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B&N Puts Focus on Digital
Barnes & Noble Inc. is expected to debut a new e-reader on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter in the bookseller’s battle with Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to dominate the fast-growing digital book sales business.Voices
Stanford’s SSE Labs Creating Entrepreneurial Buzz In Silicon Valley
Y Combinator is considered by many as Silicon Valley’s elite start-up school, offering selected entrepreneurs a three-month crash course to help them build companies and raise capital.Voices
Liberty Media Bids for Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Inc. said that Liberty Media Corp. has offered to buy the bookseller in a deal valuing it at about $1 billion. Barnes & Noble shares were up 20 percent in after-hours trading Thursday on the news, matching the $17-a-share offer price from John Malone’s media empire.Voices
Tech Giants Defend Privacy Practices
Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. defended their privacy practices Thursday to lawmakers considering how to update privacy laws to include more protections for Internet users.Voices
A Week on Foursquare
What can Foursquare tell us about how people live? To learn about where people go and what they do on the location-based social network, Digits collected every check-in on the service for a week earlier this year, via the Foursquare “firehose.”Voices
Microsoft, Intel Don’t Entirely Agree on Next Windows
Intel had one key mission at its analyst meeting this week: convincing investors that it can still catch up to rival ARM Holdings in the mobile market. One of its arguments seems to have miffed longtime partner Microsoft.Voices
AT&T Courts Tech Support on T-Mobile Deal
AT&T Inc. executives met in Silicon Valley with technology companies and top venture-capital firms this week, courting a key constituency as the telecommunications giant presses the case for its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG.News Byte
Yahoo Confirms Purchase of 5to1
As tipped a week ago by All Things D’s Kara Swisher, Yahoo is buying 5to1, a self-serve premium advertising platform for major media publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a figure of $25 million has been tossed around. After the transaction closes in Q2, the 5to1 team will join Yahoo’s Ad Marketplaces group.Voices