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A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader below $200 Monday just after Barnes & Noble did the same with its competing Nook device.

The rapid-fire moves are fanning flames in the still-small but rapidly growing market that the book industry sees as a major part of its future.
Major memory makers in Japan, South Korea and the U.S. will start producing next-generation large-capacity flash memory chips as early as this spring, the Nikkei reported in its Sunday morning edition.

According to the report, Toshiba Corp. (TOSYY, 6502.TO) , Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNHY, 005930.SE) and other makers will launch new products using state-of-the-art chip manufacturing technolo
Facebook may not be hard on the heels of Google yet but its spectacular growth is threatening to cast the internet search giant’s own social networking site, Orkut, to the fringes of internet, at least in India.
Spints margins are being squeezed by rising ad spend and falling revenues. Mobile phone companies like Sprint, AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are amongst the biggest ad spenders. Media firm Advertising Age ranked Verizon and AT&T the #2 and #3 largest ad spenders in the US in 2009 respectively, ahead of brands like Coke (KO), Pepsi (PEP) and Disney (DIS).
Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group has broken ranks with its major shareholder Yahoo! Inc.(YHOO 16.82, -0.30, -1.75%) , saying it doesn't agree with Yahoo's stance supporting Google Inc. (GOOG 580.00, -9.85, -1.67%) in their conflict with Beijing.
"Alibaba Group has communicated to Yahoo! that Yahoo's statement that it is 'aligned' with the position Google took last week was reckless given
On Tuesday, Google took on the Chinese government in a very public fashion (Techmeme). Following a cyberattack, Google said it would stop censoring its search results. The company added it may also pull out of China completely.

The risk-reward analysis seems to add up in Google’s favor and the company certainly didn’t take its China showdown lightly.
I’ve written a few Apple (AAPL) articles in my time but none of them are as important to your portfolio as this one. Investors dream about finding obvious disconnects. Widespread misunderstanding leads to huge opportunity. We have such a scenario developing with Apple. Although Apple is the most widely followed stock on Wall Street it is clearly the most misunderstood. The current perception amon
Back in September we wrote Is Google International Growth in Jeopardy? and today our fears came one step closer to being realized with the news that France is now seriously looking at a tax on the advertising revenue collected by companies like Google (GOOG) in France.