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LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment  —  The rumors are true!  Amazon and daily deals site LivingSocial have just officially confirmed their partnership, with the e-tailer investing a whopping $175 million in the latter.  This comes at an interesting time for both companies …

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‘Zombie’ virus attacks more than 1 million cell phones in China – CNN

Zhou Yonglin, an official with the National Computer Network Emergency Coordination Center, told CCTV that “in the first week of September, nearly 1 million cell phones in the country were infected with the virus.” And although telecom providers are said …
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Computer Virus Leads to $20 Million Scam Targeting Pianist Composer – Wired News

Davidson suspected his computer was infected with a virus and was concerned … they began to hatch an elaborate scheme alleging various security threats against not only Davidson and his family but the U.S. government, the district attorney’s office …
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Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million (Dan Primack/Fortune)

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.

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