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Yahoo! Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Terry Semel - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer — Susan Decker - Executive Vice President; Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group and Acting Chief Financial Officer — Analysts — Christa S. Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's Earnings Are Down 11 Percent — Yahoo's top executives have been focused this year on an effort nicknamed Panama, after the vast canal project undertaken in the face of adversity. It is a major overhaul of the company's search advertising system, intended to increase revenue and close …
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:Yahoo's quarterly earnings fall 11%
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
CNNMoney.com:
BlackBerry service back — Service problems disrupted e-mail traffic but the company says most service is restored. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tuesday but the company said Wednesday morning that service for "most customers" was restored.
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The BlackBerry Beat, PC World: Techlog, Engadget, Good Morning Silicon Valley, JD on EP and Engadget Mobile
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WNBC:
BlackBerry Woes Getting Better — NEW YORK — New information on a BlackBerry system failure that NewsChannel 4 first reported Tuesday night. — The company that makes the handheld device said things were repaired Wednesday morning. — Research in Motion, the Canadian company that provides …
WNBC:
Exclusive: Massive System Failure Affects BlackBerry Users — NEW YORK — NewsChannel 4 learned of a massive system failure that affected all BlackBerry users in the western hemisphere late Tuesday. — The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed BlackBerry technology …
DigiTimes:
HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end — High Tech Computer (HTC) is now manufacturing Google handsets with shipments officially commencing at the end of 2007, according to handset component makers. The makers also said the shipment volume will reach as high as one million units.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Google Phone launching end of 2007? — The on-again, off-again Google Phone rumors just got a healthy stir by Digitimes. The Taiwanese tech rag says that HTC is building the phone with initial shipments set to hit by the "end of 2007" — globally in 2008. They cite "handset component makers" as their source.
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Gadgetell, Mad4 Mobile Phones.com, CrunchGear, Search Engine Roundtable and rexduffdixon.com
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Virginia Tech: How Media Are Evolving — (Note: This will appear tomorrow as an op-ed piece in the Washington Examiner newspaper.) — Once again, horror has given us a glimpse of our media future: simultaneously conversational and distributed, mass and personal.
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Motorola:
Motorola Announces First-Quarter Sales and Earnings — First-Quarter Highlights — GAAP net loss from continuing operations of $0.09 per share, including net charges of $0.11 per share from items highlighted below — Handset shipments of 45.4 million units
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Consumer Electronics …
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo, PayPal Team Up On Checkout — Building on their existing alliance, Yahoo and PayPal today announced that Yahoo Sponsored Search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a method of payment.
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David Filo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Don't even leave a footprint — Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year. Essentially, that means we're going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!'s impact on the environment.
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Venture Chronicles, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, IFTF's Future Now and Tom Raftery's I.T. views
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Exclusive: Facebook May Launch Local Classifieds — Facebook is considering the launch of a local classifieds service, a source told Mashable. Under the proposed system, it would be free to list items in your own network, and cost a few dollars to post to each additional network.
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Search Engine Journal
Eric Case / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How to make a pie — Posted by: Yoah Bar-David, Software Engineer, Google Tel-Aviv — I have a friend who is a great chef and owns a restaurant. A while ago he called and asked me in his mild French accent "how to make a pie." I can cook, and I do it quite often.
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Google Blogoscoped, gSpy, CyberNet Technology News, Digital Inspiration and Googling Google
Newlaunches.com:
Only 244 copies of Genuine Windows Vista sold in China — Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS 'Windows Vista' in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai China.
support.turbotax.intuit.com:
Electronic Filing Delays and Status — Outstanding issues with our servers have been resolved and we are currently processing all customers' returns and requests for status checks at a normal rate. We have worked with the IRS this morning to ensure that returns will be considered as timely filed.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
The VoIP wars: air supply is an optional feature — Mobile carriers seek to choke new market — Truphone boss James Tagg says his fledgling company will ask Ofcom to intervene if mobile networks continue to cripple VoIP-capable handsets. — Another VoIP provider told us today that Orange …
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Techscape
BBC:
Web counting tools 'need change' — The way web audiences are measured could be ripe for an overhaul, according to two reports out this week. — Measurements based on page-views and cookies (small text files which track net use) could be affected by changing user behaviour, the studies warn.
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Liberate Media
