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Feb 03 2009 9:52am EDT

First Bytes: Motorola, MySpace, Yahoo, Broadband

Motorola continues to lose massive amounts of money on its handsets. The company reported a $3.6 billion loss today on sales of $7.1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008. [GigaOm]

MySpace reports that their new filtering software will stymie some 90,000 sex offenders from the site. [Techcrunch]

Yahoo's Carol Bartz offered up $1,000 to employees who rat out on their co-workers who leak information. It's not working. [AllThingsD]

Is the broadband internet money allocated in the stimulus plan wise, or a waste? [New York Times]

Angel investors forsake tech start-ups as the economic downtown lingers and worsens. [New York Times]

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