http://www.osp.ru/cio/2008/06/4987902/ russian publication “IT Director” [rus: Директор ИС] has published a detailed article about legal status and a variaty issues that surrounds free/open source usage in Russian Federation
http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html ex. msft employee joined googl, worked for 1 year and went back to msft. You may agree with author or not u may not, but there are some interesting points.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080601/how-hard-could-it-be-adventures-in-office-space.html?partner=fogcreek Joel [JoelOnSoftware] wrote a story how to rent an office.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/malware_biz.pdf awesome paper about business of spam/malware/etc, kinda scary
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-April/000772.html bwaahh, well, a lot seems to be true :-) /read it/
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-you-process-credit-cards useful article and (especially!) comments about ecommerce systems
http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/02/12/comparative-language-job-trend-graphs/ somewhat interesting statistics for programming language popularity
http://5ds.ru/ web design studio from Ukraine, also http://free-lance.ru/users/maxtalker/