I spoke to Viz CEO Ken Sasaki at Comic - Con in San Diego last July, and he told me that the app still accounts for the majority of their digital manga sales, but
he expected sales on other platforms to grow; while Viz's slice might get smaller, the pie as a whole will get bigger, he said.
Don't
expect sales on one title to pay your bills.
Major Nelson is reporting that we can
expect sales on Max Payne 3 and Red Dead Redemption DLC on Xbox LIVE next week - between the 22nd and 28th January.
Not exact matches
May 2 - U.S. aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc posted a lower - than -
expected profit
on Wednesday, and said it was spending $ 650 million to buy European peer Asco Industries NV to boost
sales to Airbus Group SE.
Drugmaker Merck reported a better - than -
expected first - quarter profit
on Tuesday, helped by a more than 150 percent rise in
sales of cancer drug Keytruda.
Analysts
on average had
expected same - store
sales to rise 3.5 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc
on Tuesday reported lower - than -
expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international
sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.
The company
expects sales to hit 20 million next year and will soon begin to focus
on non-gamers in its marketing efforts.
Yum shares fell 5 percent in premarket trading
on Wednesday after results showed
sales at restaurants open at least a year rose 1 percent in the three months ended March 31, compared with the 2 percent
expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.
Swashbuckling
sales executives of the past were
expected to exude confidence and to offer encyclopedic knowledge
on their company's products and solutions, but not much else.
The Baltimore - based athletic gear maker said that while it still
expects to hit $ 7.5 billion in revenue by 2018,
sales growth over the next two years would be within the range of the «low 20s»
on a percentage basis.
But
on Monday, McDonald's reported better - than -
expected sales thanks in part to customers trying out multiple items from the revamped value menu.
Unilever reported lower - than -
expected fourth - quarter
sales on Thursday, hurt by demonetization in India and an economic slowdown in Brazil.
In terms of data, retail
sales numbers in the U.K. came in higher - than -
expected, showing an increase of 0.3 percent month -
on - month in October.
Retail
sales in Germany came in lower - than -
expected in August, down by 0.4 percent
on the month, the national statistics office said.
Investors will have their eyes
on new economic data
expected to show that single - family home
sales increased by 3.1 % in February after a big drop in January.
The phone was previously
expected to be in short supply due to production issues, and people who pre-ordered it more than an hour after it first went
on sale were told to
expect their new phones to ship in 4 - 6 weeks.
The owners, who
expect to stay
on as technicians after the
sale, are selling control of the company mostly to obtain funds for expansion.
After months of declines in Apple «s stock, sentiment appears to be mending as investors focus
on steady earnings expectations and bet that the
expected launch of a new iPhone will add badly - needed fuel to sputtering
sales.
On Tuesday, Nike (NKE) is
expected to post third - quarter profit that beats Wall Street's forecasts, as the company has seen strong
sales growth amid increased demand for basketball and running shoes.
Gold got a boost Friday
on weaker - than -
expected inflation and retail
sales figures, casting doubt
on the Federal Reserve's ability to continue normalizing interest rates this year.
Marks & Spencer ended up by more than 1.3 percent after keeping its fiscal - year guidance unchanged
on Thursday and announcing a better - than -
expected performance in both clothing and home - product
sales for its third quarter.
Walmart, which has stepped up its competition with rivals like Target
on a variety of fronts of late, is
expected to beat analysts»
sales expectations for the most recent quarter while Target's numbers are
expected to disappoint.
And,
on Thursday, new factory activity data is
expected to show that the manufacturing sector grew at a slow pace in September, while U.S. automakers are
expected to report a 12 % increase in monthly
sales year - over-year.
Had the deal closed, the
sale of a half - interest in the Cutbank Ridge shale gas play would have been the largest investment of any kind by a Chinese state - controlled firm in Canada and the biggest reason to
expect to see Asia - bound liquefied natural gas tankers docking
on the West Coast in the not - too - distant future.
