Amazon Said To Have Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires, can’t hold a match to Apple. An analyst for Stifel Nicolaus is in the news today because he’s revised his sales prediction for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet up to 6 million sold in Q4 2011. That’s up a million in the earlier estimate, and parallels similar moves made by other observers. Amazon is traditionally super-coy about sales figures, so we’re unlikely to find out for sure. Meanwhile Fire owners are said to be best app downloaders, and Apple sold 16 million iPads in the same period. –KE
–Updated 12:00 a.m. EST
Obama To Answer Questions Via Google+ Hangout. Google and the White House are hosting a “face-to-face” with President Obama starting today at 5:30 p.m. EST. The President will be answering pre-selected questions that people uploaded as video entries on the White House YouTube channel over the last week. Regular viewers can follow the action via a live stream on the White House YouTube channel, but according to YouTube, some lucky participants will also be invited into the Hangout to quiz the president directly. –NS
– Updated 10:30 a.m. EST
Apple To Sell 40 Million iPhones By 2013? Big-dreaming Apple won’t stay content with one partner in China for too long, a Morgan Stanley analyst predicts. Soon, Apple will seek out tie-ups with China Telecom and China Mobile to sell up to 40 million iPhones in China alone in 2013. That’s
