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by Laura Rich
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Jul 24 2008 6:30pm EDT

Last Bytes: Microsoft, Scrabulous, "The Spam King," XM-Sirius

-- Microsoft will incorporate its Web search engine -- and advertising -- into Facebook by the end of the year. Will the partnership fare any better than Google's arrangement to provide search ads to MySpace? [Reuters]

-- Scrabble maker Hasbro has sued the creators of the Scrabulous, the popular Facebook application. How many points do I get for "injunction"? [Bits]

-- Lock up your in-boxes! Eddie "The Spam King" Davidson has escaped from a Colorado minimum security prison. Davidson had been sentenced to 21 months is prison for sending those annoying mass emails touting penny stocks. If (when) they catch him, something tells me he won't be going to back to a minimum-security lockup. [Rocky Mountain News]

-- The XM-Sirius deal appears to be set for approval. Siriusly, this time. [NYT]

-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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