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Best Buy to focus on destroying the tablet market this fall

August 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

Forbes are reporting: Best Buy is known for stocking thousands of electronic gadgets. To date, that assortment has included just one tablet computer–Apple’s iPad–but that will change in coming months, Forbes has learned. “Going into the holidays, we will make tablets a focus,” said Shawn Score, the president of Best Buy’s wireless retail unit, Best [...]

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B&N should sell off their stores and focus on their website

August 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion

So B&N are thinking about putting the company up for sale and try to go private.  From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that its Board of Directors intends to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, in order to increase stockholder value. [...]

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New comics publisher launched – will focus exclusively on tablets

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · press release

I’m beginning to regret not having combined the several bits of comics news into one post. From the pres release: Luminous Books LLC, a newly formed company which will be delivering highly curated, rich-media content and periodicals to the tablet PC market, today announced that Andrew Cosby will be one of the first writer/producers to [...]

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