless phones fall to 2% in its second quarter this year from 31% in…
Semiconductor and Electronics Makers Anticipate a Bounce in Business Spending Next Year
A longtime investment adage holds that “As goes Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), so goes the rest of the semiconductor industry.”
And as goes the semiconductor industry, so goes the U.S. economy.
These days, microchips are present in virtually every type of product – from coffee makers to cars: If it plugs into the wall or takes batteries, chances are good there’s a semiconductor inside.
Given the microchip’s ubiquitous nature, the companies that make them – as well as the companies that make the chipmaking equipment – can be viewed as a kind of leading economic indicator. Companies that intend to produce products down the road have to place orders for chips or for equipment now, meaning an uptick in semiconductor-sector business activity today and represent…
How You Can Own a Quarter of the Internet… And Why You Don’t Want to
Sometime over the next 16 months, one-quarter of the Internet will go on sale. But you shouldn’t be suckered into this deal…
Before we get into the ins and outs of this sale, we need to clarify what it means to actually buy one-fourth of the Internet. Of course, you can’t just own something as large and independent as the Internet. But you can buy a portion of its traffic.
We’ve been recently writing about international telecoms. If you bought up enough of these Internet Service Providers you could potentially own enough Internet traffic to constitute a quarter. But there will soon be another way you can invest in the traffic with just a single click.
About 50% of all Internet traffic is…