DALLAS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MyStore.com confirmed Michael Birch, who just sold his company Bebo to AOL, has joined the group of private investors including Gordon Crawford (Capital Research & Management) and Julian Lennon (son of the late John Lennon) behind yourStore, LLC.

By Anonymous MICHAEL & XOCHI BIRCH CO-FOUNDERS OF BEBO Who are they? According to their Bebo profiles, she's 36, has 195 friends and drinks wine; he's 37, loves Guinness and is happiest writing code. Bebo, of which they own a significant chunk, was sold to AOL in March for $850m.

By Billy Bragg Last week at South by Southwest, the rock music conference held every year in Austin, Texas, the talk in hotel lobbies, coffee shops and the convention center was dominated by one issue: How do musicians make a living in the age of the Internet? It's a problem our industry has struggled with in the wake of the rising popularity of sharing MP3 music files.

Staking its claim in online social networks, AOL on Thursday announced plans to acquire Bebo in an $850 million deal that encourages other entrepreneurs in a burgeoning field centered in Silicon Valley.

To commemorate this year's Valentine's Day, Hearst's eSPIN.com (www.espin.com), the premier PG-13 social networking site, has forged a first-time partnership with Bebo, the global Social Media Network, to launch its wildly popular "spin the bottle" application within Bebo's open environment.