recently launched the new and improved Nexus 7 tablet. Despite the preponderance of great reviews and glowing praise, though, the flagship Android tablet still has one fatal flaw: Android. …read more
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Today Google announced the next Nexus 7 tablet, featuring a new high-resolution display, a thinner and lighter body, and the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.
Check out our Google Nexus 7 (2012) review.
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You have a Google Nexus 7 tablet, but you really wanted an iPad. What do you do? Skin it to make it look like an iPad, of course! Today, I’ll show you how to transform your Nexus 7 into an iPad and trick your friends into thinking it runs iOS! Let’s begin.
Step 1: Espier Launcher
Espier Launcher is a free app in the Play Store that when launched, is a nearly identical replica of the Apple iOS home screen. How good is it you ask? Here’s a brief rundown of its features:
Apple wallpapers
Apple “respring” (icons jump back into place)
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By Doug Ehrman, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
When research firm IDC put out its latest numbers on global tablet sales, it noted that “[o]ne in every two tablets shipped this quarter was below 8 inches in screen size.” The firm believes that the shift to smaller devices will accelerate, making it little surprise that, according to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is developing a 7-inch Surface tablet to be released sometime this year. IDC expects Google‘s Android operating system to snatch the top market share position from Apple‘s iOS. At this size, Microsoft is competing with the Google Nexus 7, the iPad Mini, and Amazon.com‘s Kindle Fire HD. While this is stiff competition, getting in the fight is a critical step for Microsoft.
The tablet market
Not that there’s any doubt as to how important the tablet market is, but the numbers are compelling. IDC raised its forecast for worldwide tablet shipments from 172.4 million units in 2013 to 190.9 million and expects that by 2017, 350 million units will be shipping each year. Apple and Google may rule the sandbox, but it’s a big enough sandbox that carving out even a small corner can mean real and meaningful revenue for Microsoft. IDC expects that Microsoft, between its Windows OS and RT OS, account for a combined 10.1% by 2017. These projections don’t include a smaller Surface, so the addition could prove to be meaningful.
Shifting markets
Earlier this week, IDC reported a 14% drop in PC sales for the most recent quarter, mirrored by an 11% drop reported by research firm Gartner. Microsoft is not a PC-maker per se, but falling numbers in this arena are a real blow to sales of Windows. This will be a critical number to watch this week as the company reports earnings on Thursday. As PC sales continue to slide, Microsoft’s involvement in other areas continues to be of greater and greater importance.
What does a smaller Surface mean to the market?
Many will argue that the announcement of a smaller Surface tablet is a non-event because even the bigger Surface RT and Surface Pro have done little to disrupt the market. While this position is not without some merit, it misses the bigger picture of what I believe Microsoft is trying to achieve. As things currently stand, Apple makes the premium tablets on the market and uses this cachet to maintain its market share. Google makes the low-cost tablets on the market, using this appeal to drive its market share similarly to what it has achieved in smartphones.
Microsoft is not only trying to get its foot in the door but is also looking to change the very nature of the tablet market. Windows 8 has been widely criticized as being clunky and counterintuitive on a PC, even with a touchscreen. These reviews seem to assume that Microsoft is oblivious to this reality and failed to conduct any market research before launching the new
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Facebook just released its new “home on Android” last Friday, appropriately called Facebook Home. Taking a cue from Amazon’s Kindle, Home serves as an “operating system” that runs over Android.
While the HTC First will be the first smartphone to ship with Home out of the box, Facebook did release the launcher for a select few Android devices, and the Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of those to take part in the launch. NOTE: Smartphones and tablets that are not officially supported (like the Google Nexus 7 by ASUS) can still get Facebook Home by installing the modded app files directly.
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You’ve probably see this a million times on your Nexus 7 tablet: On some streaming sites it’s “You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video,” and on others it may be “You need to install the Adobe Flash plugin.” Whatever it is, you have the same problem—Flash does not work on your Nexus 7.
