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Sep 29 2008 12:48pm EDT

Mid-day Bytes: AOL, Max Levchin's Wedding, PacketVideo Triumphs

--AOL's C.E.O. Randy Falco, sources say, feels stuck in limbo and is antsy for AOL to be sold already. That first buyer could be Yahoo, followed by Microsoft to then snatch up Yahoo, according to Matt Marshall of Venturebeat. [AllThingsDigital]

--Max Levchin, founder of online photo-sharing site Slide, married longtime girlfriend Nellie Minkova in San Francisco on Saturday. The couple asked guests to please refrain from posting photos and video taken of their wedding on the internet. [ValleyWag]

--San Diego-based PacketVideo is powering the entire video and audio components for Google's Android 'GPhone,' due out next month. [AlleyInsider]

--The numbers are in. Check out the financials and revenue numbers from 2007 for media's top 100 companies in AdAge's Media Family Tree. [AdAge]

--The chairman of Stanford University's Computer Science Department says the Wall Street crash is causing more students to reconsider computer science. [Slashdot]

--Andrea Chalupa
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