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As Amazon continues to expand as the “Wal-Mart of the Web,” one of its more recent strategies has been to offer private-label brands that you can’t buy anywhere else.

But it’s done so quietly, without drawing much attention — so that even a regular Amazon shopper wouldn’t know they were Amazon’s custom brands.  Read more...

Geekfighting may never become its own UFC event, but following tech news this week seemed, in places, like a view to a big, well-funded cage match. Things got so rowdy that Kara Swisher could hear them all the way across “The Pond.”  Read more...

Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At an event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division, uncrated the CLIQ, a device it describes unremarkably as the “first phone with social skills.”  Read more...

The week that took us from August to September was one for the books over at BoomTown, especially if you’re 12.  Read more...

Apple sold about 45 million iPhones and iPod touch devices after two years on the market. How does that compare against some other top gadgets?

It’s nowhere near the number of RAZRs that Motorola sold in its first two years — about 75 million, RBC estimates. But it’s on par with Nintendo’s Wii, and ahead of Sony’s PSP and PS2.  Read more...