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Sep 04 2008 8:19am EDT

First Bytes: Google, TiVo, DirecTV, Web Ad Spending

- Google is backing down from its Chrome End-User License Agreement, which had sparked protests from bloggers. [Ars Technica]

- TiVo and DirecTV are joining forces on a new digital video recorder. [Reuters]

- Sanjay Kumar, the former head of Computer Associates, has implicated a number of his former colleagues in the company's accounting scandal. [WSJ]

- Internet ad spending is growing, but so is the gap is spending between text-based ads, and display ads. [WSJ]

-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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