Amazon Sees No Reason to Slow Its Spending

Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly.
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Amazon Makes More Than $100 Off Each Kindle Fire

Each Kindle Fire generates a lifetime operating income of $136, says RBC.
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Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!
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Why Amazon Is Happy to Burn Money on the Kindle Fire

The company won’t ever talk numbers, but it made it quite clear: It’s going to sell its new tablet at a loss so it can sell more stuff in the long run.
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An Accountant’s Soul Presides Over the P&L at Apple

Steve Jobs was a true visionary, but he was also a savvy businessman.
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Tech Stocks Get Whacked in Market Downturn — Yahoo and LinkedIn Twice as Hard

Usually lofty tech stocks don’t escape the wrath of Wall Street bears.
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IBM's Profit Rises 10 Percent

International Business Machines Corp.’s quarterly earnings rose 10 percent, as the technology giant posted improved margins and its best quarterly revenue growth in a decade.

New iPad Could Help, Hinder Asian Players

Apple Inc.’s latest iPad is a mixed blessing for many of Asia’s electronic companies, which stand to benefit from a surge in demand for components but will see their already battered ambitions to make their own tablets challenged further.

John Chambers Plays Defense as Cisco Shares Tumble (Video)

Cisco shares are down 12 percent following a quarterly earnings report that contained a disappointing outlook for the next two quarters. CEO John Chambers is doing his best to put a brave face on it all, but few are convinced.

Cisco: It's Just a Little Transition, That's All

No more talk of short term “air pockets” from Cisco CEO John Chambers today. The new phrase is “a period of transition,” and it seems nowhere near over.

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Apple to Investors: You're Welcome

Apple to Investors: You’re Welcome

Palm Pixie Launch Delayed Until 2010?