Posts tagged Recession
Worldwide consumer electronics market expected to be flat in 2010
Jan 6th
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Throwing cold water on hopes for a powerful tech recovery, economists are predicting that the worldwide consumer electronics market sales will be flat at $681 billion in 2010. That compares to a 2 percent decline in 2009, according to the forecast and sales report by the Consumer Electronics Association.
The forecast is surprisingly pessimistic, [...]
Arkadium CEO plans to adapt to social gaming’s popularity
Dec 31st
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It’s a time of big change in the game industry, but Kenny Rosenblatt is used to it. In 2001, he co-founded Arkadium with his wife Jessica Rovello. The New York-based company originally started as a casual game site. But that wasn’t successful. Instead, Arkadium made money licensing its games to well-known brands. So [...]
Your guide to the two newest proposals
Dec 28th
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In the madness leading up to and following the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen two weeks ago, many have lost track of the climate change legislation working its way through Congress in the U.S. The last many heard of it, the controversial Kerry-Boxer bill was bound up in committee, poised for almost certain doom. Since [...]
Hot (and cold) sectors to watch
Dec 28th
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(Editor’s note: Steve Fredrick and Don Rainey are general partners at Grotech Ventures. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As we mentioned in a recent column, 2009 wasn’t as bad as advertised for the venture capital industry. The first half of the year was rocky; however, growth stormed back in the latter half of [...]
