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Slideshow: The History of Tablet Computers
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 11:47am | 137Read More...Love them or hate them, tablet computers are here to stay. With over 100 million units sold in under three years, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has become a cultural icon and its domestic competition has established itself as well: Words like "Kindle Fire" and "Nook" have entered the American...
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Will Apple Prevail in its E-Book Pricing Case?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 3:30pm | 714Read More...In an Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) world, e-books would cost $9.99 apiece (or less), everyone would buy $200 Kindle Fires to read them, and publishers would accept this format without argument. If Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ruled the world, things would not be very different -- except that consumers would be...
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Amazon May Buy Unique Samsung Division for Less than $100 Million
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 12:12pm | 620Read More...Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is reportedly interested in buying Liquavista BV (a company that develops a special kind of display technology for e-readers) from Samsung. According to Bloomberg, Samsung could sell the company -- which it purchased two years ago -- for less than $100 million. This report...
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Kindle Shipments to Plummet After Reports of Amazon's $99 Tablet
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 10:23am | 625Read More...Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle brand is getting a lot of attention this week, first because of a rumor claiming that the company will follow in the footsteps of its Chinese competitors and release a $99 tablet. The rumor originated at TechCrunch, whose sources say that Amazon hoped to produce a...
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Amazon's Phone is a "Low-Risk Strategy" That Could Pay Off
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 11:07am | 376Read More...Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos practically confirmed the existence of a Kindle smartphone last fall during an interview with Charlie Rose. Ultimately he did not specifically say "yes" or "no" to the project -- but his coy attitude was more than enough to excite the tech community. "My take...
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Is Nook HD a Giant iPhone in Disguise?
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 2:23pm | 670Read More...In an effort to compete with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), the world's largest online bookseller, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has introduced two brand-new tablets: the seven-inch Nook HD and the nine-inch Nook HD+. Both tablets offer distinct advantages over Amazon's line of devices, which includes...
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Retailers Could be Amazon's Biggest Threat Yet
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:55pm | 514Read More...Four months after Target (NYSE: TGT) announced that it will no longer sell Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle line of products, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announced that it will do the same. According to a Reuters exclusive, the company made the announcement in a memo sent to store managers Wednesday...
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Facebook Won't Build an iPhone 5 Competitor
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 8:48am | 592Read More...At a time when every company is rumored to be developing a smartphone, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has announced that his company has no plans to enter the hardware market. According to The Telegraph, Zuckerberg shared his views on producing a branded smartphone...
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Topeka Capital Markets Comments on Amazon Kindle Fire Reports
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 11:41am | 133Read More...Topeka Capital Markets provided color on reports from blog UnwiredView.com of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) ordering two million next-generation 7-inch Kindle Fires set for an August 7 delivery in a research note published today. Topeka Capital Markets has a Buy rating and $400 price target on the company...
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Best Buy's New Showrooming Defense Could Scare Off Legitimate Customers
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 11:56am | 517Read More...In an effort to curtail a practice that threatens to destroy big box retailers, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has vowed to eliminate showrooming in all of its stores. The company, which operates more than 1,000 retail locations in the United States, has been hit hard with declining sales, poor management,...
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Will Amazon Counter the Microsoft/Barnes & Noble Deal?
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 8:36am | 379Read More...Amazon is facing a new threat now that its chief competitor has teamed up with Microsoft. What does this mean for the Kindle maker, and how will it respond? "I don't think Amazon has to do anything," Herman Leung, an analyst with Susquehanna International Group, told Benzinga. "They have been...
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Apple Pays Canadians to Read
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 9:42am | 390Read More...Canadians who bought an e-book from Apple could be rewarded for their purchase. Well, not exactly. But if the lawyers behind a new class action suit are successful, the Mac maker could be required to pay Canadian consumers who purchased a digital book from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) within the last 24...
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Amazon Creates American Jobs Selling Chinese Goods
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 12:11pm | 500Read More...Ironic, eh? On a day when love is in the air, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is showing American job-seekers a little affection by announcing a new one-million-square-foot fulfillment center in Middleton, Delaware. According to TechCrunch, the center will create approximately 850 full-time jobs and cost $...
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Morgan Stanley Comments on Amazon Kindle
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 2:00pm | 107Read More...Morgan Stanley provided color on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the company's Kindle products in a research report published today. Morgan Stanley has an Overweight rating on Amazon.com. In the report, Morgan Stanley states, " The Amazon Kindle eReader franchise seems to be living by the mantra, '...
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Will Amazon's Lending Library Help or Hurt Novelists and Book Publishers?
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 10:55am | 1121Read More...Early this morning, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its first venture in the world of e-book rentals: the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. Designed exclusively for Amazon Prime subscribers who own a Kindle (sorry, iPad users – the Kindle App alone will not suffice), the Kindle Owners' Lending...
