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Mar 12 2009 9:03am EDT

First Bytes: EBay, Sergey, Moody's, Google, March Madness

eBay is abandoning plans to compete in the online retailing space and will focus instead on the used goods that got it off the ground in the first place. [Wall Street Journal] Analysts weren't so psyched. [Business Insider]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin will donate money and his DNA to Parkinson's research, after discovering he has a genetic mutation that puts him at higher risk of the disease through a test by his wife's genomics company 23andMe. [New York Times]

A bunch of tech companies, including AMD and Palm, have made Moody's "likely to default" list. [Ars Technica]

What Google really plans to do with all that data it's collected on your search behavior. [Wired]

Now you can watch March Madness on your iPhone. [All Things Digital]

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