So what do you do? There’s no Flash Player or Flash plugin in the Google Play Store anymore, so now what? Out of luck? NO WAY!
Today, I’ll show you how to manually install the latest Adobe Flash plugin for Android Jellly Bean on your Google Nexus 7 tablet and get streaming video sites to… more
Rumors continue to swirl around Microsoft’s potential plans for a 7-inch Surface tablet, as smaller, less-expensive slates gobble up an ever-increasing slice of the market.
Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft is working on a 7-inch Surface, citing “people familiar with the company’s plans.” (It’s worth noting that Microsoft recently changed the certification requirements for Windows 8, allowing for the lower screen resolutions typically found on smaller tablets.)
The newspaper didn’t provide much information beyond that, leaving all sorts of questions unanswered. One question overrides all the others, however: What exactly could a smaller Surface offer to make it more attractive than Apple’s iPad Mini and cheap Android tablets?
Short of any hard details on features, it’s hard to say how a 7-inch Surface tablet would be competitive with Apple’s iPad Mini, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and Google’s Nexus 7. What we can say is that several of Windows 8’s biggest perks wouldn’t work or make much sense on a smaller screen.
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Microsoft is said to be planning a 7-inch version of its Surface tablet to help it compete with similar size devices from Apple and Google.
The 7-inch version, which will go into mass production later this year, is part of a new lineup of Surface tablets planned by Microsoft, reported The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing people familiar with the company’s plans.
The Redmond, Washington, software giant decided to get into 7-inch tablets to counter the iPad mini from Apple which has a 7.9-inch display and the Google Nexus 7 with a 7-inch display, according to the report. The company also plans cuts in the prices of its Windows and Office software to give a boost to sales of lower-cost touch-screen devices running Windows software.
Microsoft continues to test its own smartphone, although it isn’t clear whether it will bring such a device to market, component suppliers told the newspaper.
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By Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
With the very obvious consumer trend toward smaller tablets, Microsoft has little choice but to release a smaller version of its Surface if it has any hopes of success. Apple recently launched its iPad Mini in an admission that there is a market for smaller devices. Google‘s Nexus 7 has a hot seller among Android enthusiasts, and Amazon.com was easily the first company to see major success with its 7-inch Kindle Fire. Windows Blue, which may be officially dubbed Windows 8.1, will lay the groundwork for smaller Windows tablets.
In the video below, Fool contributor Evan Niu, CFA, lays it out for investors.
It’s been a frustrating path for Microsoft investors, who’ve watched the company fail to capitalize on the incredible growth in mobile over the past decade. However, with the release of its own tablet, along with the widely anticipated Windows 8 operating system, the company is looking to make a splash in this booming market. In this brand-new premium report on Microsoft, our analyst explains that while the opportunity is huge, the challenges are many. He’s also providing regular updates as key events occur, so make sure to claim a copy of this report now by clicking here.
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By Travis Hoium, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
In the technology business, it’s always a challenge staying ahead of the competition. Products and competitors change so quickly that if you’re not ahead of the game, you’re playing catch-up. That’s why I look at the market position of NVIDIA as a case of David versus Goliath as it tries to move from a graphics-chip maker to a mobile-chip powerhouse.
The decline of PCs
Microsoft and Intel aren’t the only two companies hurt by the decline of the PC. NVIDIA has been hit doubly hard because it provided graphics chips for many PCs, and it’s also losing sales to integrated chips such as Intel’s Ivy Bridge and AMD‘s Liano processors.
The hardcore gaming market isn’t holding NVIDIA together, either. Gaming companies are grappling with the move gamers are making from consoles to smartphones and tablets, which doesn’t bode well for NVIDIA‘s demand in either consoles or high powered PCs. These businesses aren’t going to die, but they’ll slowly decline just as the overall PC market is doing.
