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It’s been a lousy week for the HD-DVD standard. First NetFlix dumped it, then Best Buy decided to officially recommend Blu-Ray to its customers. The HD-DVD promotion group responds with a whimper of a statement.

Layoffs start at Yahoo. Meanwhile Microsoft tells Yahoo - through the New York Post - that forty bucks a share is a bit much to ask for. Don’t be surprise if the sides split the difference.

But Yahoo’s soldiering on - buying online video ad network Maven.

Meanwhile Hot or Not sells for twenty million bucks. Or not. Whatever the price, these guys are the buyer.

The music industry says jump, UK lawmakers obediently and humbly beg to know how high. Pirating music might therefore soon get Brits banned from the Internet. In this they’re following a legal trail blazed by the French. The music industry takes narcissism to a new how, with a statement indicating that they think most people get Internet connections solely to swipe tunes.

Who actually clicks on Internet ads? Young-ish dudes who dig gambling and need jobs.

The hacker group Anonymous expands its online attacks on Scientology to worldwide in-person protests in cities including Sydney and London.

Before the Google logo looked like this, it looked like this, this, and this.

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