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The Australian Government announces that it has purchased the intellectual property rights to the Australian Aboriginal Flag from its designer Harold Thomas for over $20 million (US$14m), allowing for the public use of the flag.
2022-01-25

Reuters, citing "a source familiar with the matter", said that the hedge fund firm Elliott Management is in talks to acquire the storied bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $476 million.
2019-06-6

Barnes & Noble fires CEO Ronald Boire after less than a year in the job. Executive Chairman and company founder Leonard Riggio, who is postponing his September retirement, will assume Boire's duties.
2016-08-16

G Asset Investment, a private investment management firm, reports that it has offered to buy a majority of the equity of Barnes & Noble or to buy its digital books business, Nook.
2014-02-21

Barnes & Noble, a company best known for its chain of book stores, enters the tablet computer market with the Nook Tablet, an extension of its line of Nook eReaders.
2011-11-7

The "Financial Times" reports that sources "familiar with the situation" say Liberty Media is losing interest in a purchase of Barnes & Noble, due to financing constraints. [http:--www.ft.com-intl-cms-s-2-f5dc3e40-c8e5-11e0-aed8-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html#axzz1VOBFADaK ("Financial Times")]date=August 2019
2011-08-17

The plans of cable entrepreneur John Malone to purchase book store chain Barnes & Noble may have hit a snag, especially over how to value the B&N eReader, the Nook.
2011-08-3

John Malone's Liberty Media makes a US$1 billion bid for bookseller Barnes & Noble.
2011-05-19

Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble and manufacturers Foxconn and Inventec over their Nook e-readers, claiming that they infringe patents.
2011-03-21