Mobile here to save the day
If NVIDIA is going to emerge from its funk, it will be on the back of mobile chips, particularly in the Tegra family. Microsoft Surface RT and Google’s Nexus 7 both use the Tegra 3, and the company has high hopes for Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i, which integrates 4G LTE with the mobile processor.
The challenge in mobile is that Qualcomm is the dominant player the market and appears to still have a lead when it comes to power consumption. Analysts think Tegra 4 will beat Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 series on a speed basis, but it’s still behind in power consumption, a huge selling point for mobile manufacturers that could stunt NVIDIA‘s growth.
All of this also looks past Intel, which has set its sights on mobile and has the resources to become a major player in the future. Can NVIDIA really fight off Qualcomm’s established presence and Intel’s shadow in mobile? That’s the risk bullish investors are taking.
Too many questions
For now, my money is with the power on Intel and the better value investors are getting for the stock. NVIDIA may very well will significant share in mobile and more than offset losses in its traditional PC market. But I’m not ready to take that risk, because I haven’t seen traction on the income statement, which is what will tell me when NVIDIA has really fought off Goliath.
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By Sean Williams, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
It may seem as if smartphones are everywhere, but we’re actually at the mere precipice of a global explosion in smartphone demand. Research firm Five Star Equities released a report in October noting that global smartphone sales had topped 1 billion in the third quarter of 2012 — a 47% increase over the year-ago period — and that total units sold were expected to double from current levels by 2015. That’s a lot of smartphones and a big spike in demand that many tech companies are eager to meet.
The players
Quite a few of the usual suspects can be found lurking in the forefront, waiting to devour precious market share and claim their piece of the pie.
Qualcomm , which offers a full array of wireless technologies ranging from CDMA to processing, commands the lion’s share of the smartphone processing market thanks to the rapid global growth of Google‘s Android operating system devices, to which it is intricately tied.
Broadcom has ample claim to some of the lower rungs of the ladder, supplying many of the 3G processors used in lower-end Android devices for Samsung smartphones. Broadcom hasn’t really caught the field yet on 4G LTE processors, but it’s doing a solid job of filling in the lower price spectrum.
The underdog
The real surprise of this processing bunch has been the entrance NVIDIA has made onto the scene with its Tegra line of processors. The newest chip, unveiled in February and dubbed the Tegra 4i, is a quad-core processor that will suck the life-force out of any battery but will handle video game graphics and images like nobody’s business. Sales of its Tegra processors have been phenomenally strong in the face of incredible competition from the likes of Qualcomm and Broadcom. In its fourth-quarter results released in February showed that revenue for Tegra products for smartphones and tablets increased 50% to $541 million, more or less accounting for half of NVIDIA‘s total sales for the quarter.
Wall Street would have you believe that NVIDIA is struggling under the massive transformation under way in the PC business. The company’s first-quarter forecast which called for just $940 million in revenue was well below the Street’s forecast and would somewhat concur with that assessment.
More than just graphics
However, NVIDIA has moved far beyond just being a graphics company that’s tied to the PC business. Its Tegra 4 processor is a current staple in both Google’s Nexus 7, and the Microsoft Surface. Also, NVIDIA‘s Project Shield, which is set to ship during the second-quarter of 2014, is a gaming device that will place NVIDIA firmly in the cloud and allow it to show off its graphics dominance and the Tegra’s amazing speed. In short, NVIDIA is an innovative powerhouse, and the Street is giving it absolutely no respect because it’s living in the past with regard to its legacy PC ties.
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By Tim Brugger, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Measuring success should be relatively easy. But when it applies to the rollout of a mobile computing alternative in today’s hypercompetitive market, things get a little fuzzy. That’s especially true for Microsoft‘s Surface tablet. If you ask an Apple or Samsung aficionado, Microsoft laid an overly expensive egg when it rolled out its new “next great thing.” But is the Surface really a flop, or are there mitigating factors we should consider?
