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Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Google's Profit Rises 69% as Advertising Sales Gain (Update2) — April 19 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, said first-quarter profit rose 69 percent as it increased advertising sales worldwide and took more market share from Yahoo! Inc.
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CNNMoney.com:
Google gets its groove back — World's top search engine reports strong increase in sales and profits that beat expectations, stock soars — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said profits soared nearly 70 percent in the first quarter on the back of solid sales growth …
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Google Announces First Quarter 2007 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2007. — "The global growth of our core search and ads business and our focus on building our partnerships drove our strong results in the quarter," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Google Q1 '07 Earnings: Live Coverage — Google (GOOG) has reported first-quarter earnings. The stock jumped more than 3 percent in after-hours trading before settling down a bit. I blogged the call live as it happens; here's a transcript of the highlights I noted.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Earnings: Google's Q1 Revenues Up 63 Percent; Net Income Flat Sequentially
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experiangroup.com:
Acquisition of Hitwise — Experian, the global information solutions company, announces that it has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company, which helps clients monitor the performance of their websites and target their online advertising spend more effectively.
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BBC:
Microsoft aims to double PC base — Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users. — The firm wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015. — Governments in developing countries …
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Bob Bernick Jr / Deseret News:
Lawmakers seek ways to block Net porn — Utah lawmakers have tried various methods of controlling questionable Internet content, especially the availability of pornography to children. — Little has been successful. — But a legislative committee studying the issue this spring …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Dell brings back XP on home systems — update Dell is bringing XP back. — Amid significant customer demand, the computer maker said on Thursday that it has returned to offering the older Windows version as an option on some of its consumer PCs. — Like most computer makers …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Google Integrates News With Web Search Results — Today, Google will quietly begin changing the way it blends news results and standard web search results, co-mingling links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:Back to basics — Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Amazon sues Statsaholic...Web as Platform is Bullsh*t — Update: see filing embedded in this post. — Update 2: Contribute to our petition in support of Statsaholic. — Amazon just dug its own grave, I think. At least in the world of web services, it's going to be hard to save its reputation.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Vonage: Do You Know What 3Com Has? — Ken Rutkowski, with whom I co-host the World Technology RoundUp forwarded me on this email, which after receiving the author's permission, I have agreed to post as a community service for all the Vonage customers and shareholders.
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Get Going with Upcoming — Today we'd like to announce the next progression of Upcoming.org, Upcoming.yahoo.com. — Yep, it's official, we have moved into our new home inside Yahoo!, so from this point forward you'll be able to login to your account with your Yahoo! ID.
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons — More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data.
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Is the pen still mighty in the computer age? — Your grandchildren may use a stylus on a tablet PC instead of a Bic on tablet paper, but they will continue to write. — That's because even in an era when elementary school students are adept at mousing and teenagers are fiends at text-messaging …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Outlook 2007: downgrade no longer — Search used to be horrible in Outlook. It was so bad that for all intents and purposes, you couldn't search your old email. Instead, you were encouraged to carefully sort it out into a hierarchy of folders (shudder). — A bunch of third party fixes appeared.
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BBC:
Colour barcode system to hit DVDs — A colour barcode system holding more data than current codes will find its way onto DVDs later this year. — The four and eight-colour geometric patterns can hold up to two-pages of data, double the amount of traditional black and white, striped barcodes
