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(MainStreet) -- Video game sales got a little push from motion controllers last holiday season, but the video game industry's going to need a software power-up if it wants any presents under the tree this year. There's already a chill over video game console and accessory sales as holiday shopping...

(MainStreet) -- Retailers are pushing early morning Black Friday sales, with Macy's (NYSE: M), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) all following Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) lead and announcing midnight sales on Nov. 25. Experts say consumers shouldn't necessarily buy into the hype. Continue...

(TheStreet) -- Many investors have had their sights focused on the ongoing economic and political sagas facing developed regions like the European Union. However, in other parts of the globe, Mother Nature has been playing a major role in driving sentiment. For months, Thailand has been working...

(TheStreet) -- The NBA lockout took basketball off the slate of local arenas, but there's still ball being played elsewhere. As the NBA and its players squabble over how to cap salaries or how to divvy up the take in a league that produces $4 billion a year in revenue -- commissioner David Stern...

(MainStreet) -- On this night of spooks and goblins, do something positively angelic for your business: Get the right items on hand for the next snowstorm, blackout or heaven knows what. Call me superstitious, but all those kids walking around in Freddy masks, troll suits and Scream costumes makes...

(MainStreet) -- Every day can be Oct. 31 if you move to one of the America's Spookiest Towns Where You Actually Want to Live -- a compendium of haunted habitats that the folks at Realtor.com put together just in time for Halloween. "These cities are great places to live if you love beautiful homes...

(TheStreet) -- With the U.S. economy in tatters, the political system nearly broken and the stock market seesawing along to intermittent good and bad news, focusing on industries' prospects is the first step in getting a clear focus for an investment strategy. What's more, as technology evolves...

(MainStreet) -- When Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, introduced the iPad tablet in the beginning of 2010, no one could say for sure whether it would be the company's biggest success or just an over-hyped failure. By the end of the year, though, 15 million iPads had been sold, compared with 2...

(MainStreet) -- The bigger the company -- the more iconic the brand -- the more persistently it is dogged by rumor and conspiracy theories. Ranging from the gross and absurd to matters only resolved through litigation, false claims against companies have traditionally been spread by word of mouth...