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10:45 AM ET, November 7, 2010

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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.
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.
Discussion: Network World and Gizmodo
New York Times:
The Facebook Skeletons Come Out  —  AMONG the many firsts in the 2010 elections, it is safe to assume that the following words had never before been uttered about a future member of Congress, “This is a candidate who is probably best known for getting drunk and having sex on television.”
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 …
Discussion: CloudAve
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs  —  Don't sweat the price.  You'll pay in other ways  —  QCon San Francisco 2010 Oracle will deliver two Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on the OpenJDK project - one free and the other paid.  —  That's according to Tweets pouring thick and fast …
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.
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.
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
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.
Jonathan Weber / New York Times:
In Whitman and Fiorina, Candidacies That Did Not Compute  —  Jonathan Weber writes a column for The Bay Citizen.  —  The candidates from Silicon Valley lost big in the California elections Tuesday.  Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, was trounced in the gubernatorial race despite spending …
Katla McGlynn / The Huffington Post:
National Unfriend Day: Jimmy Kimmel Announces New Holiday With William Shatner (VIDEO)  —  “Remember five years ago when no one had Facebook and you didn't know what the guy you took high school biology with was having for lunch?”  Jimmy Kimmel asked the audience on his show last night.
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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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google Chief Schmidt May Be Called Before Congress, Barton Says
Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
Election 2010: A refresh for Gov 2.0?  —  Sweeping election gains …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The REAL Reason Companies Do Facebook “Deals” And Buy iAds
Discussion: GigaOM and Fast Company
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Rival calls foul over Microsoft's delivering Security Essentials via Windows Update
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Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Faces New Competition
Discussion: Techdirt
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple's example Mac app prices land around $15-20
Denis Campbell / Guardian:
Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs
Discussion: Examiner
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Tests Call Recording
Discussion: Softpedia News and Download Squad
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

 
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