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Amazon has announced the opening of the Kindle Store in Italy and Spain, as well as the first Italian- and Spanish-language Kindles. The French Kindle Store opened in October. The Italian store features over 16,000 book titles, and the Spanish store has 22,000, both including thousands of free classics.

Just as in the French, each of the new stores is opening with the new basic Kindle reader available for 99€. The international stores also support Amazon's new Kindle Direct Publishing service, so independent authors and publishers can make their books available in these new stores.

Flock, the "social web browser" built on top of Mozilla's Firefox, has remained somewhat of a niche product despite its integrations with the most popular social networking sites on the web. Although its features should have made it a top product in our Facebook and Twitter-obsessed age, it has clearly remained on the sidelines of the web browser market.

Today, Flock is trying a new strategy. The company plans to extend itself beyond the "social" niche by trying to find a home in an entirely different one: the Hispanic web. To tap into this new audience, Flock is releasing a Spanish-language web browser in partnership with Univision Interactive Media, the top Spanish-language media company in the U.S.