Week in review: Best Buy sags, Angry Birds soar

The following is a roundup of my stories from Investor’s Business Daily at Investors.com.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is making his mark with changes at Chinese factories. (March 30, 2012)

Motion-sensing chip designer InvenSense falls on analyst downgrade. (March 30, 2012)

Best Buy’s new “Connected Store” format copies Apple’s Genius Bar concept. (March 29, 2012)

Best Buy making changes to better compete with Amazon, Apple and Costco. (March 29, 2012)

Best Buy shares fall nearly 7% on disappointing Q4 sales, year-ahead outlook. (March 29, 2012)

Cirrus Logic enters LED lighting market. Could take years to generate significant revenue though. (March 28, 2012)

Apple shares hit record high intraday on possible iPhone deal with China Mobile. (March 28, 2012)

Best Buy’s fiscal Q4 results hinge on its pricing strategy. (March 28, 2012)

Amazon.com preps second-generation Kindle Fire tablet to take on Apple’s lower priced iPad 2. (March 26, 2012)

Rovio’s hit video game “Angry Birds Space” has created a lot of angry customers. (March 26, 2012)

Photos: Concept art for Best Buy’s new “Connected Store” format (top), “Angry Birds Space” graphic.

Week in review: Apple’s iCloud, new campus

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

New generation of leaders emerging in the video game industry: FarmVille’s Zynga, Angry Birds’ Rovio Mobile, etc. (June 8, 2011)

Should the Wii U be renamed the P.U.? Investors dump Nintendo shares on doubts about prospects for the company’s new video game console. (June 8, 2011)

Research firm Gartner cuts its 2011 global PC shipment forecast, following IDC’s similar move. (June 8, 2011)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs won’t take his medical leave lying down.
Jobs makes his second big presentation in two days, this time touting Apple’s planned corporate campus (June 8, 2011)

Apple makes its long-awaited push into cloud computing with iCloud. (June 7, 2011)

Research firm IDC slashes 2011 PC shipment forecast on weak economy, competition from tablets. (June 6, 2011)

Photo: Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs introduces iCloud at the company's 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.