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Apple:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Posts Second Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings in Company's History — CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2006—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1, 2006. The Company posted revenue …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Mac sales up 12 percent as Apple profits soar — Apple Computer's third-quarter revenue fell a little short of expectations, but profitability was far higher than expected and Mac sales increased at a healthy clip. — Revenue was $4.37 billion, up 24 percent from last year's quarterly revenue of $3.52 billion.
Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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microsoft.com:
Windows Principles — Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition — Microsoft Corp. recognizes the important role its Windows® desktop operating system products play in the information economy and the responsibilities that come with that role. To promote competitive opportunities …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft vows to play fair — WASHINGTON—Microsoft pledged on Wednesday that all of its future operating systems, including Windows Vista, will abide by self-imposed rules aimed at bolstering choice and competition. — The voluntary principles will come into play after major parts …
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Yahoo to Delay Ad Platform Upgrade — Yahoo will delay its long-awaited new interface for advertisers until the fourth quarter, after previously saying it would be ready in Q3. The news came as the company announced its second-quarter earnings. — Net income for the quarter dropped precipitously …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huge Red Flag at Netscape — A little known Digg-fact is that a relatively small group of users submit a large percentage of the stories that end up on the Digg home page. Netscape, which recently relaunched as a Digg-clone, wants to pay those top users to switch over to them.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Wow... what a response! (or "why people get upset when you offer …
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Finding Home Values in Web Search — With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We've integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates …
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Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music — You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3. Dear digital consumer, even if you're not into Jessica Simpson …
David E. Williams / CNN:
Google's unknown artist has huge following — (CNN) — Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times. — The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million — An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows …
Diane Mermigas / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp., DirecTV take broadband to the Max — CHICAGO — News Corp.'s zealous embrace of interactivity soon will reach way beyond the runaway success of the social networking Web site MySpace when its majority-owned DirecTV decides on a path and partners for creating a national WiMax network.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Jobster, the Web 2.0 company on steroids, brings total bounty to $50M — Seattle's Jobster, a site for job seekers and employers wanting to converse with them, has raised $18 million from investors. The private company is now valued above $100 million. — There's a big lesson in this story, which we'll get to shortly.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
AOL launches corporate IM service — AOL is set to launch on Wednesday its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. — The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar …
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken — In Domain Names, Too — It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory. — There are roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com," making that space the biggest and most prestigious piece of real estate on the Internet.
