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Aug 28 2008 8:09am EDT

First Bytes: Facebook, iTunes, Yahoo...

- The West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin is developing a movie about Facebook, to be produced by Scott Rudin, for Sony Pictures. [Portfolio.com]

- The major record companies are looking for alternatives to Apple's iTunes music store. We've heard this before. [WSJ, PaidContent]

- Consumers increasingly want computers wiped free of packaged software. [NYT]

- More top Yahoo execs are bailing from the company. [TechCrunch]

- Microsoft has released a new version of Internet Explorer. [Microsoft]

-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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