Barnes & Noble's Nook business up 34 percent last fiscal year

From CNET News.com: During the 12-month period that ended April 28, Barnes & Noble's Nook business, which includes e-reader, accessories, and digital content sales, posted revenue of $933 million, representing a 34.3 percent gain over the $695 million it posted in the prior year...

Verizon Names Updated Internet Tiers FiOS Quantum, Releases Pricing

From DailyTech: Verizon has finally released prices for its updated FiOS Internet tiers, and gave its new service a name -- FiOS Quantum.

Verizon said its entry-level options would remain the same, such as the 15/5 Mbps, 25/25 Mbps, 35/35 Mbps, 50/20 Mbps and 150/35 Mbps tiers, but...

Microsoft Unveils Surface Media Tablets

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Monday introduced its first media tablets that will be sold under its own brand later this year. The company executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail...

Intel Acquires 1700 Radio Patents for $375 Million

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. and InterDigital on Monday announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to sell to Intel roughly 1700 patents and patent applications for $375 million in cash. The radio technology patents will help Intel to better compete on the market of cell...

Yahoo hires former Google exec as revenue chief

From CNET News.com: Yahoo has hired Michael Barrett as executive vice president and chief revenue officer.

Barrett will lead Yahoo's ad revenue and operations worldwide, the company announced today. In his new role, Barrett will report directly to Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn...

AMD Preps New Revision of Tahiti Chip for Improved Radeon HD 7970

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has been rumored to prepare an improved version of its Radeon HD 7970 graphics card in order to better compete against Nvidia Corp.'s GeForce GTX 680. What has not been known so far is that the new version of AMD's top-of-the-range single-chip...

AMD Shows Off FirePro W9000

From X-bit Labs: At its Fusion Developer Summit, Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its next-generation high-performance workstation graphics card called FirePro W9000. The new board will not only be based on Tahiti XT graphics processing unit (GPU), but will be powered by the improved...

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