Barnes & Noble

The Nook Tablet might be too expensive to survive. While Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and its loyal legion of Nook lovers may respond to that assessment by noting that the Nook Tablet is 50% cheaper than the leading tablet from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), it is also $50 more than the Amazon (NASDAQ:...

Early this morning, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its first venture in the world of e-book rentals: the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. Designed exclusively for Amazon Prime subscribers who own a Kindle (sorry, iPad users – the Kindle App alone will not suffice), the Kindle Owners' Lending...

Things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front this this week, with only a few S&P 500 components scheduled to post quarterly results: Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B), Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) and Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) are expected to report earnings growth, while SAIC's (NYSE: SAI) earnings...

I can recall fond memories of Christmas past unwrapping the latest CD by Coldplay or the Dave Matthews Band. And I can remember that great feeling I would get while opening a brand-new, pristine book and leafing through the pages on a snowy Christmas morning in front of a lit tree. But with the...

Goldman Sachs has raised the price target on Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) from $14 to $19 and maintains its Neutral rating.

According to Wunderlich Securities, Liberty Capital (NASDAQ: LCAPA) gave some Barnes & Noble rationale. Wunderlich Securities said that it came away from the special shareholder meeting with a conviction that the Buy-rated Liberty Capital's (LCAPA) bid for Barnes & Noble (BKS-NR) is...

You wouldn't think that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), one of the most embattled retailers in the nation, could ever pose a threat to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). But after gaining nearly 30%, B&N announced that its new app store had sold and/or given away one million apps. Compared to Apple's App...

Web retailer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) is scheduled to release its first quarter earnings following the market close today. Currently, Amazon is the top online retailer, which means people will be watching to see how it performs because of the implications it carries for the rest of the...

Goldman Sachs is out with its report today on Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), upgradings shares of BKS from Sell to Neutral. In its report sent to clients, Goldman Sachs states, "We remove BKS from the Sell list, and upgrade the stock to Neutral. New analysis on the earnings power of the firm's...

Sterne Agee has published a research report on Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) as the company begins to enter into new product platforms hoping for a new leg of growth in 2011. In the report, Sterne Agee writes "We believe TXN's wins into new gaming platforms such as the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)($27....

As the tablet market continues to heat up, many tech companies are looking to compete with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad – the current leader of the marketplace. And since the iPad has encroached on Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s (NYSE: BKS) territory, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the company...

Analysts at Stifel Nicolaus maintained their Hold rating for Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS). The analysts said that although it looked more likely that Yucaipa Investments would be successful in a takeover bid, this perception was already seen in the stock's price when it surged in after...