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Price Cut for Kindle Fire Tied to European, Japanese Launch

Posted: March 13, 2013 at 2:15 pm

Thanks to today’s launch of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch tablet from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in five European countries and Japan, Amazon claims that now “it is able to ...
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Mobile Device Activations Skyrocket on Christmas Day

Posted: December 27, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Worldwide, some 17.4 million mobile devices were activated on Christmas Day this year according to research firm Flurry. That’s more than four times the 4 million average number of ...
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Kindle Arrives at GameStop Just in Time

Posted: December 10, 2012 at 2:39 pm

Just as the holiday retail shopping season gets down to its last two weeks, GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) said today that it would begin selling two models of the Kindle ...
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Microsoft Tablets on Sale Now

Posted: October 16, 2012 at 11:35 am

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced this morning that its new Surface tablets would be available for a “special limited-quantity pre-order” today at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. Three versions of the ...
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More Details on Amazon’s New Kindle Products

Posted: September 6, 2012 at 4:43 pm

Now that the dust has settled a bit on today’s announcements of new products by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), we’ll take a look at the whole stable full of new ...
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Kindle Fire Sold Out (AMZN, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: August 30, 2012 at 9:55 am

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), said this morning that the company is sold out of its Kindle Fire tablets and that the device has captured 22% of ...
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Amazon to Launch a Smartphone?

Posted: July 6, 2012 at 6:15 am

Bloomberg reports that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may launch a smartphone, which would mean the world's largest e-commerce company would join the mobile phone sector just after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google ...
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Tablet PCs, Car Sales and TV Channels

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 6:21 am

If Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is fortunate, its new Nexus 7 tablet will be like a Chrysler automobile. The device is up against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), with its General Motors (NYSE: ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/14/2012) Moody’s Downgrades Europe, New Apple Products

Posted: February 14, 2012 at 6:41 am

The relentless attack by U.S. credit rating agencies on the risk of the sovereign debt of EU members continues. It happened again yesterday when Moody’s downgraded a number of nations just after a deal ...
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Stock Market Votes for Walmart Over Amazon as Holidays Start

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:10 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is supposed to thrash Walmart (NYSE: WMT) in sales increases this holiday season. That should make Amazon the better investment. Wall St. believes otherwise, though. Over the past month, shares in Walmart ...
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Barnes & Noble Releases Nook, Shares Wobble

Posted: November 7, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released its new Nook tablet e-reader. The company's shares move higher by barely 1%. Wall St. must believe, as most analysts do, that the Nook will continue ...
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Amazon’s New Kindle Touch: iPad Killer or Bookstore Killer? (AMZN, AAPL, BKS)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 11:40 am

Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).  It ...
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