Thread: Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Engineering Staff
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Old 02-10-2014, 04:43 PM   #7
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Well, it sounds like the end is Nigh. . .
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Originally Posted by afv011 View Post
"Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider.
The engineers were let go last Thursday, according to our source. This follows Barnes & Noble dismissing the VP of Hardware, Bill Saperstein in January."

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[EDIT]Later info says it's wasn't the hardware engineers.[/EDIT]
Yahoo financials reports a similar story:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/break...183424551.html

Let's see, that leaves Amazon, Kobo, and to a less committed extent, Apple, and Google's minions. Have I left anyone of hardware significance out? does anyone know if Kobo has a cough?
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