Depuis que Sumner Redstone a cédé ses parts Midway pour 100 000 dollars, la valeur des actions de la société a chuté de 40% de la Bourse de New York.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/midway-stock-falls-40-since-sale"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/midway_limbo_back_top.jpg" //abr //div How low can you go? a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/midway-stock-falls-40-since-sale"GI.biz/a reports that a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/midway"Midway's/a stock has plummeted some 40% since majority shareholder Sumner Redstone a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/redstone-to-sell-stake-in-midway-for-about-100k/"cast off his stake/a in the company to investor Mark Thomas on Monday and ran for the hills. br /br /Midway's stock currently trades for around 23 cents a share, an all-time low and reason why the company continues to face a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/midway-receives-delisting-notice-from-nyse/"delisting/a by the New York Stock Exchange. As Midway's dance of financial limbo persists, we can't help but look on and place bets when the troubled company's back will simply give out and snap in two.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/midway-sinks-further-after-redstone-escape/"Midway sinks further after Redstone escape/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/midway-stock-falls-40-since-saleRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/midway-sinks-further-after-redstone-escape/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391420/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/midway-sinks-further-after-redstone-escape/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CD0dZrqWhjujt8xj7hO7MsiRC-c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CD0dZrqWhjujt8xj7hO7MsiRC-c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=kYGAIdap"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=kYGAIdap" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=v09QJtwE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=v09QJtwE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/k8kE4NjQTRo" height="1" width="1"/

A l'heure où de nombreux développeurs et éditeurs licencient (Electronic Arts, Midway, etc.) pour faire face à leurs difficultés financières, Ubisoft va recruter plus de 120 personnes supplémentaires en Roumanie d'ici la mi-2009 si l'on en croit le journal économique roumain Financiarul. 75 postes d...

Market capitalisation down to $21 million after Redstone offloads publisher

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4820994a796c7a2300f553f1maxX=257maxY=270" border="0" alt="Sumner Redstone 1.jpg" title="Sumner Redstone 1.jpg" width="257" height="270" /Wizened media mogul Sumner Redstone will not sell all the movie theaters his daughter Shari controls in order to ease his family's $1.6 billion debt problems, but he's going to move some in order avoid selling more of his controlling stakes in Viacom and CBS, a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b109ca4a-c194-11dd-831e-000077b07658.html"according to FT/a:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"If lenders agree, the plan would clear the way to sell a part of the US group and 19 theatres in the UK. National Amusements, which also houses Mr Redstone's controlling stakes in Viacom and CBS, owns theatres in Latin America and Russia. The company is expected to hold on to theatres in the New England area, where National Amusements is based and which account for about half of the US-group's value./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"It was not immediately clear how much the proposed partial sale would fetch. The entire chain is valued at $500m to $700m by analysts and at about $1bn by Mr Redstone./p pOn Monday, Sumner announced his holding company, National Amusements, would sell its entire stake in videogame maker Midway and take a $800 million tax loss./p pstrongSee Also:/strong a href="../../2008/12/redstone-sells-midway-considers-staking-viacom-cbs-against-debt"br /Redstone Sells Midway, Considers Staking Viacom/CBS Against Debt/a/p h1/h1 p /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2ZbKYArMyXB0JV1EYpCxQ7q_hvQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2ZbKYArMyXB0JV1EYpCxQ7q_hvQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=iq4ldFTd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=iq4ldFTd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=GMYqpuic"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VKWqrIMQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=lKHISmkq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=lKHISmkq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=WZRMMfDQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=CckDf7oV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=spkMGekJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=oxO6fLfV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/1XDnABUKpHc" height="1" width="1"/

Author : Glenn Blakeslee

He became part of the Grand Flyby Mission midway through the third decade of his life, as a junior designer on the Flight Data Subsystem team.

He found himself at the leading edge of spacecraft design, and worked with the members of his team to build a robust device capable of data-handling functions for a long-term project.

He went to the Cape for the liftoff, was amazed to see the spacecraft climb on a column of flame. He met a girl on a Florida beach, and a year later married her.

