Brocade looking for a buyer -- the Wall Street Journal reports. But the Journal's sources also said that "no deal is imminent."
FTC requires bloggers to disclose free review units --
There are no hard and fast rules about disclosure in the document. Rather, there are general guidelines. Most relevant to the blogosphere: When products are given to bloggers like Leo Laporte (pictured) in exchange for posting about them, it must be disclosed "clearly," whatever that means.
Ad spending falls for second quarter in a row -- Internet Advertising Bureau's quarterly report says Q2 spending totaled $5.4 billion, down from $5.7 billion a year ago. There haven't been two successive down quarters since the dot-com bust of 2002. Since then, online advertising had grown every quarter until the start of this year.
California economy is rebounding, sort of -- California Economic Activity Index jumped one point in August. The biggest jump among the Index's many factors was an increase in the tonnage passing through the port at Long Beach. The worst factor: A continued lack of new jobs.
FTC-mandated disclosure: I have a Windows Phone, and you don't -- Windows Phone. Dean has a review loaner, and mine arrives Tuesday. Microsoft haters be warned: These things are going to sell. They're pretty.