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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 users may not be entirely accurate. (The New York Times/DealBook)
* Amazon (AMZN) lowered the prices for its Amazon S3 services. (Amazon Web Services)
* Predictions for the iPad 3 are picking up. Chief among them: a display with double the resolution as the iPad 2, powered by a significantly faster processor. (PCWorld)
* Just as it does in many Best Buy and Target stores, Apple (AAPL) is reportedly considering having mini-Apple Store-like setups in Sam's Club locations. (9 to 5 Mac)
* An in-depth look at the popular mobile app Instagram. (Gizmodo)
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* Google (GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt told the U.S. Senate antitrust committee that the iPhone 4S's voice assistant, Siri, poses a "competitive threat" to his company's business. Confessed Schmidt: "Apple's Siri is a significant development -- a voice-activated means of accessing answers through iPhones that demonstrates the innovations in search." (Apple MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 7, 2011 3:30 AM ET
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* Netflix (NFLX) signed a deal with Dreamworks (DWA) that will allow the streaming service to exclusively serve up new movies as well as older content to users in 2013. The company reportedly outbid HBO -- Dreamsworks' previous home content supplier -- by paying an estimated $30 million per film. (GigaOm)
* Michael Arrington explains the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 26, 2011 3:30 AM ET
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* TechCrunch reports that Facebook has an HTML5-based mobile Web store in the works that iPhone and iPad users can access via their Safari browsers. Eighty third party developers, including Zynga, are supposedly working on the project. "Why? Because it's the one area of the device that Facebook MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 16, 2011 10:51 AM ET
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* Twitter reportedly plans to launch a photo-sharing service at All Things D's D9 conference this Wednesday. If it takes off, the service would mark a major step forward for the social network as users currently have to store their photos on third-party sites like Twitpic and Flickr. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 31, 2011 6:30 AM ET
The Mint.com founder now runs a big part of Intuit and invests in startups on the side. Here, his take on Jack Dorsey's Square and the one investment on which he's glad to take a pass.
If you're not one of the 5.6 million active users on Mint.com, we suggest you give it a long, hard look, because even the most business savvy can benefit from its services, whether it's saving MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 1, 2011 11:12 AM ET
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Inside the Zynga offices, a company which offers free haircuts, iPads, and quarterly bonuses. Photo: JP Mangalindan/Fortune
California added 100,000 new jobs in February, thanks in large part to Silicon Valley. In fact, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET
A new wave of social networks aims to shrink the number of people in your circle.
The latest web fad? Private social networks. A growing number of services let users connect in smaller groups often around specific events. With Path, for example, you're only allowed 50 friends; the goal is to share more intimate life details -- kids' pics, a tasty breakfast -- with a more controlled group of people MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Intel Corp | 26.73 | -0.43 | -1.58% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
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| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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