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* The Verge gives at a long look at Research in Motion's rise and decline: how it was built and how former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie lost their way. Also, the company's ailing BlackBerry PlayBook tablet received a software update that finally brought native apps to access email, calendar, address book and BlackBerry Messenger functions. (The Verge and CNNMoney)
* Dell's fiscal fourth quarter earnings came in below analyst predictions: an 18% drop in net income to $764 million on revenues of $16 billion. (The New York Times)
* Comcast (CMCSA) is working on a new subscription video-on-demand competitor, named "Streampix," intended to go up against Netflix (NFLX). But the streaming service will only be available to those who also subscribe to Comcast cable. (Variety)
* Netflix inked a deal with The Weinstein Company. Translation: film titles like The Artist, Sarah's Key, and The Intouchables, are coming to Netflix Instant. (Techcrunch)
* Tech entrepreneurs are getting younger and younger. Venture capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz now say they're funding startups with 18 or 19-year-old founders. (Reuters)
* According to the analytics firm Distimo, many app makers are apparently making more money from their apps in Amazon's Appstore than they are via Google's Android Market. (GigaOm)
* Is Amazon's rewards program, Amazon Prime, profitable? Probably not. But it is a vital part of the company's long-term strategy. (Fortune)
* As reported yesterday, Barnes & Noble (BKS) released a $199 version of its recently introduced Nook Tablet with 8 gigabytes of storage, arguably to better combat Amazon's Kindle Fire. (Barnes and Noble)
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Is the retail giant's rewards program profitable? Probably not. Is it a vital part of the company's future? Almost certainly.
FORTUNE – Launched in 2005, Amazon Prime aimed to get customers to spend more. For $79 a year, members got free two-day delivery on an unlimited number of items. Amazon sweetened the pot from there. Last year, it introduced Prime Instant Videos, an unlimited movie and TV streaming service similar to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 21, 2012 3:02 PM ET
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* Sony (E), Sharp, and Panasonic's combined losses for the fiscal year will total a whopping $17 billion. The Wall Street Journal explores why this Japanese tech trifecta is losing consumers. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Why Facebook's recent claim of 845 million monthly active users and 483 million daily active MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 7, 2012 3:55 PM ET
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* Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo explores whether Facebook is a solid business given its unconventional mission to make "the world more open and connected." (Slate)
* Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on why we're in the middle of a secular movement to free-to-play gaming. (VentureBeat)
* One group of European regulators has asked MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 3, 2012 10:45 AM ET
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* Meet Larry Kirschbaum, the former Time Warner Book Group head who now runs Amazon Publishing. Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone profiles the man quietly leading the charge to build a new publishing empire one e-book author at a time. Also in Amazon-related news, the company announced the AWS Storage Gateway, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 26, 2012 4:16 AM ET
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* It's official: AT&T (T) will not acquire T-Mobile. The country's largest wireless carrier nixed the deal after the FCC and Department of Justice's attempts to block it. "The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage," AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 20, 2011 4:00 AM ET
Three new TV spots in advance of the holiday selling season
Following a pair of exceptionally well-produced spots from Samsung -- one tasteful, one clever -- pushing their newest Google (GOOG) Android phones, we have three fresh TV ads from Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Verizon (VZ). The latter doesn't seem to have gotten the memo that this season's fashion on Madison Avenue is the soft sell.
Amazon's Kindle Fire:
Apple's iPad 2
Motorola's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 23, 2011 10:14 AM ET
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* Amazon (AMZN) is launching an e-book library today exclusively for Kindle and Kindle Fire users who are also Amazon Prime subscribers. Initially, the e-commerce giant will offer just 5,000 or so titles -- none of them from the six big publishing houses will. Each user will also only be MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 3, 2011 3:57 AM ET
There's a case to be made that Amazon's new browser is more important than its tablet
Source: Amazon
The hardware Amazon (AMZN) introduced Wednesday dominated the early headlines. Most of the coverage focused on whether Amazon's Fire tablet will cut into sales of Apple's (AAPL) iPad or Barnes & Noble's (BKS) Nook or both.
But the second-day stories have started to zero in on the implications of a less-heralded -- and more MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 29, 2011 11:05 AM ET
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* Amazon (AMZN) didn't just unveil one new Kindle, but four -- nearly one for every user scenario -- including the widely-anticipated Kindle Fire ($199), sporting a color screen and multimedia functionality; two flavors of the Kindle Touch ($99 for WiFi-only, $149 for 3G), with a black-and-white, e-ink touchscreen; and the Kindle ($79), a MORE
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