StarWalk KidsMedia publishes Spanish-language eBook for El Dia Del Nino - NEW YORK, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- StarWalk Kids Media announced that Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon's latest full-color, photographic eBook is a Spanish-language title for Amazon's Kindle Fire. The eBook is being published on El Dia Del Nino (Children's Day),...

Pinterest financing values company at $1.5 billion - (Reuters) - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc, valuing the company at about $1.5 billion and underscoring the huge investor appetite for social-networking companies. The news comes a day before Facebook starts trading as a public company that could be worth more than $100 billion. Pinterest, an online scrapbook where ...

Pinterest financing values company at $1.5 bln - REUTERS - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc , valuing the company at about $1.5 billion and underscoring the huge investor appetite for social-networking companies. The news comes a day before Facebook starts trading as a public company that could be worth more than $100 billion. Pinterest, an online scrapbook where ...

Incredible! Whitney Tilson May Have Just Made The Best-Timed Trade That We Have Ever Heard Of - The stock was last up more than 62% during mid-day trading. A bunch of hedge funds are making a fortune today, especially Barry Rosenstein's JANA Partners , which disclosed an 11.56% stake in the book seller a couple weeks ago.

Pinterest receives $100 million in venture funding, valuing startup around $1.5 billion - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten, valuing the company at about $1.5 billion and underscoring the huge investor appetite for social-networking companies.

Business Notebook - Columbia is one of America’s best-read cities, according to a popular online bookseller. The city came in at No. 15 in Amazon.com’s second-annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list released Tuesday. The rankings are determined by compiling per-capita sales data of all book, magazine, newspaper and Kindle eBook sales since June 1 for cities with more than 100,000 people. Alexandria, Va ...

Rising ebook sales almost make up for decline in old-fashioned paperbacks - Sales of ebook novels quadrupled last year, almost making up for the sharp decline in sales of old-fashioned physical books, new figures from the book industry show.

Why I'll buy 40 random stocks when the FTSE 100 hits 4000 - Pete Comley' s new book explains why private investors do so badly in aggregate, and how understanding why can help your investment decisions. We asked him how his research influenced his own investing strategy.

My Secret Writing Project - Today I unveil my secret writing project. I have been laboring for years on a secret project--an escapist entertainment entitled Four Bidding For Love . I won't tell you much about it, for I have found that any description only turns off 90% of the potential audience.