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An ad-supported Kindle Fire could spur impulse buys. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired
Whether we like it or not, advertising pays for a bunch of stuff we enjoy. Network TV, magazines and web sites that don’t have multi-billion-dollar IPOs all depend on advertising dollars to make their profit margins — or even survive. And now Amazon is pondering an advertising subsidy for its Kindle Fire tablet.
Ad Age reports that Amazon has been pitching Kindle Fire welcome-screen ads to ad agency executives. For a paltry $600,000, companies can purchase an Amazon “Special Offers” ad to run for two months on the [...] Continue Reading…

Nokia's share prices from May 2007 to today. Image: Google Finance
Curious about how to burn through $2.5 billion in less than a year? Nokia might have some suggestions. According to a Reuters poll of analysts, Nokia is on track to lose 2 billion euros, or $2.5 billion, of its cash pile in the next three quarters — after already losing $2.7 billion of its cash reserves in the past five quarters.
And that’s not even the most pessimistic of outlooks.
More bullish analysts predict that the Finnish mobile company will wipe out the entirety of its 4.9 billion euro, or [...] Continue Reading…

The Droid Razr Maxx and other Motorola devices face a U.S. import ban for violating a Microsoft patent. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired
The U.S. International Trade Commission awarded Microsoft what could be a significant patent victory on Friday by deciding that all of Motorola Mobility’s Android phones and tablets should face an American import ban.
The proposed ban, which was first reported by the website Foss Patents, is the result of a December ITC ruling that Motorola’s Android devices violate a Microsoft-owned patent — patent 6370566 — that pertains to “generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device.”
Essentially, Microsoft owns a [...] Continue Reading…

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An ad-supported Kindle Fire could spur impulse buys. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired
Whether we like it or not, advertising pays for a bunch of stuff we enjoy. Network TV, magazines, and web sites that don’t have multi-billion dollar IPOs all depend on advertising dollars to make their profit margins — or even survive. And now Amazon is pondering an advertising subsidy for its Kindle Fire tablet.
Ad Age reports that Amazon has been pitching Kindle Fire Welcome Screen ads to ad agency executives. For a paltry $600,000, companies can purchase an Amazon “Special Offers” ad to run for two months [...] Continue Reading…

Nokia's share prices from May 2007 to today. Image: Google Finance
Curious about how to burn through $2.5 billion in less than a year? Nokia might have some suggestions. According to a Reuters poll of analysts, Nokia is on track to lose 2 billion euros, or $2.5 billion, of its cash pile in the next three quarters — after already losing $2.7 billion of its cash reserves in the past five quarters.
And that’s not even the most pessimistic of outlooks.
More bullish analysts predict that the Finnish mobile company will wipe out the entirety of its 4.9 billion euro, or [...] Continue Reading…