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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
What do 16,000 people do at Google? — I'm beginning to think that besides search advertising, hiring is the thing Google does best. — On Thursday, the company reported gains of 50 percent or so in quarterly profit and revenue from a year ago, beating analyst expectations.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? — Tomorrow Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a "knowledge networking" application. It has aspects of social networking …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages — When I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited integration of video into the service. That isn't happening (it will soon, though), but they are making significant upgrades tonight around geotagging …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
New Flickr UI with GeoTagging is Very Impressive — Flickr, for long has been a darling of photo lovers, primarily for its minimalist (and intuitive) user interface. However, with over a billion photos, Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of the Yahoo-owned photo service, it is becoming hard to find stuff …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin — If I told you there was a public presentation and arguably demonstration of Windows 7, you probably wouldn't believe me. Which is why I had to share this video with you. — Thanks to DigitalDud on Channel9 for noting, on October 13 last week …
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14 — We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time.
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Ballmer: I will buy 20 web companies a year — Steve Ballmer has told an audience of foaming Silicon Valley start-up types exactly what they want to hear: he will buy 20 web companies a year for the next five years. — The Microsoft boss made the promise at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year
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Krista Bessinger / Seeking Alpha Internet stocks:
Google Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Eric E. Schmidt - Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer, Director — George Reyes - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President — Lawrence Page - President - Products, Director — Sergey Brin - President - Technology, Director
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Will Google Crush The iPhone? — Take one look at the smart-phone market, and it's easy to see a murderer's row. Apple sold one million iPhones in less than three months this summer. Palm is rejuvenating its lineup with the cheap, pretty Centro. Research in Motion's BlackBerry continues to enslave the corporate class.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Strange Bedfellows — I have been asleep, apparently, at the big switch. This is according to former Harvard Business Review editor (and technology pundit in his own right) Nicholas Carr, who said as much this week in his very nice blog, Rough Type (look to your right, it's in the links).
Associated Press:
Brit spies use video game job ads — LONDON, England (AP) — GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games such as "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent."
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Under Fire Over a Controversial Site — Racist Speech, Porn — Stir Battle in Brazil; — A 'Pandora's Box' — SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Google Inc. makes billions marrying advertising to the Web. Just yesterday, it reported yet another surge in revenue and profit.
Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
Exclusive: Techbloggers Have Sold Their Souls — On WebProNews, Robert Scoble demonstrates why the leading techblogs are becoming less critical and more susceptible to hype — they're bargaining with PR flacks for exclusives: … One of the reasons mainstream tech magazines like PC Magazine …
Darren Waters / BBC:
EA wants 'open gaming platform' — Games are exploiting the increasing power of games consoles — Rival gaming systems should make way for a single open platform, a senior executive at Electronic Arts has said. — Gerhard Florin said incompatible consoles made life harder for developers and consumers.
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Bruce Mohl / Boston Globe:
Patriots get StubHub users' names — Seeking to enforce their policy prohibiting ticket resales, the New England Patriots have obtained the names of 13,000 people who sold or bought the team's tickets using the online site StubHub Inc. — The Patriots obtained the list last week as part …
