Tech Five: EA shares jump thanks to 'Star Wars'

The Star Wars franchise has been good to video game publisher Electronic Arts. Meanwhile, Nokia misses on Wall Street forecasts for its first quarter results.

Let's look at tech stocks to watch Wednesday:

Electronic Arts. Shares of the game publisher jumped in early trading after besting fourth quarter estimates on earnings and revenue, thanks partly to sales of Star Wars Battlefront. The company says it shipped 14 million copies of the game during the 2016 fiscal year. EA finished the fourth quarter with revenue of $924 million and earnings of 50 cents a share.

Nokia. Charges incurred by its acquisition of Alcaltel-Lucent helped drive the networking company to a surprise loss in the first quarter, reports The Wall Street Journal. Nokia acquired the networking rival for more than $16 billion.

Facebook. Users of mobile messaging service WhatsApp -- owned by Facebook -- can access their accounts on the desktop. The app is available for Windows and Mac, and syncs to users' mobile app.

Amazon. The retailing giant is going after YouTube with its newly-unveiled service Video Direct. The service allows video creators to upload content to users of Amazon Prime Video.

Disney. The media giant is cancelling the video game franchise Disney Infinity after it first launched in 2013. The move means Disney is officially out of the video game making business.

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