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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 Luke Baker BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will discuss how to combat aggressive tax avoidance by major companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple at a summit on Wednesday, and cut the estimated 1 trillion euros a year the EU loses to tax evasion or avoidance. The four-hour summit was originally called to discuss energy policy, but investi... [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]
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