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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2008 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. — “Strong international growth as well as sustained traffic increases on Google's web properties propelled us to another strong quarter …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy — Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment. — The search giant on Thursday reported net income …
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PR Newswire:
Microsoft's Annual Revenue Reaches $60 Billion — Fastest annual revenue growth since 1999 fuels 32% increase in earnings per share. — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $15.84 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, an 18% increase over the same period of the prior year.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft profits miss Wall Street estimates — Breaking news: Microsoft today reported fourth-quarter profits of 46 cents a share, just short of Wall Street expectations, and trimmed its earnings forecast for the full fiscal year. — Analysts had been expecting earnings of 47 cents per share.
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New York Times
Business Wire:
AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO — Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AMD (NYSE:AMD - News) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company's chief executive officer.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Ruiz out at AMD, Dirk Meyer new CEO — AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is stepping down from the helm of the troubled chip company, and Dirk Meyer is taking over. — Ruiz announced the leadership change during AMD's second-quarter financial earnings conference call.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
PodTech purchased by ViewPartner for less than half a million, ending a bloody story — PodTech, a company that publishes online and downloadable videos about new technology, has been sold — for less than half a million dollars, I've learned — to ViewPartner, a communications technology company.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy's Domain Registration Totally Screws .me — Earlier this year GoDaddy won the rights to distribute domains under the extension .me, which belongs to the country of Montenegro. After a number of private distribution periods for corporations, the highly desirable extension finally went …
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Opera:
Mobile browsing gets a makeover — Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is released — Opera Software today released the much-anticipated, first public version of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta. A powerful foreshadowing of what is to come, this beta takes mobile browsing speed and features to a new level, complete with visual effects and a new look.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support — It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears. Andrew Fogg saw a preview of the integration at Google's offices and found …
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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Source: VC for Facebook widgetmakers is drying up — They can't say they didn't have it coming. But widgetmakers are angry all the same about Facebook's decision to clone Slide's Top Friends application as a feature in its latest redesign. “It would be insane for a new developer” …
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
77.4% of Search Ads to Google in Q2 2008 — Efficient Frontier has released search advertising market data for the second quarter of 2008, and it showed Google growing 2% over Q2 2007. For every new dollar spent on search ads in 2008 over 2007, Google received $1.10, while Yahoo lost $0.09 and Microsoft lost $0.01.
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Apple Climbs To Third Place In US Desktop Market — Gartner and IDC have reported that Apple has climbed to third place in the US desktop market, with a market share of approximately 7.8 to 8.5%. Worldwide, Apple has yet to crack the top 5 spots, but in the USA Apple has finished almost tied …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Channel Intelligence Sues Just About Everyone Who Offers Wishlists — Channel Intelligence, a company based in Florida, filed a lawsuit for patent infringement in Delaware on Tuesday against a long list of startups and other companies and individuals who have one thing in common …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar? — Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data. — Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is trouncing everyone …
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Deep Jive Interests
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share — Yahoo's Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company will sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share or more. — Arnold reviewed the meat of the letter, so readers don't have to run through it all themselves …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
IBM: Big Blue beats expectations; raises full year guidance — updated: IBM, a bellweather that analysts have been watching as an indicator of the tech industry's economic health in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings of $2.8 billion, or $1.98 a share, an increase of 28 percent over the same quarter a year ago.