The next years were heady times, as the spacecraft arrowed its way to the outer planets: Jupiter and her moons were imaged, and Saturn and her rings fell to the instruments aboard the spacecraft. He lived as fast as the data coming in, speeding the crowding freeways of LA in his sports car and drinking more than usual. He had an affair, which his wife did not discover.

The spacecraft’s mission was extended, and he found himself no longer a junior engineer but in charge of a team. The FDS was his baby, he the hands-down expert. The spacecraft was the first to perform a flyby of Uranus, and the first to photograph Neptune.

In the fifth decade of his life, he found himself settling down. His fast car had long ago been traded for a family-style sedan. He spent hours at work designing methods for upgrading the spacecraft, and when he and his team succeeded the job of the spacecraft changed again, to a long-duration interstellar mission. His wife learned of his dalliance a decade earlier and, bored and facing an empty nest, divorced him.

Some of the instruments on the spacecraft —those with no use in the sparser stretches of the solar system— were shut down, and though the incoming data never ceased it did slow. He found his staff reduced, which was expected. He found his life had settled into a slow rhythm —collecting data from the far-off spacecraft, sending updates across the expanse, sleeping and eating.

One year after the spacecraft crossed the termination shock —the inexorable slowing of the solar wind— he suffered a heart attack. He took time off but kept charge of his small team. With doctors orders he was back on the job, but charged with shutting down two more of the spacecraft’s systems. Three years later he retired.

He kept a firm hand on the spacecraft’s systems as a part-time consultant. With only two instruments still collecting data, the mission had collapsed to a terminal phase. They held a party when the spacecraft entered heliopause, and it reminded him of the good old days, when the spacecraft was running fast through the outer planets and the data stream held discovery after discovery. Now past the edge of the solar system, the spacecraft would coast quietly forever.

It became apparent to him that he and the spacecraft had led parallel lives, from a fast and fiery launch to a slow cold end.

Late in his eighth decade he found that his time in the sun had created a defect in his skin which, in the darkness and solitude of his late age, would probably end his life. So, too, the spacecraft: its time in the sun had ended, the reactors that powered it all but discharged. But it sped on, and so might he.

The rapid telemetry of his heart would slow, the data stream of his brain would trickle to a stop —but he knew, somehow, that he and the spacecraft would ride together, into the light of lesser suns.

 

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Dans un premier temps, il y a deux ans Midway laissait entendre qu'une nouvelle version de son jeu de boxe délirant pourrait voir le jour sur toutes les consoles du marché. Puis plus rien depuis tout ce temps, laissant imaginer un développement en berne. C'est du côté d'Atari que la licence revient toujours avec les développeurs de AKI Corporation. Cette fois, il ne s'agit plus que de la version...

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Dans ce domaine, ceux qui excellent c’est clairement les artistes (Lenny Kravitz, Dido, eminem, U2, RadioHead…) présents sur MySpace Music, ci-dessous 50 layouts de pages assez remarquables (parfois originaux), qui valent le détour et qui pourront inspirer certains artistes français/MySpace de marque au niveau graphique (mais également fonctionnel)

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After a reader accused WSJ financial columnist Jason Zweig of being "a coddled member of the silver-spoon generation", Zweig set the record straight.

I was raised in an old farmhouse on a dirt road in a village of fewer than 100 people in northern New York State, midway between New York City and Montreal. The nearest stoplight was 12 miles away.

Because we got our water from an old stone well, we did not have a dishwasher or washing machine. My mom did the laundry once a week, in the laundromat 14 miles away, among her many other errands. We - usually she - washed the dishes by hand.

Every August, almost like clockwork, the well ran dry. My brother and I then had to fetch water from the pond, which we boiled for drinking and cooking. (We also had to bathe in the pond, but sparingly; we were teenage boys.)

Zweig says that the most important lesson he learned from his upbringing is that "money is not wealth".

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MK vs. DC Universe, une affiche qui aurait dû faire rêver les joueurs selon Midway. Mais entre nous, il faut avouer que le casting réuni par l'éditeur américain a tout de même bien moins de classe que celui d'un Marvel Vs Capcom en son temps. Vous préférez Superman à Wolverine, ou Kitana à Chun-li ?...