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Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads
— (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday.
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’
— July 9-10, 2013 — NEW YORK CITY — Facebook Home takes away part of the Android experience in favor of social networking. But outspoken Google chairman Eric Schmidt said today at the Dive into Mobile conference …
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Windows Azure Announces General Availability And Promises To Match Any AWS Price Drop
— Microsoft has announced general availability for Windows Azure Infrastructure Services with a promise to match any price drop from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Microsoft marked the occasion with a decrease …
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Kobo unveils limited edition Aura HD e-reader: 6.8-inch HD screen, ships April 25th for $169 (hands-on)
— Late last year, Kobo went small. The introduction of the 5-inch Mini was no doubt, at least in part, an attempt to offer up a bit of variety in a space whose parameters are largely defined …
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Why a Warby Parker flagship retail store is a big moment for online brands (video)
— A few years ago when I floated the idea that Amazon would one day experiment with the idea of a retail store in order to project the Amazon experience, it was universally ridiculed.
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Surprise! Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing
— Can a public company prosper catering only to its customers? — Jeff Bezos' annual letter to Amazon investors is always worth reading, a peek into the mind of arguably the most important CEO in the technology industry.
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Henry Blodget Helps Jeff Bezos Out With Some Writing
— Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just invested millions in Henry Blodget's Business Insider. And look what he got in return! Free investor relations help. — Here's Bezos, four paragraphs into his annual letter to shareholders, released this morning:
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.