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Amazon names HP's Rubinstein to board, brings periodicals to Android Kindle app

By | December 17, 2010, 7:34am PST

Summary: Amazon has elected Jonathan Rubinstein, head of Hewlett-Packard’s Palm unit, to its board of directors. The company is also bringing periodicals to its Kindle Android app.

Amazon said Friday that it has elected Jonathan Rubinstein, head of Hewlett-Packard’s Palm unit, to its board of directors.

The addition of Rubinstein will bring a good bit of mobile device know-how to Amazon’s board. Rubinstein is an alum of Apple and revamped Palm via the Pre and WebOS. Now he has a key role in HP’s device strategy.

Rubinstein will get 5,000 shares of Amazon vesting over three years, according to a regulatory filing.

Speaking of Amazon’s mobile plans, the company said Friday that it is bringing newspapers and magazines to its Kindle Android app. Newspapers and magazines will be delivered to Android devices in color. Amazon is the first e-book platform to bring periodicals to Android.

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Hewlett-Packard Co., Board, Amazon.com Inc., Jonathan Rubinstein, Corporate Governance, E-books & E-Readers, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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RE: Amazon names HP's Rubinstein to board, brings periodicals to Android Kindle app
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Hopefully this means a WebOS Kindle app soon...
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