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Amazon debuts 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD tablets in over 170 countries, will ship from June 13 -

Amazon has just announced that its Kindle Fire HD tablet – both the 7” and 8.9” HD display-sporting versions – are now available to customers in over 170 countries and.
TheNextWeb  2 hours ago:

Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first -

Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
TheNextWeb  3 hours ago:

Chinese city Shenzhen puts a stop to taxi-finding smartphone apps, citing lack of standards -

Finding a taxi via a smartphone app may be highly convenient, but authorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen are cracking down on such services, which it accuses of lacking.
TheNextWeb  4 hours ago:

Despite PC slump, Lenovo reports record full-year sales of $34 billion, looks to mobile for growth -

As the global PC market continues to spiral downwards, Lenovo, the world’s second-largest PC maker after HP, has reported solid earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March.
TheNextWeb  4 hours ago:

Korea-only KakaoHome outpaces Facebook Home with 500,000 downloads in its first 9 days -

KakaoHome, the Facebook Home-style Android application from Korea’s top messaging company Kakao, is seeing impressive uptake after passing 500,000 downloads nine days after its launch last week.
TheNextWeb  5 hours ago:

Google reveals Raytown, Missouri as the tenth Kansas City-area expansion in line to get Fiber -

Google on Wednesday announced that Raytown, Missouri will receive the company’s Fiber Internet service.
TheNextWeb  6 hours ago:

LinkedIn revamps navigation as part of efforts to simplify mobile and desktop experience -

Following changes to its homepage design, profile layout, and recently a mobile app revamp, LinkedIn is rolling out another new change to its service today – a new navigation bar.
TheNextWeb  7 hours ago:

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 passes 10 million channel sales within one month of launch -

Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyu  told media last week that he expected the company’s new flagship smartphone the Galaxy S4 to pass 10 million channel sales this week, and that has proven to.
TheNextWeb  10 hours ago:

Yelp fires back at small business extortion claims, says it’s not, and ‘never has been’, true -

Yelp and its review service have once again come under fire, this time over stories where business owners claim that reviews are “too self-centered and not trustworthy” and that it.
TheNextWeb  10 hours ago:

Square downsizes its management team as execs handling partnerships and international business leave -

Square has lost two executives in a move that sees their roles consolidated under a single individual.