Decline

Stock Futures Sink as U.S. Job Losses Accelerate — Premarket futures were predicting a decline at the open Friday, following a sharp selloff at the end of the last session, as traders took in the latest grim employment data.... [Tags: decline, employment data, job losses, last session, premarket futures]

Need an Excuse to Vamoose? Fake Calls To The Rescue! — "Have you ever," asks app developers Magic Tap, "been in the situation where you need the perfect excuse to get out of the room or step out of an annoying conversation? Easy: Open FakeCalls and within seconds or minutes the application will simulate a fake call. (No real calls are made; this is just simulation. Good news is: you are the only one who knows that!). Then answer the call, decline it or just let the phone ring to fake a missed call." The following YouTube video demonstrates further: And if you should feel guilty about using your poor... [Tags: charity, decline, developers, earnings, face time]

Stocks on Wall Street Appear Headed for Early Decline — Premarket futures were pointing to a weak open Thursday, as the automakers continued to search for ways to placate Congress, and a slew of companies announced layoffs.... [Tags: automakers, congress, decline, futures, layoffs]

An Online Sales Boom That May Not Last — Strong Web sales over the holiday weekend are unlikely to bail out the retail industry, which is contending with a recession and a sharp decline in consumers’ wealth.... [Tags: consumers, decline, holiday weekend, recession, retail industry]

IDC Sees Decline in U.S. PC Market Next Year — U.S. shipments of personal computers are expected to drop nearly 3% in 2009, while demand in much of the rest of the world will slow down quickly, IDC says.... [Tags: decline, personal computers, rest of the world]

Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments, Donations Wither — Harvard reports that the value of its endowment has declined $8 billion between the end of June 2008 through October 2008. That would make Harvard's endowment worth 22% less than at the end of June, or $26.9 billion -- but it probably has further to fall thanks to illiquid assets like private equity interests. Meanwhile, Harvard and its peers could be in trouble because fewer people will be able to afford college given the market crash. That will mean college administrators are facing some tough choices. Harvard is responding to the decline in its endowment by taking a "hard look"... [Tags: 1 billion, college administrators, decline, dire straits, endowment]

The Impact of a Weakening Economy on Online Travel — Given the severity of the problems in other markets, less mainstream attention has been placed on the state of the travel industry. Compete analyzed online activity within the air and hotel categories to identify if shifts are taking place in consumer interest in these products. The findings show a clear decline in online travel research activity, with actual booking and purchase activity also trending downward. Air and hotel shopper volumes (consumers researching but not necessarily purchasing) have both gone into negative territory compared to a year ago, a first for 2008. In each month of 2008 to this point, online... [Tags: bookers, catalyst, consumer interest, decline, declines]

IDC sees decline in US PC market next year (AP) — AP - U.S. shipments of personal computers are expected to drop nearly 3 percent next year, while demand in much of the rest of the world will slow down quickly as the financial crisis spreads, research firm IDC said Wednesday.... [Tags: decline, financial crisis, idc, personal computers, rest of the world]

Online Holiday Sales Making A Comeback or Barely Holding Their Own? — After a tepid start, online holiday sales seem to be picking up a bit. Online sales on Cyber Monday as measured by comScore were a healthy $846 million, up 15 percent from last year’s Cyber Monday. Online sales since Thanksgiving are up 12 percent to $2.4 billion. But overall online sales in November of $12 billion are still down 2 percent. Can sales make up the difference over the next five weeks? As the chart above shows, holiday sales so far in 2008 (the red bars) are struggling to keep up with the levels we saw in 2007 (the... [Tags: amazon, brick and mortar, brick and mortar stores, crunch, cyber monday]

Tim Berry: Small Business Posts Largest Job Decline in Seven Years — Especially since I posted here two months ago the "silver lining" news about small business still hiring in September, and then here last month about small business jobs dropping in October, seems like this was probably inevitable: the same source, ADP, reports small business jobs falling very hard in November. I just got an email about it: Today, the ADP Small Business Report found that small businesses lost 79,000 jobs in November, the largest decline in more than seven years. And that's just small business, more interesting to me because I own a small business, and to the world at... [Tags: business posts, business report, decline, economy, email]

Server sales slide; IBM, HP nearly tied for market share lead — Global server sales fell 5.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 2002. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard maintained a very slight market share lead over IBM, but statistically it’s a tie, according to IDC. According to IDC, third quarter global revenue was $12.6 billion, down 5.2 percent, but units were up 2.8 [...]... [Tags: decline, fourth quarter, global server, hewlett packard, hp]

