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Jul 08 2008 12:00am EDT

First Bytes: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, more...

-- The ongoing Microsoft-Yahoo saga is akin to a stale ham sandwich, without tomatoes or peppers. And yet, everyone seems hungry. "I believe Ballmer wants to buy it one way or the other," Icahn said. [Portfolio, NYTimes.com]

-- Is Twitter dead? The competition between the micro-blogging service and rival FriendFeed is heating up, after reports boomeranged around the web late Monday that Twitter is set to buy Summize, a micro-blogging search tool which tracks Twitter. FriendFeed, which is backed by a bunch of ex-Googlers, has been been blooming in popularity of late. [SAI]

-- Verizon Wireless is not down with 1938 Media founder Loren Feldman. Nor, apparently, is it down with irony. [TheDailyVoice.com]

-- Google is locking down GMail. [Google]

-Sam Gustin

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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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