7 Most Important Things in Business Today

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7 Most Important Things in Business Today

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An exclusive report by Reuters says that Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIAB) is willing to make a cash offer for Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE: SNI). The deal would bolster the number of cable channels controlled by the larger company.

President Trump said Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will build three plants in the United States, perhaps a reaction to one of the president’s signature efforts to bring jobs back to the United States.

The United Kingdom may ban the sale of new gas and diesel powered cars starting in 2040, according to the Financial Times.

Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) will phase out its Flash video player over the next several years. The product was at the vanguard of online playerless video, which replaced video players from companies that included Microsoft.

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Blue Apron Holdings Inc. (NYSE: APRN) fired its chief operating officer and cofounder after its stock has struggled since its initial public offering.

Nintendo revenue rose 150% in the latest quarter. According to CNBC:

Nintendo swung to profit in its fiscal first quarter, beating analyst expectations, boosted by a strong performance from its new Switch console and hit new Mario and Zelda games.

The Japanese electronics giant reported the following results:

Revenue of 154.07 billion yen ($1.37 billion) versus expectations of 136.53 billion yen
Operating profit of 16.21 billion yen versus analyst forecasts of 9.52 billion yen

The revenue figure marks a nearly 150 percent year-on-year rise, while Nintendo returned to an operating profit after reporting a 5.13 billion yen loss in the same period last year.

Nintendo said it sold 1.97 million units of its hybrid Switch consoles in the quarter through June, which is down from the 2.74 million in the first quarter. Altogether Nintendo has sold 4.71 Switch consoles, and despite the slowdown, maintained its target of selling 10 million in this financial year.

Recode reports that Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (NYSE: HPE) may be considered for the CEO job at Uber.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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