Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, known for its uplifting books and diverse media ventures, including Redbox, has been dealing with significant financial challenges. Despite its optimistic ethos, positive thinking wasn’t enough to keep the company from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week in Delaware. As reported by CBS news, the company had extensive … [Read more...] about Uplifting Publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Bankrupt
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Top Digital Publishing and Business News Stories of the Week
This week a number of notable news stories have been released and this week. Barnes and Noble hired a new executive and Amazon disappointed Wall Street with lower than expected financial results. The New York Times is also maintaining their focus on digital content and posted a increase in subscribers. Amazon Amazon delivered a disappointing second quarter report after … [Read more...] about Top Digital Publishing and Business News Stories of the Week
Sprint Partners with Google To Sell Business Apps
Next month, Spring and Google will begin working together for the good of enterprise customers. According to a new agreement, Sprint business users will be granted full access to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Drive and Google Docs. Mike Fitz, vice president of business solution commercialization at Spring Business made a statement regarding the new … [Read more...] about Sprint Partners with Google To Sell Business Apps
Android For Work Courts Business Users
The corporate world is a little bit lost right now when it comes to mobile devices. Once upon a time, BlackBerry was the logical (and only) choice --Research in Motion (RIM) was highly security conscious and their smartphones were seemingly very single-purpose. Flash forward and the marketplace isn't quite so cut and dried: Apple is a crowd favourite in many ways because their … [Read more...] about Android For Work Courts Business Users
iPad Dominates Business Tablet Usage
Contrary to the oft held belief that the iPad suits more for entertainment than anything else, the Apple tablet has topped the charts among tablets used in the enterprise scene. To put that in figures, the iPad has made up for 91.4 percent of all enterprise tablet activations in Q4, 2013, reveals enterprise software vendor Good Technology. Delving further into the pattern of … [Read more...] about iPad Dominates Business Tablet Usage
Rumor: A Smartwatch From Nokia Coming Soon
After we have had enough of tablet devices, smartphones, and big screen smartphone devices, it was perhaps just a matter of time before the manufacturers turned to provide the smart treatment to the humble watch. Joining the mad rush from manufacturers to come up with their individual take on the smartwatch concept is Nokia. All of it is too uncertain right now, but is being … [Read more...] about Rumor: A Smartwatch From Nokia Coming Soon
Curata, a Google Reader Alternative Aimed at Business Users
The impending demise of Google Reader has left a fertile breeding ground for other companies to sprout. While Feedly has already made the start as an alternative to the Google Reader service, there is a lot of room for others to flourish as well. Curata is one such company that is hoping to cash in on the situation and has picked up a niche area of news for business users. In … [Read more...] about Curata, a Google Reader Alternative Aimed at Business Users
Microsoft Surface Pro News
Microsoft Surface Pro team head, Panos Panay, has stated the Microsoft team is working hard to ease the demand supply gap with respect to the Surface Pro. He assured buyers that more stocks will arrive by this Saturday. There has been strong demand for the tablet, which is either much more than the company had anticipated or they might have started with a restricted stock to … [Read more...] about Microsoft Surface Pro News
HP Announces a New Enterprise Tablet
This shouldn't come as a surprise since HP's intention to make a tablet for the enterprise segment is already well known. The latest revelation to this effect comes in a recently released PR. What is surprising is that the revelation was hidden beneath lots of other usual stuff, such as all the latest information about products like laptops, desktops, and such that the company … [Read more...] about HP Announces a New Enterprise Tablet
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for Businesses Launched
The BlackBerry Mobile Fusion that RIM announced back in November 2010 is now ready for action. The tool allows you to effectively manage not only the BlackBerry smartphones, but also those running Android or iOS. Employees tend to prefer to bring their own devices to work, and switching between operating systems can be a nightmare for business administrators. With the … [Read more...] about BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for Businesses Launched
Amazon forced to amp up productions to produce millions more Kindle Fire Tablets
HP has already proved any product that is well made but priced super cheap can always set the sales chart on fire. Amazon had conceptualized the Kindle Fire along similar lines and the result is similar too, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stating they are "building millions more than we’d already planned." Amazon has never been comfortable revealing the number of devices they have … [Read more...] about Amazon forced to amp up productions to produce millions more Kindle Fire Tablets
Foxconn’s Brazil plans hits rough patch
Foxconn, Apple's long term manufacturing partner had set up ambitious plans to manufacture the iPad tablet in Brazil though all of that seems to have come to a naught. The plant was supposed to be able to produce iPads in July 2011 though it was subsequently pushed back to November. Later, the schedule was revised once again to December but it now seems it has been pushed back … [Read more...] about Foxconn’s Brazil plans hits rough patch
Lenovo Will Launch 2 Honeycomb Tablets Soon
Lenovo has lined up two tablets for a launch soon. Both of the tablets will be in the 10 inch category and will run Android Honeycomb. However, one of the tablets, tentatively named IdeaPad (or maybe even LePad) will be targeted at the consumer segment and will be first off the block, expected to reach the market by July. The second tablet, also running Honeycomb, will form … [Read more...] about Lenovo Will Launch 2 Honeycomb Tablets Soon
Motorola developing a rugged business tablet running Android
The business tablet segment seems to be catching on the fancy of tablet manufacturers and the latest to drop its hat in this category that is fast becoming competitive is Motorola. However, Motorola aims to stand out of the rest of those who also have business tablets to offer in that it is keeping its faith on Google's Android as the operating system of choice for its upcoming … [Read more...] about Motorola developing a rugged business tablet running Android