• British dotcom entrepeneurs Michael Birch and Brent Hoberman finally launched their own fund for European startups at the Europa awards last night, according to Techcrunch.
• There's a selection of other stories about venture capital doing the rounds worth reading - first the Wall Street Journal's report that fund raising by US venture firms has dropped by 50% for the first half of 2009. No wonder there are arguments over America's $2.2bn small business investment scheme - courtesy of the Washington Post. On a different note, Dealscape talks to VC David Hornick - who raised this year's biggest fund - about the future of the industry.
• I'll leave you with this one: having railed against Microsoft's confusing advertising strategy just a few days ago, I was intrigued to see from CNet that the company has decided to run another online campaign for its forthcoming Office 2010 software. This one, I'll admit, got me chuckling: it's an overblown action spoof featuring the death of a famous Microsoft character. RIP Clippy; it's like nobody ever wanted you around in the first place.
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