Online reputations in the dirtSerious glitches at Sony and Amazon have revived worries about the risks of handling data online THEY are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th Amazon's finance chief, Thomas Szkutak, said the firm was still trying to get to the bottom of a glitch that caused numerous websites it hosts f
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