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it's Tuesday April 12 I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Amazon slashed the price of the Wi-Fi only Kindle to 114 dollars but only if you agree to an ad-supported model you can still buy the non ad-supported one for 139 dollars but if you want to save yourself $25 you can buy one that will advertise to you every so often the model is called the Kindle with special offers and Cena editors did not find these ads too intrusive I'm just wondering why they only give you $25 off for this deal could this Barrett Google launched a trivia contest that allows you to Google to find answers this is kind of fun a Google a day is a site that gives you a daily puzzle that can be solved with some clever google searching the questions will be featured on a Google Ad a calm and printed on the weekdays above the New York Times crossword puzzle the answers will be revealed the following day the legal battle between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins has come to an end the twins sued Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea for creating the site now a Court has ruled that they have to shut up already and accept their settlement do not feel sorry for them though the settlement is 465 million dollars Google is going to invest 168 million dollars in an alternative power project the project comes from a company called BrightSource energy it involves building a solar power plant in the Mojave Desert that is projected to light 140 thousand homes when it is completed in 2013 Google is not the only financial backer of this project the US Department of Energy has also loaned 1.8 billion dollars to the effort an Illinois senator is plenty to introduce a law that would require sales tax on all online shopping this is something we could see proposed after tax day Democratic senator dick durbin plans to introduce the bill that puts an end to tax free shopping on places like Amazon or overstock right now you don't have to pay sales tax if you buy from an out-of-state vendor Durbin says this gives online retailers an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers Sony introduced two new o le d-- monitors they not cheap but they are a lot less than the first generation of these monitors which sold for between 16 and $29,000 the new lineup of super high-def monitors includes a 25 inch model for $7,400 and a 17 inch model for $4,900 they are expected out in the second half of this year that's your news of the day I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris Massena and you've just been loaded