Customized by CEO Marissa Mayer and a team of designers, Yahoo just rolled out its new logo. How are people responding? With "a chorus of boos," Forbes writes. Mike Arrington jokes: "I'm pretty sure that even 10 years from now I'll still look at Yahoo's new logo think 'That's one godawful fugly logo right there.'" As Forbes notes, however, "In a few days, it probably won't make a bit of difference either way."

Hearsay Social just raised another $30 million in Series C funding. The startup helps businesses and brands reach sales leads and customers on social networks, and, as TechCrunch reports: "CTO Steve Garrity told me Hearsay has had 'a fantastic year' ... and the company raised the round to further accelerate growth."

Amazon this week unveiled the latest version of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. “The new version of the Paperwhite, which … starts at $119, has been spruced up with a higher-contrast display, better touchscreen, quicker page turns and a faster processor,” ABCNews.com reports. “However, it’s not just the hardware that’s gotten some clear improvements. Amazon has added a slew of new software features.” 

Bent on faster expansion, LinkedIn this week filed for a $1 billion secondary offering. Under the umbrella of working capital, the social network wants “fuel for international expansion, infrastructure funding and potential acquisitions,” AllThingsD reports. “LinkedIn also wants to give underwriters … the option to buy an additional $150 million worth of stock.” 

Making it the costliest impulse buy in history, Microsoft reportedly rushed into its acquisition of Nokia’s Devices & Services business for $7.2 billion. It was “more of a sprint than a marathon,” Bloomberg reports. More troubling (and confusing) are reports that Microsoft wanted the deal done so quickly because a 2-year-old collaboration on smartphone development (between Microsoft and Nokia) wasn’t working. 

For better or worse, socical search startup Topsy has indexed every Tweet since the beginning of Twitter. “Thanks to advanced Topsy search operators, users can really hone in on the most pertinent information,” Marketing Land writes. The first Tweet was recorded back in 2006 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. 

Amazon on Tuesday is expected to debut Kindle MatchBook -- a new program that lets customers buy the electronic versions of books they have already purchased in print form for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99 or for free. “There’s little doubt some book fans exist who are as enthusiastic about the benefits of e-books as they are wistful for the sight of colorful book spines on their walls,” The New York Times’ Bits blog writes. “The question is how many of them there are.” 

From increasingly popular ad-blocking technology to cookie killing, Salon staff writer Andrew Leonard devotes about 2,000 words to all the challenges facing online advertisers, today. Worse still, Leonard suggests that Adblock Plus -- the most popular ad-blocking software online -- is best positioned to make overly aggressive online advertisers “behave.” 

Based on his first interview with The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos doesn’t appear to have a plan for running the paper -- or, at least, that’s the conclusion drawn by AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka. “He’s going to take time -- ‘years’ -- to experiment, and the only thing he knows is that it’s important for readers to get value out of reading the paper,” Kafka writes. “But unless Bezos is suggesting that the Post is going to stop ‘uncovering important stories’ because there’s no money in it … then what he’s really saying is that he can’t figure out how to …

As part of a broader international expansion, ticketing platform Eventbrite has acquired London-based Lanyrd and Argentinean-based Eventioz. “We’re told [by Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz] that Lanyrd’s purchase is because of its understanding of structured data,” The Next Web writes. “As for Eventioz, Eventbrite believes … it can establish better relationships with organizers, attendees, and others [in Latin America] through Eventioz.”