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Oct 02 2008 6:02pm EDT

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Nokia announced "Comes with Music" program last month with music preloaded
on cell phones and 5 million tracks available in its online music store. [MobileCrunch]

What is going to happen to the companies in which Lehman Brothers Venture Partners holds a stake? Will all investment banks get out of the venture investment business? [TechCrunch]

YouTube adds post-roll ads after the videos uploaded by official partners. [SAI]

Will à la carte programming save Sirius XM Radio? It doesn't look like it. [SAI]

Nintendo Intends to ship a much larger number of Wii video game consoles for the holiday season than last year. But will it be enough? [News.com]

-Shannon Geis
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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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