As we all know, there are many stages of grief a person goes through when someone dies. There’s Anger, Denial, Acceptance, and, of course, eventually An Attempt to Profit Financially. Which is why it’s surprising that so many people are angry over an official Microsoft public relations Twitter account asking followers to “remember” the late singer Amy Winehouse by purchasing one of her albums from them. Maybe they just got to that stage a little early?

Many singles bars have “ladies’ night” where women are offered price discounts. Singles bars do this for women but not for men because (heterosexually-focused) bars are what economists call two-sided markets – platforms that have two distinct user groups and that get more valuable to each group the more the other group joins the platform. This applies to singles’ bars – and startups.

Facebook may have been down yesterday, but its cofounder Mark Zuckerberg is up. The 26-year-old social-media whiz kid has been listed in the Forbes 400 as the 35th richest person in America, shooting past older media barons like Newscorp’s Rupert Murdoch, who is ranked 38th, and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who is ranked 42nd. Software kingpin Bill Gates of Microsoft still reigns on top of the Forbes list of rich people.

After enduring mountains of mockery at the hands of bloggers for saying he wants to get his sites off Google, word has gotten out that Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft. Talks that involve taking News Corp content off of Google and putting it on Bing. And getting paid for it. Who doesn’t understand the Internet now?

Can it be possible the Microsoft-Yahoo saga has finally come to a close? After over a year of backing and forthing, and court visits, and proxy therapists the two sides announced this morning that the long talked-about partnership has come to pass.