Google, Netflix: Morning Tech Bytes
NEW YORK (
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rose 0.6% to $590.65 in pre-market trading Wednesday as the company
unveiled its updated Chrome operating system
. On Monday, Google exec Andy Rubin also showed off an unreleased prototype of an Android-powered Motorola tablet that will feature a 3-D version of Google Maps.
Apple's
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iPad 2 will be released in April in the U.S., a year after the original iPad went on sale, according to a Taiwanese paper.
Shares of Apple were up 0.58% to $320.04 in pre-market trading Wednesday.
Amazon
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launched Kindle for the Web on Tuesday, a service that lets users read Kindle books, with no Kindle device required. Amazon's announcement comes a day after Google debuted its eBooks Store, a similar service.
Shares of Amazon were up 0.28% to $177.26 in pre-market trading Wednesday.
Netflix
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fell 2.0% to $186.01 as Chief Financial Officer Brian McCarthy
announced Tuesday he was stepping down from the company
. McCarthy had been CFO since 1999 and led Netflix's IPO in 2004.
Waze
, a mobile GPS navigation application, has received $25 million in venture funding from existing investors Blue Run Ventures, Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, the company's device provides turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road, including traffic. Waze is available for the iPhone, Android, and some Windows and Symbian devices.
--Written by Olivia Oran in New York.
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