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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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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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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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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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Microsoft Call: Online Ad Business Is Bad; Share Weakness Out Of Our Control
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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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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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AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO — − Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD - — AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company's chief executive officer.
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Ruiz out at AMD, Dirk Meyer new CEO
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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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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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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” …
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Not guilty plea in San Francisco's computer caper — (07-17) 14:04 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The city computer engineer accused of orchestrating a cyber coup of San Francisco's high-tech network pleaded not guilty today to four counts of computer tampering and remains behind bars on $5 million bail.
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Former city employee accused of blocking San Francisco's computers
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The 3D Internet Will Change How We Live — Last summer, several hundred thousand very real dollars disappeared into a Ponzi scheme in the popular virtual world, “Second Life.” The owner of the “bank” behind the scheme fled, and hasn't been seen since last October. There were no investigations, lawsuits or arrests.
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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 …
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First Look: Amazon Video On Demand Service — Amazon is tackling video on demand again with a new service aptly named Amazon Video on Demand that gives its customers instant access to 40,000 movie and television programs. Programs are streamed immediately through your browser …
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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 …
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Twitter's New Redesign — I just logged into Twitter and after sending a direct message from the Twitter homepage my screen showed this: — At first I thought Firefox was going haywire on me. However, this is not the case. It seems Twitter is testing a new theme design and one that I'm not quite sure how I feel about.
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Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers? — Security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced last week that a major bug affected DNS software, which translates human-usable domain names like “pcworld.com” into the IP addresses that computers use to find each other.
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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 …