| Will China's Gamers Play Candy Crush Saga, and Boost King Digital Stock in the Process?
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 Candy Crush Saga is the most popular game in King's emerging empire. Credit: King Digital Entertainment. A strategy to allow tens of millions of Chinese people to play Candy Crush Saga could pay off for holders of King Digital Entertainment stock, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. Specifically, King has partnered with tech and entertainment conglomerate Tencent Holdings to create a localized version of the company's signature game. No timing or financial details were released. The stock nevertheless rallied more than 3% on the news. Tim says that's understandable, especially when you consider the size and scope of Tencent's network. According to the latest figures, the company's QQ Game Platform catered to 8.5 million simultaneous users at its peak in the fourth ...
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| An Interview With Ford's Next CEO
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 Ford Chief Operating Officer Mark Fields spoke with us last week in New York, next to a 50th anniversary edition of the Mustang. Photo: The Motley Fool. Last week at the New York International Auto Show, Ford took the wraps off of its latest special Mustang: a limited edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the unveiling of the original Mustang in 1964. Ford also unveiled a refreshed version of its Focus sedan, with a new grille design closely modeled after the one on the automaker's hot-selling Fusion sedan. We (the Motley Fool's John Rosevear and Rex Moore) were at Ford's event, and we got a close-up look at the special Mustang and the overhauled Focus. We heard Executive Chairman Bill Ford talk about the importance of the Mustang to Ford, and about the details of this special ...
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| Q&A: Ecclestone on trial
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 What are the big questions and answers as Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's bribery trial begins?
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| Apple Just Made Its Case to Join the Dow. Will Intel or Cisco Get the Boot?
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 The Dow Jones Industrials had a fairly lackluster Wednesday, falling almost 13 points and giving back just a small portion of the gains the average has picked up over the past week and a half. Weak economic data and some earnings-related concerns held back the Dow from further gains. But the most interesting news for Dow investors came after the bell, when Apple announced its latest earnings. Most investors focused on the after-hours gains for the iPhone maker, as it announced a higher dividend and a huge share buyback. But one much-overlooked element -- its planned stock split -- is the most important thing for those who follow the Dow Jones Industrials -- because at long last, Apple will no longer have any impediment to becoming a member of the Dow. Source: Apple. Top of the heap ...
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| Why Intuitive Surgical, Cree, and iRobot Tumbled Today
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 On Wednesday, the stock market gave back some of the ground it had gained over the past week and a half, with declines of less than a quarter-percent for the Dow and the S&P on Wednesday. Housing data that included a plunge in new-home sales threw cold water on the bullish theory for the U.S. economy, but many investors were willing to see that figure as a weather-related aberration. Regardless, Intuitive Surgical , Cree , and iRobot all posted much more severe losses in today's session, reflecting company-specific news that alarmed shareholders. Source: Intuitive Surgical. Intuitive Surgical fell more than 11% as the robotic surgery specialist issued its first-quarter report last night. Revenue dropped by almost a quarter as the number of da Vinci surgical systems that Intuitive ...
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| Apple and Facebook Shine After Hours
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 Stocks finally hit a down day today after six straight gains for the broad market as earnings season rolled on and the housing market hit a bump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed off 13 points or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.2% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.8%. The census bureau reported March new home sales falling 14.5% from February's total to a seasonally adjusted rate of 384,000, an eight-month low that badly missed estimates at 455,000. The slowing sales seem to be a reflection of higher mortgage rates and other factors as the slide was unrelated to the severe winter weather much of the country experienced. The low figure pushed inventory from a five-month supply to six-month one, and was 14% below last March's total. In another negative sign, mortgage applications also ...
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| Why Intuitive Surgical, Netflix, and Amgen Are Today's 3 Worst Stocks
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 A six-day win streak -- in any sort of competitive situation against challenging opponents -- is hard to come by. It's pretty tough to pull off in the stock market, too, and, though the S&P 500 Index wasn't far off from a seven-day rally, the fun finally came to an end and stocks returned to the red on Wednesday. New home sales in March fell sharply and without warning, while lousy earnings from Wall Street also sent the S&P southward, as it shed 4 points, or 0.2% to finish at 1,875. Intuitive Surgical , Netflix , and Amgen each finished in the depths of the proverbial Wall Street dumpster. Intuitive Surgical's miserable 11.5% plunge came after the robotic medical systems maker posted similarly miserable quarterly results. Sales in the period were off 24% from the year before, while ...
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