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Microsoft Finds a New Nook in E-Books
Microsoft announced Monday that it is investing $300 million in the Nook, the Barnes & Noble e-reader that is the closest competitor to Amazon’s Kindle. The investment gives Microsoft a 17.6 percent stake in a new entity valued, based on the infusion, at $1.7 billion.
What’s Better Than $78 Million? A Bigger Piece of $1 Billion (Maybe)
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz is pushing back on criticism suggesting Andreessen Horowitz, an early investor of Instagram, failed to make a greater return on its investment in a company Facebook has purchased for $1 billion because of a poor strategic decision to back another entrepreneur.
Augmented Reality’s Path From Science Fiction to Future Fact
Google Glass is akin to a concept car, but not like those commercially ludicrous models automakers show off annually just to show how impossibly blue the sky can be. Glass would be a new prism through which we would filter every aspect of our lives ? just as the smartphone went from zero to always on.
DOJ Could Sue Apple Today Over E-Books: Reports
The Justice Department could sue Apple as early as Wednesday over e-book price fixing, Reuters reports, citing ‘two people familiar with the matter.’