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AP – Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York.

AP – Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York.

AFP – Microsoft and Yahoo began takeover talks Friday with the US software giant open to raising its 44.6-billion-dollar bid for the struggling Internet pioneer, a source close to the situation told AFP.

TechWeb – Bid to increase its enterprise systems management coverage hinges on OpenPegasus.

AP – Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.

AP – Cubans are getting wired. The island’s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.

AP – One gray squirrel, its bushy tail twitching, barked a warning as another scrounged for food nearby. It was an ordinary spring day at Hampshire College, except that the rodent issuing the warning was powered by amps, not acorns.

Reuters – Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) is
looking at a possible purchase of U.S. wireless company Sprint
Nextel , a German magazine said on Saturday.

AFP – German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom is examining a possible bid for loss-making US mobile provider Sprint Nextel, Germany’s Der Spiegel said Saturday.

AFP – Skype guru Ahti Heinla and Microlink and Delfi founder Rainer Nolvak put cutting-edge IT technology and 40,000 volunteers to work Saturday to clean-up the tiny Baltic Sea state of Estonia.

AFP – Malaysian police raided the home of a top Internet blogger after he posted an article implicating the deputy premier and his wife in the murder of a Mongolian model, reports said Saturday.