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"In 10 years we'll have 450 to 500 stores," said Mitchell Klipper, chief executive of Barnes & Noble's retail group, in an interview last week. The company operated 689 retail stores as of Jan. 23, along with a separate chain of 674 college stores. - danblank

A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation – they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET’s parent company, CBS. - danblank

Gangnam Style, the most-watched YouTube video ever, with more than one billion views, by K-pop sensation Psy has generated $8 million revenue on YouTube alone, said Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora in a rare disclosure on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. A previous analysis by the Associated Press indicated that Psy had earned $7.9 million from Gangnam Style in worldwide revenue, including downloads on iTunes and streaming and sales on services available only in Korea. - danblank

Whenever you're at your best, that's the time to focus on critical decisions, problem-solving or brainstorming activities, or anything requiring complex or detailed thought. Whatever you do, "Resist the urge to do fun, easy, trivial things or talk to your friends during your prime times," says Stack. "The trick is self-discipline," just as with rolling out of bed at 6 a.m. - danblank

So in 2007, Bock changed the plan. New mothers would now get five months off at full pay and full benefits, and they were allowed to split up that time however they wished, including taking some of that time off just before their due date. If she likes, a new mother can take a couple months off after birth, return part time for a while, and then take the balance of her time off when her baby is older. Plus, Google began offering the seven weeks of new-parent leave to all its workers around the world. - danblank

I am spending more on digital media than I used to spend on the physical stuff. (The federal government says the average American family spent $2,572 on all entertainment, not just digital, in 2011.) And I know why I am spending more on digital media. - danblank

This change won’t meant that I’ll be the only person you’ll ever hear from on Problogger.net—far from it. But where we need content, we’ll be getting in touch with bloggers we’d like to feature on the blog and inviting them to participate. - danblank

The truth however is that the link between query intent and your social interactions for interests and places is much weaker than FB wants you to believe. - danblank

"This is not a foreshadowing the demise of the paper," Vezza said. "We have no plans for further layoffs." - danblank

Being interrupted is annoying, and, for those of us always with our phones on us, basically a constant. But how detrimental is it to us actually getting things done? - danblank

Times says demise of the nine-person team, created in 2009, won’t affect climate coverage. - danblank

This is a constant fear for many tech writers — their jobs, more than many other in media, require them to cover companies they either work for, or which their employers interact with. Nearly every tech publication has conflicts of interest to wrestle with - danblank

Over at Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gulati discusses his informal study of people’s biggest regrets about their career. He talked to professionals who ranged in age and represented a variety of different industries but five ideas came up again and again. - danblank

Over at Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gulati discusses his informal study of people’s biggest regrets about their career. He talked to professionals who ranged in age and represented a variety of different industries but five ideas came up again and again. - danblank

On Steve Jobs: "the misconception is that he was trying to be mean to people. He wasn't. He was just trying to get things done." - danblank

On Steve Jobs: "the misconception is that he was trying to be mean to people. He wasn't. He was just trying to get things done." - danblank

There are also the business costs. Companies fear a patchwork of laws or having to adjudicate who should get a dead person's files. Handing over data too readily could undermine their users' trust. And fundamentally, leaving dead people's accounts active runs counter to a core business proposition of sites like Facebook, which is to sell advertising targeted at real living people. - danblank

There are also the business costs. Companies fear a patchwork of laws or having to adjudicate who should get a dead person's files. Handing over data too readily could undermine their users' trust. And fundamentally, leaving dead people's accounts active runs counter to a core business proposition of sites like Facebook, which is to sell advertising targeted at real living people. - danblank

One problem is that some users who bought e-readers see no particular urgency to buy another. - danblank

One problem is that some users who bought e-readers see no particular urgency to buy another. - danblank

“We’re at the end of people saying, ‘Will people pay for content online?’” Restrepo said. “That’s history. We’ve reached the beginning of asking, ‘What exact model works for the sector or the business that I’m in?” - danblank

A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing - danblank

“We’re at the end of people saying, ‘Will people pay for content online?’” Restrepo said. “That’s history. We’ve reached the beginning of asking, ‘What exact model works for the sector or the business that I’m in?” - danblank

A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing - danblank

So when publishers start to conform their publishing and marketing to what the new tools can do best (we’re still in the stage where we’re mostly trying to make the tools do what we did before), it will mean an explosion in the number of marketing decisions that have to be made (because the age of the book will not be a central factor in the decision to include it in a marketing opportunity.) This is accompanied by the big increase in decisions required to respond to the near-instantaneous feedback marketing digital initiatives deliver. All of this will continue to be very challenging to the structure and workflow practices in large companies. - danblank

So when publishers start to conform their publishing and marketing to what the new tools can do best (we’re still in the stage where we’re mostly trying to make the tools do what we did before), it will mean an explosion in the number of marketing decisions that have to be made (because the age of the book will not be a central factor in the decision to include it in a marketing opportunity.) This is accompanied by the big increase in decisions required to respond to the near-instantaneous feedback marketing digital initiatives deliver. All of this will continue to be very challenging to the structure and workflow practices in large companies. - danblank

Google is "trying too hard to compete with Facebook, and if people aren't going to share willingly, they'll make them share unwillingly," he says. - danblank

A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing - danblank

As technology companies work overtime to make it easier to sign up and maintain accounts, little regard is given to the long-term ownership and use of our data. - danblank

But they capture a behavior my closest friends and I had already begun to adopt: The practice of showing each other where we are at any given moment in time, either through a short video or photo of our workstations, our faces as we lie half-asleep in bed on rainy Sunday afternoons, a look into our lives that is reserved for only those closest to each other. It is an acknowledgement that the version of ourselves we share through other social media is not the truest one, and has not been for a long time. - danblank