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Private equity fund Mithras Capital, which holds 1.9 million shares of Yahoo (about 0.14%), will propose to Microsoft that they buy Yahoo at $22 per share, Reuters reports. Microsoft would then unload Yahoo’s Asian assets adn non-search businesses, take $3 billion worth of cost savings and some tax benefits, and end up with Yahoo’s search business for $10.3 billion.  Microsoft is obviously thrilled to see this kind of corporate chaos at Yahoo, although they are unlikely to even respond to the proposal. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/09/yahoo-shareholder-asks-microsoft-to-re-bid-at-22 10/9)

NHL.com dropped the puck on its new online subscription service GameCenter Live powered by NeuLion, offering users a free weekend-long trial beginning today to watch the season’s first games. The streaming video service will offer up to 40-games a week (local blackouts apply) with a variety of interactive features including multiple camera angles for select games and a multi-view option that allows you to keep an eye on 4 games at once. Sign up before Oct. 15 to lock in a special rate of $19.95/month payable in monthly installments or $159 for the season. (Cynopsis 10/10)

i-Rights, part of the Digital Rights Group (DRG) has signed a three-year deal to distribute Bebo‘s 10 part online comedy series Chelsey:OMG!, a fish-out-of-water tale about a young American girl in London for the first time. (Cynopsis 10/10)

I dig the trailer at least.  It’s like a younger, more American version of Bridget Jones Diary.  I really need these online series to word on their reminder functionality because requiring the audience to remember a series online in a non-appointment viewing world is near impossible.

Socially enlightened integrated media company GOOD launched a new six-part web series, Wild Frontier of Sports, appearing exclusively on social networking site Imeem. (Cynopsis 10/10)

The first video to load up was devoted to Dodgeball and specifically the rise of Dodgeball in Brooklyn.  Hysterical and well done.  I’d like to send this video shout-out to Evan, the number one Dodgeball fanatic in my friend group.

MoMedia International has agreed to a distribution deal with Sky to provide content for Go!View, the new video-on-demand service for the Sony PSP. MoMedia will supply Go!View with 10 episodes per month of The Aiya! Gang, an Asian version of Jackass, Endemol-owned JoeCartoon and Kamikaze Videos, described as funniest home videos meets Dirty Sanchez. (Cynopsis 10/10)

Content from online video sites such as YouTube and Blip.tv now is available on TV screens via Verizon Communications’ FiOS service. The telecom said it would soon add video-download service Starz Play. Light Reading (10/9)