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Today in Tech: Kindle Fire comes under attack

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* AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is reorganizing the Internet company. Its dial-up services will be merged with Web services, which includes AOL Instant Messenger. The other three divisions will include advertising, local services, and the Huffington Post media group. (Bloomberg)

* Amazon's Kindle Fire has come under, well, fire, over some MORE

Today in Tech: Is Amazon making a smartphone?

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* Hot on the heels of the Kindle Fire's launch comes speculation from Citigroup researchers that Amazon (AMZN) will launch a smartphone during the fourth quarter of next year. "Based on our supply chain check, we believe FIH is now jointly developing the phone with Amazon," writes Citi analyst MORE

Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft: Not that ridiculous

A three-way merger between them seems out there, not to mention extremely complicated. But, the idea has some merit -- not the least of which is saving Yahoo from private equity.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor

FORTUNE – The carefree days of Yahoo -- when the web pioneer's name was more of an exuberant cry rather than a sarcastic remark -- are behind it. For several years, the company has struggled to right MORE

Today in Tech: Google Music is here

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* As reported, Google (GOOG) launched its new online music store. Currently Google Music includes deals with three of the major music companies, lets users also upload and store up to 20,000 songs for free, as well as share music via the company's Google+ social network. (Computerworld)

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Today in Tech: Sony predicts another big sales loss

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* Sony (SNE) predicts a $1.2 billion annual loss and slashed sales targets for TVs, personal computers, compact cameras, and Blu-ray players. (Bloomberg)

* Colleague Scott Olster on how the race for education tech is heating up. (Fortune)

* Apple (AAPL) will reportedly release a new store app that will, among other things, MORE

How Steve Jobs would have fixed AOL Time Warner

He mapped out a strategy to rescue the failing merger on a whiteboard in 2003

After a long meeting with Steve Jobs last year about what the iPad would mean for publishers, Fortune's technology editor Stephanie Mehta -- known to her colleagues as "Stephanie Telephony" when she covered telecommunications -- remarked that Jobs was a surprisingly astute student of other people's businesses, including hers.

Case in point: A story Brent Schlender, who covered MORE

Today in Tech: Apple iOS 5 gets reviewed

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"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it." -- Google engineer Steve Yegge in a reportedly leaked blog post. (Silicon MORE

Apple was the safest of safe havens last quarter

Up 13.59% in a quarter in which the NASDAQ fell 12.91%

In his Tech Trader Daily column last week, Barron's Tiernan Ray noted that the three months that ended Friday saw some spectacular flameouts in the tech sector, including Netflix (NFLX) down 56.88% for the quarter, AOL (AOL) down 39.58%, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) down 38.32% and Yahoo (YHOO) down 12.4%.

Amid the carnage, however, there were some relatively safe havens. Ray mentioned Apple MORE

Today in Tech: How much did Leo Apotheker walk away with?

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* Thanks to an 8K HP (HPQ) filed, we now know ousted CEO Leo Apotheker walked away with almost $10 million in payouts and bonuses. Meanwhile, new company head Meg Whitman will earn $1 -- yes, $1 -- a year, joining former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google execs Larry Page, MORE

Today in Tech: Google's Flipboard killer

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* Google (GOOG) is reportedly developing a competitor to the popular curated news app, Flipboard, with a project dubbed "Propeller." Sources tell Robert Scoble that it's "mind-blowing good." (All Things D and Robert Scoble via Google +)

* BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIMM) reported lower-than-expected revenues and profits for its latest quarter, telling MORE