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...seen high def, you know it's gorgeous," says Thompson. "But I was skeptical of the financial model. They need to go well beyond 100,000 homes." Cuban says his customer base through DirecTV is growing 10% to 15% a month, and he's working the retail angle hard--getting 1,000 outlets such as those of Circuit City to play HDNet in stores...
Ferrari chairman Montezemolo, 54, wants to take the fabled racing-car firm public. Funds from the IPO would go toward setting up theme parks and, in the U.S., Europe and Asia, a string of retail stores--which is not to say he's sick of selling cars. Last year Ferrari logged record sales, and after a 12-year hiatus, is reintroducing the U.S. to the Maserati. Orders for the $89,315 Spyder are pouring in by the hundreds...
Recent teen romances retail entirely in fantasy, where nerdiness triumphs over popularity with the help of eyeshadow, tweezers and the natural beauty that was there all along on the inside and—like, way more importantly—the outside. She’s All That and its ilk are transparantly unbelievable products of the Hollywood assembly line. The faith they project in the transformative power of love would never be as readily believed as Sixteen Candles...
...dark cloud rolled over the indie comix horizon this past week when LPC Group, a retail bookstore distributor with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...
Buying from farmer cooperatives rather than coyotes does not artificially increase the cost of coffee to consumers. In retail stores, fair trade coffee is equally priced with other blends of similar quality. Adam Smith’s invisible hand may be reaching for a fairly traded cup of joe after...