Amazon.com is planning to open a retail store in Seattle in the new few months, the blog Good E-Reader reports, citing "sources close to the situation."
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Amazon.com is planning to open a retail store in Seattle in the new few months, the blog Good E-Reader reports, citing "sources close to the situation."
LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn't have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Facebook's inventory consists of personal data -- yours and mine.
Continue reading Facebook Is Just Using Y'all.
Facebook may dominate the social media landscape today with 845 million users. But experts say that instead of consolidating around the market leader, the social media landscape is fragmenting, leaving big opportunities for startups, especially those targeting mobile users.
Continue reading Startup Opportunities Abound in Wake of Facebook IPO.
AOL's Huffington Post Media Group announced Thursday that it will launch the Huffington Post Streaming Network this summer.
Continue reading AOL's Huffington Post to Launch Live Streaming Network.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined five
core values for Facebook in a letter to potential investors. The letter
appears in regulatory filings Wednesday for Facebook's initial public
offering of stock.
Continue reading Zuckerberg Outlines Facebook's 5 Core Values.
The sizzling rate at which e-books are growing suggests that digital textbooks almost certainly will be the norm when your kids' kids are in school. What we don't know is how quickly a transition to a mostly all-digital textbook education system might happen, how it could affect the way students learn, and which companies will be leading the charge.
Continue reading Apple Knocks a Homerun with Digital Textbooks and App.
African Americans in Mississippi often have fewer options for high-speed Internet and spend a higher proportion of their incomes on the Internet than whites in the state, according to a new report underscoring how the digital divide splits along racial lines.
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Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.
Continue reading Tech Companies Team Up to Combat Email Scams.
Our love for apps, it turns out, is fleeting.
Continue reading Users Ignore Most Apps on Their Smartphones.
When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.
Continue reading Facebook IPO Could Value It Among Top Companies.
Facebook is expanding its virtual scrapbook feature, Timeline. Now, in addition to letting people see your current and past Facebook activities, you can show them what you're up to elsewhere on the Web.
Continue reading How to Get the Most Out of Facebook's New Timeline Apps.
Apple Inc has never turned "a blind eye" to the problems in its supply chain and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is "patently false," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an email to employees.
Continue reading Apple CEO Responds To Report Of Horrific Factory Worker Conditions.
Facebook plans to file documents as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated IPO that will value the world's largest social network at between $75 billion and $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal cited unidentified sources as saying on Friday.
Continue reading Facebook To File For IPO Within Days.
Nintendo's chief is determined to get right the launch of its next game machine, Wii U, set for this year's holiday shopping season, and acknowledged Friday some mistakes with selling its 3DS handheld.
Continue reading Nintendo Promises to Do Wii U Launch Right.
That a popular video-sharing website is retooling its layout to highlight, of all things, the video on each page seems like a head-slapping idea.
Continue reading Vimeo to Emphasize Videos In Redesign.
Soon after the death of Apple's co-founder, Steve Jobs, I read Walter Isaacson's newly released biography, Steve Jobs. Once started, I found it difficult to stop reading (on my iPad) about this complicated man, and I regretted reaching the last page.
Continue reading The Soul of Steve Jobs.
The iPhone is taking over Apple.
For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones, accounts for more than half of the behemoth company's sales.
Continue reading Apple Doubles iPhone Sales in First Quarter.
Since Google Inc. introduced its Android operating system in 2007, the company's strategy has been simple: Give it to developers for free and make money when consumers click ads on the Web or through apps. That model is hitting a snag.
Continue reading Amazon Fire Takes Android, Leaves Google Apps.
Caution is spreading among popular file-sharing services known for letting users circulate pirated Hollywood content.
Continue reading Some File-Sharing Sites Drop the Sharing .
Get an iPad, Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet over the holidays? You're not alone: Tablet and e-reader ownership increased by nearly double over the holidays, and more than 1 out of every 4 Americans now has one of the devices, according to a new study.
Continue reading Now 1 in 4 Americans Owns an E-book Reader.
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