Sentences with phrase «sales over the holiday period»

The company blamed most of the Nook downturn on poor device sales over the holiday period.

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

Google and Amazon likely lost money on their smart speaker sales over the holiday period which saw aggressive discounts being attached to both the Home and Echo - series devices, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing analysts of IHS Markit and IDC.

Although, banks held back form releasing properties for sale over the holiday period, it looks like they are getting ready to release lots of them.

Not exact matches

While software sales were down, the release of several blockbuster consoles over the holidays — including the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — resulted in a 99.8 percent increase in hardware sales during the period.

We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non --RRB- numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has sold over this holiday period, and from the various analysts that track overall device sales and shipments (but we've had a few indications that sales will be strong).

Oaks» Bonus Upgrade Sale is available at 14 participating hotels in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide — not just over the impending Easter holidays, but all school holiday periods in 2018.

Hyatt Gold Passport hasn't run a major promotion in over six months, although they have had a variety of discounts and sales around holiday periods.

Our strong sales performance over the holiday period and throughout the fourth quarter was driven by compelling Black Friday and holiday promotions, driving growth in hardware, particularly the Nintendo Switch.

- Nintendo is selling three physical Switch games for every console sold in the UK and Spain - this matches the performance of Wii - Nintendo says the Switch's global tie - ratio is 3.6 - 78 % of Nintendo Switch games are sold in boxes, by comparison only 47 % of PS4 games are sold physically - the only blips in Switch sales have occurred during moments of stock shortages - there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey - across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been sold for the first 36 weeks of its life - this is about 49 % of what the Wii managed to do over the same period (which launched over Christmas)- this is 300 % of what the Wii U managed to achieve - Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations - there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment - if demand increases for the holiday season, GAME says «we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go.»

The most critically - acclaimed holiday lineup of exclusives in Xbox history helped drive 44 percent growth in Xbox Live hours over last November, and 72 percent growth in U.S. first - party retail game sales comparing sales from August through November in 2015 to the same period last year.»

Impressive sales of the hot new wireless earphones over the holiday period are expected to give the Taiwanese firm a boost in revenue, but its plants are already working overtime to deliver Apple's orders.

The new announcement is part of Amazon's wider push to expand Alexa's presence going forward, with its efforts to do so being aggressive to the point that it actually willingly lost money on Echo speaker sales over the last holiday period, according to some estimates.

Consumer spending showed encouraging signs of improvement during the fourth quarter, with 2009 holiday sales rising by 2.3 % over the depressed levels of the same period a year ago.

Walmart's online sales over the critical holiday period grew at less than half the rate of previous quarters, while investments Marc Lore made to enhance the e-commerce business dented profitability.