Techmeme: Motorola Hangs Up on Handsets (Jim Goldman/Tech Check with Jim Goldman)

7:35 PM ET, January 31, 2008

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Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Results — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. — “We're very pleased with our performance this quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.

Discussion: Tech Beat, HipMojo.com, Epicenter, Tech Trader Daily and Digital Daily

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

Google's quarter falls short of expectations; Social networking not monetizing well — Google on Thursday reported fourth quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, on revenue of $4.83 billion, up 51 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges Google reported earnings of $4.43 a share.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, HipMojo.com, paidContent.org, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, WebProNews, eWeek, Valleywag and Computerworld

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Google Misses Revs/EPS...and Pulls Out the “Display” Card — Google missed consensus revenue and EPS estimates. Stock down 7% in after-market. Revenue shortfall on Google Sites (vs. affiliates), due to a shortfall in paid-click growth (startling deceleration). Adjusted operating income slightly light.

Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog and Valleywag

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:

Google: Social Networking Inventory Not Monetizing As Well As Expected; Trouble At MySpace? — Speaking on the company's post-earnings conference call, Google (GOOG) CFO George Reyes said the company has found that “social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected,” …

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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google: We're going under — sell, sell!

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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google earnings miss Wall Street estimates

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Google Q4 Earnings Preview: Meaningful Upside Expected

Tim Coulter / Joyeur:

Twitter and Joyent: Update — By David Young 31 January 08 — Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday's posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate …

Discussion: Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, Download Squad, Data Center Knowledge, ParisLemon, Valleywag and The Last Podcast

Twitter Blog:

We had a rough night. But now we're back. — I just left the office, at 6am, with most of our engineering and technical operations team. That's only a handful of people, but we were all there all night. — You may have noticed we had an outage last night/stretching into this morning.

Discussion: Epicenter, ParisLemon, Irregular Enterprise and Data Center Knowledge

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why does Twitter go down?

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MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Twitter's struggles harm more than just the users

Saul Hansell / Bits:

Spectrum Auction: C Block Hits Reserve Price — A bid of $4.7 billion this morning for the most valuable group of wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commission auction for 700Mhz spectrum pushed the price over the minimum price the government set.

Michal Lev-Ram / Techland:

Google gets its way with new wireless network — Somewhere in the Googleplex, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are celebrating right about now. — That's because the Internet search giant Thursday scored its first big win in the mobile business: The minimum $4.6 billion bid …

Discussion: New York Times, Epicenter and The Technology Chronicles

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Open access for all: prime 700MHz Block C hits reserve price

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, CircleID and Digital Daily

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Spectrum Auction: The C-Block Bidding Stalls at $4.7 Billion

Discussion: Engadget, TechCrunch, Electronista and Silicon Valley Watcher

InfoWorld:
Large block in 700MHz auction exceeds reserve price of $4.6 billion

Discussion: CrunchGear

Doug Sherrets / VentureBeat:

Google's Marissa Mayer: Social search is the future — At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google's leading VP in search, said social search hasn't shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about that here.

Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Land, Mashable! and John Battelle's Searchblog

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:

Motorola Hangs Up on Handsets — It is a stunning move by the pioneering name in mobile phones and the best data yet about just how deep the company's problems run: Motorola announced late Thursday that it is seeking alternatives for its handset business that likely will mean a sell-off of the division.

Discussion: Computerworld

PR Newswire:
Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its …

Discussion: GigaOM, Between the Lines, last100, TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider

Chris Williams / The Register:

‘Facebook fatigue’ kicks in as people tire of social networks — Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. — Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the chatter in bars and cafes …

Discussion: Tech Beat, broadstuff, The Constant Observer, HipMojo.com, Mashable!, The Last Podcast, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider and The Social Times

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:

Gartner: Apple To Double U.S., Europe PC Share By 2011 — Apple (AAPL) will double its share of the U.S. and Western European PC market share by 2011, the research firm Gartner said today. “Apple's gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple's success,” Gartner says.

Discussion: MacMegasite, Electronista and Insanely Great Mac

Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond

Discussion: Between the Lines and The Mac Observer

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Admins Charged with Assisting Copyright Infringement — “The operation of The Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues. In that way it commercially exploits copyright-protected work and performances,” said prosecutor Hakan Roswall in a statement.

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point?

Discussion: BBC and Slyck

Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:

AT&T data network fails for BlackBerry, iPhone users — San Francisco - AT&T's wireless data networks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S. are down, causing BlackBerry and iPhone users to be without data services. — The EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and UMTS …

Discussion: CNET News.com

= Dataoutages.com =: [Bb-Outage] ATT tells me Nationwide outage for BB data

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google, Facebook Battle For Computer Science Grads. Salaries Soar. — Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we've heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers even though graduation is months away.

Discussion: Business Technology, FaceReviews and The Chronicle

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com to Acquire Audible.com — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL). — Audible.com is the leading online provider of premium digital spoken word audio content, specializing in digital audio editions of books …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million. — We've gotten word that Yahoo will make an acquisition announcement of a video startup today or tomorrow. At first we thought the target might be Metacafe, which was almost acquired by Yahoo just following the Google/YouTube deal in 2006.

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