Julio Ojeda-Zapata

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"Amazon ends affiliate relationships to avoid Minnesota online sale tax" @nickwoltman bitly.com/11XryaQ Related: bitly.com/13ZbzHG

Inside Amazon's tax fight

tech.fortune.cnn.com — Fortune goes behind Amazons tax war. By Peter Elkind, editor at large FORTUNE -- For many years, Amazon.com enjoyed a crucial leg up compared to traditional retailers like Barnes & Noble, Sears, and Wal-Mart: The e-tailer didn't charge sales taxes to its customers.

Amazon ending affiliate relationships to avoid Minnesota's online sale tax

twincities.com — In advance of having to collect online state sales tax, Amazon said Tuesday that it will sever ties with its Minnesota-based affiliate websites that receive a fee for referring shoppers to the retail giant's online store. The move comes less than a month after Gov.
@cptnrandy Debuted in St. Cloud this week (had something on this in the paper today, I think). Twin Cities should follow in the near future.
Minnesota has third-most Kickstarter-funded tech startups: huff.to/11Js48i More Minnesota Kickstarter tech: bitly.com/19O0gJ1
"AT&T LTE is fastest in the US, and Verizon most reliable: PCMag 2013 testing" zd.net/19NXyDf Both are available in the Twin Cities.

AT&T LTE is fastest in the US, Verizon most reliable: PCMag 2013 test results

zdnet.com — Summary: All four major US carriers now have LTE rolling out and PCMag visited 30 countries testing data speeds and reliability. Results are presented for regions and each city so check to see what the best option is for your area.
It’s official: Nook tablets are the cheapest good tablets on the market, and by a considerable margin: ti.me/11Hmpj0

It’s Official: Nook Tablets Are Now Ridiculously Cheap

techland.time.com — Barnes & Noble Once upon a time, Amazon's Kindles and Barnes & Noble's Nooks were very similar content-consumption tablets at very similar price points. No longer.
Sprint rolls out high-speed LTE wireless-data service in St. Cloud and 21 other markets (but not in the Twin Cities): bitly.com/11ua3vD

Sprint brings 4G LTE and network improvements to more than 100 markets

newsroom.sprint.com — Sprint Newsroom - the official site for press releases, photos, video, audio, pr contact information, presskits and more.
WSU students get laptop AND tablet this fall; It's first Midwest public university to do this: bitly.com/1bOXeAH bitly.com/1bOXq2X

Tablets at WSU

winonastatenews.com — Winona State University will be the first public university in the Midwest to offer a tablet and a laptop to all students starting in fall 2013. WSU's Digital Life and Learning Program will provide all new Winona State students, and students due for their two-year laptop exchange, an iPad mini or Android-based tablet along with their Mac or PC laptop.

WSU Tablets - Winona State University

winona.edu — WSU Digital Life and Learning introduces mobile tablet devices to our powerful set of learning, communication, and social technology tools.

Is Minnesota successful in entrepreneurship?

minnov8.com — Good story at MinnPost by Scott Litman, co-founder and Managing Partner of Magnet 360 (@scottmagnet) and co-founder of Minnesota Cup, and John Stavig, Director of the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management (@gooddrjds).
200+ Superman comics are 99 cents each on @comiXology. I just bought "Secret Identity," "Red Son" and "Kingdom Come," three favorite series.
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