{"id":4990,"date":"2008-10-31T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T23:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4990"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T22:28:45","slug":"ea-targets-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ea-targets-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Targets Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7648\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7648\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7648\" alt=\"EA CEO John Riccitiello.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Riccitiello-S2.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EA CEO John Riccitiello.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OCT. 31, 2008 \u2022 During a financial conference call, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said the publisher intends to invest $150 million into its digital distribution and online games business. EA will shed six percent of it work force to save $50 million. For the fiscal second quarter ending Sept. 30, EA&#8217;s net loss grew to $310 million from $195 million for the same period in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: Clearly Electronic Arts sees online games as a major growth area as its traditional business seems to have stagnated.\u00a0 From a long-term perspective we feel that it is better to have a loss now and invest for the future.\u00a0 We would have liked to see this happen several years ago, but better late than never.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 31, 2008 \u2022 During a financial conference call, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said the publisher intends to invest $150 million into its digital distribution and online games business. EA will shed six percent of it work force to save $50 million. For the fiscal second quarter ending Sept. 30, EA&#8217;s net loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}