What Apple's Acquisition of Dr. Dre's Beats Means

Emerging trend: Apple is bringing location-based targeting to music audiences, moving to buy Dr. Dre’s Beats electronics business.

Implication: Apple will extend its ad network and iBeacon service to Beats streaming service to Beats streaming service, which predicts what type of music users may like based on their location.

Action: Line up to target heavy data users who will pay extra for streaming music and other entertainment content.

Amazon Starts Kindle Service Bundles

As I'm waiting for my Kindle Fire to arrive in the mail, I got my first cross-sell email from Amazon. No, it's not for extended warranty. Amazon is offering music storage for $20/year in it's cloud service. Pretty attractive offer, considering benefits: I can download to Kindle, Android, PC or Mac. 

I am expecting more offers and bundled services from Amazon in the next 3-6 months. 

No, Kindle Fire is not just $199. 

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