The Walt Disney Co. is buying Lucasfilm for about $4.05 billion in stock and cash. Lucasfilm is best known for its lucrative Star Wars franchise. Disney will makeStar Wars: Episode VII for release in 2015. With this purchase, Disney is expanding in the tent-pole feature film business. In recent years, Disney has expanded
Apple dominates music players, online music, smart phones and tablet computers. Steve Jobs’ dream was to dominate the TV business, too. There is no shortage of speculation, rumor or innuendo about iTV. Since I am in the business of detecting change before the crowd and building positions in stocks before Wall Street catches on,
It was not long ago that legions of travel agents labored all across America in offices ranging from those located in class A office buildings to downtrodden strip malls. They gawked at 14-inch green CRT screens at gobbledygook codes that only they could understand. When it came to travel, travel
Will the Costa Concordia disaster wake up regulators? Costa Concordia was supposed to be impregnable, but it capsized off the Italian coast. At least six people died. For background please see my prior article Will Titanic-Like Images From Italy Change Behavior? When the Titanic sank, it left an indelible
Image via CrunchBase According to LA Times, Disney (DIS) is raising its wholesale rate it charges Netflix (NFLX) for movies to $17.99 per movie. This is significant in that it throws cold water over bull’s argument that costs for Netflix are coming down. In our model for Netflix, this move