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Oct 15 2008 6:02pm EDT

Last Bytes: MySpace, Adobe, Microsoft, Ebay, more

--Three years later MySpace is looking like a good buy for Rupert Murdoch.
[TechCrunch]

--Adobe announces Astro, a.k.a. Flash Player 10. [News.com]

--Microsoft survey indicates the possible addition of Instant On, a fast boot application, to Windows. [Engadget]

--Ebay hits diminished expectations this quarter, but its outlook is bleak. [SAI]

--AqsaTube, a radical Islamic version of YouTube, is now offline. [Wired]

-Rafael Cohen
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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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