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by Laura Rich
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Jul 21 2008 12:00am EDT

First Bytes: Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, more...

-- Yahoo and Icahn cut a deal. Finally. [Portfolio.com]

-- Fresh off the release of the iPhone 3G, Apple will report quarterly earnings today. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research expects the company to earn $1.07 a share on revenue of $7.36 billion. [Bloomberg]

-- The Facebook redesign. Is. Here. OMG. [AP]

-- Amazon's S3 Web-based storage system went down over the weekend. "Cloud Computing" works best, it turns out, when you can, you know, access your data in "The Cloud." [GigaOm]

-- U.S. video game sales rose 53 percent in June, led by Metal Gear Solid 4. [Reuters]

-- Read the story behind Terry Childs, the rogue San Francisco city worker who locked up the municipal computer system. [PC World]

-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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