In its latest effort to attract more fans, and hopefully more TV viewers, through its digital media strategy, the National Hockey League is introducing new mobile applications for streaming live hockey content on phones and tablet devices like the iPad. The NHL, with Verizon Wireless and Bell Mobility, is offering three versions of its NHL GameCenter apps on an array of operating systems and smartphones, including Google Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and Nokia handsets. The free version of the app has team and player stats and game photos. The next level costs $19.99 for the season and includes video highlights and live radio; the premium version is $79.99 and includes live video broadcasts. An app optimized for the iPad that offers video of live hockey games is currently in production and should be available by the holiday season, according to a spokesman for the NHL. The League is also developing its NHL GameCenter apps for other tablets such as the Blackberry Playbook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The NHL’s premium web-version of GameCenter costs $19.95 per month and streams approximately 1,000 of the league’s 1,200 games per season (all games that are not national exclusives on Versus or NBC, the league’s partner television networks). The GameCenter apps were previously available on mobile devices in Europe, and the league expects its subscriber base, which includes users of both paid and free apps, to reach half a million subscribers worldwide this week. The NHL is not the only sports league to turn to mobile distribution of its game content as part of a broader strategy. The National Basketball Association, for example, is also working on an iPad app that will be available in the coming weeks. Consumers will have to purchase the NBA’s League Pass for broadband, which costs $119 to $189 a year, to use the free iPad application. But the NHL is the league most in need of an overall viewership boost in the U.S., and the verdict is still out on whether TV content through mobile apps will bring more TV viewers. “People are cautiously optimistic about the engagement part of mobile apps for TV content, but so far those apps aren’t drawing new viewers in,” says James McQuivey, media and technology analyst for Forrester, Inc. Many people who view online video are already watching the shows on television, McQuivey says: “It’s proving to be the case with online video that viewers are people that are already in love with the TV programming, so it’s not necessarily showing new viewers. That could be the same for apps.” Despite having ended last season with its highest TV ratings in years, the NHL attracts fewer U.S. eyeballs than other pro sports. This year’s Stanley Cup finals series games averaged just 4.5 million U.S. television viewers, compared to an average of 18.1 million viewers of this year’s NBA Finals games and 19.1 million viewers during last year’s MLB World Series, according to Nielsen Co. “Digital media is a huge marketing tool for us,” says John Collins, chief operating officer of the NHL. “It’s another way for us to not only reach a fan base that we think has a voracious appetite, but also to create an equal amount of momentum in our overall business.” Mr. Collins says the league has generated $330 million dollars in sponsorship and revenue over the past four years. The league’s TV viewers, more than its digital subscribers, will likely carry greater weight in that business as the league enters its final season under its current TV contracts with NBC and Versus and looks to renegotiate. Mr. Collins says that digital is part of that overall strategy, “which is to cast a broad net to fans, and create a path to those fans for advertisers. It all goes back to ensuring hockey is in growth mode.”

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Digital River Inc. reported a dip in its third-quarter net income on Monday, but the e-commerce services provider issued stronger-than-expected guidance that sent its shares up in after-hours trading. The company reported that it earned $5.9 million, or 15 cents per share for the quarter. That's down from $11 million, or 29 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Adjusted for some special items, the company earned 20 cents per share. Revenue fell 14 percent to $85 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to earn 13 cents per share on revenue of $77.7 million. Analyst estimates typically exclude one-time items. The company said it won several major contracts and is very optimistic for its future. As a result, it expects to earn 28 to 31 cents per share for the fourth quarter on an adjusted basis. Analysts had forecast 28 cents per share. It expects to earn 87 to 90 cents per share for the full year on an adjusted basis, well-above the 77 cents analysts had forecast. Shares of the company rose $1.47, or 4.1 percent, in after-hours trading to $37.10.

