More activity in blogland: Om Malik announced that his network of tech blogs, Giga Omni Media, has bought a small mobile gadgets blog called jkOnTheRun.

That rumour about Google buying Skype, or at least partnering with them, has come around again. After a few months of dormancy, TechCrunch reinflates the possibility that something is brewing between the two firms.

Gossip about Bebo being bought, possibly. Photo: kamshots on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Where Are you Now (curiously, the first social networking site I joined) is reported to be in talks with AOL over a $200m acquisition, according to Mike Butcher on TechCrunch UK.

Photo: jenn_jenn on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

The markets are abuzz with the revival of speculation that Google is about buy Yell, which saw its shares drift from 595.50 to 325.75 during 2007.

Another cracker from the ever-reliable Mike Butcher at TechCrunchUK; a reliable source says that News Corporation is negotiating to buy the networking site for professionals, LinkedIn, in January next year.

It's been a while since the last juicy web business rumour, so this will do nicely.