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Amazon.com Kindle Fire Welcome Screen Ad Price Starts At $600 Grand
The Amazon.com Kindle Fire is the company’s best selling device according to their Q1 release. The Amazon.com sales team is pitching ad space for the welcome screen. Ad agencies are being told that they would have to spend $600,000 for any package that includes an ad on the welcome screen. The ad would run for two months and includes inventory for Amazon.com’s “Special Offers.” For $1 million, ad agencies would get more inventory and would be included in Amazon’s PR push. However it is unknown whether the ad space is for the current or the next generation Kindle Fire reportedly arriving in July.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Shipments See Massive Drop
The Amazon Kindle Fire has been looked at as being one of the biggest rivals to the Apple iPad. However the Fire did not have much of an impact on Apple’s iPad sales for the March quarter. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that Apple is selling new iPads “as fast as we can make them.” Global shipments of the Fire has dropped from 4.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 to less than 750,000 last quarter.
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comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half Of Android Tablet Market
Today comScore has announced the next generation of their Device Essentials service. Device Essentials is based on comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement (UDM) data, which uses census-level information from tagged web page content. Device Essentials includes reporting of brand and operating system for digital devices and Internet page views from computers, smartphones, and tablets. Using this new method of analysis, comScore has reported that the Amazon Kindle Fire has doubled its share of the Android tablet market in two months, giving them the lead in the Android tablet market. Check out the graph below to see a breakdown of the Android tablet numbers.
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Android Hits 39% Market Share For Tablets
Research firm Strategy Analytics has reported this morning that Android now has a 39% tablet OS market share as of the fourth quarter 2011. Apple still has the lead at 58% market share in Q4 2011, but they are down from 68% in the fourth quarter of 2010. However these numbers are based on “sell-in” rather than over-the-counter sales. What this means is that the numbers include Android tablets may still sit on retail shelves and never be bought. The Amazon Kindle Fire was also included in the Android market share numbers. [TechCrunch]
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Amazon.com Sold Over 4 Million Kindles This Month
Amazon.com has released information about how many Kindles have been sold during the holiday season. In December alone, four million Kindles have been sold. “We are grateful to our customers worldwide for making this the best holiday ever for Kindle,” stated Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The #1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 were also both published independently by their authors using Kindle Direct Publishing.
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Amazon Announces Over-The-Air Kindle Fire Update, Which Fixes Several Issues
Amazon.com has announced that the Kindle Fire now has an over-the-air update that will help resolve many of the complaints that customers have had. Kindle Fire owners will now be able to select and remove items from the carousel. The WiFi system now supports passwords and is more robust. The touchscreen response has been improved as well. The Kindle Fire Update 6.2.1 is expected to arrive soon or you can force an update by doing these steps:
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Conan O’Brien Shows How To Fix The Kindle Fire [VIDEO]
Comedian Conan O’Brien has put together a funny skit about how to go about fixing the Kindle Fire using an actor playing Jeff Bezos. The actor makes some excellent suggestions such as putting duct tape over the power button. I’ll let you judge the rest in the video above. [Fortune]
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Every Week Amazon.com Sells About 1 Million Kindle Products
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shoppers have been buying over 1 million Kindle devices per week for about three weeks in a row. The Amazon.com Kindle Fire is the company’s best selling item as of right now. Even though the Kindle Fire has receive a lot of criticism for not having external volume and for being too balky, the company is working on updating their software. [Mashable]
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Amazon Kindle Fire Being Returned For No External Volume, No Privacy, and Balky Touchscreen
The Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has been highly criticized despite all of the sales that it has been getting. The primary complaints are that the device does not have external volume control, the off switch is easy to hit on accident, websites take a long time to load, there is no privacy on the device, and the touchscreen is balky.
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