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Barnes & Noble Resolves Dispute with Simon & Schuster
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 1:56pm | 499Read More...After an eight-month battle, CBS (NYSE: CBS) owned Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have called a truce. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the two companies issued a joint statement announcing that they had “resolved their outstanding business issues.” Those...
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Barnes & Noble to Stop Making Tablets In-house; Will That Be Enough? (BKS)
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 10:54am | 560Read More...One way or the other Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) will change. In a major way, it already has with its decision to stop making tablets and farm the work out to electronics partners, according to Bloomberg. Barnes & Noble really had no choice. The company’s Nook Media digital unit has...
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Insider Monkey Says TechCrunch Got It Wrong - Microsoft Not Buying Nook
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 8:47am | 558Read More...A highly placed source inside Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) told blog site Insider Monkey late Friday that last week’s rumor that Microsoft was about to make a $1 billion offer to buy NOOK Media LLC from Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) reported by TechCrunch was – alas – only a rumor. Barnes &...
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Microsoft Said to Offer Barnes & Noble $1 Billion for Nook
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 11:23am | 536Read More...Shares of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) rocketed up 20 percent in early trading Thursday, following a report by tech website TechCrunch that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is about to offer $1 billion to acquire all digital assets of Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media. TechCrunch said it has seen...
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Did Barnes & Noble's Nook Just Become a Kindle Clone?
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 12:21pm | 585Read More...The splashy ad on the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) website, says it all: “All New NOOK HD Tablets – now with over 700,000 Android apps & games.” The NOOK, it seems, has gone over to the dark side by providing access to the entire catalog of Android apps on Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play...
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Citi Reports On Liberty Plans For Barnes & Noble
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 9:13am | 87Read More...According to Citi, Liberty Capital (NASDAQ: LCAPA) announced its intention to acquire Barnes and Noble (BKS) for $17 per share (20% premium to 5/19/11 share price of ~$14), or about $1 billion in an all cash-transaction. Citi said that Liberty intends to finance $500 million of the acquisition...
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Barnes & Noble (BKS) Refuses Burkle's Request To Increase Stake
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 2:30pm | 109Read More...The board of directors of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) unanimously voted against the request of Ronald Burkle, managing partner of the investment firm Yucaipa Cos., to acquire 37% of the company. Burkle's company currently holds 19% of Barnes & Noble's common shares but Barnes &...