Just the facts
The latest sales numbers for Surface RT and Pro sales, according to Bloomberg, suggest that Microsoft has sold about 1.5 million of the tablets since the RT was first rolled out in late October. The Surface Pro, Microsoft’s higher-end device, has been “available” (more on that shortly) for just over a month now and has sold about 400,000 units, according to the report. Of course, like his mobile-computing brethren over at Google , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is notorious for not sharing sales results, so the market needs to rely on Bloomberg and its unnamed sources for now.
Assuming the Surface sales numbers are close to Bloomberg’s estimate, they’re absolutely dismal compared with the nearly 23 million iPad units Apple sold in its most recent quarter. Google’s tablet partner Asus, according to IDC, is also gaining customers at a significantly higher pace than Microsoft’s Surface, jumping to fourth in tablet market share, primarily because of Google’s Nexus 7. Clearly, Surface is a bust, right?
Factors to consider
There’s no denying that the Surface RT has problems. Inventory hasn’t been a concern, as it is with the Surface Pro. But the RT‘s incompatibility with legacy Windows apps, and with Microsoft letting potential buyers know that the faster, more powerful, Windows-compatible Pro was “coming soon,” put a damper on RT sales. Unfortunately, these are only two examples of how Microsoft dropped the ball when introducing its tablets. (A recent article details a few other hiccups.)
The 400,000 Surface Pro units moved in its first month (give or take) aren’t much, as Apple pundits are quick to point out. One Apple-friendly report referred to Microsoft’s Surface rollout as “stumbling out of the gates.”
But let’s keep this in perspective: With only a month of Surface Pro sales under its belt, a host of inventory problems that have riled customers, and a cost beginning at $900, Pro was never going to sell millions of units immediately, regardless of the circumstances. Was Microsoft really supposed to unseat Apple, Samsung, or even Google, at the top of the tablet food chain, in just a month?
But there’s a bigger consideration when determining whether the Surface Pro is a success: sales comparisons on an apples-to-apples basis. The Surface Pro isn’t a tablet, but it’s been lumped into the same category as less powerful, and much less expensive, alternatives. There’s no one to blame but Microsoft for marketing the Pro to the tablet market in the first place, bringing it directly into the …read more
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Samsung’s latest Chromebook – the Series 3 XE303C12-A01US – is small, slim, and speedy. This little laptop weighs less than 2.5 pounds and packs a decent performance punch, assuming you’re comparing it to the right machines.
The Samsung Series 3 looks like a laptop, but it’s not. It’s equipped with a mobile processor and very little internal storage, and it runs the browser-based Chrome operating system instead of the Apple Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows platform. It performs more like a tablet or advanced smartphone than an ultraportable. If you’re looking to do much more than surf the web and create cloud-based content (via Google or another service), then this is not the laptop for you. But if you’re looking for a tablet with much better content-creation functionality–namely, an integrated keyboard–then the Samsung Chromebook is an appealing option.
Our review model, which costs $249.99 as configured, sports a 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos 5 dual-core ARM processor, which is the same mobile system-on-a-chip found in the Google Nexus 10 tablet. Like the Nexus 10, the Chromebook pairs the Exynos 5 with 2GB of memory and 16GB of hard drive space.
The Chromebook also sports built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, two USB ports (one USB 3.0, one USB 2.0), a 3-in-1 card reader, and a headphone/microphone combination port. There’s also an HDMI-out port on the back of the machine. Samsung offers USB dongles for VGA-out and Ethernet (sold separately).
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Apparently, the time has come for the Google Nexus rumors to begin. Today, an alleged Google employee has passed a photo of what he claims is the LG Nexus 5 to Android and Me (via Ars Technica). The image shows a ridiculously dark and grainy apparition of a low-profile smartphone with a comparatively clear screen, displaying what appears to be Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pearce.
