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Aug 14 2008 6:08pm EDT

Last Bytes: Netflix, Apple, Facebook, Android

- Wondering why your Netflix DVD's haven't been arriving in your mailbox like normal? So is Netflix, apparently. [WSJ]

- Former Apple general counsel Nancy Heinen completed her swan dive under the bus for Steve Jobs in the company's options backdating case. She's forking over $2.2 million to settle the allegations. [Reuters]

- Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit over its controversial Beacon ad platform. If you think you might have been among those wronged, please sign up to join the class. On Facebook. [Portfolio.com]

- Ben Ling, the former Googler who left for Facebook to run its Platform unit, has rejoined Google to (try) help YouTube make money. Were the meals better in Mountain View, or what? [BoomTown]

- More rumblings that the first phone featuring Google's Android OS may be only weeks away. [VentureBeat]

-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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