Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) competed on Tuesday in a contest that no company really wants to play: the Expectations Game. Things turned out pretty well for the famous seller of sports stuff (being that I'm no athlete, I ...

Filed under: Television, Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World According to The Hollywood Reporter , media conglomerate Disney (NYSE: DIS) intends to keep the song going at the High School Musical workshop. The fourth film in the series will return to th...

Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) did not have a good week. The online travel site, which competes with Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) for attention, reported abysmal earnings for the fourth quarter this past Thursday. The company suffered a huge loss of $9.60 per share. That's right, $9.60 per share! Kind of ro...

Filed under: Earnings reports, NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), Crocs Inc (CROX) Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) reported earnings for the fourth quarter after the market close on Thursday. The shares were up almost 10% on the news during the after-hours trading session since the footwear company beat expectations by a wid...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL) So, I bought a stock this past week. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). I was pretty happy about the purchase. Well, strike that. I was sort of happy about the purchase. I don't have to tell you why I hastily added that qualifier. The current recession, quite f...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Activision Inc (ATVI) Okay, video-game sales stats are out for the month of January. Please tell me there are some exciting changes in the ranking in terms of which gaming console dominated the charts in the U.S. Please tell...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY) Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) reported earnings for the third fiscal quarter on Wednesday after the bell, and I have to admit, I'm puzzled that, at the time of this writing, the stock is seeing a bid. It currently is tr...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Activision Inc (ATVI), Technology Sony (NYSE: SNE) has one heck of a powerful video-game system in its PlayStation 3. In fact, I'm really looking forward to playing Resident Evil 5 on it. But Sony is having a tough time comp...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Media World This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. Take-Two Interactive's (NASDAQ: TTWO) Grand Theft Auto IV has made a lot of money. It's been the recent driving force for the software publis...

Filed under: Earnings reports, FedEx Corp (FDX), United Parcel'B' (UPS) Hey, FedEx (NYSE: FDX) beat the estimates of Wall Street! That's awesome, right? Not in this case. The nemesis of United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) reported Q2 numbers on Thursday, and they didn't matter for the most part. What ...