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An Apple Headset Is Coming. Can It Be More Than a Nerd Helmet?

Uncool gadgets got cool with the iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch. Now the company is taking on mixed-reality goggles. Uncool gadgets got cool with the iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch. Now the company is taking on mixed-reality goggles. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their…

Measurement Messiness Complicates TV’s Annual Sales Season

Media companies are preparing to spotlight their buzziest television shows at the TV industry’s annual advance-sales presentations to advertisers, but marketers may be more preoccupied with measuring how many people watch and how to translate that into deals.Veteran players like Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal and newer platforms such as Netflix Inc. will try to win over ad buyers during star-studded “upfront” pitches in mid-May at New York City venues including…

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Becomes the First Billion-Dollar-Plus Film of 2023

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” surpassed $1 billion in estimated global box office receipts on Sunday, the first movie to do so in 2023, according to research firm Comscore . Through Sunday the film has grossed $490 million domestically and $532 million internationally. Only five films have crossed the billion-dollar mark since the onset of the pandemic, according to Box Office Mojo: “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Jurassic World: Dominion.”…

Memory-Chip Makers Say Recovery Is in Sight After Long Slump

The world’s top memory-chip makers, struggling with the deepest industry downturn in more than a decade, say the worst may soon be over as customers come back and cuts in production and investment help counter a supply glut. After reporting a $3.4 billion operating loss in the first quarter in its semiconductor division, Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that demand for memory chips was expected to gradually recover in the second half of the year after a prolonged slide. The…

Microsoft Could Inflate Google’s Mobile Search Toll

Microsoft may or may not take much internet-search market share from Google, but the cost of holding on to that lucrative business is heading higher regardless.  This has been apparent since early February when Microsoft lifted the wraps on a new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial-intelligence technology. Microsoft effectively declared its goal of finally becoming a major player in the business that generates more than $224 billion a year in advertising revenue for Google.…

Best Buy Lays Off Hundreds at Stores as Sales Move Online

Best Buy Co. is cutting store jobs across the country, as the electronics and appliance retailer works to lower costs and shift its business as more sales happen online. This week, many store workers that specialize in selling more complex products such as computers and smartphones, dubbed “consultants” inside the company, were told their jobs would be eliminated, according to people familiar with the situation.  Best Buy Co. is cutting store jobs across the country, as the…

Samsung Forecasts Worst Profit in Over a Decade as Tech Slump Hits Memory Chips

SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. said it expects a steep fall in its first-quarter profit, dropping to levels last seen during the financial crisis as an extended slump in the tech sector hits its memory-chip business hard. Samsung said Friday that its operating profit for the January-March quarter was expected to have dropped by around 95.8% from the prior year to 600 billion won, or roughly $455 million, in what would be the…

GameStop Decides It Likes Stores After All

Ryan Cohen  took control of GameStop Corp. in 2021 vowing to transform the faltering videogame retailer into an e-commerce juggernaut.Meme-stock investors loved the idea. Ordinary consumers, it turns out, did not. E-commerce sales didn’t take off—they declined. Losses grew, and a succession of online-sales executives Mr. Cohen brought in left.  Last year, to little fanfare, the billionaire investor reversed course and slammed the brakes on the e-commerce push to refocus…

Uber Eats to Take Down Thousands of Virtual Brands to Declutter the App

Uber Eats is taking thousands of online-only brands off its app this week out of concern that the platform is getting clogged by restaurants listing multiple delivery options with different names but the same menu. The number of virtual brands on Uber Technologies Inc.’s UBER -0.08% Uber Eats quadrupled to more than 40,000 this year from over 10,000 in 2021. They now account for 8% of Uber Eats’ storefronts listed in the U.S. and Canada but less than 2% of bookings in…