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Responding to the momentum around data portability, MySpace has launched its own "Data Availability" effort with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket.

While Microsoft has been in discussions with News Corp. about putting in a joint bid for Yahoo, people close to Microsoft told that the software company still plans to go after Yahoo on its own, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a reported plan to join forces with AOL, as a way to stave off the software giant's advances.

MySpace has launched the MySpace Developer Platform site which will allow external software developers the chance to build applications for its users.

Yahoo has dusted off a three-month-old financial plan to reinforce its contention that the company is worth much more than Microsoft has offered to pay for it.

Traditional media companies should see Google as a friend willing to help them take advantage of online opportunities, and not as an enemy that competes with them.

Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.

BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.

In an unexpected development, chip giant Intel has joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from Intel's rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Mahalo, a search engine that uses people to come up with search results, said today it has begun taking applications from people who want to be paid for researching queries.

MySpace will provide attorneys general offices in all U.S. states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind.