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Apple:
Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results — Revenue Up 38 Percent Year-Over-Year Mac Sales Reach All-Time High — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share.
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Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Apple defies gravity: Quarterly profit rises 31%
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It. — I'm tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project — Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Analysis: Facebook's redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else — Is Facebook's redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else? — Facebook has finally started integrating its new redesign into its main site. The company is betting that what users want to do is to publish …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The Friendfeedization Of Facebook
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:Like Its Users, The New Facebook Is All Grown Up
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New York Post:
APPLE-A-DAY TALK — INVESTORS AWAIT EARNINGS & JOBS' HEALTH REPORT — Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, fighting what insiders at the time were calling a “bug.”
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs' Health Worries Won't Go Away. Time For A Succession Plan (AAPL) — Concerns about Steve Jobs' health aren't going away. Today's NY Post quotes a “Wall Street source” who says hedge fund managers are still freaked out after seeing Jobs' rail-thin appearance at the iPhone launch event last month.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, Apple, Steve Jobs' Health Is NOT Just a “Private Matter” — On Apple's Q3 conference call a few minutes ago, an analyst asked management about Steve Jobs' health. Apple's response: — “Steve's health is a private matter.” — Steve's health is obviously a private matter …
Qblogger / Windows Home Server Team Blog:
Power Pack 1 - come and get it! — The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center! — The English version is available now and German, Spanish and French versions will be available on the Download Center soon.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform? — Last July, at the time of the launch of the new iPhone, we asked the question, where are the iPhone games? Looks like we have an answer: they are coming, and in a big way. Of course, you can already buy Tetris and grab Tap Tap Revenge, the No. 1 free app …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry — SAN FRANCISCO — The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news.
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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Are Web 2.0 startups wasting their time with Web 2.0 early adopters? — Cookie cutter go-to-market strategies — I run into a lot of startups that have identical strategies for getting to market. When you talk to them, a lot of them will talk about the same questions: — When are you launching?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Brocade Buying Foundry for $3 Billion — Wow...it is turning out to be a big Merger Monday. First Roche decides to try and pick up the part of Genentech it doesn't already own for a whopping $43.7 billion. And now there is news that Brocade, a old school storage networking vendor, is buying Foundry Networks for $3 billion.
Nate True's Weblog:
How to tether your iPhone 3G and browse the web using your 3G connection — Thanks to the excellent work of the iPhone Dev Team and the porting work of Jay Freeman as well as the authors of 3Proxy, it is now possible to “tether” your iPhone 3G and use its Internet connection on your laptop.
Journalism.org:
THE CHANGING NEWSROOM — Meet the American daily newspaper of 2008. — It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects.
Raanan Bar-Cohen / WordPress for iPhone:
Getting Close — Just a quick update that we've successfully uploaded the app to the iTunes Store, and the status message “In Review” indicates that the Apple team is conducting their testing procedures. We have not been provided with an ETA - so it could get approved at any time.
