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Reuters:
Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent — Web search leader Google reported on Thursday a 46 percent rise in profit that topped Wall Street expectations, fueled by accelerating market share gains and tighter cost controls. — Third-quarter net income rose to $1.07 billion …
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TechCrunch, New York Times, Insider Chatter, TechWeb, The Register, HipMojo.com and Mark Evans
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Search, Ads And Apps: The Google Q3 2007 Results — Google's combo of search, ads & apps gave it a very strong Q3. … For the nine months ended September 30, Google had revenues of $11,767,307 compared with $7,399,419 a year ago. There's a great deal more detail in the release.
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 …
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.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Dell Hell: The end? — My column reporting on my visit to Dell headquarters and my interview with Michael Dell just went up on Business Week. It'll be in this week's issue. Hell, it's even the lead online. — After giving Dell hell two years ago, I may well be accused of throwing them a wet kiss now.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year — Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer just said at the Web 2.0 conference here in San Francisco that the software giant will acquire 20 companies a year for the next five years, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Web is the Platform — The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago. His talk was nominally about widgets (which Google calls Gadgets).
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 …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites — Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.
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Read/WriteWeb, blognation China, Search Engine Land, JD on EP, VentureBeat, Google Blogoscoped, The Register, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Boing Boing, Brier Dudley's blog, Todd Watson, Digital Marketing SEO Blog, Joe Duck, Doc Searls Weblog, Scobleizer, WebProNews, Tom Raftery's Social Media, Epicenter, AppScout, Between the Lines, Search Engine Roundtable, Mashable!, Texas Startup Blog, Search Engine Journal, The Raw Feed, Associated Press and Digg
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Anne Broache / Webware.com:REPORTS: CHINA 'HIJACKING' GOOGLE, YAHOO, MICROSOFT SEARCH SITES
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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 …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Coalition to Counter Google on Video Copyright — Update: The group has put together a web site of 15 "User-Generated Content Principles" with the tagline "Encourage creativity. Respect intellectual property." There's an official announcement out, which includes Veoh Networks as a participant …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Web 2.0 Summit: Panel on Facebook as a Platform — Discussion is led by entrepreneur and start-up adviser Dave McClure, with Seth Goldstein (CEO, SocialMedia.com), Ali Partovi (CEO, iLike), Keith Rabois (VP, Slide) and Lance Tokuda (CEO, RockYou) as panelists.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Standing Up To Takedown Notices — Web Users Turn the Tables on Copyright Holders — On a chilly February day, Stephanie Lenz decided to show her family and friends what her bouncing baby boy could do. She plopped 13-month-old Holden, then learning to walk, on the floor, cranked up Prince's song …
Neely Tucker / Washington Post:
Taking a Whack Against Comcast — Mona Shaw Reached Her Breaking Point, Then for Her Hammer — Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who — by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors — display the mettle of the national character. — For instance: The Dillinger Gang …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
@Web2.0: Steve Ballmer Wants To Buy Your Company — Alberto Escarlate, the CTO-turned-reporter, sends us these dispatches from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Web 2.0 Q&A session with John Battelle: — How are the Facebook negotiations coming along? — "Mark Zuckerberg says it goes pretty well.
Business Wire:
Platial Acquires Frappr, Creates #1 Social Map Site — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Platial today announced the acquisition of Frappr, the popular social map destination and widget network. The merger makes Platial the leader in social mapping with more than 15MM unique users per month …
