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»  *Ancestry.com* shares jumped five percent on their first day of trading, although they’re down a tad today. [Associated Press]

»  *Yahoo* settles a trademark infringement lawsuit with cosmetics giant Mary Kay. [Bloomberg]

»  Om Malik sorts through the winners and losers in the Skype settlement. [GigaOm]

»  In a Fox Business interview, *Google* CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t have kind words for his Redmond rival. “Hopefully we won’t repeat the mistakes that *Microsoft* made 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened to them,” he says. [TechFlash]

»  Talk about bad PR. Fortune asks whether *Microsoft* is set to become the “General Motors of software.” [Brainstorm Tech]

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