Right out of the box, the Riffmaster takes after Rock Band's early controllers more than anything produced for Guitar Hero.

Let’s take a look at how that came about and who made it happen. The origins of perhaps the most famous Japanese guitar brand, Ibanez, lie with its parent company, Hoshino. Matsujirou Hoshino ...

And you’re not imagining things. Even Amazon has over 80 private-label brands they’re selling “directly to consumers”. And if Amazon is going directly to consumers, there must be something to it.

In response, many retailers pulled back from Nike and increasingly relied on other brands to stock their inventories and shelves. The Financial Times reported that the proportion of Foot Locker ...