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Jan 08 2009 9:05am EDT

First Bytes: At CES, Ballmer Takes the Stage

At CES, Microsoft unveils new search deals and shows off Windows 7. [WSJ]

Silicon Alley Insider tracks Google CFO's plan to "feed the winners" and "starve the losers" among Google's many brands. [SAI]

Lenovo plans to cut 11 percent of its workforce; Dell is closing a 1,900-worker plant in Ireland. [Cnet]

At the urging of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. Patent Office will reconsider a broad patent on digital music. [Ars Technica]
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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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