Amazon's Sales Mix Tips Away from Media. It's the Kindle, Baby
The Kindle helps tip Amazon's sales scale from media to other goods. But can the trend last, given the pressure of the Apple iPad?
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Microsoft Earnings: Gliding on Windows and Not Much Else
Microsoft's financial gain is offset by its strategy weakness: without Windows, it is nothing.
Google Can't Get Off the Hook as the Wi-Fi Investigation Grows
Google gets deeper in the Wi-Fi data recording privacy mess. Eventually getting out of trouble could take a lot more than just patience.
Nokia Earnings: It Keeps a Smartphone Lead -- but Apple and Google Will Pass It Soon
Nokia has been unable to keep smartphone growth pace with Google and Apple, and that will probably put the Finnish company third in that market by year's end.
At Comic-Con, Marvel, DC Threatened By Cheaper, Multiplatform Digital Competition
This year's Comic-Con is a showcase for how the traditionally print medium is going digital -- and big dogs Marvel and DC are being threatened by scrappy, sensibly priced upstarts. While both the Marvel and DC iPad apps are gorgeous, the indie comic apps are cheaper, original and truly multiplatfor...
FourSquare Toys With Barbie, But PR Mismatch For Mattel
Mattel and FourSquare are partnering up to host fashioned-themed Barbie scavenger hunts across America. According to Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, the Barbie FourSquare focus will be on San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and the winner of the most check-ins will win a Barbie Video G...
Why Apple's App Store Rules Don't Apply to Skype
With data calls and background operations, Skype's new iPhone app proves that the rules of the App Store can be broken.
Yahoo's Turnaround Is a 360 Degree Spinout
Yahoo turnaround isn't just stalled. It's spun Yahoo right back to where it was, with virtually no growth and no direction.
Apple Response to Congress on Privacy Still Sidesteps the Issue
Apple answers two U.S. Representatives about its use of location information. But the details don't reveal all, and still leave big questions about industry practices open.
EMC Had Big Year-Over-Year Growth, but Its Future Is Virtual
The biggest segment growth for EMC is virtualization. If anyone is going to undercut hardware sales with virtualization software, EMC will do it to itself.
Google Needs to Tell the FTC: Log on and Learn, or Shut Up
Google needs to go back to basics when it makes its case to the FTC.
Launch of Ultraviolet Movie Locker Means a Format War: Apple Versus Everyone Else
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is a massive consortium of companies from the world's of technology, film and distribution. Yesterday the group announced the launch of Ultraviolet, a digital locker for storing movies in the cloud. But the project is headed for a showdown with a major industry player, Apple (APPL).
Apple Revenue Up 74 Percent, Sells 3.27 Million iPads, Most Macs Ever
Apple sells a record number of Macs, 8.4 million iPhones, and 3.27 million iPads last quarter.
Clouds Hang Over IBM's Mainframe Future
IBM's mainframe sales were way down last quarter. That's only the beginning of a slow decline for the computational dinosaurs as companies move into virtualized systems and cloud computing.
Amazon Should Thank Apple for Increased E-Book Sales
Amazon tries to say that dropping the Kindle's price boosted e-book sales. But it didn't. The arrival of the Apple iPad did.
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