SolarCity (SCTY) aims to tap a potentially big new market: renters. The No. 1 U.S. residential solar installer was set to announce early Wednesday that it will develop a series of community solar installations — that it refers to as “solar gardens” — to enable apartment dwellers, schools and others with shaded roofs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to purchase renewable energy without installing solar panels on their properties. The state of
E3 is in full swing, and IBD got a chance to check out fan reactions to Electronic Arts’ (EA) hot new title, “Star Wars Battlefront.” EA anticipates that it will sell 9 million to 10 million copies of the game in fiscal 2016. The November release comes out a month before “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens” from Walt Disney’s (DIS) Lucasfilm hits theaters. EA showed off gameplay footage for the first time at its press conference Monday. EA
At E3 2015, huge crowds of attendees waited in lines with long wait times to try out all the newest games and gear, including virtual reality headsets. Not long after the show floor opened, the wait-time in line for Microsoft’s (MSFT) HoloLens was already more than an hour long. IBD’s Alissa Williams was able to get reactions from attendees who demoed the HoloLens, Sony’s (SNE) Project Morpheus and Facebook’s (FB) Oculus Rift. They commented on