Barnes & Noble has apparently been placed on some kind of blacklist for not hiring a posse of elves to tie its customers to a Christmas tree, stick an eggnog drip into their veins, chain headphones playing Muzak renditions of “Away in a Manger” around their ears and stab the Read More
Amazon was very pleased with itself last month when it announced that 100 titles from DC comics would be available in digital format exclusively from Amazon. Barnes & Noble, purveyor of the color Nook, was less delighted. Was this any way for DC Entertainment to treat an old friend? Especially one that announced an expansion of its comics section earlier this year? So now B&N made a nasty little decision of its own. Read More
Starting today, visitors to Barnes & Noble can download a special app and, presto, super hottie Brooklyn Decker will pose with them for photos.
The app was created by GoldRun, a startup based in New York that uses augmented reality as a marketing tools. It projects an image of Decker into the Read More
As business capitals go, Los Angeles is an oddity. There are few corporate headquarters here-after Disney, can you name one?-which makes a financier like Ron Burkle a quintessential L.A. power figure: peripatetic, elusive, canny and demonstrably rich.
He’s invariably described as low-key and publicity shy, and articles about Mr. Burkle usually also Read More
One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it. We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. Sadly, last week was atrocious: By Friday, despite unexpectedly nice news about unemployment, the Dow Read More
