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Monday, April 14, 2008

CircuitBuster Would Merge Failure With Fiasco

Wow. Blockbuster is completely out of ideas, isn’t it? This morning the foundering movie rental chain went public with its bid to acquire ailing retail consumer-electronics chain Circuit City.
In a Feb. 17 letter to Circuit City CEO Philip Schoonover, Blockbuster (BBI) offered to pay more than $1 billion for the chain. But, to date, Circuit [...]

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wait. Dell Had Retail Kiosks Too?

In the grand tradition of Gateway and Palm, Dell is shuttering its 140 kiosks in the U.S. as part of a new retail strategy that will expand sales of its products in outlets like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Staples.
“We recognized early on that customers really wanted to touch and see the products before they [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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