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Amazon to buy Diapers.com owner Quidsi for $500M (AP)
AP - Expanding its online retail empire, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday that it is buying Quidsi, the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash.
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Corrected: Facebook grabs bigger slice of display ad pie (Reuters)
Reuters - (Corrects reference to average time spent on Facebook by users to year-on-year comparison from sequential quarter comparison, second-to-last paragraph)
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AOL taps BofA to mull Yahoo deal: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - AOL Inc has tapped Bank of America to explore strategic options including a potential Yahoo Inc merger, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Google to sponsor airline Wi-Fi for holidays (AP)
AP - Google said Monday it will offer passengers on AirTran, Delta and Virgin America free Wi-Fi access this holiday season.
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Disney Shakes Up Ratings With New Series Debut
Shake It Up averages 6.2 million total...
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Nokia Reclaims Symbian from Open-Source Foundation (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Nokia is taking back the Symbian platform. On Monday, the handset maker announced that it is taking control of the Symbian operating system about 18 months after the Symbian Foundation was first set up.
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Droid Pro Ready To Challenge RIM in Enterprises (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Verizon Wireless is slated to begin selling Motorola's new Droid Pro on Tuesday at a post-rebate price of $180 with a two-year service commitment. The new handset based on Google's Android 2.2 mobile platform is expected to challenge Research In Motion's domination of the mobile enterprise space.
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Toshiba Offers Slim MacBook Air SSDs for Other Devices (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As the quest for slimmer, compact -- but superfast -- devices continues, Toshiba is offering the solid-state drives used in Apple's new MacBook Air to other manufacturers and resellers.
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Ellison: Oracle has $4 billion case against SAP (AP)
AP - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison turned up the pressure in an industrial espionage trial Monday by testifying that archenemy SAP AG should have paid $4 billion for licenses to Oracle software.
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Nielsen: More Than 80% of Viewing Still in Standard Def
Only 19% of broadcast programming and 13% of cable is viewing in...
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ClickyTouch brings Google Analytics alternative to iPhone (Macworld)
Macworld - Tracking stats on the go can be important to Website managers. Fortunately, users of real-time stats-tracking system Clicky who have an iPhone can avail themselves of a new client for the service, ClickyTouch.
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AMC Renews 'Walking Dead' for Second Season
Net orders 13 more episodes of two-week old...
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Sewage-powered car end to dirty fuel
Nov 8 -A VW Beetle, powered by human waste has taken to the streets of England in an attempt to encourage sustainable motoring. It's Britain's first car to run on gas produced from sewage sludge. Stuart McDill reports.
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Sen. Sanders Wants To Block Comcast/NBCU, Citing Olbermann
Refers to Comcast COO Steve Burke's fundraising for President George W. Bush's...
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Broadband usage growing even as gaps persist (AP)
AP - The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold from 2001 to 2009.
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UK Tells Google To Scrub Street View Data
ICO to audit search giant, but take no punitive...
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TBD.com GM Brady Departs
WJLA station site chief clashed with Allbritton...
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Food Delivery Service GrubHub Raises $11 Million (Mashable)
Mashable - Online food and restaurant delivery service GrubHub has raised an impressive $11 million in a Series C round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, an investment group that has also provided early funding for the likes of eBay, Twitter, Yelp and OpenTable.
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