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Mobile Minutes: Google faces violations; Barbie now Siri-like;...
2015-02-19 10:51:36| Toys - Topix.net
Google may find itself the target of yet another antitrust probe, because Russia-based search engine Yandex has sent a request to the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for an investigation of Google over potential violations of Russian antitrust law, Yandex said Wednesday. In its series of innovations, the toy manufacturing company Mattel, Inc. announced at the New York Toy Fair that it has been working on "Hello Barbie" - a modified version of its predecessor, which is expected to come with the ability to carry out two-way communication.
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Goodbye to imaginary conversations. Hello Barbie is here.
2015-02-18 01:14:38| Toys - Topix.net
Mattel's News Anchor Barbie and Computer Engineer Barbie are shown in front of a display of career-doll Barbies at the Toy Fair in New York. Mattel Inc, the world's largest toymaker, reported its third straight fall in quarterly revenue due to a drop in demand for Barbie dolls and Fisher Price preschool toys.
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Mattel 4Q results disappoint on soft Barbie, American Girl sales; CEO vows revitalization
2015-01-31 22:28:00| Toys - Topix.net
Slumping sales of Barbie did little to bring a happy holiday to her maker, Mattel Inc. Mattel's fourth-quarter earnings release Friday drilled down into the details of a weak performance that led to the resignation of its chairman and CEO. Barbie sales fell 12 percent, though that wasn't as bad as the third quarter's 21 percent drop.
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The death of Barbie
2015-01-31 18:18:33| Toys - Topix.net
Mattel's chief executive Bryan Stockton resigned on Tuesday after a five-quarter sales slump and three years of flagging sales of the company's best-known brand, Barbie. But it is definitely not the end of the Barbie phenomenon or what Barbie stands for: an unattainable ideal of princess-like femininity that is all about looks, not brains.
Donald MacInnes: Who would want to be a Barbie girl in a non-Barbie world?
2015-01-31 07:49:22| Toys - Topix.net
Donald MacInnes writes Tales from the Water Cooler, which can be found every Saturday on page 2 of i. And, although a financial near-imbecile, he writes a weekly column in The Independent's Money section, also on Saturdays.
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