Page 13 - Si Pad News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> the magic of news and-- lies in serendipity and surprise and the good editor. we're going to bring that magic to the daily to inform people to make themty, to make them smile, and to help them engage in the great issues of the day. >> we think there's going to be a giant audience for tablet computing. there are by the end of next year, we could see 60 million of the devices in the marketplace, five years from now, nationally known and we he really think there's a giant market and we're the news button in the tablet computer and i-pad. as the market grows, we'll grow with it. >> from the fir...

Competition in the marketplace. not only are there over 20 different e-readers on the market but the i-pad for example, listen, am i going to buy a $499 multimedia device that i have access to my web browser and music and video and apps and then also have an e-reader on here? it's like, am i going to get that, an entire multimedia unit or just a proprietary e-reader? it's interesting too. in the first 65 days the i-pad was released 5 million e-books sold. if that doesn't speak volumes and 22% of the marketshare i don't know what does. it could be an e-reader killer. >> thank you so much. all t...

Sweet spot is maybe a hundred bucks. now you have a big price to climb. for example you're looking at the nook and the kindle both dramatically cutting those prices. >> yes. >> do you think more people are going to buy them because of that? >> bottom line is there is more competition in the marketplace. you hit it. we are seeing from consumer research that the sweet spot, yes, is in the hundred to $150 range. so you remember over the holidays e-readers were really booming and actually it was amazing on christmas day amazon for the first time ever saw more sales in e-books than paper books whic...

Pretty upset about ed meese as a guest on our hour feeling i'm serving up the gop kool-aid. that's what the tweet said. there is a lot going on today. the arizona governor has released a web video attacking the president for a joke he made during the white house correspondents' dinner. >> we all know what happens in arizona when you don't have i.d. adios, amigos! >> the governor says the immigration issue is, quote, not funny. and her video ends with a message for the president. it says, quote. do your job and secure the border. those are her words. and president obama is also catching flack o...

Cnbc market wrap. here's a look at how stocks are trading today. the dow is up about 43 points. it is hovering underneath that crucial 11,000 mark at 10,940. electronics retailer best buy says it has sold out of apple's i-pad in all 673 u.s. stores with apple shops. best buy was the only nonapple retailer in the u.s. to have the i-pad when it launched on saturday. meantime steve jobs says apple has sold a total of 450,000 i-pads since yesterday. the undisputed queen of day time talk oprah winfrey is headed to primetime and says she'll make the move with an hour long talk show titled "oprah's...