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Amazon.com Inc shocked investors with a far weaker-than-expected outlook for the crucial holiday season quarter as it spent heavily on its new Kindle Fire tablet computer.

Amazon.com Inc shocked investors with a far weaker-than-expected outlook for the crucial holiday season quarter as it spent heavily on its new Kindle Fire tablet computer.

Tech pundits claim the Kindle Fire could start a video revolution and might be this holiday season's hottest selling gadget. We take a look at the two most popular tablets, Apple's iPad 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and compare their features and specs with the highly anticipated Amazon Kindle Fire.

Guns and bloodshed may be the perfect gifts to ensure a merry Christmas for Target Corp .

Amazon is giving away 10 prize packages that include a brand new Kindle Fire and a free $250 Amazon.com Gift Card to 10 randomly selected people who enter a sweepstakes.

Amazon.com Inc may enter the Japanese e-book market this year and launch its Kindle readers in the market, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Apple Inc. has long denied the possibility of a 7-inch iPad to counter Android-based tablets tormenting the Cupertino-based tech giant with their low prices.

The iPad 3 is rumored to be headed for production, according to AllThingsD, with a release date set for some time in early 2012.

Internet entertainment site Hulu is no longer for sale, keeping it for now under the umbrellas of media giants Walt Disney, News Corp. and Comcast UniversalNBC.

Is there revenue fire in that new Kindle tablet? Amazon.com's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199, has created a buzz, due its potential to grab market share from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. With the latest kindle send Amazon’s stock vectoring higher?

The Apple rumor mill has started buzzing again, but this time talks are that the iPhone maker is looking to bring some stiff competition to Amazon Kindle Fire with a low-cost device allegedly to be called iPad mini.

In the face of the upcoming competition that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will spur, Apple could be prepared to launch a drastically cheaper iPad, the iPad mini, in early 2012.

The Apple iPad has easily been the global king of tablets, controlling some three-fourths of the global market. But that's likely to change next month, as Amazon launches its first tablet -- the Kindle Fire.

If Apple truly is “insanely great” as co-founder Steve Jobs would have it, the availability of iOS 5 could be his true will and testament. It's a gigantic effort to seal loyalties of as many as 250 million global customers who will upgrade their current products, then set the stage for the roll-out of iPhone 4S, prospective iPhone 5, iPads and more.

Following the release of Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet on Sept. 28, Jefferies believes Amazon will launch 10-inch device before the end of the year.

Steve Jobs' posthumously released biography, now available for pre-order has become a chartbuster on online bookstores. Author Walter Isaacson spent over two years conducting forty exclusive and unprecedented interviews with Jobs and over hundred of his family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues for the book which chronicles rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur.

Three slightly less expensive tablets hit the market last week, but Kindle Fire could blow them away.

Amazon and Apple launched two highly anticipated products in the last two weeks, and clearly neither product is perfect, but Amazon wins the battle of product launches for a few reasons.

Barnes & Noble apparently doesn't like competitor Amazon getting an advantage, and DC Comics graphic novels are getting pulled from store shelves as a result. Barnes & Noble, America's largest bookstore chain, said late Friday it will not stock physical copies in its stores of 100 of DC Comics' graphic novels the company will make exclusively available as ebook on Amazon Kindle, including the company's new Kindle Tablet to be launched Nov. 15.

Hailed as one of the world's greatest visionaries and innovators,the death of Apple co-founder and long-time CEO this week moved much of the world in rememberance and appreciation of the innovator and consumer technology pioneer. Jobs, who died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with illness, was reportedly memorialized in a private funeral ceremony.

It is rumored that Amazon.com has received more than 250,000 preorders for the Kindle Fire - the online retail giant's competitively-priced tablet computer - in the five days since its launch. However, the Kindle Fire, priced at $199, will only be shipped from Nov.15. If you're unwililng to wait that long, you could look at a few other options, apart from the iPad 2. Here is a list of some Android-based tablets.