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5y agoGOOGL FB PFE NOEI+1Anti-Vaxxer Books Top Search Results at Amazon, Barnes & NobleBloombergTwo of the top five books returned by an Amazon search push anti-inoculation theories, an ominous sign as governments prepare to roll out Covid-19 shots.
6y agoGIMO NOEI APO MCDElliott Weighs Bid for Struggling Swiss Baker AryztaBloombergBillionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. is exploring a bid for Aryzta AG, the ailing Swiss baking company that makes Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, people familiar with the matter said.
6y agoFB NOEI WMT AMZN+1EBay CEO’s Early Wins Have Yet to Erase Wall Street’s DoubtsBloombergWhen Jamie Iannone last worked at EBay Inc. in 2009, its then-smaller rival Amazon.com Inc. was struggling to survive the Great Recession.
9y agoNOEI TGT ANTM EFXEquifax May Be Happy to Spend $1 Per Customer for Their TroubleBloombergEquifax Inc. could get away with paying a mere $1 per person after failing to protect almost half of America’s credit data.
9y agoVNO KKR NOEI AMZN+4Toys ‘R’ Us Will Live Because Mattel and Hasbro Can’t Let It DieBloomberg
10y agoNOEI AMZNAmazon's Brick-and-Mortar Gambit Puts Barnes & Noble in TailspinBloombergBarnes & Noble Inc. shares plunged following speculation that Amazon.com Inc. will open hundreds of physical bookstores, thrusting the companies’ longtime rivalry into America’s shopping malls.
11y agoMSFT BKST SHLDQ AMZN+1Barnes & Noble's New CEO Sees Non-Book Items as Key to HolidaysBloombergFor Barnes & Noble Inc., it’s going to be a hands-on holiday season, said new Chief Executive Officer Ron Boire.
11y agoNOEI AB CIT AONENo Art Fair Lull as One Gallery Sells $1 Million in Three HoursBloombergSean Kelly Gallery sold more than $1 million of sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley in less than three hours on March 3, as a week of art fairs in New York opened with a flurry of purchases by wealthy collectors.
12y agoNOEI MSFTFormer Microsoft Manager Gets Two Years for Insider TradingBloombergFormer Microsoft Corp. senior manager Brian Jorgenson was sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading that reaped $400,000 in profit using nonpublic information about the software maker’s quarterly earnings and its investment in Barnes & Noble Inc., the U.S. said.
12y agoNOEI AMZN AAPLApple Discounts Hachette E-Books Amid Spat With AmazonBloombergApple Inc. is taking advantage of the dispute between Amazon.com Inc. and Hachette Book Group by promoting and discounting pre-orders for the publisher’s digital books.
12y agoGOOGL AAPL AMZN NOEIBarnes & Noble to Team With Samsung on Next Nook TabletBloombergBarnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook e-reader business, renewing efforts to challenge Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., is teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. to create co-branded tablet computers.
12y agoSIRI CHTR NOEIBarnes & Noble’s One-Time Suitor Is Selling Its StakeBloombergJohn Malone is closing the book on his Barnes & Noble Inc. ambitions.
13y agoGOOGL AAPL AMZN MSFT+1Barnes & Noble Ends Breakup Push for Now for Nook RevivalBloombergBarnes & Noble Inc.’s move to shelve a breakup plan for now steps up pressure on the biggest U.S. bookstore chain to stem losses at its e-book division and hatch a new plan for coping with the shift toward digital publications.
13y agoNOEI VIAC NWSA AMZN+1Apple Judge Proposes Remedies in E-Books Pricing CaseBloombergThe federal judge who ruled that Apple Inc. conspired to fix prices of digital books proposed remedies she said would prevent the iPad maker from further harming competition in the e-books market.
13y agoGS BGPIQ AMZN GOOGL+3Barnes & Noble Breakup Seen Unlocking 44% Gain: Real M&ABloombergA breakup of Barnes & Noble Inc. that could boost the bookseller’s value by 44 percent may finally be in the cards.
13y agoKR ORCL TSLA NOEI+6U.S. Stocks Rise on Optimism Earnings Will Beat EstimatesBloombergU.S. stocks rose for a fourth day amid optimism companies will report better-than-forecast earnings and that economic growth is strong enough to withstand any reduction in Federal Reserve stimulus.
