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Factbox: A look at Apple and Amazon.com
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc are set to go head-to-head in the fast-growing market for electronic books, as Apple rolls out the iPad to challenge the dominance of Amazon's Kindle e-reader.
A look at the companies:
* Market capitalization: Apple $176 billion, Amazon $56 billion.
* Fiscal 2009 revenue: Apple $42.9 billion, Amazon $24.5 billion.
* Total cash, equivalents and marketable securities: Apple $39.8 billion, Amazon $6.4 billion.
* Fiscal 2009 free cash flow: Apple $8.9 billion, Amazon $2.9 billion.
* Fiscal 2009 operating margin: Apple 27.4 percent, Amazon 4.6 percent.
* Employees: Apple 34,000, Amazon 24,000.
(Reporting by Gabriel Madway; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Apple’s new Multi-Touch device is designed to make navigating the web easier and intuitive, one page at a time.
200Linx was designed to be the ultimate, most convenient homepage for the iPad and other tablet PC.
200Linx is the homepage that brings you everything that’s good on the Internet in one click, on one place.
They searched thousands of websites and surveyed hundreds of internet users to make the iPad user’s life easier.
They had one single question in mind: what are the most useful websites for most people? Or in other words: where do people spend their time online?
They gathered the findings in a single place, under one page, totally free: 200Linx.com.
Each page has 25 categories of websites: News, Sport, Weather, Health, E-mail services etc.
Each category consists of the 8 most useful websites. Total: 200 great links. As simple as that.
The best way to use 200Linx is to set it as your iPad’s Safari’s homepage.
This way, whenever you start your Safari web browser you’ll see 200Linx logos and will be able to find your favorite website immediately and navigate easily to them.
The logos are large, neat and readable.
200Linx is also a great way to discover new useful websites.
All you need to do is press a logo – and you’re there.
200Linx looks great on the iPad in portrait and landscape positions and was fitted perfectly to both positions.
It is offered now in 7 local versions: U.S, U.K, Canada, Spain, France, Mexico and Germany. More local versions to come soon.
iPad is the best way to experience the web.
200Linx is the best way to experience iPad.
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