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Feds Back Off Amazon Request

A subpoena for information regarding Amazon.com customers and used book purchases as part of a criminal investigation into Robert D'Angelo has been withdrawn after withering criticism from the presiding judge.

Yahoo Merchants Toasted By Monday Outage

Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo's merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.

Google Still On a Hiring Binge

I support Google’s relaxed dress code.  But given all the hiring the company’s doing, I’d recommend one tweak: name tags.  Google added over 2,100 employees this last quarter, making it seemingly impossible for anybody to keep track of anything.

BEA Flips Off Oracle Offer

A 25 percent premium for BEA in an all-cash offer from Oracle elicited a mild chuckle from BEA's VP of business planning and development, William Klein.

Jobs, Gates To Share A Stage

The D: All Things Digital conference taking place next week will bring together the two most iconic figures in US technology: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Mrs. Brin Gets Google Investment

Google has dropped some cash in Anne Wojcicki's 23andMe biotech firm, to the tune of $3.9 million for a minority holding in the company co-founded by Sergey Brin's new missus.

MarketWatch Seeks Community 'MarketPerception'

MarketPerception will allow stock market followers to invest their opinions in what they think will happen with a stock over the course of a trading day.

Apple, Google Ready To Make "New Things"

Rumors of a Mac Tablet spurred a question to Google CEO Eric Schmidt about what his company and Apple may be doing to make that product a reality.

Is Google Losing Money Too Fast?

JP Morgan has published a report on how Google Checkout did in 2006, and their findings show that Checkout reached 6% of the 1,100 consumers they surveyed, compared to 42% for PayPal, what I call a good, but not massive, start.

AOL Looks to Acquire TradeDoubler

Early Monday, Time Warner announced plans to purchase TradeDoubler, a European provider of online marketing and sales services. The deal, which has yet to be finalized, is reported to cost the company around $900 million.