Saturday, March 12, 2011

Week in review: Literal and figurative earthquakes rock tech industry

The following is a roundup of my stories from Investor’s Business Daily at Investors.com and Click, IBD’s tech blog.

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan damaged a Sony factory and could impact supplies of semiconductors and other tech products. (March 11, 2011)

The legacy of Apple’s iPad 2 media tablet could be the mainstreaming of video calls. (March 11, 2011)

Why some public firms are better off going private.
Tech products reseller CDW, taken private 3.5 years ago, is mapping out a long-range plan to go public again. (March 11, 2011)

Activision’s “Call of Duty: Black Ops” is now the top-selling video game ever at U.S. retail with 13.7 million units. (March 10, 2011)

Apple’s iPad 2 media tablet is likely to leave rivals in the dust, a new survey indicates. (March 10, 2011)

Lenovo joins Intel’s affordable education PC initiative. It will ship 158,000 laptops to Argentina this spring. (March 10, 2011)

Facebook offers one movie for rental and viewing on PCs only and Netflix investors race for the exits. What’s up with that? (March 9, 2011)

Netflix investors spooked by Facebook’s video experiment with Warner Bros. (March 8, 2011)

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