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Yahoo COO De Castro Joins Target Board
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro has joined the board of Target Corp., the Minneapolis-based retailer said in a press release. The former Google exec has also worked at Dell and McKinsey. The appointment means that the top two execs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant are directors at two of the top U.S. retailers — CEO Marissa Mayer is on the board of Walmart Stores of Bentonville, Ark.
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Best Buy Halts U.S. Sales Decline
Best Buy Co. reported a narrower fourth-quarter loss on Friday on its first increase in U.S. same-store sales in more than a year, the latest evidence that the beleaguered electronics retailer is slowly stabilizing its battered business.Want Gigabit Internet? You Don’t Have to Move to Kansas City.
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How to Watch the NFL on the Web, Legally, for Free
Of course, you should watch football on TV. But if for some reason you can’t …
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The Oregon Trail Still in Its Prime at 40 (Plus a Slideshow of All Its Versions!)
If you were born sometime between 1980 and 2000, you’ve likely crossed The Oregon Trail, the classic computer game of the same name which has managed to remain current over what has been an amazingly long lifespan.
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MSFT's $2.3B Bond Sale: 'Year Of The Shareholder,' Says Bloomberg
In response to Microsoft’s plan to sell $2.25 billion of bonds in maturities of 2015, 2020, and 2040, Bloomberg’s Sapna Maheshwari and John Detrixhe this afternoon write that the offering signals 2011 is, “more the year of the shareholder than the year of the bondholder.”
Viral Video: The Next Role for the Facebook Movie's Mark Zuckerberg Is a Zuckerbird!
Here’s a trailer for the next movie that Jesse Eisenberg–the actor who played Mark Zuckerberg in the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network”–stars in. It’s actually animated and about a Minnesota macaw who heads for Rio. There is apparently no drunken coding into the night or stock cramdowns or lifting of really good ideas from the muscled elite.
Shopkick Checks In With Target–CEO Cyriac Roeding Talks About Social Shopping
The idea of being rewarded for being a consumer is getting a lot of heat of late, as retailers seek to take advantage of the fast-moving social phenom among consumers, especially young ones. Thus, a wide range of efforts to combine location-based mobile apps with purchasing, both online and offline. Today, another company in the space, shopkick, announced it had added another store–Minneapolis-based Target–to its list of retailers deploying its platform and mobile app that gives you points for simply walking in a store.
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New Library Technologies Dispense With Librarians
Hugo MN–In this suburb of St. Paul, the new library branch has no librarians, no card catalog and no comfortable chairs in which to curl up and read. Instead, the Library Express is a stack of metal lockers outside city hall. When patrons want a book or DVD, they order it online and pick it up from a digitally locked, glove-compartment- sized cubby a few days later. It’s a library as conceived by the Amazon.com generation.
Exclusive: Yahoo Eyes CafeMom for $100 Million Acquisition
According to numerous sources, Yahoo is eager to close a deal to acquire CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, in a move aimed at turbocharging its often-meandering strategy in the important women’s space. The price being offered, said sources, is hovering at $100 million, about the same amount Yahoo recently forked over for Associated Content. The deal might not happen, of course, but several sources said the pair have been deep in negotiations in recent weeks.
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