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| Wednesday March 11, 2009 |
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 Has Apple's Mac Business Bottomed? Apple's new Macs -- released last week -- mean March sales should be okay. But look out for ugly February numbers, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster warns in a note today. Next Monday, retail market research firm NPD Group will release its estimates for Apple's February Mac sales. They will probably not be pretty: Munster estimates February Mac sales could be down 12% year-over-year, worse than January's 6% year-over-year drop. And way worse than a year ago, when Apple's February Mac sales -- per NPD -- jumped 60% year-over-year, driven by the then-new MacBook Air. But Munster thinks -- and it makes sense -- that Apple's Mac business will recover this month. Read > Apple's 'iPod Touch HD' Will Have 10-Inch Screen: ReportIs Apple Lying About Layoffs? | |
| Tales From AOL's Fired Squad As expected, many AOLers in Dulles started receiving "the email" Monday afternoon. The email asks them to attend an "important meeting" this morning--at which they will be fired. This is the way AOL's layoffs have been handled over the past several years, with depressing regularity. Today's cuts -- mostly in Dulles, but taking place in New York and California too -- are part of the layoffs announced in January. That plan was to fire about 700 people by the end of March. AOLers weighed in with their thoughts. Read > | |
| Twitter Gets Its 'Million Dollar Homepage' Scheme Ahh, the Internet, where people will try anything to make $1 million. Thanks to Twitter, we're now aware of 1milliontweets.com, a Web site set up to sell 1 million tweets for $1 each. Read > | |
| 27 Huge Publishers Join To Replace The Banner 27 publishers with a reach of about 109 million unique visitors per month -- that's 66% of the total U.S. Internet audience -- have agreed to try one of three new online ad formats sometime before July. The publishers are all members of the online publishers association. Read > | |
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You don't see this very often: Palm has issued a SEC filing clarifying -- and retracting -- some of its investor Roger McNamee's comments on Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg.com. Read > Activision CEO: $300 Game Consoles Still Too Expensive Did Activision CEO Bobby Kotick just make a coded swipe at Sony? Read > Microsoft Raises Dividend Microsoft's sets its quarterly dividend at 13 cents a share, up from 11 cents same time last year. Read > Rupert Murdoch Still Buying Newspapers Conventional wisdom says not to invest in print, but there's no dissuading Rupert Murdoch. The New York Observer reports News Corp has acquired The Brooklyn Paper, a small independent paper with deep, widely respected coverage of its turf. Read > Take-Two Beats The Street, Cuts Guidance Mixed results for videogame publisher Take-Two Interactive: In earnings yesterday, the company solidly beat analyst estimates but slashed guidance for the next quarter. Read > | |
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