Toronto Unplugged

The movement of online record sales has taken traditional retailers back to the drawing board in trying to figure out how to increase traffic and sales in stores.
HMV – Canada’s largest retailer – is introducing a range of new “entertainment” products that moves away from its traditional focus on music. Throughout HMV’s new ‘reinvented’ stores one will notice the new additions of books, cellphones, iPods and MP3 players.
Toronto’s Bloor Street West HMV store launched their new look store yesterday with live tunes from Sam Roberts and Billy Bragg.

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Bit offbeat but big industry news…
Trailing badly in the lucrative business of online search marketing, Microsoft announced a bid to acquire Yahoo! for a staggering 44.6 Billion.
Google continues to dominate the online landscape with strategic acquisitions, added revenue streams and presence virtually everywhere. In order for anyone to rival Google, they’ve got to find a way to get huge presence and max out the potential of it.
So if you’re Microsoft, is this the best way to spend 44.6 Billion dollars? How will Microsoft maximize the potential of Yahoo? What is a shortlist of companies …read more

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