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Sep 10 2008 8:23am EDT

First Bytes: Apple, Yahoo/Google, Blackberry, more....

- Steve Jobs has blamed rumors about his health on "hedge funds with a big short position in Apple." [CNBC]

- There's a growing perception that the Dept. of Justice is preparing to challenge Yahoo's search ad deal with Google. [NYT]

- The Tribune company has admitted that a years-old report about United Airlines, which triggered a massive sell-off in the company's stock, appeared on one of its newspapers' websites. [Bloomberg, via NYT]

- Research In Motion is set to unveil is first clamshell-style Blackberry phone. [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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