Apple rolls out iPad mini in Asia to shorter linesApple fans lined up in several Asian cities to get their hands on the iPad mini on Friday, but the device, priced above rival gadgets from Google and Amazon.com, attracted smaller crowds than at the company's previous global rollouts. More… |
Random House to take over Penguin BooksBritain's Pearson and Germany's Bertelsmann are to merge their publishing units, Penguin and Random House, to recover ground lost to technology groups Amazon and Apple, the leaders in the ebook revolution. Education and me More… |
Apple unwraps new 8-inch mini-iPadApple will begin to sell an 8-inch version of the iPad on Friday to compete with Amazon.com's Kindle and other smaller tablets, but it set a higher-than-expected price tag of $329 that Wall Street fears could curb demand. More… |
Amazon challenges Apple with new KindleAmazon.com unveiled larger Kindle Fire tablets on Thursday, challenging Apple's dominant iPad with lower prices and a trove of digital content that Amazon hopes will win it a bigger share of the booming tablet market. The world' More… |
Facebook plans to raise $10.6bn in mega IPOFacebook aims to raise about $10.6 billion in Silicon Valley's largest IPO, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google and granting the world's largest social network a market value close to Amazon.com's. The More… |
Healthcare IT seen growing at 24pc CAGRThe health IT market is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent through 2014, according to a report. This overdue investment in IT is aimed squarely at the construction of a long-anticipated information backbone More… |
Amazon, Viacom close to web video dealAmazon.com is about to announce a web video deal with Viacom in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix. The online retailer will unveil the deal as soon as More… |
Amazon, Viacom close to web video dealAmazon.com is about to announce a web video deal with Viacom in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix. The online retailer will unveil the deal as soon as More… |
Google in talks to take on Amazon in retailGoogle is pondering an Internet service to help consumers shop online and take advantage of same-day delivery, hoping to stanch the loss of Web traffic to Amazon.com, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Internet search leader is in talks More… |
Amazon tablet 'is priced at $199'Amazon.com's long-awaited tablet computer will cost $199, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, potentially cheap enough to give Apple's iPad some serious competition for the first time. The Kindle Fire has a seven-inch screen, Wi-Fi, b More… |








