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Amazon Kindle Fire Threatens Netflix Too

Report: Kindle Success Creates Big Room for Amazon Smartphone Next Year
Amazon rolled out its much anticipated Kindle Fire on Wednesday, its first fully fledged tablet computer posing a threat to Apple's iPad empire. But other players may also need to watch out.
Report: Kindle Success Creates Big Room for Amazon Smartphone Next Year

As Techies Drool Over Amazon Silk, Privacy Questions Are Raised

Amazon rolled out its new line of Kindle tablets in New York Wednesday morning, adding the seven-inch $199 color Android Fire, the $99 keyboard-free 4GB Touch model and a $79 2GB non-touchscreen version to its ranks. Yet the Amazon product causing the most stir was not an e-reader or tablet, but Amazon Silk, the company's new mobile web platform powered by Amazon's incredibly extensive web services platform.
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Flaherty mum after meeting on economy

Flaherty mum after meeting on economy

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty discussed the global economy with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the head of the Bank of Canada for 45 minutes on Tuesday but did not comment afterward.
AT&T and the iPhone 5

With iPhone 5 Release, is AT&T Headed to $35 and Beyond in 2012?

The speculated release of the iPhone 5 smartphone by Apple (AAPL) will likely juice the shares of AT&T's (T) by attracting hundreds of thousands of younger adult subscribers to AT&T's stable. Those extra subscribers should also help T improve its network quicker -- something the company needs to do.
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Amazon Unveils Top of the Line Kindle Touch 3G for $149

Amazon is in New York to announce a new tablet, the Kindle Fire, but the company has announced it will sell a top of the line Kindle Touch 3G for $149, featuring a touch screen, faster interface, free 3G, and long battery life.
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Amazon to Sell Regular Kindles for $79

Amazon is announcing its first Fire tablet today in New York City, but the company says it will reduce the price of its current Kindle e-Readers from $139 to $80.
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5 Reasons Gold Prices Just Took a Big Dive

Gold prices fell in the last week more than 10 percent, their longest such plunge since 1983, in a plunge that left the metal's reputation as safe-haven investment bruised, or worse.
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Red Sox, Rays Stay Tied while Cards Catch Braves

Both National and American League wild card races will go down to the last day of the regular season after Tampa Bay and Boston won on Tuesday while St Louis caught up with faltering Atlanta.

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