Barnes & Noble

A Harvard Business School student once told Jeff Bezos that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) had little chance against traditional retailers and should sell to Barnes & Noble and cash in while he could. A 1997 Classroom Doubts The E-Commerce Upstart The moment, which dates back to 1997, recounted...

Entrepreneur and investor Gary Vaynerchuk, well-known as Gary Vee, is widely followed for business advice and leadership. Customers were flocking to pre-order Vee’s sixth business book over the weekend. What Happened: A special offer from Vee to purchase 12 copies of the upcoming book “...

Sam Yagan, formerly of OKCupid and Match Group, could be trying to capitalize on the momentum seen this week in the dating-app industry with the blockbuster IPO of Bumble Inc (NASDAQ: BMBL). What Happened: Sam Yagan, CEO of Corazon Capital, has filed to form a SPAC called Corazon Capital V838...

The chairman of this book store operator scooped up some shares this past week. Those purchases followed the release of second-quarter results. The share price dropped sharply following the earnings report. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10 percent owners really only buy...

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) spiked 16 percent Thursday on talk of a $9-per-share take-private bid by Sandell Asset Management. The price represents a steep decrease from Sandell’s earlier suggested sale price of $12 per share. The prospective buyer first urged a sale in July when it...

What did you do on your summer vacation? Well, Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) decided to team up with Barnes & Noble Education Inc. (NYSE: BNED) to fend off major moves by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to capture the coveted college campus market. In a stunning back-to-school move, two...

This weekend's Barron's offers the outlook for a private equity giant and a leading online travel booker. The prospects for a biotech giant and a struggling bookseller are also examined. Another featured article offers a look at how Barron's small-cap stock picks for 2016...

This weekend's Barron's examines whether the country's largest bricks-and-mortar bookseller is down and out. The prospects for the world's largest animal-health company and a good contrarian stockpicker are also examined. This week's cover story finds dissension in...

Two very different specialty retailers are expected to report their fourth-quarter results this week. Wall Street analysts are looking for declining earnings for each of them. Several other retailers are expected to report earnings growth this week. The parade of quarterly results from the big...

Demonstrations in New York City continued for another day as hundreds gathered to protest a grand jury’s decision not to bring charges against Daniel Pantaleo for his part in a confrontation that ended with the death of an unarmed African-American man. A video of the incident has gone viral...

U.S. stocks rebounded from a two-day decline despite the fact that the U.S. economy contracted 2.9 percent in the first quarter. Investors showed little concern to the GDP figure which was negatively impacted by weather. The second quarter GDP figure, when released, may prove to be more market...

Scheduled quarterly reports from General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), Monsanto (NYSE: MON), Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) will be among the highlights this coming week on the earnings front. Consensus forecasts call for year-over-year revenue gains from all...

Among the struggling U.S.-based retailers, Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) saw significant upswings in short interest between the May 15 and May 30 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Best Buy and J.C. Penney swelled more...

U.S. stocks were positive after the European Central Bank implemented steps to fight disinflation, including negative interest rates. On the home-front, initial jobless claims rose last week but that didn't stand in the way of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices trading at historical all-...