Fortune’s Lashinsky Penning an “Inside Apple” Book

Adam Lashinsky, Fortune magazine’s high-profile Silicon Valley reporter, will be penning a book titled “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”
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Almost Famous: Mehdi Maghsoodnia of BookRenter

This week: We took a coffee break with Mehdi Maghsoodnia, CEO over at Bookrenter.com. In Web 1.0 style, they do what their name suggests–rent textbooks to students and try to compete with school bookstores, Amazon, and a certain egg-themed competitor. Chegg it out.

PC Sales Crashing Like an Unpatched Windows Machine

Billionaire Warren Buffett says the economy will be in a shambles throughout “2009–and, for that matter, probably well beyond.” The same can apparently be said for the PC market. Research outfit Gartner on Monday warned that PC sales will suffer the “sharpest unit decline in history” this year.
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Insert Motorola "GONR" Joke Here

If Motorola were a Greek tragedy, we’d be at that point in the narrative where the company is just about to blind itself out of grief–with a pair of RAZRs, of course. Two reports issued today show an already grim scenario for Motorola growing markedly worse.

Insert Motorola “GONR” Joke Here

If Motorola were a Greek tragedy, we’d be at that point in the narrative where the company is just about to blind itself out of grief–with a pair of RAZRs, of course. Two reports issued today show an already grim scenario for Motorola growing markedly worse.