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Amazon is nearing release of its first tablet, and the Amazon Kindle is creating a storm on the Internet as news and speculation about the forthcoming product rivals what Apple has experienced with its popular iPad and iPhone. Also, Amazon's new Kindle tablet is expected to be the first serious contender to Apple's global tablet-industry leading iPad. In preparation of Amazon's tablet release, here are 5 things to know.

Talk of a new, forthcoming tablet from Amazon that run's on Google's Android operating system, is heating up the Internet these days -- as the product as seen by many industry observers and consumers as the first bona fide competitor to Apple's tablet-leading iPad.In preparation of Amazon's Kindle tablet release, here are five things to know.

Exxon Mobil Corp and Rosneft on Monday announced a deal to extract oil and gas from the Russian Arctic, marking a significant milestone in Russia's patchy history with foreign corporate investors.

Here are Indicators that the morale of the American consumer is at its lowest in years.

Some think Apple's pay for its new CEO might be risky because nobody replaces Steve Jobs.

Are angry Netflix customers upset over the company's price hike last month turning to Wal-Mart's Vudu? One subscription service shows Wal-Mart's Vudu is gaining momentum, fast.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the richest person in the world for the second year in a row, Forbes said on Wednesday.

Hurricane Irene sent East Coast shoppers into stores to stock up on essentials this week, instead of the clothes, notebooks and other supplies that retailers were counting on selling as children get ready to go back to school.

As the HP TouchPad sale was expected to continue this weekend, an announcement from HP's social media manager has rendered this false, as there will be no news on HP TouchPad availability this weekend and no $99 tablets for sale.

Poor sales for chips. PCs, network equipment and chipmaking products sends a warning that tech growth is easing

On the grounds of the Bodyworks weight loss campus in Beijing, 30 tubby men and women sweat profusely, gasping for air as they pound the treadmills in an exercise room.

The news Apple's Steve Jobs Resigns this week caused many to ponder if the high-flying tech company will ever be the same. So far, the company's stock hasn't taken a downward hit after Wednesday's news, but one only need to look at another legendary leader and company example for the answer. It's likely that Steve Jobs was to Apple what Sam Walton was to Wal-Mart. Both were company founders with product impact on company cultures. Both, also, were unique leaders, who perha...

There's still time. The availability of HP TouchPads will become a reality as HP promised that a second wave of $99 table computers will be available for sale this week.

PC giant Hewlett Packard's decision last Thursday to spin off its PC business and drop all WebOS devices barely 2 months after the company launched TouchPad has left retailers such as Best Buy, Office Depot, Staples, and Wal-Mart scrambling to offload their stock of TouchPad by slashing the price of the tablet to $99. However, despite the fire sale, should you buy a TouchPad?

HP creates a TouchPad buying frenzy, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's whereabouts are still unknown, Hurricane Irene is headed to the United States, and more in today's Daily Scoop.

Best Buy reportedly had 270,000 units in its inventory.

Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.

Here are the top ten things the bank’s chief executive, Brian Moynihan, should have said about the massive job cuts he is proposing.

Authorities in Mexico found the decapitated bodies of four men and a woman in Acapulco on Saturday, the latest in a string of slayings in the popular Pacific resort this week.

HP is killing its TouchPad, intended to compete with Apple's iPad. HP said it will no longer support the TouchPad, focusing in other areas.

Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a judge ruled.