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by Laura Rich
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Jul 22 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, MySpace

-- Yahoo missed Wall Street earnings expectations, but its shares ticked upward after-hours, perhaps because the company didn't do as poorly as many investors had feared. [Portfolio.com]

-- Meanwhile, another top Yahoo exec, Chad Dickerson, is heading for the exits, to join online crafts market Etsy. [TechCrunch]

-- Facebook's strategy is to grow as big as possible now, and worry about making money later, says company chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. [News.com]

-- Is Apple preparing to release a tablet PC called the MacBook Touch? So says the tech rumor mill. [Gizmodo]

-- News Corp.'s giant social network MySpace is joining the OpenID coalition, which aims to allow users to keep one login and password for many websites. [Reuters]

-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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