Nearly everything that we expected out of Apple's
The gadget is also considerably smaller than the original, ready to be pocketed from one living room to another.
Apple finally appears to have a winner here, and one has to feel sorry for Logitech
You have some homework to do, couch potatoes. Digital convergence is here.
Briefly in the news
And now let's take a quick look at some of the other stories that shaped our week.
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Amazon.com
(Nasdaq: AMZN) will begin selling its Kindle e-reader in the Staples(Nasdaq: SPLS) chain of office supply superstores. It's a good fit, especially given the Kindle's cheaper price points and the corporate crowd that strolls the aisles at Staples. - When Big Pharma pipelines need a little priming, acquisitions are a popular remedy. Pfizer
(NYSE: PFE) is acquiring protein misfolding specialist FoldRx. -
Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE: HPQ) won the 3Par sweepstakes. Then again, it may not exactly feel like a victory, when a bidding war forced HP to wind up paying more than 200 times this year's projected profitability for the cloud-based storage company.
Until next week, I remain,
Rick Munarriz