Breakfast briefing: Is Amazon buying into touch technology?

• Faced with the prospect of competition from the iPad, it looks like Amazon wants to kick the Kindle up another gear, reportedly buying touchscreen technology company Touchco . No official confirmation from either company, but sounds like a done deal. • Carol Bartz continues to define her time at Yahoo by what she gets rid of: first the company's search business, then collaboration software Zimbra - now she is unloading Yahoo HotJobs website to Monster for $225m . Yahoo originally bought the company eight years ago for $445m. • And we'll finish with an interesting essay from a familiar face, Bruce Schneier, who has written about why removing anonymity from the internet will never work . Thought provoking. You can follow our links and commentary each day through Twitter ( @guardiantech , or our personal accounts ) or by watching our Delicious feed .