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ThinkstockSupposedly the works of many great painters do not reach their peak value until the artists are dead. In the case of Elmore Leonard, who sold millions of books when he was alive, a related...
Wikimedia CommonsThe big question in the retail sector is whether any company can hold on against Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). Corner bookstores have all but disappeared, Borders is history and...
http://www.amazon.com/amazon-coinsInvestors seems to believe that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) showed signs of life when it released earnings, and that Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS)...
August 19, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as the Nasdaq eked out a positive start. The rocky start to the week is being attributed to rising 10-year Treasury yields which hit...
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.In what has to be one of the stranger product announcements of recent times, Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) said on Monday morning that it is releasing a...
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Department of Justice today submitted a proposed remedy to the federal court that will issue penalties on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) next week following the...
courtesy of MicrosoftAccording to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), its Surface tablet business lost money in the past fiscal year. One clue that the product was in trouble was the disclosure that...
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which announced a loss in its most recent quarter, will add 5,000 new workers, as CEO Jeff Bezos dares Wall Street to desert him. It will not. As has been...
courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) continues to surge, as its recent earnings report showed. At about the same time it released the good numbers, it announced a partnership with...
ThinkstockAs former Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch took the fall for the failure of the company’s e-commerce business, the man who controls the company — Leonard Riggio —...
ThinkstockThe chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) never really ran the company. The family that has control of the book firm did. But someone had to be the fall guy as...
ThinkstockBarnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS), like rival book company Borders before it, will not survive as a standalone company. That leaves its board and investors with the challenge of where it...
June 25, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after speculation that China’s central bank would not allow the country’s banking system to collapse. In the U.S., data on housing...
ThinkstockBarnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) reported fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The bookstore chain reported a quarterly diluted earnings...
June 24, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning and spent the day trying to move back to break even with Friday’s close. The U.S. markets got no help from Shanghai, where the main...