• "Among the many measures of a successful foreign investment, helping to set off a coup d' tat is definitely not one of them," says the New York Times, writing about Singapore company Temasek's purchase of Thailand's major telecom company from the family of the then-prime minister, months before a military coup overthrew him. [NY Times]
  • Google triples its office space in New York City, keeping the requisite free food and gameroom. How does it feel to work in a glorified student lounge? [CNET]
  • A pair of analysts say YouTube will collapse under a chain reaction of lawsuits. Of course, analysts have to say these things to get press, and they picked a bad time — YouTube is just starting to look salveageable, if they make enough alliances to fend off a case of Napster Death. [CNET]
  • Hewlett-Packard's law firm says that Brian Jenkins, a well-known RAND Corporation intel specialist, told HP that it was legal to impersonate subjects to get their phone records. So far, consensus is that this is probably illegal. Congress looks ready to make that explicit. [NY Times]
  • Is there a phrase more cringe-inducing than "IBM gets involved in social networking"? No, no, it actually sounds like a good idea, it just conjures an image of some ghastly version of LinkedIn. [CNET]