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Amazon's "Fire" vs Apple's "iPhone" Pro's & Cons Business & Stock Review. Amazon's 7-Inch Tablet Called "Fire" Will Cost $199 will Rival Apple Iphone. Amazon is unveiling today a tablet, called the Fire, that may not have all the same features as an iPad, but will start at a much lower price. According to a Bloomberg report citing Amazon executives, it will cost $199, compared to the iPad, which starts at $499. Initially, it appears the Kindle Fire will be more of a color version of the Kindle e-reader than a true competitor to the iPad. The device will have a 7-inch display (3-inches shy of the iPad), and will run Google's Android software, but it won't have an embedded camera or microphone. Additionally, it will come with Wi-Fi, but not 3G. All Things D's Peter Kafka is live in New York to cover all of the proceedings. As rumored previously, the device will come with a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, the Seattle company's $79 annual membership, which includes free two-day shipping, but also some content, like streaming video.

Google Earnings Miss Shares Drop Over $50 What You Need to Know. In this live "stock market technical analysis" video we'll cover the Google sell off and how to trade it. Options traders got rocked on options expiration 1/20/2012 on the call side and most people were left scratching their head as the bull got killed. We called the top on Google at $670 and if you didn't listen you volunteered to be a victim of Friday's $53.58 sell off. The Bull Case for Google: Google's Miss May Present An Opportunity For Investors. Google Shares still have a weekly MACD buy signal and is maintaining it's longer term weekly moving averages. Google is now currently trading at 11.75 times forward looking earnings. The company's investments in its Android mobile software and fledgling Facebook-like Google+ social network represent some of the company's key growth opportunities going forward. If Google + is gaining members then this is thought to be good for the company going forward. Google Short Term Pain Brings Long Term Opportunity. Google's chief business officer Nikesh Arora said that mobile usage is growing "leaps and bounds", led by smartphones and tablets. Google CEO Larry Page added there are now over 250 million activated Android devices, and said the holiday shopping season helped increase mobile usage, as consumers increasingly searched for products to buy. The Bear Case for Google: Google missed both its revenue and earnings targets after cost-per-click (CPC) - or money that marketers pay Google when Websurfers click on its search ads - decreased for the first time in two years despite record U.S. online commerce during the holiday season. Several brokerages cut their price targets on the stock. Online advertising revenue per click fell in the quarter and this looks like it will continue for the foreseeable future as the online advertising market is currently weak. Insiders have sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares over the