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You can now identify a brand as a friend - they're people too, at least on Facebook. Over 100,000 brands now have their very own Facebook pages. TechCrunch has a summary of the new Facebook initiative.

Alibaba - the Chinese e-commerce company which helps smaller Chinese companies sell their products throughout the world - is now worth over twenty five billion dollars.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was hauled before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This all started back in 2004, when a Chinese dissident named Shi Tao was arrested based on information that Yahoo gave the Chinese government. The Free Democracy blog has the story and CNET's Iconoclast blog has minute-by-minute coverage.

Pro Tip: If you commit a crime, say murdering two police officers, it's probably best not to write about it on MySpace. Amazingly, police have heard of that new fangled thing called the Internet.

A Canadian computer science student named Tom Karpik has learned that bad things can happen to Leopard users if a hard drive disconnects while copying is going on. Think mass deletion. Dave Winer has posted some very unhappy thoughts about the OS. And ComputerWorld has been covering stability issues since its launch.

The Audit Bureau of Circulation determined that paid circulation is down an average of two and a half percent at the major papers, continuing a long-running trend. More readers are heading to web, and there's talk of an online advertising conglomerate.

A device to let blind people feel the images and web pages.

The Crave blog has rumors that an Apple tablet PC is in the works, and they have vague diagrams as proof.

Eee PC is a two-pound laptop starting at $300.00. Forbes has a detailed history of the machine.