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Apr 14 2009 5:45pm EDT

Last Bytes: EBay to Toss Skype to the Market

EBay finally has a solution for what to do with Skype: spin it off in an IPO next year. An attempt by Skype's founders to buy it back apparently failed. [Wall Street Journal]

Intel beat expectations and CEO Paul Otellini called the bottom for PC sales. Still, its outlook wasn't exactly chipper. [Reuters]

Media executives came together to form Journalism Online, which will allow newspapers and magazines to charge for online access, including an all-you-can-read subscription that would allow access to multiple publications. But will it work? [New York Times]

Advertisers cut down on search ads by 13 percent in the first quarter, but it may not be rock bottom yet. [Wall Street Journal]

Ending world hunger one search at a time? That's what Hoongle.org is aiming to do. [Bits Blog]

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