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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.
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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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.
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Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its Businesses to Enhance Shareholder Value — Company will evaluate alternatives to accelerate the ability of its Mobile Device Business to recapture growth and profitability in an expanding global market
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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.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Motorola considers cell phone biz spinoff
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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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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 …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Ad Growth Still Strong, Google Says — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said it has seen no effect from a slowing economy on its advertising business, as it reported a 17 percent jump in profit and a 51 percent growth in revenue in the fourth quarter. — The result represents a slowdown in Google's growth rate and fell shy of expectations.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:Spectrum Auction: C Block Hits Reserve Price
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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.
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
RealPlayer named by StopBadware.org — StopBadware.org said Tuesday it has labeled two versions of the RealPlayer media player as “badware,” or spyware. — RealPlayer 10.5, it claims, “fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user's computer.”
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 …
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