Around the Web 07.09.08: Yahoo talks with Icahn, new iPhone draws faint praise

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-- Yahoo has been meeting with dissident investor Carl Icahn and could strike a compromise; a pre-annual meeting deal with Microsoft is much less likely. WSJ

-- Oh, and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang isn’t resigning, despite what an unnamed hedge fund guy swears is a rumor. Silicon Alley Insider

-- In other bogus-rumor news, Yahoo is alleged to be interested in buying Santa Monica’s Demand Media for a billion or two. TechCrunch

-- Apple’s new iPhone fails to blow away the press corps. Wired

-- Flickr photographers could cash in via Getty Images. Bits

-- YouTube is more huge than profitable. WSJ

-- On the other hand, Google’s exposure of search-term volume will take much of the guesswork out of buying text ads. CNet

-- File-sharing by an employee at an investment firm inadvertently exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on 2,000 clients, including a U.S. Suprme Court justice. Oops. Washington Post

-- Joseph Menn