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Amazon.com is finally no longer selling Apple TV or other streaming devices like Google's Chromecast to boost sales of its own Fire TV box and Fire TV Stick units. The company's plan to discontinue selling competing product was first announced earlier in October.

Google unveiled its new Chromecast gadget on Tuesday during the same launching event as the new Nexus flagship in San Francisco. The new update saw Google providing users with two Chromecast devices for normal video and TV streaming and also for music streaming.

Google is sending media invitation for its event this coming 29th September. The event "a Morning Conversation about Some New Treats from Google" is expected to unveil new hardware produced by the company. News has been circulating that the company will unveil new Chromecast and new Nexus phone at the event.

Apple launched the new Apple TV during its big product even in San Francisco Wednesday, showing a lot of promise with the Siri remote; but critics believe it still hasn't "cracked the code" in ultimately changing the way people watch TV.

Nvidia has announced that a major update is now available for their Android-based Shield Portable Handheld Console. This new update follows last February's release, which featured system stability fixes and improvements to how the console's system runs and handles emulators.

Google announced today that its media streaming dongle, Chromecast, now supports YouTube videos that are embedded on the page, eliminating the need to navigate to the YouTube site or mobile app in order to flick videos to the TV screen.

Tech and Internet giant Google released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build their own apps for the Chromecast streaming media dongle.

Google Inc will be increasing its marketing reach by opening Winter Wonderlabs in six cities. The outlets will feature the search giant's products like the Nexus 7, Chromebook and Chromecast.

Analysts said that Apple's investors should welcome Google's Chromecast because they would benefit through the dongle.

Google discontinued its Chromecast-Netflix subscription promo after receiving "overwhelming demand".

The new Google Chromecast was expected to be the most important smart TV tech ever.

A Chromecast forecast signalled more Netflix subscribers up ahead.

Chromecast quickly sold out in a matter of hours after its announcement.

It seemed that Google has a two-pronged strategy in mind involving the Chromecast and Google TV.

It seemed that Chromecast will play a big role in placing YouTube videos in front of consumers via the TV.