Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET

On September 28th, Amazon (AMZN) unveiled its long-awaited tablet PC, the "Kindle Fire" with the price tag of $199.
Yahoo Inc.
(YHOO) said Friday it has decided to discontinue its Livestand digital news reading application, which had been unveiled to much fanfare following a delay in November.Yahoo said in a post on a company blog that it intends to "consolidate" a number of products this year and will pivot to a "mobile-products-first development model."Among the first decisions made as part of this plan is to discontinue Livestand, which was designed for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad tablet, Yahoo said."We have learned a lot from Livestand and are actively applying those insights toward the development of future products that are better aligned with Yahoo's holistic mobile strategy," the company said.Livestand's development had been overseen by former Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, who officially left the company late last month.Irving's departure was announced by Yahoo shortly after it announced it would lay off about 2,000 employees--a move that significantly affected his department.It too...TechnoBuffalo.com’s Todd Haselton breaks down whether tablets and smart phones are killing the PC.
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Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle on Hewlett-Packard’s second-quarter earnings results.
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Dell Inc's (NASDAQ:DELL) weak forecast and disappointing quarterly results triggered price target cuts from a slew of brokerages on the stock of the world's No.3 per...
The U.K.'s competition regulator said Wednesday that British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (BSY.LN) won't have to alter its movies business as the pay-television operat...
South Texas Money Management President James Kee on the need for investors to stick to an investment plan and not make too many changes based on the latest news.
Volvo Construction Equipment global CEO Pat Olney breaks down the importance of infrastructure spending to business.
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and named a new chief executive for the cellphone maker, who vowed to...
Shares of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) took another tumble on Tuesday as word spread that the company's lead underwriter slashed its revenue target during the social-network...
Macke Asset Management’s Jeff Macke on what Facebook needs to do to improve its outlook.
GameFly announced on Wednesday that it plans to begin publishing mobile games for Apple's iOS platform and Google's Android operating system. In addition, the video ...
In an apparent effort to help its users find more interesting apps in its cavernous digital stores, Apple today made an interesting tweak to its iOS and Mac app stor...
Brazil's government is quietly moving ahead with preparations to build hydroelectric dams on an Amazon tributary, Valor Economico newspaper reported Friday.Brazil's ...
While the S&P 500 grew 0.2%, the Services sector (IYC) showed little movement during trading today.As a proxy for the sector, the ETF tracked closer to the overall m...
Peter Cohan of Peter S. Cohan & Associates argues Dell will eventually become obsolete.
For all the rumors surrounding Apple's upcoming HDTV, very few well-sourced reports have emerged regarding the high-definition flat-screen television that has market...
