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Jul 18 2008 12:00am EDT

First Bytes: Yahoo, Google, S.F. Muni-Hacker Update, more...

-- Finally, Yahoo seems to have found its UPPER-CASE voice in its latest salvo against Carl Icahn. Portfolio.com's Jack Flack parses for your perusing pleasure. [Portfolio.com]

-- Following Google's earnings miss, are the company's shareholders "freaking out for nothing?" So says one analyst. [Tech Land]

-- Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices has ousted its chief executive Hector Ruiz after reporting a loss of $1.18 billion in the second quarter. [NYT]

-- San Francisco Muni-Hacker update: Terry Childs, the soon-to-be-former city worker who crippled the municipal computer system, has pleaded not guilty after the public defender's office said it couldn't represent him because they can't access their email. Just kidding! The pub def cited a conflict of interest. Childs is being held on $5 million bail. [San Francisco Chronicle]

-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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