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Will slowdown in U.S. labor productivity spur hiring binge?

Posted March 7, 2012 - 12:48 pm

Labor Department statistics for the fourth quarter indicate that U.S. businesses are reaching the limits of worker productivity.
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iPad share of tablet OS market falls below 50%

Posted March 6, 2012 - 3:42 pm

Apple's iPad tablet falls below the 50% share of monthly tablet traffic for the first time, a mobile ad firm says.
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Kindle Fire goes from zero to 14% tablet market share

Posted February 16, 2012 - 3:58 pm

Amazon.com ships 3.89 million Kindle Fires in the fourth quarter, second only to Apple's iPad.
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'Intrigued' Kleiner Perkins mulls $100 million cloud services fund

Posted February 10, 2012 - 8:27 pm

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.
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Groupon shares benefit from LivingSocial's losses

Posted February 2, 2012 - 3:05 pm

Shares of daily-deals site Groupon gained nearly 19% since Tuesday, when Amazon.com revealed in its annual results that LivingSocial, Groupon's main rival, lost $400 million in 2011.
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Hey Wall Street, Amazon.com has the right idea, so stop your unseemly panicking

Posted February 1, 2012 - 3:42 pm

Shares of online retail giant Amazon.com fell nearly 12% Wednesday following release of the company's fourth-quarter earnings which showed heavy spending on fulfillment centers, technology and staff.
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RIM shares jump on buyout rumors

Posted December 21, 2011 - 1:08 pm

Shares of Research in Motion soar 13% after reports that it recently had attracted potential buyers.
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More proof Kindle Fire already is iPad's main challenger

Posted December 2, 2011 - 2:04 pm

Amazon.com's new Kindle Fire tablet is expected to grab nearly 14% of the tablet market in the fourth quarter, second only to Apple's iPad at nearly 66%.
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Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 future tablet buyers prefer Kindle Fire

Posted November 21, 2011 - 2:36 pm

A new survey from ChangeWave Research shows a clear alternative to Apple's iPad tablet emerging.
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Is Google's music store doomed to failure?

Posted November 16, 2011 - 12:31 pm

The search giant is unveiling a service aimed at a market heretofore completely untapped -- unless you count Apple's iTunes store and a bunch of other online music services.
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Tough day on Wall Street for tech trio

Posted October 26, 2011 - 7:52 pm

Shares of Amazon.com, Sprint Nextel and Research in Motion take a pounding on Wall Street Wednesday.
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Apple firing back at Kindle Fire?

Posted October 13, 2011 - 3:28 pm

An analyst says Apple plans to unveil a budget version of its iPad tablet next year to combat Amazon.com's $199 Kindle Fire.
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iPad, meet your first serious competition

Posted September 28, 2011 - 12:52 pm

At $199, Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet computer should be attractive to shoppers who want a good tablet at a reasonable price.
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Apple's iPad has 80% of American tablet market, research shows

Posted September 27, 2011 - 2:25 pm

Strategy Analytics reports that Apple's iPad grabbed 80% of tablet shipments in North America during the second quarter.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos applies for cell phone airbag patent

Posted August 16, 2011 - 2:34 pm

Not everyone has a bazillion bucks and lawyers to turn their "oh crap, I dropped my phone" moment into a patent application. Everyone doesn't, but Jeff Bezos, also known as Mr. Amazon, does, and he did.
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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader evades Apple's 30% take

Posted August 10, 2011 - 2:08 pm

With Amazon's new Kindle Cloud Reader, all the cool Kindle features of one-click ordering, picking up books where you stopped reading, and organizing your library are done as a browser application, not an app. Therefore, no more 30 percent vigorish to Apple.
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Subway picks cloud software for usability

Posted August 8, 2011 - 11:27 am

Subway, a major fast-food operation, could have hosted new financial management software at its own data centers, but instead selected cloud-based software because of its user-friendly interface.
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Amazon expected to ship 1.2M of its mystery tablets in Q3

Posted July 11, 2011 - 8:54 pm

Amazon.com is expected to ship up to 1.2 million tablet computers by the end of September, making it the biggest of the non-iPad tablet suppliers in the third quarter, according to a new report in DigiTimes.
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Having trouble with Amazon.com downloads? Blame Lady Gaga

Posted May 23, 2011 - 10:48 pm

First there were the interminably long lines outside butcher shops across the country last September prompted by the meat dress she wore at the MTV Video Music Awards. And now this.
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Americans' misguided trust in corporations on rise

Posted May 2, 2011 - 4:58 pm

Search giant Google has the top corporate reputation among Americans, according to the 12th Harris Interactive RQ Study.
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DirecTV contemplates Netflix-like streaming service

Posted April 27, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Satellite television company DirecTV on Tuesday revealed to subscribers that it plans to offer a "Netflix-like" streaming video service for a flat fee.
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Amazon.com's Q1 net income plunges 33%; Wall Street (amazingly) doesn't freak out

Posted April 26, 2011 - 10:01 pm

Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) fell less than 1 percent in extended trading Tuesday after the online retail giant reported a 33 percent drop in first-quarter net income.
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Amazon gets 'black eye' from cloud outage

Posted April 21, 2011 - 8:45 pm

For a company that's known as the dominant player in the cloud market, Amazon's troubles on Thursday means a black eye for the company and for the cloud in general.
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LivingSocial lands $400 million venture round

Posted April 5, 2011 - 11:14 am

Shopping deals start-up LivingSocial has scored $400 million in venture funding as the No. 2 daily coupon website strives to keep up with market leader Groupon.
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mSpot Music vs. Amazon's Cloud Player

Posted March 31, 2011 - 7:18 pm

Media streaming is nothing new to Android users; we've been enjoying our music from the cloud for some time, thanks to the mSpot Music app. Now, Amazon has its own media-streaming app called Cloud Drive. Both apps allow you to sync your desktop music folder to the cloud, so with either one you can access your media library via the associated Website or mobile app. But how do the two services compare on mobile performance, features, and design/usability? We pitted mSpot Music and Amazon Cloud Drive against each other to see which one would come out on top.
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