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Amazon creates iPad Kindle Store for iOS users (Appolicious)

Appolicious – Amazon’s iOS Kindle app provides a similar experience to Apple’s iBooks, but the Kindle store has long provided a better and more intuitive shopping experience than the muddled iBookstore. There’s also a lot more content on offer. However, when Apple implemented rules a few months ago demanding a 30 percent take of all in-app purchases, the Kindle app (and others like it), put the buying back on their website

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Amazon creates iPad Kindle Store for iOS users
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Analysis says $79 Kindle costs $84 to make (AP)

AP – A recent analysis from IHS iSuppli determined that Amazon’s $79 Kindle e-reader, which is the online retailer’s cheapest Kindle thus far, costs $84.25 to make.

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Analysis says $79 Kindle costs $84 to make
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Internet scam targets state securities regulators (Reuters)

Reuters – An organization of state securities regulators, whose goal is to protect investors from fraud, says it has been the victim of an attempted Internet scam.

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Internet scam targets state securities regulators
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Senate defeats effort to block Internet rules (Reuters)

Reuters – New U.S.

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Senate defeats effort to block Internet rules
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Amazon Rolls Out Browser-Based Kindle Cloud Reader (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – In an extension of its Buy Once, Read Everywhere philosophy, Amazon.com has rolled out what many readers have long been waiting for: Browser-based capabilities with a cloud-based service. The Kindle Cloud Reader is Amazon’s latest e-reading innovation, leveraging HTML5 to let consumers read Kindle books online or off-line without installing any apps.

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Amazon Rolls Out Browser-Based Kindle Cloud Reader
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Hulu to launch subscription video service in Japan (AP)

AP – Online streaming site Hulu.com plans to launch a subscription video service in Japan this year.

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Hulu to launch subscription video service in Japan
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Tech blogger won’t be charged in Apple iPhone case (AP)

AP – Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will not bring charges against a tech blogger who bought an Apple iPhone prototype after it was found at a bar in March 2010 in a case that ignited an unusual First Amendment debate.

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Tech blogger won’t be charged in Apple iPhone case
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Facebook hits App Store, Android with branded messaging app (Appolicious)

Appolicious – Amid all the talk of new apps for the iPad and for photo sharing, Facebook seems to have snuck one past everyone by introducing a new messaging app for the social network in the iTunes App Store.

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Facebook hits App Store, Android with branded messaging app
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