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It was Barnes & Noble's turn on Black Friday. Now it's Kobo's turn on Cyber Monday.

Last week, Barnes & Noble offered up a limited edition of the Nook Simple Touch for $79. Now Kobo's teamed up with Buy.com to sell the new ad-supported Kobo Touch With Offers for $69.99 in a one-day sale.

That's a $30 price cut and a good deal on a solid touch-screen e-reader. (Read our full review here).

Like the Kindle Touch With Special Offers, the Kobo Touch With Offers features an advertisement just at the bottom of … Read more

Not too long ago Kobo announced that it would soon begin selling an ad-supported Kobo Touch with Offers for $99, matching the price of the Kindle Touch With Special Offers and Nook Simple Touch. The company says that product is now available.

As part of the launch, Kobo has also updated the firmware for both the new model and standard Kobo Touch, which costs $30 more ($129). The new firmware offers "several significant new feature improvements, such as new customization options and enhanced speed to deliver a fully optimized e-reading experience." Owners of the standard Kobo Touch can … Read more

As you can imagine, there are tons of Black Friday apps in the Android Market, most of which do the same thing--aggregate holiday sale items.

Sure, you can download them all to make sure you've got your bases covered, but we're thinking you probably don't want to be fumbling through an unwieldy app drawer while throwing elbows in department store aisles. So, we've taken the time to highlight just the essential Android apps for hunting down all the hottest deals come Black Friday.

Professional networking site LinkedIn is planning to offer more shares to protect its stock price from plummeting in the coming weeks.

According to a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, LinkedIn and its top shareholders plan to sell 8 million more shares in a secondary offering. The filing said that about 1.3 million of those shares will be sold by LinkedIn, while the remaining LinkedIn 6.7 million shares will be sold by stockholders. The offering is expected to help the company generate $100 million and its shareholders a sizable sum of their own.

But LinkedIn'… Read more

Borrowing a page from Amazon's playbook, Kobo has quietly launched an ad-supported e-book reader.

The Kobo Touch with Offers features a 6-inch E-ink touch screen, Wi-Fi, and a $99 price tag--a $30 price reduction from the regular model. The only difference, Kobo explains, is that the device's screen will feature an advertisement at the bottom of the home screen, as well as a screensaver ad when it's shut down or in sleep mode.

"Kobo Touch with Offers presents you with sponsored screens and valuable offers when your device is powered off or in sleep mode, and … Read more

Daily deal-aholics now have another avenue for purchasing discounted local offers, thanks to the arrival of the new Google Offers app for Android.

Simple and straightforward, the app immediately serves up a list of location-specific deals upon first launch. You can swipe up and down through the list, or tap any deal to see its price, number of purchases, and time remaining. From the deals list, you can also swipe left to see your Google Offers history, including Purchased, Saved, and Used or Expired deals.

The Google Offers app (download) is available now for free in the Android Market. And … Read more

Google Offers continues to expand.

The daily-deals arm of the search giant announced 14 new deal partners and new personalization features making the process of finding and receiving relevant deals in one location more seamless for consumers. Google Offers also branched out to four new cities this week: San Jose, San Diego, Minneapolis and Baltimore.

"If deals aren't relevant or don't match your interests, they're spam," Nitin Mangtani, product manager for Google Offers, told CNET. So to broaden its consumer appeal and make deals more targeted, Google is adding new inventory categories such as luxury … Read more

Groupon has sued two former sales managers it says took trade secrets to Google's competing venture when they quit the daily deals site, according to a Bloomberg report.

Michael Nolan and Brian Hanna left the Chicago-based company in January last month to join Google Offers, taking customer lists and marketing strategies with them, according to a civil complaint filed today in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The suit, which doesn't name Google as a defendant, seeks to prevent them from sharing the information with Google, according to the report.

"In their … Read more

To date, daily-deal sites have relied primarily on e-mail to reach bargain hunters. Now LivingSocial has inked a deal with Clear Channel to broadcast those deals to a much larger audience.

The companies said today that LivingSocial will provide its discount offers to listeners of more than 500 Clear Channel radio stations in 90 cities around the U.S. starting October 24. All told, LivingSocial's deals will be showcased to as many as 80 million listeners each week, Clear Channel said.

Several times throughout the day, on-air personalities at Clear Channel stations will announce the day's local deal … Read more