Ten Retailers Turning Department Stores Into Mini-Malls

The idea of the in-store shop has evolved from getting space on the department store’s floor and sharing marketing costs to a more formal relationship where brands lease floor space and create a shopping experience of their own…

Microsoft Earnings Beat Estimates on Office, Xbox Sales

Microsoft’s fiscal first-quarter earnings jumped 51% as the world’s largest software maker boosted sales of its Office 2010 product and grabbed share in the videogame-console market. Microsoft shares jumped on the news.
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Verizon Wireless Gets the iPad on Oct. 28

Verizon Wireless will start selling Apple’s iPad on Oct. 28, two weeks after competitor AT&T kicks off its iPad sales. This is welcome news for many Verizon customers, although some of the might be wondering — where’s the iPho…

Hearst CEO: Newspapers Will Survive

The rest of the industry may be envisioning an all-digital future, by Frank Bennack Jr., vice chairman and CEO of Hearst Corp. is sanguine about the prospects for dead-tree newspapers. “They’ll be around as ink and paper for as…