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Amazon undercuts Apple with low-cost tablets, TV devices

E-commerce leader Amazon.com (AMZN) on Thursday rolled out an arsenal of new tablets and TV set-top boxes to counter Apple’s (AAPL) recent fall product launch. Both companies are prepping their lineups for the all-important holiday shopping season. Seattle-based Amazon introduced seven new products via press release on Thursday, and Amazon stock closed up 2.18% at 538.87 in the stock market today. By contrast, Apple held a flashy two-hour-plus

Apple May Replace Cable, Won’t Be Regulated Like It

Apple (AAPL) may replace your cable TV provider, but it’s probably not going to be regulated like one. Apple has been delayed in launching a Web TV service. An Apple TV service could ramp up in late 2015 or 2016 if it gains rights to programming, analysts say. The Federal Communications Commission, meanwhile, is studying whether to give Internet video providers the same regulatory status as cable and satellite TV companies. Why? It could help

Is Apple Ad-Blocking A Mobile Ad-pocalpyse?

Apple’s iOS 9 operating system launch Wednesday brought pivotal Internet ad-blocking ability to its mobile devices. Will the feature bring fallout for website operators, their ad firms and advertisers themselves — or result in better ads — maybe both? Support for ad blocking built into iOS 9 means that iPhone and iPad users will be able to install ad-blocking services from Apple’s (AAPL) App store. Those products give people the power to pull the