- Responding to the success of Amazon‘s Kindle and the continued to demise of its newspapers and magazines, Hearst is launching its own e-reader. Meanwhile, Amazon, which had come under fire for a feature in the Kindle 2 that would allow books to be read aloud in an electronic voice, backpedaled a bit, saying publishers would be allowed to decide if they want their books enabled with this feature.
- A day after Facebook revised its Terms of Service and opened them up to user input, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg went on the Today Show to explain the logic behind the change. He also said that Facebook was gaining 5m users a week, with 1m a week joining in the US.
- Apple replaced KPMG with Ernst & Young as its independent registered accounting firm.
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