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By Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Just as when Apple was hitting new highs daily, it’s clear momentum is now with those betting against this consumer products icon. Now it seems to hit new 52-week lows every day. Indeed, its current $420 price tag was last reached in January 2012, but at the time it was on the way up to its all-time intraday high of $705 a stub. The former golden child can’t do anything right these days, and it’s worthwhile to ask whether there are new lows in its future, or can it turn around from here?
High-falutin’ honeys
Obviously there’s a lot to like about Apple. Despite a lot of consternation about the pricing model it chose for its iPad Mini, the market researchers at NPD DisplaySearch say sales of the Mini are outpacing those of the iPad 2 by almost four-to-one. Mini shipments hit more than 5 million units in January from the month before while iPad 2s fell to 1.3 million from 7.4 million in December.
Obviously, the Mini hasn’t completely made up the difference between the two models, but it’s clear the higher price Apple chose for the smaller tablet isn’t the hurdle critics at first contended it would be. They might have sold a few more Minis had they gone with the lower pricing schedule, but they would have sacrificed margins, too. By selling more iPads of whatever stripe, it also blunts the ability of Apple’s rivals to steal market share.
Eating their young
It’s estimated Google‘s Nexus 7 tablet sold at most 4.8 million units in all of 2012, or less than the number of Minis Apple sold in January alone! So it doesn’t matter if the Mini cannibalizes the iPad 2, Apple is still getting the revenue instead of Google (or someone else). As CEO Tim Cook says, “I see cannibalization as a huge opportunity for us. One, our base philosophy is to never fear cannibalization. If we do, somebody else will just cannibalize it and so we never fear it.”
Analysts initially anticipated Apple would ship 60 million iPad 2s and 40 million Minis, but now they believe the Mini will eclipse the larger display model 55 million to 33 million. While that seems like it’s selling fewer total iPads, it’s still 50% more than it sold in 2012 when they moved 58 million units. So don’t get caught up in the analysts’ numbers game; Apple continues moving the needle without giving up the profits.
Source: SEC filings.
Similarly, Wall Street is bearish about Apple’s iPhone sales, with a Credit Suisse analyst breaking out the worry beads because he anticipates only 153 million units will be sold in 2013, even though that’s 26% more than it sold in 2012. With a new model expected out later this year and a lower-cost version possible for China, the probability it could surpass those numbers seems pretty good to me. Even the Credit Suisse analyst expects …read more
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By Chris Neiger, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
The tablet market is already red-hot and poised for more growth, but it’s smaller tablets that are likely to grow in popularity this year. Investors interested in in mobile tech should take note of this trend.
Smaller is the new bigger
The shift from desktop to mobile has been clear for quite a while now, and many predict that this is the year global installed base units of mobile devices will outnumber desktop computers.
Source: KPCB.
In the tablet space, Apple and Android rule the roost, and Microsoft‘s Windows 8 tablet OS trails far behind. Just a mere two years ago, Apple was riding the tablet market share like a show pony, with a whopping 90% market share, but over the past three years Apple’s share has slipped to 43.6% because of Android’s dizzying worldwide expansion.
The Android-based device market share breaks down as follows:
Source: Localytics.
Amazon.com‘s Kindle dominates the Android market, with the Barnes & Noble‘s Nook following in a distant second, Samsung’s Galaxy in third, and Google‘s Nexus nabbing the fourth spot.
Apple’s market wasn’t just stolen away by the prevalence of Android tablets, but also by the cheaper and smaller offerings of those Android devices. Some believe tablets like the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire forced Apple to enter the smaller tablet game months ago — a move that helped save Apple’s small tablet future.
A report by DisplaySearch showed that shipments of 9.7-inch tablets (original iPad size) fell by more than 6 million from December 2012 to January 2013. At the same time, small tablets measuring 7- to 9-inches increased from 12 million to 14 million. Last year, 160 million tablets were shipped worldwide and that number is estimated to increase to a whopping 254 million this year. The chart below shows tablet sales from last year and projected sales for this year, along with 2013 estimates for small versus large tablet shipments.
