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Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, January 19, 2012
Jan 19, 2012

Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Apple holds an event today in New York City that is widely expected to be aimed at electronic textbooks. And although you have to pay attention whenever Apple puts some muscle behind a new line of business, this is territory that many people are already deeply involved with -- there are a lot of different publishers and a lot of different platforms. Also, time for another Robot Roundup.

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Apple holds an event today in New York City that is widely expected to be aimed at electronic textbooks. And although you have to pay attention whenever Apple puts some muscle behind a new line of business, this is territory that many people are already deeply involved with — there are a lot of different publishers and a lot of different platforms. Also, time for another Robot Roundup.

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