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Mar 19 2009 9:03am EDT

First Bytes: Oracle, Sony, Vivek Kundra, Time Inc.

While bank shareholders are dealing with major reductions in dividend payments, Oracle owners will receive their first dividend ever from the software giant. [Wall Street Journal]

Look out, Kindle. Sony struck a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device. They were all written before 1923, however. [New York Times]

Now we know what Vivek Kundra, America's CIO, was busted for stealing when he was 21: four shirts from J.C. Penney worth $134. It's hard to out-geek that. Sounds perfect for the job. [Associated Press]

Time Inc. is trying to figure out how much you would be willing to pay for content online. [All Things Digital]

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