Source: DisplaySearch.
It’s a small world
If the shift to smaller tablets comes true — and it the current trends suggest that it will – then investors need to look at which companies are in the position to ride this small tablet wave all the way to the shore. In 2011, about 17 million small tablets were shipped, and that number spiked to 34 million in 2012. Apple was originally expected to sell 60 million iPads in 2013 and 40 million iPad Minis, but some have estimated the numbers to be more like 55 million Minis and 33 million iPads.
A report by Forrester last year said that one-third of Americans will have a tablet by 2016. It now seems that many of those tablets are likely to be smaller ones.
With Apple well into the small tablet market now, its prospects for future market share look good. By 2016, IDC estimates that Apple will have 49.7% tablet market share, Android will take 39.7%, and Microsoft’s Windows OS …read more
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EveryDayLinuxUser: Using the Raspberry PI with a monitor or TV is all well and good but sometimes it would be nice to connect to it using a tablet.
The people over at Muktware published a video the other day of Plasma Active running on Google’s Nexus 7 tablet. You can see it here:
Occasionally people ask me what I think about Plasma Active appearing on various devices, knowing that we’re working on a tablet ourselves. It’s a really good question, and gets to one of the core tensions around open culture: the interplay between control and benefit.
The conventional wisdom is that to maximize benefit, control must also be maximized. Thus the historical emphasis on proprietary technology in the IT industry, something that has been slowly but surely shifting with time but certainly has not fully swung away from proprietary-is-better.
There are benefits to openness as well, however. It opens up avenues for collaboration which in turn has effects such as lower risk, shared costs, greater market confidence among other network effects.
It can appear easier at first blush to succeed with complete control, especially since that is what most of us are taught and exposed to as we grow up. Control is not without its merits: at the very least, it’s certainly faster to make decisions when you don’t have to work with others. This particular factor causes some to place a higher valuation on control that it deserves.
So what about Plasma, and in particular Plasma Active? In the case of Plasma Active, if we had tried to keep it to ourselves, to control development tightly, to control what people did with it, to deny other companies from participating .. it simply wouldn’t exist. Even if it did manage to exist in some way, it would have nearly zero chance of long term success.
The lack of dictatorial control opens long term opportunities for us .. and for those who join us on the journey. Some things would certainly be easier with more control, but it would be an overall net loss as the diminished participation and interest could never be balanced out.
This (very abbreviated) argument is not how I personally arrived at the current balance of control and permissiveness, however. It’s just how I defend the position in economic terms. For me, personally, it is ultimately a matter of human and social value.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE
Barnes & Noble Inc. shares are lower Thursday after the retailer said it expects losses from its Nook e-reader business to be larger in 2013 than the year before.
The book seller has invested heavily in its Nook business as consumers increasingly shop online and read e-books. But the Nook faces tough competition from other devices like Apple’s iPad Mini, Amazon’s Kindle and Google’s Nexus tablet.
Barnes & Noble said Wednesday after the market closed that it expects Nook media revenue of less than $3 billion. It also anticipates a loss for the unit from earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to exceed the $262 million loss recorded in its 2012 fiscal year.
Shares sank nearly 6 percent to $13.36 in Thursday morning trading.
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Groupon is catching some flak this week after posting a deal on Google’s Nexus 7 tablet that used some questionable math and didn’t offer much of a discount.
On Tuesday, a poster to Reddit’s Android forum accused the company of misleading customers with the deal, which offered a refurbished version of the 16 GB tablet for $189. The problem, noted the poster, is that Groupon (GRPN) presented the deal as a $71 discount, giving the product’s list price as $260.
In fact, a brand new Google (GOOG…
Bad Deal: Groupon Called Out for ‘Discount’ Nexus 7 Offer originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-01-31T15:45:00Z.
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