Better yet for the company, advertising
sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than -
expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer,
on a conference call with investors
on Thursday.
On Tuesday, drugstore chain operator Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) will release second - quarter financial results that are
expected to show
sales that fall short of Wall Street's expectations.
While pricing is still a mystery, Bloomberg said Samsung's smartwatch will be powered by Google's Android operating system and is
expected to go
on sale this year.
By 2018, Chinese consumers are
expected to spend $ 1.2 trillion online
on retail items, according to Forrester Research, with such
sales growing more than 20 percent by 2016, according to a Nielsen Harris poll conducted in June.
On Thursday, the coffee chain confirmed that investors can
expect annual global same - store
sales of between 3 and 5 percent growth.
Netflix's latest subscriber numbers have beaten forecasts, and the U.S. firm now
expects its international
sales to overtake those
on its home turf.
Sterling has fallen
on weaker - than -
expected inflation and retail
sales data and comments from BOE Governor Mark Carney
on Thursday, which traders interpreted as the BOE's being less committed to raising rates in May due to recent «mixed» data.
May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc posted a lower - than -
expected profit
on Wednesday, and said it was spending $ 650 million to buy European peer Asco Industries NV to boost
sales to Airbus Group SE.
Property developer Diploma Group
expects to reap $ 42 million from the
sale of its Quest apartment hotel
on Adelaide Terrace, after finalising a deal that was announced in February.
Most are
expected to rely less
on fund
sales, though.
Wall Street had
expected the company to report a loss of 50 cents a share
on $ 1.26 billion in
sales.
In a recent survey, most owners say they
expect to round out 2015
on a positive note, with strong revenue and decent prospects for holiday
sales.
BlackBerry's agreement to use Qualcomm's technology in its smartphones involved a bulk prepayment of royalty fees based
on the
expected sales volume of the devices, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
RBS, which is 84 percent owned by the British government, will get 47 percent of the
sale price, and
expects to report a small gain
on the deal, it said.
The first product in the range — a basic unit shaped like a low sofa or bed frame — is
expected to go
on sale in early 2018, according to The Verge, which cited a (paywalled) article by The Wall Street Journal.
The company reported
on Thursday another dismal quarter of declining
sales in the U.S., where comparable
sales fell 2 %, even worse than the 1.5 % decline analysts polled by Consensus Metrix were
expecting.
But plain old advertising is
expected to power revenue for the company in the years to come:
Sales jumped 69 % to $ 55 million last quarter, trumping Wall Street's expectations (see the feature story
on Yelp).
ZURICH, May 3 - Logitech shares were the biggest gainers in Europe
on Thursday after the computer peripherals and mobile speaker maker reported better - than -
expected sales and profit and its chief executive said it could maintain the upward momentum.
Tesla plans to add a new low - priced car, the Model 3 sedan, which is to start at around $ 35,000 and is
expected to go
on sale in late 2017.
(Reuters)- Lowe's Cos Inc reported higher - than -
expected comp
sales and profit
on Tuesday, helped by lower costs as well as higher demand for emergency supplies and rebuilding material due to hurricanes battering several regions in the United States.
April 30 - McDonald's Corp reported a better - than -
expected rise in quarterly
sales at its restaurants
on Monday, helped by strong international
sales, especially in the UK and Germany, sending its shares up 3.6 percent.
Early demand has been stronger than analysts
expected, and many have begun revising their
sales projections for Sovaldi's first year
on the U.S. market.
Tickets for the flights were
expected to go
on sale Thursday around 3 a.m. PDT through Virgin America's Web site and customer service number, 877-359-8474.
Still, the poor holiday season, which puts the company
on track for a third straight quarterly comparable
sales decline, means Target now
expects fourth - quarter comparable
sales to decline between 1 % and 1.5 %, compared with prior guidance of between down 1 % and up 1 %.
«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing
sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be
expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.