Kindle Fire

These stocks are downright scary. It's that time of the year again. A time when grown men and women dress up as their favorite film, TV and video game characters, all in the name of partying on a holiday that was once reserved for candy-seeking children. Of course, I've never felt that it was...

More books are coming from the maker of the world's leading e-reader. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), which unveiled an entire fleet of new Kindle e-readers, including a brand-new tablet, has announced that it is launching a new publishing imprint called 47North. According to TechCrunch, the company's...

Amazon is selling 2,000 tablets per hour, leaked documents reveal. That's according to Cult of Android, which claims to have spoken to a “verified source within the Seattle-based online retail giant. The source provided Cult of Android with “exclusive screenshots of Amazon's internal inventory...

Will the Kindle Fire be the first tablet since the HP TouchPad to take a loss on every unit sold? Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster seems to think so, telling AllThingsD that Amazon is “likely losing about $50 per Kindle Fire.” He says this without providing any data to support this assumption....

The new Kindle e-readers will be surefire hits. But what about the Kindle Fire? At a press event unlike any in the history of the company, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) took the wraps off its long-awaited tablet, confirmed the low price of $199, announced a November 15 ship date, and promoted a host of...

Now we know what it won't have. But what will the Kindle Fire offer? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for its 10:00 a.m. EDT unveiling to know the full specs of Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) tablet. For now, we know the price ($199), and we know that, according to Bloomberg, it will not have a camera...

With a new tablet called “Kindle Fire,” no less. That, according to TechCrunch, is the official name of Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) first tablet. At the moment, I'm not sure what to make of that. While the name isn't terrible, it isn't nearly as catchy as the iPad, or even the PlayBook, whose name...