First there were the acquisition rumors, then the acquisition. Then there were the sale rumors.

Teens age 13-17 bought 19% less music in 2008 than they did in ’07 according to a new NPD survey. CD purchases declined 26% and paid digital downloads fell 13% compared with the prior year. 32% of the teens who bought less digital music "expressed discontent" with the music available and 23% said that they already had enough music. 24% of teens said they had cut back all entertainment spending.

Want someone to take you seriously?  An effective (if inelegant) way of getting attention is to flash some cash.  That practice may also, as it turns out, get you a link from Google.

Google will bid in the upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, the company announced this morning. Run by the Federal Communications Commission, the auction is scheduled to begin on January 24, and could run until March.

The Federal Trade Commission gave Yahoo’s acquisition of ad network BlueLithium its stamp of approval.

Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth gives Yahoo its second straight day of major Wall Street love for the Internet company’s stock.

Microsoft has announced it will purchase Chicago-based Parlano, maker of MindAlign, an application for corporate group chat.

Scripps Networks has purchased Recipezaar, a user- generated recipe community site with more than 230,000 recipes.

Next to that term, Answers Corp found an entry for $100 million, and acquired Lexico Publishing Group.

Google has announced that it is acquiring Postini, an on demand communications e-mail security company.

In the final decision making process of buying an automobile, over half of consumers (53%) use the Internet as their main source for finding information about a vehicle they will purchase according to a DoubleClick Performics survey.

One blogger found that a trio of potential revenue streams simply did not work for him; he did credit paid sponsor ads for their help.

Google’s acquisition of Swedish-based Marratech, a video conferencing software company, should lead into Google Talk becoming more competitive with eBay’s Skype and other services.