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Jul 03 2008 12:00am EDT

First Bytes: Yahoo, Time Warner, Google, Adobe, more...

-- Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner over a possible combination with its faltering AOL unit. Seems like a match made in heaven...of suckiness. [WSJ]

-- Google won a legal decision against media giant Viacom allowing the Web search leader to keep secret the basic code for YouTube. [News.com]

-- Atul Malhotra, a former Hewlett Packard executive, has been been indicted for sharing trade secrets with I.B.M., his previous employer. Not a good idea, bro. [NYT]

-- Broadband Web adoption has stalled in the U.S. Only 55 percent of Americans have a high-speed connection at home. [Broadbandcensus.com]

-- Adobe's PDF format is now the ISO standard. [AppleInsider.com]

-Sam Gustin

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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