Apple Nipping at Target’s Heels for Fourth Most-Visited Site on Black Friday

Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target are all obvious candidates for heavy Black Friday traffic online, but right up there with the big-box stores is Apple.
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Former Napster CEO’s “Dream” More of a Nightmare When You Really Think About It

Best Buy said this morning that it is “streamlining Napster’s executive structure”–corporate parlance for sacking the faltering music service’s leadership, which has had a tough time finding a winning business model in a digital music world dominated by Apple’s iTunes Store. CEO Chris Gorog and President Brad Duea are both leaving Napster, which was acquired by the big-box retailer a little over a year ago.
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Microsoft: We're Taking Software Off the Desktop and Moving It to … Circuit City

Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.

Microsoft: We’re Taking Software Off the Desktop and Moving It to … Circuit City

Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.