Roundup: Engineers leaving finance, Papermaster countersues, and more
Engineers are leaving Wall Street finance jobs to go be real engineers – As it has turned out, financial engineering isn’t so valuable.
Microsoft seems to be pulling in Facebook user data into its own web services — Seemingly in contradiction to Facebook’s user policy. TechCrunch has a closer look.
Newspaper company Gannett buys consumer web services company Ripple6 — Terms weren’t disclosed.
Jobs sites Jobster cuts 40 percent of its jobs — The company had raised $7 million back in April.
Blizzard releases new expansion pack for smash hit World of Warcraft — The Wrath of the Lich King produced long lines ahead of its release yesterday (pictures here), followed by a night of crashes and bugs.
High-end television sales falling – Users are opting for smaller, cheaper sets.
Ten fastest-growing Facebook applications this week — Facebook platform still not dead; more on InsideFacebook.
New Apple executive countersues former employer IBM — Mark Papermaster, a long-time chip expert at IBM, recently got recruited over to Apple, which IBM responded to with a lawsuit. Now, Papermaster is fighting back.
Intel got Microsoft to say its computers were fully Vista-capable when they weren’t — Court filing here.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.