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The long-awaited Galaxy Nexus just went on sale today at Verizon for $300 with a two-year contract. Amazon, however, has already discounted the phone to $150 in its own wireless store.

“Kindle Fire is the most successful product we’ve ever launched.”

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Amazon revealed that it’s selling Kindle e-book readers like hotcakes: over a million per week for the past three weeks.

How to Jailbreak Your Kindle Touch for Future Customization

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So you’re a tweaker, and you’d like to do more with the Kindle Touch than Amazon allows, but the previous methods of jailbreaking Amazon’s e-readers don’t work anymore. Fortunately, a new exploit allows you to hack the first-generation Kindle Touch in three easy steps.

Black Friday Online Spending Up 26%, Apple and Amazon Increase Sales Fourfold

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With being tasered and pepper-sprayed apparently on the menu for those brave and potentially misguided souls who braved the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales in person this past weekend, perhaps it’s no surprise that online sales during the day went up 26% from last year, with an estimated $816 million being spent by Americans online during that one day alone.

Netflix Sells Shares to Raise $400M, Admits 2012 Will Be Financial Bust

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And the crazy rollercoaster ride that is Netflix’s fortunes continues: The company announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell around $200 million in shares plus an additional $200 million in convertible bonds via private placement in an attempt to raise cash, while simultaneously revealing that it expects to spend the entirety of the next year in the red.

Two-Minute Video: Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire?

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The 7-inch tablet market just got a whole lot more interesting, with the newly-released $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. So which one is best?

Let the Kindle Phone Rumors Begin!

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Now that Amazon’s in the tablet business with the Kindle Fire, the rumor mill is starting to make noise about a Kindle Phone to follow.

What’s Inside Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A PlayBook

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The endlessly curious, deconstructive folks at iFixit have had a look inside Amazon’s just-released Kindle Fire and returned to tell the tale: It has the heart of a Playbook.

Amazon’s Free Lending Library Ignores Contracts with Publishers, Authors?

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Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library–which allows Amazon Prime customers to “borrow” one free e-book at a time from a selection of more than 5,000–may have been warmly received by Kindle users when it was announced last week, but according to the Authors Guild, the move is nothing more than “an exercise of brute economic power.”

Kindle Fire Reviews Run Hot and Cold

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire arrives on Tuesday to shake up the tablet market, and the reviews are rolling in.

“What we really built is a fully integrated media service. Hardware is a crucial ingredient in the service, but it’s only a piece of it.”

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, after Wired’s Steven Levy remarked that Amazon’s new $199 Kindle Fire tablet “seems like more than merely another iPad competitor.” Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think [Wired]