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Jan 08 2009 8:56am EDT

Idle Chatter: 'Globe,' Arbitron, Microhoo Intrigue...

-A team of "well known Silicon Valley executives and top investment bankers" are planning to make a run at Yahoo, with backing from Microsoft. Do these people have names? [TechCrunch]

-A small independent publishing house based in White Plains says it would like to release Angel at the Fence, the Holocaust love story that Random House opted not to publish after learning that big parts of it were made up. [NYT]

-The Boston Globe will follow the lead of its sister paper, The New York Times, and begin carrying advertising on page one. [Globe]

-Arbitron has settled a lawsuit brought by the attorney general of New York, who accused the ratings service's Portable People Meter system of undercounting minority listeners. [WSJ]. □

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