By ERIC A. TAUB
Nintendo, the maker of the Wii video game machine, does not have just one hit product on its hands. Rather, it has two.
While shoppers are still lining up before stores open to buy Nintendo’s Wii, its older portable sibling, the Nintendo DS, is the best-selling game machine in the United […]
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E-Commerce Report
By BOB TEDESCHI
MICROSOFT tried. Google tried. Now it’s eBay’s turn to see if it can dethrone the Web’s most spectacularly successful underdog, Craigslist.
The Kijiji unit of eBay, a free classified ads service covering 13 countries online, was introduced in the United States in late June, and has already achieved modest success in some […]
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By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.
Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, children’s entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children. Media conglomerates in particular think these sites — part […]
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By AMY HARMON
The girls had never met, but they looked like sisters.
There was no missing the similarities: the flat bridge of their noses, the thin lips, the fold near the corner of their eyes. And to the families of 14-year-old Samantha Napier and 4-year-old Taygen Lane there was something else, too. In the […]
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By TIM JOHNSTON
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — In the thousand or so years since humans discovered the remote islands that make up New Zealand, three-quarters of the indigenous bird species have been driven to extinction, and until recently, it looked as if the kiwi could follow.
That would be a loss for the environment, but also […]
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By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO — The latest mixed-bag of news for retailers hails from cyberspace: holiday e-commerce sales were robust, but showed their slowest-ever growth, industry analysts projected.
The sales growth of 19 percent, while enviable for traditional retailers, was down sharply from the 25 percent to 30 percent growth rates of recent years. Retail […]
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