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About commerce department, retailers, december retail sales, holiday sales

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The nation's merchants scored a surprising increase in their crucial year-end holiday sales, countering expectations of a decline, according to an industry report ...http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/14/news/economy/holiday_sales_final_result/NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - US holiday retail sales rose 1.1 percent in 2009 instead of falling as experts had forecast, but that growth will be hard to support in the months to come, the National Retail Federation said on Thursday. ....

About december video game sales, wii sales, hardware sales, nintendo, software sales

January 14, 2010 - Despite being released just last month, Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been crowned the best selling ...http://ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1061372p1.htmlSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States rose 4 percent in December to a record $5.5 billion, ...http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E07Z20100115?type=technologyNewsAP Americans spent a record $5.53 billion on video games in December, the most money ever in a s...

About worldwide pc shipments, apple sales, fourth quarter, worldwide pc market

The 2009 PC market closed with a remarkable 2.3 percent growth, largely thanks to end-of year discounts. Hewlett-Packard again dominated the market, while Acer and Dell fought for second place — which Acer grabbed worldwide for the quarter, ...http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/HP-Dell-Acer-Strengthened-GlobalApple's Mac unit sales rose in the December quarter of 2009, but the company saw a somewhat rare year-over-year decrease in market share, according to a report published by res...

About billion, month, hardware sales, december video game sales, december npd, software sales

Economic conditions notwithstanding, December saw US console retail game market revenues rise 4 percent year-over-year, from $5.32 billion to $5.53 billion, to become the best single sales month on record for the industry, ...http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26822/NPD_December_US_Revenue_Up_4_In_Best_MoA flourish of holiday video game hardware sales -- and the biggest sales month for video games ever -- could not prevent the industry from suffering its first sales decline in five years. Sales ...

About commerce department, retailers, december retail sales drop, holiday sales

The 0.3% m/m decline in retail sales in December is a reminder that consumers still aren't buying into the economic recovery. Without a more significant acceleration in consumption growth that recovery is ultimately doomed to disappoint. ...http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/01/14/economists-react-disappointing-drop-inConsumers were leery about opening up their wallets last month as retail sales fell 0.3%, following two consecutive monthly increases, the Commerce Department reported today. Dece...

About december npd, hardware sales, december video game sales, nintendo, software sales

NPD Group reported overnight that US sales of videogame hardware and software hit $US5.53 billion ($6 billion) in December, setting a new monthly record and ...http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/storytemplate/video-game-sales-set-new-record-iAP Americans spent a record $5.53 billion on video games in December, the most money ever in a single month, ...http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9566298Microsoft said Xbox 360's install base increased to 39 million units after selling 1.3 million ...

About december video game sales, nintendo, wii sales, xbox, npd, month

Economic conditions notwithstanding, December saw US console retail game market revenues rise 4 percent year-over-year, from $5.32 billion to $5.53 billion, to become the best single sales month on record for the industry, ...http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26822/NPD_December_US_Revenue_Up_4_In_Best_MoThe Wii and DS rule the Holidays, with the PS3 and Xbox 360 still doing impressive numbers. Hello there Holiday shopping season. As we've heard previously, the Wii and the Nintendo DS did amazin...

About week, smartphone, google’s nexus, phone sales, ebay

Like many technophiles who were among the first to snap up the new Nexus One smartphone, Rob O'Connor has had to put up with an inconvenience or two. The Aspen (Colo.) information technology executive ordered his new Google (GOOG) gadget ...http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc20100112_689630.htmGoogle simply doesn't have the kind of customer support that mobile-phone users are accustomed to. Google's comeuppance is at hand, as two of the most innovative Silicon Valley compan...

About google’s nexus, phone, week sales

Software company Flurry, which makes app-tracking software that identifies new smartphones when they come into use, predicts that Google sold just 20000 of ...http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2010/01/nexuWhile Google's threat to pull out of China has triggered predictions of upheaval in the Chinese internet search industry, ...http://www.ft.com/cms/s/de22edd4-013c-11df-8c54-00144feabdc0.htmlThe weak sales can be attributed to a variety of factors. First, Google...

About software sales

Sales of videogame software are expected to show another month of declines for December, capping what has been a rough year for the sector that saw record-breaking growth in 2008. December sales data will be issued late Thursday by the ...http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100113-713200.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlinesRetail software sales rang in at $278 million for the 2009 holidays, a dip of 1 percent from the prior year, NPD Group reported Wednesday. But the results were far more joyous than ...