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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still ‘makes sense’; Google Apps ‘primitive’ — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Vista's honor-again-but at least gave a nod to enterprise buyers that planned to skip it and upgrade when Windows 7 launches.
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All about Microsoft, CNET News, Reuters, GigaOM, The Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista and The Tech Report
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Still Makes Sense, Ballmer Says — Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said a deal with Yahoo! Inc. may still make economic sense for shareholders of both companies, prompting Yahoo shares to jump as much as 12 percent.
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Digital Daily, Brier Dudley's blog, Epicenter, Microsoft, InformationWeek, Neowin.net and Valleywag
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Wake Up, People: Ballmer Just Said He'd Still Buy Yahoo* — *UPDATE: An hour later, Microsoft corporate is frantically backtracking: — “Our position hasn't changed. Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo; there are no discussions between the companies.”
Rex Crum / MarketWatch:
Ballmer says Yahoo deal would “make sense economically” — ORLANDO, Fla. (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: , , ) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that he thinks a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo Inc. (YHOO: , , ) would still “make sense economically” for both companies shareholders.
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CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Profy, VentureBeat, Portfolio, Bits, Microsoft Pri0, Tech Confidential and Epicenter
Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits — An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones — will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone? — In the Android Market terms of service …
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Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones:Review: Over 260 images and 5 videos of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:Google Answers the iPhone
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Apple Watch, Computerworld Blogs, AppleInsider, Download Squad, CNET News, Phone Scoop, NEWSFACTOR, MSNBC, Lifehacker, InformationWeek, Boy Genius Report, Technologizer, CrunchGear, eWeek, Search Engine Land, Cult of Mac, dailywireless.org, blogs.chron.com, PhoneNews.com, AndroidGuys and Broadband Developments
Apple:
ABC, CBS, FOX & NBC Offer Incredible Lineup of Programming in Stunning HD on the iTunes Store — iTunes Tops 200 Million TV Episodes Sold, Including Over One Million HD Episodes — Apple® today announced that all four of the major networks are offering primetime programs …
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VentureBeat, The Digital Home, AppleInsider, The Apple Blog, Mashable!, InformationWeek, PC World, MacRumors, CrunchGear, MacUser, MacDailyNews, bub.blicio.us and Macsimum News
Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2008 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. — “We had a good third quarter with strong traffic and revenue growth across all of our major geographies thanks to the underlying strength of our core search and ads business.
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TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, CNET News, paidContent.org, Tech Trader Daily and Digital Daily
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
LIVE ANALYSIS: Google (GOOG) Strong Q3, Better Than Expected — Initial Analysis: Revenue was in line with estimates, which is a modest upside surprise (Wall Street was expecting a miss). EPS was solidly ahead of estimates, so a strong upside surprise. The upside came from better G&A expenses …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Google beats for Q3, Wall Street looks ahead — updated: In after-hours trading, shares of Google shot up more than 11 percent within 20 minutes after the company reported strong quarterly earnings. In regular trading, shares initially declined early in the day but rallied late in the day to close up more than 4 percent at $353.02.
Matt Gundersen / The Official Google Blog:
What's new with iGoogle? — I'm an iGoogle addict. I check my news, email, stocks, feeds and weather there and sometimes even manage to squeeze in a game or two during the day. Having everything in one place is super convenient, but I often wish I could deal with all my stuff without having to leave my iGoogle page.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Go Get Yer Shiny New Yahoo Profile...And Make Some Connections! — Yahoo begins the rollout of its new user profile today, which marks the first tangible product release for the social part of the Yahoo Open Strategy, or YOS. The profile is one of the anchors (mail is the other) …
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Dan Farber / Webware.com:Yahoo rolls out social Web foundation
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Build your own display ads in minutes — Today we released the AdWords display ad builder, which lets you create professional-looking display ads in AdWords without needing to hire a designer or start from scratch. If you've wanted to expand beyond your text ad campaigns …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adbrite Lays Off 40% Of Staff, Including Two Execs — It's not a happy day at San Francisco-based Adbrite this morning. The company is laying off 40 employees, which is 40% of total staff. Among those that are leaving are VP Marketing Paul Levine and VP Finance Bob Feller.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Lending Alternative Hits Hurdle — SAN FRANCISCO — It was one of the most audacious ideas of the Web 2.0 boom — that people could lend money to other people over the Internet and cut out the middlemen, also known as traditional banks. — In the last three years, Internet start-ups …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Prosper And Other P2P Lenders Get Squeezed By The Credit Crunch
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Bits
Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Making Touch Screen Laptop — PC Giant Aims to Spur Demand With Line of Products Using Touch Technology — Hewlett-Packard Co., aiming to boost its personal computer sales amid a deteriorating economy and soft holiday season, is increasingly turning to touch-screen technology.
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DailyTech, SlashGear, Crave, Electronista, Liliputing, Maximum PC all, Engadget, Gizmodo, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer and TechSpot
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Shocker: Tribune Co. Gives Notice To Drop AP — NEW YORK Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began.
Twitter Blog:
Meet Our CEO and Chairman, Again — Three years ago during my time as CEO of Odeo, I was lucky to be working with a software engineer Jack Dorsey who wasn't afraid to bring up an idea he'd been thinking about for a long time. What if a simple status message was the format for a social communication service?
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TechCrunch
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Inside the BlackBerry Bold — Research firm iSuppli says it costs Research In Motion $169.41 to make the smartphone, lower than some Street estimates—and promising for RIM's profit margins — The smartphone race between upstart Apple (AAPL) and incumbents like Research In Motion (RIMM) is well under way.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant — Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. To conduct this research project, Opera created the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application …
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Open Sources
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Yahoo to cut 3,500 jobs — party on! — A tipster tells us that Yahoo plans to cut 3,500 jobs, chiefly in sales and finance, on December 10 — while keeping plans for a multimillion-dollar holiday party days before the cuts: … Our source also confirms that the company is slashing severance packages …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Microsoft starts distributing open-source Drupal — The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, OScommerce, and other popular open-source Web applications.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Headup: A True Semantic Web Search Agent — “Semantic web” is one of those phrases that's tossed around loosely these days, used to describe just about anything that goes beyond basic keyword search to surface relevant content on the web. But true semantic web applications …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web — Just a week after ReFrame It launched its service that lets people annotate Web pages, another startup that's been doing pretty much the same thing since 2006, Fleck, is putting itself up for sale.
