A scam Pokemon game reached No. 2 on Apple's App Store charts this week before it was pulled -- a debacle that calls into question both Apple's approval process and Nintendo's "no apps for us" stance.
Two days before the price of Nintendo's 3DS gaming system will drop, the gaming company is highlighting a set of hardware and software updates geared toward spurring popularity of the groundbreaking but slow-selling handheld device.
Spring has officially sprung for the video game industry, with new systems such as Nintendo's glasses-free, handheld 3DS and new titles such as "Crysis 2" and "Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars" leading the charge.
Move over, baseball. The coolest new trading cards feature a "Geek a Week."
From turning random household objects into giant balls to stuffing princesses full of cake until they're morbidly obese, the video game industry has no shortage of strange ideas.
At first, Ella didn't really understand Skype.
Milk product samples from three Chinese dairies have tested positive for a chemical that has already killed four babies and sickened thousands more after it was fed to them in powdered infant formula, state-run media reported Thursday.
Chinese officials in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported the death of a fourth baby Thursday in the country's expanding contaminated infant formula case. The tainted milk powder has already sickened more than 6,200 babies.
Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder were arrested by Chinese investigators Monday and could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, the state-run newspaper.
Fortune: Work part-timeupdated: Tue May 06 2008 10:38:00
The single best piece of advice I ever got about my job was to work part-time.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to beef up the federal agency that oversees the safety of consumer products after a spate of recalls involving imported products.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to beef up the federal agency that is charged with the safety of consumer products.
There are hundreds of games published in the E category each year, but not all are worth your while. For parents worried about violence, gore, or fighting, nothing in the E category should be inappropriate for your children.
Most adults still find Pokémon difficult to grasp. The numbers are easier: The franchise, originally based on a trading-card game, has raked in a total of $15 billion for owner Nintendo. It was less lucrative for 4Kids Entertainment, the New York-based company that licensed the U.S. rights for Pokémon merchandise until two years ago. "We got a royalty, which was great," says 4Kids CEO Alfred Kahn. "But we didn't get the gross margin."
What do Mickey Mantle, Bazooka Joe and Martha Stewart have in common?
there's some good stuff here and it's well written, but i got more than halfway in and still had no idea about their longer-term financial track record. (other than that sales are volatile sales and they're profitable, which I had to assume since they have a P/E, 4th graf). is it feast or famine with them, which it sort of seems to be? or has there been steady growth interrupted by hot years and some lean years? etc... a better sense of this up top would help.
Bill Miller Calls a Bottom
Money Magazine: Ebay's Scholarly Giftsupdated: Fri Feb 01 2002 00:01:00
To most people, eBay is a place to hunt collectibles and curiosities. But to many economists, it's become an extraordinarily fertile testing ground for economic theory. "Ebay has some sexy things f...
Summer is when fads are born: Pop songs transform into anthems; movies become blockbusters. Not this year. Want proof? Check out the Lost Summer edition of our Hype Index, in which we chronicle tho...
Fortune: Natural-Born Skepticupdated: Mon Sep 03 2001 00:01:00
When Daniel Roth sauntered into our offices three years ago, we knew we were hiring a quick-witted reporter. Turns out we also snared--who knew?--a natural-born editor. His latest project: producin...
If you're like most entrepreneurs, you probably skipped right by this story and jumped ahead to find out if your company made the cut. (It's okay, we forgive you.) But now that you're celebrating--...
You know that short-selling is risky as hell. So much so that MONEY hardly ever mentions the technique--and never recommends it. (In fact, there are other editors here who argued vehemently that we...
Buffett's Latest Asbestos Play
Just as we were counting the days until the death of the scooter, David Hasselhoff cruises through Manhattan on one. Could Streetwatch soon be a reality? One man sure hopes so: Carlton Calvin, the ...
To paraphrase the old Persuaders hit, it's a thin line between best and worst. Consider Amazon.com, undoubtedly e-commerce's poster child. It has built a large and loyal customer base (more than 20...
Hot products mean hot stocks--or so the philosophy goes. If you see a trend taking off, you should be able to make money by investing in it, right? Not always. Just look at this summer's hottest fa...
Well, the new millennium is here, and the world is finally one. Technology has united us, and the tyranny of distance has been overthrown. One world, one love. I know this because on New Year's Eve...
Will Smith Willennium Columbia
Most parents flinch at the notion of handing over a credit card to their free-spending teens. But the alternatives--trailing your kids through the mall as they compare baggy jeans and Backstreet Bo...
Money Magazine: Playing The Card Marketupdated: Sun Aug 01 1999 00:01:00
They surround him, six traders pushing each other aside as they yell out offers and try their best to get the deal. But this isn't the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. It's a Friday night in J...
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