Rhee So-eui / Reuters:
EBay buys Korean rival’s stake for $413 million: report  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - EBay Inc has agreed to buy a controlling stake in South Korean online retailer Gmarket Inc for $413 million, at a 32.5 percent premium, news service eDaily reported on Monday.  —  The long-discussed deal …

Carolyn Kellogg / Jacket Copy:
Amazon responds to queries, blames a ‘glitch’  —  As readers continue to try to figure out what happened in Amazon’s database so that the sales rankings of certain books and not others disappeared — which caused some to be omitted from search results on the site — it seems that […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
New Swiveling Nokia hitting Verizon Wireless?  —  If this wasn’t from one of our normal ninjas we probably wouldn’t publish it, but since it is, here we go… We’ve been told that there’s a “swiveling E71-type handset” that’s going to be launched on Verizon around the July/August time-frame.

Erica Friedman / Examiner:
Online censorship?  Amazon strips ranking of Gay and Lesbian books  —  One of the most powerful indicators of how a book is doing sales wise and can be a leading factor for generating or killing interest in a book.  Though many factors go into the sales ranking system, the primary driving […]

Biz / Twitter Blog:
Wily Weekend Worms  —  On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took center stage.  A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program sometimes introduced by folks with malicious intent to do some harm to a network.  Please note that no passwords, phone numbers …

Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose  —  It’s turning into quite a weekend for TwitterTwitter reviews : a new exploit has been created carrying the name of the 17 year old who supposedly created yesterday’s StalkDaily worm.  We should emphasize that the attack is more of a nuisance than […]

Twitter Status:
Update on StalkDaily.com Worm  —  Earlier today we were informed of a malicious site that was spreading links to StalkDaily.com on Twitter without user consent via a cross-site scripting vulnerability.  We’ve taken steps to remove the offending updates, and to close the holes that allowed this “worm” to spread.

Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Twitter worm outbreak over Easter  —  A cross-site scripting worm was spreading in Twitter profiles for several hours last night.  —  People started reporting that their profile had sent Twitter messages without their knowledge.  Messages looked like this:  —  Later on the messages morphed several times:

Damon / DCortesi . blog:
Twitter StalkDaily Worm Postmortem  —  Twitter got hit with a little security incident this afternoon we’ll call the “StalkDaily Worm”.  I have no clue if the StalkDaily site was actually associated with the worm at this point or if it was simply a misdirection.  I believe it to be the […]

BNOnews:
17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm  —  Brooklyn, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com from Brooklyn, has admitted responsibility for the Twitter worm that rapidly spread through Twitter on Saturday, stating in an email to BNO News …