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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.

Reuters - (Corrects reference to average time spent on Facebook by users to year-on-year comparison from sequential quarter comparison, second-to-last paragraph)

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.

AP - Google said Monday it will offer passengers on AirTran, Delta and Virgin America free Wi-Fi access this holiday season.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PC World - Hard on the heels of Canonical's controversial decision to use the 3D-enabled Unity interface in its desktop Ubuntu operating system came word late last week that it will also adopt a new graphics system.

Appolicious - Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is right when he says the first wave of competing tablets will “be DOA – dead on arrival.”

Ben Patterson - A Chinese company is primed to launch a color e-reader early next year—and unlike the recent Nook Color from Barnes & Noble, the new device will have an actual E Ink display (similar to those on the Amazon Kindle and …

Ben Patterson - It's no secret that network and pay-TV executives are looking for ways to keep you from skipping commercials on your DVR. One oft-proposed solution is an "in-the-cloud" DVR that would let you tee up any recent show, whether you'd set …

Macworld - Controlling your Roku digital video player from an iPhone or iPod touch got a lot better starting Monday morning, as a major 2.0 upgrade for DVPRemote went live in the App Store.

PC World - A security company has developed a free Firefox add-on that warns when someone on the same network is using Firesheep, a tool that has raised alarm over how it simplifies an attack against a long-known weakness in Internet security.

AP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused of rape and molestation in a Swedish arrest warrant Saturday that turned the spotlight onto the nomadic former hacker who's infuriated governments worldwide with his self-proclaimed mission to put secrets into the public eye.

AP - For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick.

Macworld.com - When Apple announces a new product, the company spares no expense to extol its new features and benefits. But when Apple releases minor updates, it can often be terse about the magnitude of their importance. Such is the case with this week’s Snow Leopard Graphics Update 1.0.