Alibaba has released details regarding its initial public offering: the event should take place on November 6th, and is intended to raise about $1.5 billion.  Also, if earlier reports hold true, that’ll mean Yahoo could shell out around $150 million.

Google have just launched a new function in their Google Webmaster Center where website owners can now decide what Google Sitelinks they want displayed in the search results.

When I was in school, all the cool kids wore Nike tennis shoes. Brilliant white leather with just a green or blue Nike swoosh-thingy.

Click Forensics has released its pay-per-click (PPC) fraud numbers for the third quarter of 2007.

All philosophies are prisons. That statement in itself is a philosophy and an irony. I bring it up only because Rich Karlgaard did on his Forbes.com blog, relating how (by mostly guessing) that the seemingly oxymoronic "left-libertarian" is making headway in Silicon Valley, and therefore in society.

On Saturday night, parts of San Francisco went dark, and it was to some degree Google’s fault.  Google deserves credit, and not blame, for this occurrence, though, since it was part of an energy-saving initiative.

Several years of contentious litigation over Microsoft’s business practices in Europe have finally yielded a compromise between the two sides.

Some of Facebook’s applications have attracted thousands of users.  Others have become routine targets of ridicule.  Yet, with a new move to open up the Application Directory and “About Us” pages to search engines and non-members, Facebook is probably trying to capitalize on that first fact.

SanDisk released today its TakeTV, a video player that can play video downloads from a computer on a TV set.

The Google Library Project gains new members fairly frequently, and a comparable service from Microsoft also does all right.  A number of libraries have steered clear of the corporate rivalry, though, and have instead opted to side with the Open Content Alliance (OCA).

AT&T announced today that it would allow its subscribers to download music from Napster’s catalog of over five million songs directly to their cell phones. The service will launch early next month.

November 13th will be the new date for the European Union Competition Commission to give its decision on Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, based on the Commission’s perception of competition issues.

A couple of new domains appeared last week on Microsoft’s nameservers, both containing the HealthVault name and registered for com/net/org.