For all we do not know about the new Amazon phone, we do know one thing for sure: It's from Amazon. Based on the company’s track record, we can make some educated guesses about what's in store and how Amazon’s rumored smartphone may impact app development.

Just as Google is an advertising company posing as a search company, the launch of Amazon's phone means Amazon is truly becoming a commerce company posing as a hardware company.

Streaming music service Spotify has plenty of nifty stats to share on its first year in the U.S., including the fact that U.S. listeners have jammed to more than 13 billion songs.

Spotify launched in the U.S. on July 14, 2011, joining a wave of other streaming music services like Rdio and Mog that familiarized Americans with the concept of streaming music.

The problem with most magazines is that they're just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and social media.

The partnership kicks off with some impressive additions: You can listen to NPR and Public Radio International shows on Flipboard, even while reading other content on the graphics-heavy aggregator.

Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it's going to remind you of window-shopping with your best friends.

"Imagine you're shopping with your friends, and one of them picks up a shirt and says, 'Oh, that's cute!' We think we can replicate that online," the founder told VentureBeat in a recent phone call.

Cull TV, a site that features curated playlists of music videos from indie artists, has been acquired by social video network Twitvid, the companies announced today.

Cull TV is sort of what the internet version of Mtv would probably look like if it was still about music instead of godawful teen reality shows staring quasi-famous celebrities. The site's user interface is focused on a full "lean back and watch" experience, similar to watching a TV channel.

Spring has come, and like new buds springing forth from the loamy earth, so too are new gadgets constantly being released into the real world. Today's first helping of new gear comes from Toshiba, who has just fleshed out their Excite line of Android tablets with three new entrants: the Excite 7.7, Excite 10, and the plus-sized Excite 13.

These three new Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tabs share most of the same fundamentals — they all sport NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor for example, as well as 1GB of RAM, a pair of rear and front-facing camera (5 and 2MP, if you're interested).