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Kobo’s $315 million acquisition by Rakuten closes

Rue Liu, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

The $315 million acquisition of Kobo by Japan's Rakuten, announced back in November, has now successfully closed. All outstanding shares of Kobo owned by founding company Indigo Books & Music will go to Rakuten, while Kobo's management team will remain with the company and stay headquartered in Toronto. Read The Full Story

Polaroid Android tablet/eReader leaks

Chris Davies, Jan 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Polaroid can't seem to find its niche these days - who can forget the odd camera-sunglasses and Lady Gaga partnership at CES last year - but it seems a tablet/ereader may be the company's next endeavor. Shots of the slate have been snuck out ahead of time to Engadget, along with the tagline of "tablet + camera" so that you don't think Polaroid has forgotten its roots. Read The Full Story

E Ink kicks LG Display out of high-tech display team

Chris Davies, Nov 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Power struggles amid display manufacturers, as E Ink Holdings (EIH) apparently suspends its fringe-field switching (FFS) LCD panel production agreement with LG Display and instead shifts manufacture to rival CPT. FFS displays are a key rival to the IPS panels that LG Display and others supply Apple for the iPad, promising wide viewing angles among other benefits. In addition to ending the FFS production agreement, EIH will buy back bonds in its Hydis display subsidiary, DigiTimes reports, which LG Display had bought as part of its original agreement back in January 2010. Read The Full Story

Kobo Touch with Offers up now for $99, competes with $79 Nook

Chris Burns, Nov 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

It's another battle of the e-readers, ladies and gentlemen, the same thing that's been going on for the past handful of years whenever the winter holiday season rolls around, and this year it's a battle of the prices - Kobo Touch with Offers is the newest offering, available now, from the big K, offering you their least expensive price for the cheap exchange of ads in the interim. What you get is the same great Kobo Touch e-reader you know and love (but might never have owned until now) but with advertisements on the display whenever you put it to sleep. That's how they make it so inexpensive, and that's what they're putting up for competition with the short discount of the newest generation Nook e-reader which is $79 on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Read The Full Story

Kobo offers ad-supported eReaders at lower price

Shane McGlaun, Nov 14th 2011 Discuss [2]

Kobo is trying to make its eBook readers a bit cheaper and is taking a page out of the Amazon book to do it. Kobo is adding new ad-supported versions of its eReaders like the Touch that are ad supported like some of the Amazon Kindle readers. Just like the Amazon ad-supported eReaders, the discount isn’t huge. If you pick up the Kobo touch with Offers it will cost you $99, $30 off the normal price. Read The Full Story

Kobo bought by Japan’s Rakuten for $315 million

Rue Liu, Nov 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

The Kobo e-reader, which currently competes with Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook, may be getting a boost soon with new backing from Japan's version of Amazon, a large e-commerce operator called Rakuten. The Japanese company is purchasing Kobo for $315 million and intends to rapidly grow its user base around the world. Read The Full Story

Kobo Vox takes on Kindle Fire with sub-$200 tag

Chris Davies, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [6]

Ereader firm Kobo has announced the Kobo Vox, the company's latest Android-based ereader. Previewed last month with a premature store listing, the Vox features a 7-inch 1024 x 600 display, 800MHz Freescale iMX51 processor, 8GB of internal storage and 512MB of RAM, and runs a reskinned version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, all for under $200. Read The Full Story

Bookeen Cybook Odyssey eReader, coming soon

Chris Burns, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

The fine folks at Bookeen have revealed that they'll be releasing an ebook reader with a 6-inch Pearl E-ink display and a lovely 800MHz Cortex A8 CPU for the masses. This device will be Bookeen's fourth ereader device, and it's expected that the display will be the same as what's proven to be ultra-successful on the Sony Reader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Kobo, that being the Neonode zForce touchscreen. Welcome back to the pack, Bookeen! Read The Full Story

Kobo Vox caught online ahead of Kindle Fire challenge

Chris Davies, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [2]

Ereader manufacturer Kobo's alternative to the Kindle Fire, the Kobo Vox, has been prematurely revealed, an Android-based tablet expected to retail at under CA$250. Spotted on a hurriedly-yanked product page at Canadian retailer Future Shop (still visible in Google's cache), the 7-inch Vox runs at 1024 x 600 resolution with WiFi b/g/n and will supposedly hit shelves on October 17. Read The Full Story