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...Monopoly Pricing Just in time for holiday gift buying, a British appeals tribunal upheld a ruling made by regulators against two retailers fined for fixing prices in conjunction with the toy firm Hasbro. The regulators say their earlier decision lowered the price of the board game Monopoly by about $8 a set. One retailer, Argos, said it might roll the dice and file a further appeal...
...video-game platform aimed at kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow, and has been putting classic games like Battleship, Boggle and Yahtzee into handheld electronic format...
...which should help them avoid profit-killing sales. Recent price surveys suggest that Toys "R" Us is more competitive with Wal-Mart this year, and Wal-Mart appears to be devoting less shelf space to its Kid Connection private-label toys--good news for brand names like Mattel and Hasbro. A weakening buck may also translate overseas sales into higher profits when converted back into dollars...
...original etoys.com is long gone, but that address still takes you to a sensible place to shop for, say, Hasbro's $45 Omega Supreme, a robot you can turn into a crane or battleship...
...listing and a small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built for her family in Boston and move 3,000 miles away to become CEO of, as she called...