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Today marks the first day of Amazon’s new entry into the smartphone industry and hopes are high for Jeff Bezos that it will be a success. This week also saw the numbers for the second quarter for Amazon and it’s once again a “good news, bad news” scenario. According to GeekWire.com who shared the story off…
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“In a press release issued on Tuesday, Amazon boasted that Cyber Monday 2012 was the ‘biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide.’ Sales were boosted in particular by a $129 price for the Kindle Fire,” AppleInsider reports. “Amazon has repeatedly bragged about sales of the Kindle lineup, and even claimed in August that the Kindle…
“Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple’s tablet,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “The Fire had no impact on Apple’s March-quarter iPad sales. Indeed, during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer said Apple is selling new…
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“How can Apple (AAPL), with $110 billion in the bank, annual sales of $140 billion and earnings that nearly double every year, be valued so much lower than Amazon (AMZN), which has $6 billion in the bank, sales of $50 billion and earnings that fell 35% last quarter?” Philip Elmer-DeWitt asks for Fortune. “As of…
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“If Apple gives up its position of industry leadership in 2012 the only company capable of assuming that role is Amazon.com,” Bob Cringely writes over on I, Cringely. “What other company is there? In the PC space giants like HP and Dell are good followers, not leaders. Intel doesn’t even see itself in such a…
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“Amazon celebrated another milestone for its hardware Thursday by claiming the ‘best holiday ever’ for its Kindle line,” Electronista reports. “It marked over four million combined sales of the Kindle Fire and Kindle line in December, including the regular touch and e-paper models,” Electronista reports. “It wouldn’t break down the shipments by the individual model…
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