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Amazon Keeps Spending to Grow, Slashing Profits

Amazon will roll out updates for its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, in about two weeks.
Amazon.com warned of a possible operating loss in the first quarter following a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits, a sign that the online retailer is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures at the expense of shorter-term profits.

Apple is Top PC Maker: Can John Browett Sustain Market Share?

Apple is Top PC Maker
Apple Inc. just can't lose. After becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world (the market cap is currently at $425.61 billion), Apple followed up by becoming the top PC maker in the world. The achievement is a testament to the company's ability to sell innovative products and to its rabid fan base. Whether Apple is able to remain the top PC maker remains largely dependent on new senior vice president of retail operations John Browett's ability to keep sales strong.
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Amazon Kindle Fire vs $265 Spark Tablet: A New Contender in the Economy Tablet Class?

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet sold six million units in 2011, but a new contender in the economy tablet class has emerged. It's called the Spark tablet, and at $265, it's certainly much cheaper than almost any other seven inch tablet. Not as cheap as the $200 Kindle Fire, though. It's not a hybrid tablet, but the Spark runs an operating system called Plasma Active, an open-source OS by K Desktop Environment (KDE) and Germany based open-slx.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

Amazon Kindle Fire: Top Five New Kindle Fire Competitors from CES

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has shown tablet makers the way to beat the iPad is to make sure your device is less than half the price of the tablet king. If the price is no more than $300 and it runs at least a recent version of the Android system, buyers might be inclined to go for it.
While iBooks 2 has the potential to revolutionize the education industry, Apple's current hardware restricts what the software can really do. This will change with the release of the iPad 3.

Why The iPad 3 is Key to Apple's iBooks 2 Success

Apple unveiled three new pieces of education software on Thursday -- iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U -- to collectively kill the school textbook once and for all. Despite this brilliant move, the hardware restrictions of the iPad 2 hold back the power of the iBooks software. This will change with the iPad 3.
Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO

Microsoft's Windows Battles Slack PC Sales

Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business.
Microsoft CEO Ballmer speaks at the last opening Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

Microsoft Profit Slips as PC Sales Shrink

Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business.
Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon Kindle Fire May Be More Profitable Than Expected

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) began shipping its much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet Nov.14, a day earlier than its original Nov.15 shipping date. There are some assumptions that Amazon is selling its tablet for a loss at $199, but it doesn't appear to be the case considering the long-term aspects of the device.
Workers prepare the booth for Samsung at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas.

CES 2012 -- Danger Signals for U.S. Competitiveness

Now that 153,000 people have exhausted themselves at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, an American visitor can't help thinking that the future of electronics is in Asia, not California's Silicon Valley or Texas.

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