A Look Back At Hypebot's Predictions For 2008 — I've starting to think about my annual predictions for the music industry and thought a good place to start were my predictions for this past year. Written 12 months ago in December of 2007, here they are and for a chuckle you can also look back at my predictions for 2007. HYPEBOT'S 10 MUSIC 2.0 PREDICTIONS FOR 2008 Despite major layoffs and promises of change, the EMI at the end of 2008 will look much like the EMI of today only smaller and with new faces at the helm. The major labels groups will try to buy their way out... [Tags: 12 months, artwork, decline, emi, free music]

Whither Goest Thou, Stock Market? — How bad is this stock market? So bad that even those of us old enough to remember the Johnny Carson routine can't think of an appropriate zinger. Yes, I know the market has made gains today, and things don't look quite as bad as they did in the recent trough. Still, take a look at this chart. On this chart each block represents a year and each column represents a range of return on the S&P index. Over on the right side are those lucky years where the index has soared upward from 50-60%. In the middle are the more... [Tags: amp, asset management, comers, crash, decline]

'Mad Money Lightning Round': Bullish on Google — Despite the decline in online advertising, Google is still gaining market share, Cramer says.... [Tags: cramer, decline, google, lightning, mad money]

I Want My, I Want My SED — “We have big plans for the digital television business,” Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai said at a Canon exhibition in 2005. And with a new technology called surface-conduction electron-emitter display, and plans to use it to transform the lowly TV into a “multifunction information device,” Canon (CAJ) seemed well poised to execute them. At the time, anyway. A patent dispute with Applied Nanotech soon stalled SED TV’s commercial debut. Which was a nasty break for Canon. With a performance and picture quality said to be far higher than LCD or plasma, SED was vital to expanding the company’s presence in the... [Tags: canon caj, competitive edge, conduction electron, decline, digital cameras]

Time Warner Cable CFO Sees Tougher 2009 — Time Warner Cable will likely sell fewer-than-expected video, Internet and phone subscriptions this year, and it expects a further decline next year due to the worsening U.S. economy, according to Chief Financial Officer Rob Marcus. In 2008, we're on track to deliver less than 2.5 million additional revenue-generating units, Marcus said, adding that that was less than what the No. 2 U.S. cable company had originally anticipated. - NEW YORK (Reuters) Time Warner Cable Inc. will likely sell fewer-than-expected video, Internet and phone subscriptions this year, and expects a further decline next year due to the worsening U.S. economy, Chief... [Tags: 5 million, cable company, cable inc, cfo, chief financial officer]

Sierra Wireless Deal Signals Shift in Data Cards — Today, Sierra Wireless, the maker of wireless data cards agreed to spend about 218 euros ($274.9 million) buying Wavecom, the Paris-based maker of machine-to-machine communications chips. It’s a good move for Sierra, which paid a 108 percent premium over Wavecom’s last trading price, in order to beat rival bidder Gemalto. For Sierra, the deal gives it the ability to follow the growth of the web as it moves beyond people to machines — providing a new avenue for growth as Sierra sees interest in wireless cards fade as communications chips are embedded directly into laptops. A leader in this trend... [Tags: card business, cars, communications chips, data cards, decline]

Worldwide server shipments grow 4%, revenues decline 5% in Q3 — ... [Tags: decline, q3, worldwide server shipments]

Drop In Cancer Deaths Tied Primarily To Gains In Behavior And Screening — Behavior change and improvements in screening have contributed equally and substantially to the 13 percent decline in cancer mortality rates, according to new research. Cancer treatment after diagnosis has also contributed to the decline, although this is less of a factor than behavioral changes and screening.... [Tags: behavior change, behavioral changes, cancer deaths, cancer mortality rates, cancer treatment]

Traffic to Web-only retailers increases on Thanksgiving and Black Friday — The holiday shopping season is officially upon us and for some online retailers, prospects may be rosier than expected thanks to heavy promotional activity to encourage spending (unfortunately also erode profit margins). On Thanksgiving, which has been the heaviest day of traffic to online retailers over the past 4 years, experienced an 11 percent decline in the market share of visits as compared to last year. The websites of brick & mortar retailers took a harder hit with a 16% decline as compared to last year, while traffic to web-only retailers was up 11%. For Black Friday, traffic to the... [Tags: alcohol and health, amp, black friday, brick, cyber monday]