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Tech stocks: A Facebook phone on the way?
Is this the day the Facebook smartphone shifts from rumor to reality? Let’s take a look at the stocks to watch on Thursday.
Facebook shares up early. The social network’s stock price is up 1% in pre-market trading as it gets ready to reveal news from an Android-themed event at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.
The latest rumor on today’s even stems from Bloomberg, reporting Facebook will introduce a modified version of the Android operating system with a strong emphasis on the social network’s tools. It’s an approach similar to what Amazon employs with its line of Kindle Fire tablets.
The big question is whether Facebook itself will create the hardware or partner with a smartphone manufacturer. All signs appear to point to HTC, who has worked with the company in the past on
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Report: Amazon exploring music subscription service
Is Amazon following in the footsteps of Spotify?
According to a report from The Verge, citing “multiple sources,” the online retailing giant is chatting with music companies about launching a subscription service.
The report says Amazon is interested in an on-demand service similar to Spotify, where users pay a monthly fee and gain access to millions of songs.
Of course, Amazon would have several outlets for users to tote around a music subscription service, most notably their lineup of Kindle Fire tablets.
Amazon isn’t the only one reportedly looking into a Spotify-style service. As The Verge points out, both Google and Apple have been exploring similar options.
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Monitoring kids on Facebook? That’s so 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Relieved your kids aren’t posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They’re probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead.
The number of popular social media sites available on kids’ mobile devices has exploded in recent years. The smartest apps now enable kids to chat informally with select groups of friends without bumping up against texting limits and without being monitored by parents, coaches and college admissions officers, who are frequent Facebook posters themselves.
Many of the new mobile apps don’t require a cellphone or a credit card. They’re free and can be used on popular portable devices such as the iPod Touch and Kindle Fire, as long as there’s a wireless Internet connection.
According
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Are e-readers doomed?
(CNN) — One thing appeared certain when Barnes Noble announced Thursday how much money its Nook e-readers brought in over the past three months: The news would be lousy.
And it was. Revenue from the company’s Nook division for its fiscal 2013 third quarter declined 26% from the same period a year ago, primarily as a result of slumping sales of the devices.
Is the bookseller just losing ground to rival Amazon and its market-leading line of Kindles? Perhaps. But many tech analysts see something else happening: the booming market for tablet computers is starting to make the dedicated e-reader obsolete.
“It’s not that the Nook failed,” said James McQuivey, a digital analyst at Forrester Research. “It’s
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As tablets boom, e-readers feel the blast
(CNN) — One thing appeared certain when Barnes Noble announced Thursday how much money its Nook e-readers brought in over the past three months: The news would be lousy.
And it was. Revenue from the company’s Nook division for its fiscal 2013 third quarter declined 26% from the same period a year ago, primarily as a result of slumping sales of the devices.
Is the bookseller just losing ground to rival Amazon and its market-leading line of Kindles? Perhaps. But many tech analysts see something else happening: the booming market for tablet computers is starting to make the dedicated e-reader obsolete.
“It’s not that the Nook failed,” said James McQuivey, a digital analyst at Forrester Research. “It’s
Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_technology/~3/tNRwfG856hg/index.html
