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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