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First Bytes No More Free Dinner At Google

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Aug 25 2008 8:24am EDT

First Bytes: No More Free Dinner At Google

- Oh noes! Google is cutting one of its most popular perks: free dinner. Also, no more tea trolley and afternoon snack. [Valleywag]

- The Olympics were a Web bonanza -- in traffic, if not revenue -- for NBC's online coverage as well as Yahoo's Olympics page. [NYT]

- Wikipedia isn't all about the benjamins. It's all about dropping the knowledge. [SF Chronicle]

- When is the right time to walk away from a venture capital investment? [AVC]

- Did Microsoft pay too much for Avenue A/Razorfish, which it obtained in its $5.9 billion purchase of aQuantive? [AdAge]

-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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