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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:

Found on Infectious Greed: Largest Patent Settlements in History.

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.

I found it on Infectious Greed: The Triumph of Technology.

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.