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A new Nielsen survey released Friday indicates that iPad users are consuming more web-based media content than users of smartphones, e-readers and other mobile gadgets. The media-tracking agency said the iPad trumps the iPhone and other mobile devices when it comes to print and video Relevant Products/Services viewing -- and a majority of iPad owners have downloaded and paid for content. Nielsen found that 53 percent of iPad owners regularly access news content, versus 44 percent of iPhone users. It's no great surprise that the iPad's 10-inch screen gives the trendy device an obvious edge in such content. However, 51 percent of iPad users also said they regularly access music content, versus just 41 percent of iPhone owners. The iPad's big screen also seems to make the device a more appealing platform for viewing marketing Relevant Products/Services materials. According to Nielsen, 39 percent of iPad users rated the ads displayed on their devices as "new and interesting," versus just 19 percent of connected-device users overall. Additionally, iPad users were also the most likely to have made a purchase as a result of seeing an ad, the firm said. An Early Adopter Hit Nielsen reports that 63 percent of iPad users say they have downloaded paid apps, while only five percent have restricted downloads to free offerings. Surprisingly, 32 percent of iPad users have not downloaded any apps to their devices. Apple said it sold 4.19 million iPads in its latest quarter -- a significant increase from the 3.27 million units shipped during the device's first three months of availability. Still, iPad sales fell "slightly below street consensus estimates" overall for the quarter, noted Piper Jaffray analyst Andrew Murphy. Though other financial analysts were disappointed by Apple's iPad numbers, 4.19 million iPads was "in line with our estimates," Murphy said. "We are expecting 5.5 million iPads" to be sold in the year-ending quarter, he added. With respect to the consumer market overall, Nielsen said 25 percent own smartphones, six percent own an e-reader, and four percent own a tablet. Among tech-savvy early adopters, however, 48 percent own a tablet, 35 percent own an e-reader, and 30 percent own a smartphone. Gartner believes that as tablets move from early adopters to mainstream, the devices will become a family purchase as well as a personal one. "The touch user interface, the applications available on the different operating systems, and the simpler setup compared to a full-fledged computer make media tablets ideal for a range of consumers -- from power Relevant Products/Services users to technophobics," the firm's analysts said. Some of the iPad's early adopters represent market segments that traditionally are slow to adopt new technologies. "Enterprise CIOs are adding iPad to their approved-device list at an impressive rate," Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told investors on Monday. "Over 65 percent of the Fortune 100 are already deploying or piloting iPad." Apple COO Tim Cook said he has never seen enterprise Relevant Products/Services adoption rates like this for a new technology. "We're also seeing the iPad begin to pick up interest" among educators, "which is another market that historically adopts very, very slowly," he said. Gartner forecasts that tablet sales to end users will reach 19.5 million units globally for 2010. If Piper Jaffray's fourth-quarter iPad estimate proves to be accurate, this potentially leaves room for Apple's tablet rivals to sell about 5.8 million devices. Shoppers looking to buy a tablet as a gift this holiday season should note that the devices appear to have greater appeal among men than women. Sixty-five percent of iPad users are male, and 63 percent of them are under the age of 35, Nielsen said.

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Amazon posted its usual big jump in top line sales, with the third quarter revenue increasing 38.7%, to $7.56 billion, while net income rose 16%, to $231 million. The largest gains came in its electronics and other general merchandise segment where sales rose 68% overall and 80% in North America. The segment, which benefited from acquisitions (Zappos), is home to sales of the Kindle. Media sales grew at a much more modest rate, up 14% in total and 13% in North America. Within North America media, Amazon said unit sales of both print and digital books accelerated in the third quarter compared to the second period, with strong overall book gains. The company had some softness in music and video sales. Amazon said the new generation of Kindles “are the fastest selling Kindles of all time and the bestselling products on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.” The number of e-books in the Kindle store grew to 720,000 during the quarter and Amazon said that 590,000 of those are priced at $9.99 or less. Asked whether he thought e-book prices would remain closer to $9.99 than $15, CFO Tom Szkutak fell back on Amazon's usual stance of saying the company believes prices should be as low as possible for consumers and that Amazon continues to work hard to keep prices as economical as possible. He declined to say if the entire Kindle business, both devices and e-books, improved Amazon's overall operating margins. For the first nine months of the year, media segment sales were up 19%, while egm category results rose 69%. In North America, media sales increased 17%, while egm jumped 76%. The online retailer is expecting a blowout fourth quarter in terms of sales with revenue projected to increase between 26% and 40%, although it said that operating income could be anywhere from down 24% to up 18%. Earnings are being impacted in part by Amazon's need to add more warehouses across the globe. Amazon has lots of capacity "and we will add more to meet the demand n front of us," Szkutak said. UGG Scuff Slipper UGG Coquette Slippers UGG Sandals

