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Qwest Looks to Have Won Bid for MCI Takeover - newsfactor.com
An executive who found his Groove - Jeff Raikes group vice president, Microsoft Corp.'s information worker business - boston.com
The largest patent settlements:
| Year | Plaintiff | Defendant | Settlement ($mm) |
| 2005 | Dr. Gary K. Michelson | Medtronic | $1,350 |
| 1990 | Polaroid | Eastman Kodak | 909 |
| 2004 | Sun Microsystems | Microsoft | 900 |
| 2004 | Intergraph | Intel | 675 |
| 2004 | InterTrust Technologies | Microsoft | 440 |
Excellent overview and good advices on how to blog in a corporate environment - "Online Extra: Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers"
X1 Technologies Secures $10M in Venture Financing Led by U.S. Venture Partners; Desktop Search Leader Will Use Funds to Deliver Award-Winning Technology Solutions for the Enterprise - businesswire
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms, has hired veteran serial entrepreneur -- and zen buddhist -- Randy Komisar as its latest partner. - siliconbeat
HP takes aim at outsourcing rivals - news.com.
A good list of guidelines on iProceed Management Consultant & Strategy: Investor presentations for raising venture capital.
Deals:
Boston v. the Valley - businessweek/dealflow
August Capital has raised a new $550 million fund - businessweek/dealflow
Francisco Partners Buys RedPrairie - line56
Anti-Hacker Tech Gets $8 Million - Intrusic will accelerate development of its fine-tuned network-monitoring software for security consultants. - redherring
Musicrypt Completes $3 Million Financing - marketwire
Red Hat and MySQL Tighten Bond - newsfactor
News:
Novell delivers Linux package to home PCs - news.com
Microsoft preparing Windows XP thin clients - infoworld
Longtime NSI Software CEO Beeler Steps Down - varbusiness
Opinions:
Intel Execs: Inventory Strained; Worldwide Markets Stable - crn.com
Software giant, rivals each step up Internet search features - Microsoft Corp., whose Windows operating system runs almost 95 percent of the world's personal computers, will add computer-search features to its next version of Windows as Apple Computer Inc. offers similar tools. - boston.com
Microsoft poised to take blogosphere lead: 7 million blogs, 100000 new blogs being created per day - blogherald.com
Israeli VCs Invest at Home - Venture investment in Israel remained flat this quarter, but Israeli VCs took back control of their own market. - redherring
Only a Matter of Time Until VoIP Goes Mobile - wireless.newsfactor
Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart - wired
What's The Most Popular Brand Online? - corante.com
MySQL CEO touts open source as an alternative - Mickos cites shrinking IT budgets as motivating factor - infoworld
Oracle on SAP's NetWeaver: Bring it on - news.com
Stats:
191 buyouts in enterprise applications market within the past 15 months - itfacts.biz
Average enterprise generates 300,000 documents a month - itfacts.biz
Two posts on innovation on Techdirt: How Your Users Accelerate Your Innovation , Missing The Point On Innovation.
See The Global Small Business Blog: The Return of Japan, Inc.? for recent trends and analysis on Japan.
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