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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million — A Zappos like purchase for the e-commerce giant. — “What Amazon fears most: Diapers” declared the cover of BusinessWeek earlier this fall. Now it's clear that Amazon didn't fear diapers, it just wanted them for itself.
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TechCrunch, TechFlash, Kindle Review, SAI, MediaMemo and The Next Web
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft's War Room — AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid.
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Network World and Gizmodo
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
The Cloud Fiasco of 2010: Drop.io — Drop.io gets bought and dropped by Facebook, and we're left with dead links. — This is nothing new to me. A company shows up with a good idea. It encourages people to use its services. The service is good, and the company says it has premium services …
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CloudAve
Greg Sandoval / Crave: The gadget blog:
Reports show HP was right to dump Hurd — commentary Mark Hurd is now a Silicon Valley symbol for self-destructive behavior. — On Friday, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine published detailed reports on what prompted the HP board to ask then-CEO Hurd to resign in August.
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
Glitch will make iPhone alarms late Monday — (CNN) — Not forgetting Sunday morning's time change is hard enough. — But Apple iPhone users in the United States must also remember to delete and then reset their phone's alarm clock — otherwise they may be an hour late for work on Monday morning.
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VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, TG Daily, Engadget, I4U News, MobileBurn.com, MSDN Blogs and Edible Apple, Thanks:electricwaffles
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job — The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the gates of the Google Castle.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Steve Ballmer saved $100 million in taxes selling $2B in MSFT stock — Reuters is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is selling 75 million shares of his Microsoft holdings netting $2 Billion. By selling the stock before the end of the year Ballmer saves $100 million in capital gains taxes.
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BGR, Winrumors, PhoneArena and VentureBeat
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Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft's Ballmer sells 12 percent stake in company
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Neowin.net and Pulse2
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Googler Accuses Twitter Engineer of Sexual Assault on Her Blog — Google technical writer Noirin Shirley wrote a post on her personal blog yesterday describing a debauched night at a tech conference. But she claims the fun ended when she was sexually assaulted by Twitter engineer Florian Leibert.
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blog.nerdchic.net, paidContent, TechCrunch, TG Daily and Examiner
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google Chief Schmidt May Be Called Before Congress, Barton Says — Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s data collection practices may draw scrutiny from the next Congress, as lawmakers consider questioning Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, U.S. Representative Joe Barton said.
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Search Engine Land
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Like Everyone Else, Amazon Is Testing A Like Button — “Like” buttons have been around on the Internet for a while now. But most people didn't pay too much attention to them until Facebook came along with their one-like-button-to-rule-them- all. Now it seems as if every site on the Internet needs a Like button.
Thanks:bobcaswell
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The REAL Reason Companies Do Facebook “Deals” And Buy iAds — Why did Gap do a big deal with Facebook today, giving away 10,000 pairs jeans and 40%-off discounts to Facebook users? — Depending on whom you ask, you may hear answers like “brand lift,” “lead generation,” “getting people in the store …
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GigaOM and Fast Company
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple's example Mac app prices land around $15-20 — Reader Shane did a little zoom and enhance on Apple's promo image for the Mac App Store, and divined some potential prices for Apple's official apps. These same apps are the ones that set the pricing bar on the iPad, and so if these are real …
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everythingiCafe and Download Squad