13y agoMSFT DIS JW/A EXPE+4Bartleby’s Prefers Not to See Amazon Run Web Books DomainBloombergHerman Melville’s character Bartleby the scrivener famously said he “would prefer not to,” and 160 years later the owner of Bartleby’s Books would prefer not to see Amazon.com Inc. control Internet addresses ending in .book.
13y agoNOEI GOOGL AMZN MSFT+1Samsung Doubles Tablet PC Market Share Amid Apple’s LeadBloombergSamsung Electronics Co. more than doubled its share of the tablet computer market in the fourth quarter, gaining on segment leader Apple Inc. as total unit shipments jumped 75 percent, researcher IDC said.
14y agoMSFT ENR KO NOEI+2Jana Partners Took Stake in DirecTV, Exited Google Last QuarterBloombergJana Partners LLC, run by Barry Rosenstein, bought a new stake in DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, while selling its position in Google Inc., according to a regulatory filing today.
14y agoBBY NOEI GOOGL AONE+3RIM Seen Too Late With E-Mail PlayBook Dominated by IPad: TechBloombergResearch In Motion Ltd. may need more than the souped-up software unveiled yesterday in Las Vegas to turn its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet into a challenger to Apple Inc.’s iPad.
15y agoDOW ADSK AAPL ADBE+7Bristol-Myers, Stem Cells, Facebook: Intellectual PropertyBloombergBristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Sanofi won an appeals court ruling that upholds a $442 million patent-infringement judgment against Apotex Inc. related to generic copies of the blood thinner Plavix.
15y agoNOEI GOOGL FORR AAPL+1Amazon Bargain Tablet to Grow Market Without Being ‘IPad Killer’BloombergAmazon.com Inc.’s Kindle Fire is poised to help Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos lure bargain tablet-computer shoppers. It’s unlikely to dislodge Apple Inc. from its perch at the top of the market.
15y agoNOEI WMT AMZNCalifornia Deal Would Force Amazon to Collect Sales Tax in 2012BloombergAmazon.com Inc. would drop a quest to exempt itself from collecting sales taxes in California and the state would forfeit about $200 million under an agreement that lawmakers must act on today if it’s to be adopted.
15y agoNOEI MSI AAPL GOOGLHTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last WeekBloombergHTC Corp., Asia’s second-biggest maker of smartphones, filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. today, using patents it bought from Google Inc. last week.
15y agoNOEI NRTLQ ORCL KODK+4Google, InterDigital, Irell & Manella: Intellectual PropertyBloombergGoogle Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that is hurting consumers and leaving the company to “sort through the mess” of litigation.
15y agoNOEI KODK IDCC ORCL+4Google Lawyer Says Patents Are ‘Gumming Up’ InnovationBloombergGoogle Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that is hurting consumers and leaving the company to “sort through the mess” of litigation.
15y agoCMCSA SBUX LAZ ORCL+7Apple-HTC, Kodak, ‘Salvation Boulevard’: Intellectual PropertyBloombergApple Inc.’s victory over HTC Corp. in a patent dispute at the U.S. International Trade Commission may slow the advance of rival Google Inc.’s fast-growing Android operating system for mobile phones and tablets.
15y agoDIS AAPL NOEI FB‘Angry Birds’ Staying Power Under Test With CEO Hatching MovieBloombergOn a recent visit with his two children to a toy museum in Espoo, Finland, Mikael Hed was struck by a display of action figures from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” series.
15y agoVIAC ORCL GOOGL PFE+2Mylan, Microsoft, Margaritaville: Intellectual PropertyBloombergMylan Inc. sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seeking to block India’s Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s exclusive rights to sell a generic version of Pfizer Inc.’s cholesterol pill Lipitor, the world’s best-selling medicine.
15y agoAAPL NOEI AMZNChinese E-Reader Maker Plans to Enter U.S. This YearBloombergHanvon Technology Co., the maker of China’s most popular electronic reading device, plans to introduce an e-reader in the U.S. by June or July to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle DX.
16y agoRVBD PLA LEG LSCC+14Acacia, Cytec, Fortinet, Leggett & Platt: U.S. Equity PreviewBloombergShares of the following companies may have unusual moves in U.S. trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses. Prices are as of 7:30 a.m. in New York.
16y agoNOEI HPQ C LMTTerra-Citigroup, Lockheed, Chinatrust in Court NewsBloombergGuy Hands, whose Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. paid $6.7 billion for EMI Group Ltd. at the height of the buyout boom in 2007, began trial of his claim that he was tricked into overpaying by a Citigroup Inc. banker.