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Barnes & Noble released a new Nook Tablet Tuesday, shaving US$50 off the price and reducing the storage by half. The new price, $199, matches Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The new Nook emulates the Fire on a number of fronts — price and 8 GB storage. The new Nook comes with a 1 GHz dual-core processor and a slot for a microSD card that will hold up to 32 GB.
Yelp, the online local review service, expects to sell 7.15 million shares in its IPO, at US$12 to $14 each. The total potential take is $100 million. The company will list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "YELP." Yelp’s price target values the company at roughly $778 million, about nine times last year’s sales.
The European Union Court of Justice has rejected a call for Internet platforms to filter and block unauthorized copyrighted material. The suit was brought by music industry group SABAM against Netlog, an online social networking platform that lets users share content through profiles. SABAM objected to Netlog users sharing copyrighted material without permission.
The FCC indicated it will not approve LightSquared’s network, as it would interfere with GPS signals used by planes, boats and cars throughout the U.S. The FCC’s approval of LightSquared’s plans was conditional on resolving those interference issues. LightSquared’s high-speed network would have served as many as 260 million people.
If you have an AT&T unlimited data plan, and if you’re in the top 5 percent when it comes to data use, you may have noticed your download rate has slowed to a crawl.
When AT&T introduced its tiered data plan in 2010, the company emphasized it would honor the millions of customers who had previously signed up for unlimited data plans. However, it has begun slowing down the top 5 percent of its unlimited plan users.