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8:15 PM ET, October 25, 2007

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MEETblog:
Facebook Rumors: Making Friends with More investors  —  Two hedge funds from New York have apparently jumped into the Facebook deal.We've got our ear to the ground to figure out who it is but each put in about $250 million—for $500 million total—at the same valuation as Microsoft Corp.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Memo to Mark: BoomTown Is Baaaack and We're Still Dubious!  —  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.  —  Well, we're glad it's done, our conflict of interest shoved aside by the hey-big-spenders at Microsoft and we can again resume our incredulous analysis of the insane $15 billion valuation of Facebook.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook roundup: Hedge funds invest $500 million, and more
Discussion: Valleywag
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Perspective: Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Taps Into Hedge Funds For $500 Million More?
Discussion: Marc's Voice
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth; Fastest First Quarter Since 1999  —  Broad-based strength drives operating income and EPS growth each in excess of 25%  —  Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss)  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30 …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft's $30 Billion Vista Bump
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft reports impressive fiscal first quarter
Computerworld:
In Depth: Apple's Leopard leaps to new heights  —  A refined look, revamped apps and new options build on an already solid OS foundation  —  It's been two years, five months and 26 days since Apple Inc. last released a new operating system — the longest gap between releases since the company first released Mac OS X six years ago.
Discussion: Macworld, rexblog.com and Slashdot
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Apple's Leopard Falls Prey to Torrent Feeding Frenzy
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Investor Relations:
CNET Networks Announces Sale of Webshots to American Greetings  —  CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET), a leading interactive media company, today announced the sale of its Webshots business to American Greetings, effective immediately, for approximately $45 million in cash.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos: Please Stop Pissing Off People Over Amazon Prime  —  from the pretty-pretty-pretty-please dept  —  Back in May, we tried to alert you to a serious customer service problem that your company is facing concerning the way you are marketing Amazon Prime.
PR Newswire:
Vonage and Verizon Resolve Patent Dispute  —  In June 2006, Verizon Services Corp. brought a lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp. to enforce several Verizon patents relating to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.  —  In March 2007, a jury held that Vonage is infringing three valid Verizon patents.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Yahoo Executive Joins Nintendo  —  Nintendo of America is underlining its commitment to trying to broaden the market for video games beyond the traditional younger, male player by hiring a sales and marketing chief with extensive experience with mainstream brands.
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Leopard backpedals again: No more iPhone note syncing  —  Looks like Apple now believes that it has said a little too much with the new Leopard feature pages.  Yesterday it backpedaled on letting us use an AirPort Disk with Time Machine, and now it appears as though all references to the iPhone …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Apple in a Fight for Rights to TV Shows  —  Apple's Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry, with his iPod and iTunes digital music store.  Struggling record labels swallowed hard and accepted his 99-cents-per-song pricing because they had little choice.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla can live without Google's money, Baker says  —  Thunderbird spin-off should find its own revenue, the Mozilla CEO adds  —  Mozilla Corp. will walk away from Google Inc. and the millions it collects from the search company each year, if that's what it takes to stay independent …
Discussion: WebProNews
 
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Mitch Wagner / InformationWeek:
Google Maps And Twitter Are Essential Information Resources For California Fires
Discussion: DSLreports and Portfolio.com
Ben Worthen / WSJ.com:
Is Google Causing Microsoft to Drop its Prices?
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Google's Cerf: Deep space Web decades out
Guardian:
Google Earth used to target Israel
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Why Microsoft Needed Facebook & Google Didn't
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft
Sue Polinsky / Download Squad:
At the Top of Google  —  I haven't met two small business owners …
Paul Stokes / Telegraph:
Oink founder: We're just like Google