• Lots of Google news overnight, including
a surprise 27% increase in profits, despite the recession, and the emergence of more detail on the company's plan to launch a book download store.
• In what could turn into a very bizarre court case, a husband and wife team in America have been arrested on suspicion of fraud after getting the technology giant Cisco to ship replacement parts to fake businesses across the US. How much do investigators claim they bagged? $23m, says IDG.
• Remember that anti-venture capital screed by Jason Fried of 37 Signals? Turns out another one of his jokes - that his company was worth $100bn because somebody paid a dollar for 1/100bn of it - fooled at least one venture capitalist. He told Forbes that one unnamed VC
"seemed to think the document was genuine and "wanted to get in" on the made-up deal".
Enjoy your weekend.
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