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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.
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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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Business Week, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Sramana Mitra on Strategy, Silicon Alley Insider, O'Reilly Radar, Valleywag, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Wall Street Journal, Read/WriteWeb, Screenwerk, Between the Lines, Epicenter, Technology Live, All Facebook, Webware.com, 901am, Search Engine Land, Microsoft News Tracker and Inside Facebook
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Facebook roundup: Hedge funds invest $500 million, and more
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Perspective: Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company
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 — It turns out someone does like Windows Vista, along with Office and the other stuff Microsoft sells. Indeed, the company sold $1.1 billion more of that stuff in the second quarter than analysts expected. The company's profits rose by 23 percent.
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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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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.
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David Kravets / Threat Level:Apple's Leopard Falls Prey to Torrent Feeding Frenzy
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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.
Rob Greenlee / Zune Insider:
Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions — Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy "1-Click Podcast Subscription" process for podcast listeners or viewers. This 1-Click process will launch the new Zune Marketplace software and place …
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 …
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.
Wsus / WSUS Product Team Blog:
WDS revision update, expanded applicability rules, auto-approve revisions — Some customers have reported that update package for KB917013 was being deployed to WSUS clients without having approved the update for installation on their WSUS servers. The original update release …
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Computerworld, All about Microsoft, Christopher Null, The Register, BetaNews, The Mac Observer, Sadjad's space, Hardware 2.0, Neowin.net and Zoli's Blog
Wolfgang Hansson / DailyTech:
OCZ Acquires High-Performance System Builder Hypersonic-PC — OCZ Technology adds Hypersonic-PC to its portfolio — Since its restructuring in 2002, OCZ Technology has branched away from its core offerings of RAM and power supplies into peripherals like its Equalizer gaming mouse and cooling components like the OCZ Hydrojet as well.
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC's Copps Calls for News Corp.-Wall Street Journal Inquiry — FCC Commissioner Cites Cross-Ownership Rule — Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps asked FCC chairman Kevin Martin to open an inquiry into News Corp.'s purchase of The Wall Street Journal.
