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DreamWorks Animation files for $650 mln IPO : DreamWorks L.L.C. and its animation division, DreamWorks Animation, Inc., today announced that DreamWorks Animation, Inc. has filed a registration statement with the SEC. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are serving as joint book-running managers of the offering.

With all of the productivity gains of the networked economy, why are we still working the same number of hours (or more)? Is it that we get more done in the same time, or is it that a certain equilibrium has been reached -- that all of the productivity benefits of the Internet have been balanced by all of the productivity-sapping powers of the web?

Modern day tombstones: TheMan.com.

The prognosticators prognosticated that increasing broadband adoption would herald a multi-media web. And it has in many ways. iTunes and what not. But it is remarkable that one of the most valuable web properties, Google, has won because of its decision to stay away from all the hootenanny. And as the post below highlights, Microsoft is following.

Bush says during a July Fourth campaign rally: "American military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has made terrorists 'desperate' and 'furious.'" That don't sound too good.

Not sure if DSBPI readers have checked out the new MSN Search, also known as Google Lite.