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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Ex-Finance Chief Settles With SEC — Apple Inc.'s former chief financial officer Fred Anderson has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission on his alleged participation in the backdating of stock options at the computer maker and the agency is expected to pursue a civil lawsuit …
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Dan Gallagher / MarketWatch:
Apple shares hit new all-time high — Surge follows blow-out earnings; valuation worries some — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Apple Inc. watched its shares jump to a new all-time high Thursday after the company reported an 88% surge in second-quarter earnings.
New York Times:In Comments About Apple Chief, Questions of Motive
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SiliconValley.com, Valleywag, PodTech Network, Cult of Mac, The Next Net, TechFold and GigaOM
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:In Jobs We Trust — Despite the parting shot from former Apple …
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SiliconValley.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo — AOL has started beta testing a new home page (the main AOL.com portal). AOL Senior Product Manager (and occasional TechCrunch contributor) Frank Gruber introduced it on his personal blog earlier today.
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Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank:
AOL LAUNCHES INDIA, US & CANADA PORTALS — As hinted at last week, AOL has launched AOL India. The portal, a localized version of the United States version, is housed at aol.in. The portal looks very clean and light and could be considered an expression of AOL's now open and free business model.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Most press I ever got for not doing an interview... This whole WIRED vs. Calacanis/Winer stand off has really developed into a very interesting debate on the future of news. It's a discussion that, as Dave Winer said, is long over due and that we've been doing for long.
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Publishing 2.0, Scripting News, BuzzMachine, Glass House, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Epicenter and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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Heather Green / Blogspotting:Why I Prefer Doing Interviews by Phone or in Person
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, rexduffdixon.com, Brad Linder's digital home and Scripting News
TiVo.com:
Already have a TiVo box? — You can choose from a variety of service plans and we'll throw in a wireless adapter as our gift to you ($59.99 value!). — Prepay — Monthly — 1 year for $179 — = $14.92 per month — $16.95 per month — with 1-year commitment — 2 years for $299
Tomio Geron / Red Herring:
YouTube Lining Up Summer Ads — Video-sharing site experiments with pre-roll and post-roll spots. — Beware YouTube watchers, ads are comingas soon as this summer. — The video-sharing site that was acquired by Google in November is experimenting with the precise length, form …
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Microsoft 3Q '07 Earnings: Live Coverage — Microsoft (MSFT) has reported its third-quarter fiscal 2007 earnings today after the close. The stock (latest quote) was up nearly 5 percent in after-hours trading, but has now dropped a bit. I blogged the earnings call live as it happened.
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Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Joost Signs Advertising Deal With 31 Major Brands — Joost, the new project of Skype founders-who now want to revolutionize the way we watch TV, has signed three month contracts with a group of 31 brand advertisers including Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola, Nike, General Motors, and Visa.
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GameDaily:
Analysts Weigh In on Kutaragi's Departure — Perhaps Ken Kutaragi's departure shouldn't be surprising. SCE said it was in the works for a while, but was he squeezed out thanks to the PS3's limping out of the gate? Or was it simply time for him to move on?
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft's 'Big Bang' Is When? … Windows Server is the nucleus of Microsoft's enterprise strategy, around which all other products—even Windows client—revolve. Longhorn's eventual release, which Microsoft claims will be later this year, will likely set off major software upgrades, including Office 2007 and Windows Vista.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Windows Server: It's still 'Longhorn' for now
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Ars Technica
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
MPAA: We are committed to fair use, interoperability, and DRM — At a LexisNexis conference on DRM this week, MPAA boss Dan Glickman said the movie studios were now fully committed to interoperable DRM, and they recognize that consumers should be able to use legitimate video material on any item in the house, including home networks.
eMarketer:
Viral Marketing's Video Love Affair — Next to 'cool microsites' and games, viral video is hot. — Marketers with viral campaign experience think highly of microsites, games and video clips, according to Marketing Sherpa's "2007 Viral Marketing Survey." — An eMarketer subscription is like having your own
Michael Geist / Michael Geist's Blog:
World Intellectual Property Day — Today is World Intellectual Property Day which means that rather than focusing on creativity or on policies that meet the needs of creators and users, we get a private function for MPs and Senators on Parliament Hill sponsored by Senator Joseph Day …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Cozmo Wants to Kill Your TV — TiVo came along and is helping kill the idea of a TV time slot. The growth of on demand online video has been helping finish the job. Cozmo.Tv wants to create a TV 2.0 by changing the way you consume online video from a random walk to personalized content.
CEO / This is going to be BIG.:
Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks — The finger pointing culture of fear will always dominate a culture of openness. Media thrives on taking people down and creating a general fear of the worst possible outcome. Whether it's trying enact anti-MySpace laws or firing everyone …
Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
Interview with Chris DiBona of Google — A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear Chris DiBona, the Open Source Program Manager at Google, speak at a TiE Pittsburgh event. At the event, Chris provided an extremely insightful presentation on the state of the open source market.
