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Jan 26 2009 9:16am EDT

First Bytes: Sprint Nextel, U.S. News, Twitter, Yahoo

Sprint Nextel is cutting 8,000 workers. [WSJ]

U.S. News is going digital and plans to charge readers for it. [Mixed Media]

Digg.com's Kevin Rose on increasing the number of your Twitter followers. [TechCrunch]

New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is expected to speak out on her plans tomorrow. [WSJ]


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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