Tech Business Recap: Activision Crashing Servers, HP Back to webOS

Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) may sell its webOS mobile platform. The company purchased it from Palm in 2010 for $1.2 billion and most likely won’t see its investment returned due to not adding any investment dollars to the software.

Interested buyers may include Amazon.com Inc.?(NASDAQ:AMZN) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM).

Smartphones will usher in a new era with its first quad-core processor phone thanks to the?HTC Edge. With the latest mobile technology, the phone runs on an?Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Tegra 3 chip. It represents a?win for the company as compared to Qualcomm Inc.’s (NASDAQ:QCOM)?Snapdragon S4 processor, even with HTC’s long?reliance?on Qualcomm chips.

Activision Blizzard Inc?(NASDAQ:ATVI) launched its newest addition to the Call of Duty series today, Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 3, just in time to battle?Electronic Arts’?(NASDAQ:ERTS)?Battlefield 3 during the holiday season. EA has been trash-talking Call of Duty and is heavily promoting its new Battlefield 3 series through?TV commercials and billboards.

Investing Insights: Activision Blizzard Inc Earnings Cheat Sheet: Beats Estimates.

priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:PCLN) announced a weak fourth quarter guidance with its third quarter earnings on Monday.?Piper Jaffray increased the company’s price target to $670 from its strong quarterly report and also cited international growth potential and its leading overseas market share as factors.

Demand Media (NYSE:DMD) continued trading higher after beating estimates in its third quarter earnings report.?Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) increased its price target based on the company’s improved internal rate of return; however,?Henry Blodget said not so fast. He wrote that?Demand Media saw a profit after treati! ng its c ontent costs as a capital investment; this is not the norm for a media company.

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