B&N bounce

Barnes & Noble shares gained 5.5 percent, to $16.46, after dropping 17 percent on Tuesday, following its decision to stop competing in the tablet business.

FB to go

Facebook is building an application for Microsoft Windows 8, adding a popular program missing from the operating system designed to help the software maker gain tablet customers.

Priceless?

7-Eleven and Amazon.com sued Visa and MasterCard over card fees after rejecting a multibillion-dollar settlement.

Totterin’ town

Fitch Ratings yesterday put credit ratings on nearly $8.7 billion of outstanding Chicago debt on a watch list for a possible downgrade, citing the city’s growing unfunded public pension liability.

Nanula-la

Miramax Chairman Richard Nanula is taking a leave of absence two weeks after photos purporting to be of Nanula and a porn star appeared on TheDirty.com. A return date wasn’t announced, nor who will take over for him.