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Breakfast briefing: Is Amazon buying into touch technology?

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Faced with the prospect of competition from the iPad, it looks like Amazon wants to kick the Kindle up another gear, reportedly buying touchscreen technology company Touchco. No official confirmation from either company, but sounds like a done deal.

Carol Bartz continues to define her time at Yahoo by what she gets rid of: first the company's search business, then collaboration software Zimbra - now she is unloading Yahoo HotJobs website to Monster for $225m. Yahoo originally bought the company eight years ago for $445m.

And we'll finish with an interesting essay from a familiar face, Bruce Schneier, who has written about why removing anonymity from the internet will never work. Thought provoking.

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