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Jul 15 2008 12:00am EDT

First Bytes: MicroHooCahn, U.S. Senate, Blinding Lasers

-- Yahoo, Microsoft and Carl Icahn: perfect guests for the Jerry Springer show. [Portfolio.com]

-- Advertising on Yahoo will cost 22 percent more, on average, if the embattled Web company's search ad partnership with Google passes regulatory muster, according to a new study out this morning. The two companies will try to sell the proposal to the U.S. Senate today. [NYT]

-- Microsoft has teamed up with Netflix to stream movies to the software giant's XBOX 360 video game consoles. Sony will respond today with its own offering, designed to work on its PlayStation 3 units. The action is taking place at E3, the video game industry's big annual convention in Los Angeles. [WSJ]

-- Make sure you bring sunglasses to the next rave you plan to attend. You wouldn't want to be blinded by the laser light show. [ABC News]

-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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