A best-selling author accused of helping leak an unpublished tell-all on Sarah Palin is releasing his own book on the former Alaska governor this summer.
A best-selling author accused of helping leak an unpublished tell-all on Sarah Palin is releasing his own book on the former Alaska governor this summer.
Borders was slow to get the message as the big-box retailer lost book, music and video sales to the Internet and other competition. The result: It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, and will close nearly a third of its stores.
Whenever I think the printer market has been fully saturated, that there could be nothing new to add to all this, I'm often surprised.
"Many popular entertainments, of course, capitalize on their appeal by means of marketing tie-ins, but the yearning for 'Mad Men' style seems different from the way in which, say, children who are hooked on the 'Star Wars' series yearn to own Darth Vader action dolls. The people who watch 'Mad Men' are, after all, adults - most of them between the ages of nineteen and forty-nine."
Amazon.com's results for the holiday shopping season highlight the inherent tension between retailers and consumers: What's good for one isn't necessarily good for the other.
Amazon.com is reporting an 8 percent increase in fourth-quarter net income which surpasses Wall Street expectations, but revenue fell short, sending shares down nearly 10 percent in extended trading.
Amazon.com uncharacteristically missed Wall Street's revenue target in the fourth quarter, sending the stock tumbling nearly 9 percent and showing that not all Internet companies benefited equally from the holiday shopping season.
FBI agents on Thursday executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing federal investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations.
