With Apple's iPhone and Android phones crowding the market, making Nokia's upcoming Lumia 900 exclusive to AT&T carries significant risks.

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Google plans to offer a tablet to compete with Apple's iPad, sources say. But without stunning features and a low price, the device will face huge challenges.

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Reports that News Corp. is considering launching a national sports network to compete with Disney's ESPN provoke consternation among some market observers.

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Sources say the rumored Xbox Lite set-top box will handle not just games but most other online media -- and become a big hit for MSFT's entertainment division.

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You've got the new iPad -- now it's time to do something with it. These are 10 of the best games your money can buy for the new iPad.

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Though written off by many, Netflix, with 21 million streaming-video subscribers, still has leverage in the market. Here are three of its growth strategies.

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GameStop's partnership with ATVI is designed to keep GME's digital business growing. But pressure on the market for used physical games could pose a challenge.

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A new Pixar offering and re-releases in 3D should help Disney stem losses on major flops, but a new strategy is needed to boost the film studio to new heights.

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HP, Dell, Nokia, and Sony are betting on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system to help them advance against Apple's iPad in the computer tablet market.

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If Dell's tablet is going to be coveted by consumers, it will need to distinguish itself from Apple's iPad in terms of both price and performance.

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The Droid Fighter won't do much to lift Motorola Mobility. The most you can say for it is that it may be the last non-Google-developed Motorola handset.

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Amazon's Appstore has shown early success, but it needs to do one thing to surge against its competitors. See what it is.

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A stroll through the amalgamated foods we've loved and loathed.

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Verizon leads its competitors in offering 4G LTE service, but subscriber participation and the selection of LTE-compatible devices still lag behind.

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Should it release its next version of the Xbox as a download-only console, Microsoft would risk rage from retailers who sell used games.

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With Apple, anticipation is everything, and the company has many hot-ticket items waiting in the wings.

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Even with Microsoft as a close ally, Nokia's 10-inch tablets, featuring the Windows 8 operating system, will have trouble winning over Apple-crazed consumers.

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It could tap a vast new market among the millions of cable subscribers, but the risks are high. Reed Hastings will have to move carefully here.

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The NCAA men's basketball tournament is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the NCAA -- but also is big business for a number of publicly traded stocks.

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The prospects for advertising growth on Amazon's Kindle look promising, but it has a long way to go before it catches up to the iPad.

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Three major business developments at the Game Developers Conference are attracting plenty of attention. We discuss them here.

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Apple finally introduces its new iPad. Main attractions include a high-resolution screen and compatibility with high-speed 4G LTE wireless networks.

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The music industry, that lonesome first casualty of the 21st century’s digital media revolution, is actually alive and kicking. Back in October, Nielsen Soundscan reported that U.S. music sales for the first half of 2011 were up 8.5% for the period year-on-year. Digital music sales were also up, with songs boosted 11% and sales of…

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Many people prefer to stream video online, and it’s not clear Time Warner Cable's rate discount on data-capped service will lure them back to cable.

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Microsoft's new operating system is designed to be versatile, but could face resistance from the many Windows users who prefer the familiar over the untested.

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Even a year later, numerous companies still feel the effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Here's a look at the businesses, and where they stand now.

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Will mass-market trade paperbacks be supplanted by their e-book cousins? Sale figures suggest the shift is well under way.

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With Starz movie content disappearing from Netflix, Netflix will face some unhappy subscribers even though it still has a lot of content to offer.

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A new report says the number of active users who play social games fell by half last year, so Facebook and Zynga need to innovate to reignite growth.

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One of the newest Nokia smartphones running Windows, the Lumia 610, is aimed at emerging markets, a sector Nokia once ruled.

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The popularity of Apple's iPad and Microsoft's Office suite of tools has spawned an app-industry niche aimed at bringing Office-like features to the tablet.

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Apple's iPhone and iPad capture more mobile advertising impressions than RIM's BlackBerry and devices using Google's Android operating system, a report shows.

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Couples, college partiers and families alike can take advantage of a number of 2012's early spring break deals to log savings of 30% and more.

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Although a new Kindle Fire is reportedly in production, the current edition has good things going for it that Amazon has yet to fully exploit.

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Speculation mounts that the iPad 3 and the Apple Store at Harrods in London will debut together, on March 7.

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Exploiting “ready to wear” technology could create a new niche for the gadget-obsessed -- and establish GOOG as a serious gear maker.

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Microsoft denies that Office, its popular suite of tools for PC users, is being adapted for the iPad. Does the denial mean a MSFT tablet is in the works?

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With more than 5 inches of vertical screen space, roomy smartphones tiptoe into tablet territory, but it's unlikely they'll steal market share from Apple.

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Apple's iPhone 5 will launch in the fall rather than the spring, which, until last October's rollout of iPhone 4, had been iPhone's traditional release time.

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These five video games will sell at least 5 million copies apiece in 2012, even if the overall market for games played on traditional home consoles is fading.

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Smartphones with the Android operating system will take 80% of Asian and African markets by 2015, NPD says. Will Google cash in on Android dominance?

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After the New York Times reported on Foxconn factory operations in China, Apple, to no one's surprise, is said to be granting less access to the Times.

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It might not release until after 2013, but Microsoft's next Xbox gaming console already has people talking about how it could change the video game industry.

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Apple unveiled its new operating system, Mountain Lion, whose features include integration of Twitter and functions like those of Apple mobile devices.

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The president of the group auditing labor conditions at Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn's factory in China called the facility first-class.

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Aereo, a streaming service announced by IAC, aims to deliver programming from major networks and many cable channels, if it can survive likely legal challenges.

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Activision’s "Skylanders" video game features plastic figures that can electronically “port” into the action, and it's profitability should delight retailers.

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AAPL continues to explore the merits of a smaller iPad, including an 8-inch version of the device, sources say.

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Some might assume GameStop’s bricks-and-mortar model will soon disappear, but the company still makes plenty of money on in-store trade-ins for digital goods.

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Siding with the plaintiff in a licensing dispute over use of the name iPad, Chinese authorities have begun removing iPads from stores in China.

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