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Amazon is reportedly making a phone and it just poached another Windows Phone executive
Jul 13th, 2012
The likelihood that Amazon will launch a smartphone - or a 'phablet,' as the case may be - at some point in the next six to nine months seems to grow more likely each day. Bloomberg reported last week that the company is testing a smartphone with manufacturing partner Foxconn, and The Wall Street Journal would later add that the device will likely feature a display measuring between 4 and 5 inches when it launches later this year or early in 2013. Now, Richard Williams, former director of business development with Microsoft's Windows Phone unit, has left Microsoft to join Amazon as director of the Amazon Appstore. Williams is the second Microsoft executive to leave the company's Windows Phone division (Source: BGR News) -
By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters. Amazon will follow search giant Google, which attended another grilling by parliament's Public Affairs Committee (PAC) ov... [Full Article]
The end of the Facebook phone is nearing. Five weeks after Facebook debuted the HTC First - and four days after AT&T dropped the price on the phone to less than a dollar (with contract) - the joint venture appears to be unraveling. Tech blog BGR reported on Monday morning that AT&T officials are planning to discontinue the phone due to the ... [Full Article]
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a dispute over CBOE Holdings Inc's long-running legal battle to prevent rival International Securities Exchange from listing options on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The court's refusal to interv... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian state television aired footage Wednesday from Russia's security services claiming that another alleged American spy was expelled earlier this year. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will meet with Wall Street and business executives in New York on Thursday evening to discuss issues, including how to strengthen the U.S. economic recovery and further reduce the deficit, an official said. The dinner meeting in New York includes JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon,... [Full Article]
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