Facebook’s Stock Options  —  Cash is good, and Facebook, following its $240 million investment from Microsoft, now has plenty of it.  It might have much much more if reports prove true that other investors have, or will soon, join in.  With those lofty sums, Mark Zuckerberg and his crew …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Miguel Helft
Link: […]

Prism  —  Personal computing is currently in a state of transition.  While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications.  But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers.

Source:   Mozilla Labs Blog
Author:   LabRats
Link:   http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

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 …

Source:   Zune Insider
Author:   Rob Greenlee
Link:   http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/10/25/zune-1…

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 …

Source:   Infinite […]

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.

Source:   BoomTown
Author: […]

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.

Source:   Investor Relations - CNET Networks - Press Releases
Link:   http://pressreleases.cnetnetworks.com/phoenix.zhtml?c…

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 …

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08…

Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth; Fastest First Quarter Since 1999  —  Broad-based strength drives operating income and EPS growth each in excess of 25%  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year.

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   […]

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 …

Source:   WSUS Product Team Blog
Author:   Wsus
Link:   http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/10/25/wds…

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.

Source:   Techdirt
Author:   Mike Masnick
Link:   http://techdirt.com/articles/20071023/013551.shtml