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Western Digital maintained its leading position on the market of hard disk drives (HDDs) in terms of unit sales in calendar Q3 2010, based on recent financial reports from WD and its arch-rival Seagate. Although the gap between the two companies shrunk, the leadership of Western Digital is pretty evident. While Seagate still posted higher revenue, WD managed to become more profitable. In the third quarter of calendar 2010, WD shipped 50.7 million of hard disk drives, about 1.5 million more than Seagate, which supplied 49.2 million HDDs. In Q2 the difference between the two companies was 2.9 million units, while in Q1 the gap was just about 800 thousand of drives, according to financial reports of the two world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Thanks to a large portion of enterprise-class hard disk drives among Seagate shipments, the company claimed higher revenue than Seagate, however, thanks to lower costs of manufacturing, WD succeeded in earning more than its arch-competitor. Seagate Technology reported revenue of $2.7 billion, gross margin of 20.4%, net income of $149 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.31. Western Digital reported revenue of $2.4 billion and net income of $197 million, or $0.84 per share. Since Seagate is currently in negotiations about becoming a private company again, the company did not provide any outlook about the fourth quarter of the year and it is hard to tell whether the drive maker will be able to regain unit shipments leadership any time soon. Given that at present Seagate is considerably less profitable than Western Digital, it is clear that the company's cost structure is not currently optimized to take away unit shipments leadership from the competitor.

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The modest turnaround in the fortunes of the New York Times Co. earlier this year appeared to lose steam in the second half, as total revenues slipped 2.7% from $569.5 million in the third quarter of 2009 to $554.3 million in the third quarter of this year. This was due to a 1% drop in advertising revenues from about $290 million to $287 million, and a 4.8% slip in circulation revenues, from $240.7 million to $229.1 million. The decline in ad revenues resulted from a 5.8% decrease in print ad revenues, to $208.7 million -- offset somewhat by a 14.6% increase in digital ad revenues, to $78.3 million. As in previous quarters, the print advertising losses were spread evenly across most major categories, with retail falling 9.3% to $58.8 million and classifieds falling 9.6% to $46.1 million. The classified losses included an 8.9% drop in real estate to $15.8 million, and a 20.7% drop in automotive to $9 million. Help wanted was basically flat at $9.3 million. The major exception in terms of print ad categories was national advertising, where total revenues increased 4.6% to $141.1 million in the third quarter. The big increase in digital revenues was a bright spot on the NYTCO spreadsheets in the third quarter, as Internet advertising and other digital ad platforms now contribute about 14% of the company's total revenues. That's up from 10.8% in the third quarter of 2008 and 11.9% in the third quarter of 2009. But these positive comparisons are tempered by the fact that much of the apparent increase is due to the steep decline in overall revenues. If total revenues had remained the same as in 2008, the proportion contributed by digital advertising would be just 11.4% this year. The decline in circulation revenues is an ominous development, undermining one of the main strategies pursued by NYTCO to achieve financial stability. Over the last few years, the flagship New York Times has raised newsstand and home delivery prices, taking advantage of loyalty among older print readers to pump up total circulation revenues 7% from $874 million in 2005 to $936 million in 2009. More significantly, the proportion of total NYTCO revenues contributed by circulation revenues jumped from 25.9% to 38.4% over the same period. However, the reversal in circulation revenue growth in the third quarter of this year suggests this strategy may have finally run its course.

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