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Sep 19 2008 6:06pm EDT

Last Bytes: Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, Apple

- Yahoo's new board, featuring financier Carl Icahn, is debuting next week. [WSJ]

- Cisco is buying instant message client Jabber for an undisclosed amount. [GigaOm]

- I may or may not be a PC, but these ads are much better than the Jerry and Bill show. [Gizmodo]

- Dan Lyons apologizes for not being as funny as Fake Steve Jobs. [Fortune]

-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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