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Dec 31 2008 9:06am EDT

First Bytes: Dell, Holiday Sales, Piracy, and Layoffs

Michael Dell is expected to shake up management at the top of his company. [WSJ]

Online holiday sales fell 3 percent this year, the first time online retailers have seen negative growth in eight years. [Cnet]

High-end retail sites were hit up tp 12 percent. [SAI]

China locks up 11 for counterfeiting Microsoft products. [NYT]

Gigaom has tracked the layoffs at companies backed by Sequoia Capital, the VC firm that told its portfolio to pare back. [GigaOm]

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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