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Oct 06 2008 8:08am EDT

First Bytes: Verizon, Alltel, Myspace, eBay, Ask.com

--Growing opposition against Yahoo/Google deal.

[NYT]

--eBay purchased DBA--the "eBay of Denmark"--for $383 million.

[TechCrunch]

--Verizon set to acquire Alltel for $28.1 billion.

[Yahoo]

--IAC's Ask.com gets revamped to dish out faster results to take on market leader Google.

[Yahoo]

--It took iTunes nearly three years to get 1 billion song downloads, but Myspace Music streamed a billion songs just in the few days since its September 25 launch.

[TechCrunch]

--Andrea Chalupa


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