Roundup: Amazon takes over reader social networking, IE8 to subtract ads, bad signs from China and more

Roundup: Amazon takes over reader social networking, IE8 to subtract ads, bad signs from China and more

Amazon buys social network for book lovers — Shelfari, a small social network for bibliophiles, has been acquired by Amazon.com, according to John Cook at the Seattle PI. Amazon also has a stake in Shelfari’s main competitor, LibraryThing.

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