Seth Gilbert, 08-4-2008
There are indexes tracking just about any business metric you can think of. For 4.5 a half years, University of San Francisco professor Mark Cannice has been tracking venture capitalist confidence. In early July he reported the second quarter result for his index was down to 3.07 on a 5 point scale. It was the third consecutive new low in the Index’ history. Still, despite VC’s concerns about the economy and the state of their investments, there’s no shortage of companies getting funded. In the media world, Heat Wave, Clickable, Crowd Fusion and NGMoco have all recently closed new rounds. Here are the details in the Metue Venture Wrap Up:
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Seth Gilbert,
Apple’s iPhone is on sale in 23 countries. In the first 72 hours more than one million units sold. August 22n around twenty more countries are expected to come online.
So the question is: how many units does Apple need to manufacture to keep ahead of demand and to satisfy a three to six week channel inventory need?
The initial reports, and early analyst expectations, seemed to set the answer at about 25 million units. A report from tech blog, Tech Crunch, speculated Monday the number could be much higher.
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Seth Gilbert, 08-1-2008
Revenues are climbing consistently across the video game industry but in the seasonal business, some publishers are struggling more than others to wring profits from the windfall this summer. Activision Blizzard, the newly minted combination of Activision and Vivendi Games, isn’t having as much of a problem. With franchises like Guitar Hero pushing sales, the company announced strong earnings result Thursday for Activision’s last quarter of independence. They also revealed a joint venture with Logitech to create new controllers for the next installment of the music game franchise.
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