http://www.marketrap.com/article/selected_articles View Recent Articles en Copyright Marketrap 2012 10 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91242/thq-analysis-time-to-buy Last year, and for the last few years, I had been warning people to stay away from THQ Inc (NASDAQ:THQI).  I have also been shorting THQI on and off for the last few years, enjoying those trades. First, when the current generation began, I w... Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:16:09 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91242/thq-analysis-time-to-buy http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91241/nba-lockout-may-prove-damaging-to-take-two-interactive-bottom-line While Take Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) CEO Strauss Zelnick reiterated on his company’s last conference call that the implications of an NBA lockout were unknown and would not affect company guidance for their related NBA title, NBA 2K12 ha... Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:07:32 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91241/nba-lockout-may-prove-damaging-to-take-two-interactive-bottom-line http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91240/dryships-inc-loses-goldman-sachs-coverage-stock-collapses DryShips Inc (NASDAQ:DRYS) fell over 9% today in response to a report that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has dropped its coverage of the company.  Analyst Scott Melet is leaving the company and has not been replaced, leaving Dryships and other tan... Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:20:39 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91240/dryships-inc-loses-goldman-sachs-coverage-stock-collapses http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91239/when-activisions-director-sells-investors-should-pay-attention Brian Kelly, Activision Inc.'s (NASDAQ:ATVI) Co-Chairman, sold about 1.6 million worth of Activision stock from exercised options last week.  This was reported in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday after regular tr... Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:30:04 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91239/when-activisions-director-sells-investors-should-pay-attention http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91238/medicis-ceo-girlfriend-allegedly-murdered It has been reported by Phoenix news website azcentral.com that the CEO of a major public traded company, Scottsdale based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation (NYSE:MRX), has been involved in a series of tragic and suspicious circumstances in the ... Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:55:42 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91238/medicis-ceo-girlfriend-allegedly-murdered http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91237/lies-damned-lies-and-take-two-interactive-release-dates Investors are often taught to look forward, not backward.  With video game publisher Take Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO), in particular, investors have been encouraged to look to the future and away from a messy past.  However, sometimes ... Mon, 23 May 2011 15:25:19 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91237/lies-damned-lies-and-take-two-interactive-release-dates http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91236/the-cost-of-la-noire-for-take-two-interactive Take Two (TTWO) Interactive, Inc. [NASDAQ:TTWO] has had its fair share of CEO’s come and go, from stock option criminal Ryan Brant to board takeover leader Strauss Zelnick.  But one leadership role has remained the same for over ten yea... Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:21:42 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91236/the-cost-of-la-noire-for-take-two-interactive http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91235/apples-new-cloud-deal-with-warner-music Apple has an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer the record label's tracks on iTunes' upcoming cloud-music service, music industry sources said. In the race to the cloud, Apple is apparently stepping on the gas. All Things Digital&nbsp... Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:04:50 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91235/apples-new-cloud-deal-with-warner-music http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91234/two-analysts-raise-price-targets-for-microsemi-one-downgrades Following Microsemi Corporation (MSCC)'s earnings report, Tore Svanberg at Stifel Nicolaus has raised his price target from $25 to $30.  Craig Berger at FBR Capital Margets raised his target from $30 to $31. However, David Wong at Wells Fargo... Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:51:18 -0500 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91234/two-analysts-raise-price-targets-for-microsemi-one-downgrades http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91233/western-digital-moves-headquarters-to-a-curious-location A promotional YouTube video and check on Google Maps reveals that Western Digital Corporation (NYSE:WDC) has not just moved to a new location, but has moved directly next to a potential acquirer. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics’ subs... Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:30:22 -0500 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91233/western-digital-moves-headquarters-to-a-curious-location http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91232/thq-rises-on-game-sales-speculation [UPDATE 11/23/2010: THQ Inc. has this morning released a press release stating that uDraw is, "Already among the top-selling Wii titles at online retailer Amazon.com."  This may suggest that what this article confirms - that the title is not ... Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:36:12 -0500 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91232/thq-rises-on-game-sales-speculation http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91231/thq-welcome-to-the-jungle The once mighty shovelware developer, THQ Inc. (THQI), has found itself surrounded, deep in enemy territory. With the rise of the Wii and Nintendo based products, THQ has been forced to move away from children's products and is trying to succeed w... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:06:00 -0500 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91231/thq-welcome-to-the-jungle http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91230/take-two-chairman-we-are-reporting-good-results This morning on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seemed to suggest that Take Two performed well in the month of September, which is Take Two's second month of its unrepor... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:23:16 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91230/take-two-chairman-we-are-reporting-good-results http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91229/take-two-thq-down-20-in-august With the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Index down 6% and 4%, respectively, two video game publishers have seen their shares beaten down to a bloody pulp in the last month – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) and Take Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO). Competitor Ele... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:56:09 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91229/take-two-thq-down-20-in-august http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91228/thq-says-wait-until-2012-for-growth Yeah, wait until the stock drops another couple dollars.  THQ (NASDAQ:THQI) now says that it will earn “roughly” .81 to .86 in its second half this fiscal year (ending in March, 2011).  That’s because the company just l... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:34:35 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91228/thq-says-wait-until-2012-for-growth http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91227/michael-pachter-overestimates-take-two-interactive-shares-tumble Call it the Pachter effect. Video game analyst Michael Pachter, who himself has seemed to admit in the past that his monthly U.S. sales estimates for publishers come without much extensive research, has perhaps managed to help move Take Two Inter... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:07:24 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91227/michael-pachter-overestimates-take-two-interactive-shares-tumble http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91226/localcom-appears-undervalued A quick comparison to search giant Yahoo! Inc. [NASDAQ:YHOO] and smaller advertising company ValueClick Inc. [NASDAQ:VCLK] suggests the tiny internet search and advertising company Local.com Corp. [NASDAQ:LOCM] is undervalued. Yahoo! has as of lat... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:40:07 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91226/localcom-appears-undervalued http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91225/take-two-redemption-in-june-nearly-1-million-more-copies-sold Take Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) has hit gold, now selling through somewhere around 2.5 million copies of Red Dead Redemption in the United States in it's first six weeks, according to newly released sales figures from a leading market researche... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:36:16 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91225/take-two-redemption-in-june-nearly-1-million-more-copies-sold http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91224/redemption-15m-units-in-the-united-states-in-may The video game industry today learned that Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption has had one of the biggest openings of any title in this console generation.  In fact, only two titles released in the first three quarters of any of the past few years... Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:43:14 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91224/redemption-15m-units-in-the-united-states-in-may http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91223/take-two-interactive-inc-ceo-ben-feder-i-dont-run-my-business-to-please-the-analyst-community In an article published yesterday, Take Two Interactive [NASDAQ:TTWO] CEO Ben Feder stated, “I don’t run my business to please the analyst community.” It’s no wonder, of course, that interactive entertainment analysts are ... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:56:02 -0400 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91223/take-two-interactive-inc-ceo-ben-feder-i-dont-run-my-business-to-please-the-analyst-community