Monday, July 25, 2011

Books-A-Million drops bid for Borders stores | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com

Books-A-Million, Inc. has ended its efforts to take over 30 Borders stores, the company announced today.

“The parties could not agree on terms and the going out of business sales at these locations commenced,” a company statement said.

Borders is in bankruptcy and currently liquidating all its remaining stores, including one in Flowood.

Books-A-Million, based in Birmingham, is one of the nation’s leading book retailers with 231 stores in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

TREASURIES-Divided Congress spurs selling in nervous bond mkt | Reuters

Google+ Games Stream Could Overtake Facebook, Top 10 Games Users Want to Play - International Business Times

Google+ knows the gaming industry will be huge in their quest to get on par with rival Facebook.  After numerous assumptions that the online search giant are in pursuit of adding games to their latest social network project, a leak indicates that games may be on the way. 


Facebook already has Zynga under its control which produces 266 million monthly active users who combine to spend 2 billion minutes a day for online games. Those who play Facebook games come out to 200 million monthly users.   Facebook obviously holds an advantage getting a head start but Google will have several advantages as it rolls into the games scene with cash, developers, and reach. 

RIM to cut about 2,000 jobs | Reuters

Democrats, Republicans Write Separate Debt-Ceiling Plans | USA | English