29th April 2012 Archive
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Investors circle Barnes & Noble as it plans Nook spin-off
Could compete with the iPad...
Barnes & Noble has had a troubled few years. Part of the problem is that it continues to be a tablet business with a chain of bookshops connected to it rather than the other way around – with the tablet and ebook reader business growing at a savage pace, while the bookshop dawdles. But it clearly needs a new owner, and to that …
Financial News 29 Apr 2012, 10:02
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Australia to look at IT price gouging, but what can it do?
Listen for the single hand clap ...
After a year of lobbying by MP Ed Husic, the Australia government decided over the weekend that it will hold a parliamentary inquiry into retail pricing in the IT sector. The art of plucking the Australian goose has been laid bare ever since the Australian dollar overtook the greenback – and suddenly, faced by products that …
Policy 29 Apr 2012, 23:02
