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John Markoff / Bits:
Read My Lips: Apple Is a Netbook Maker — Steve Jobs appeared as a surprise “special guest” on Apple's earnings call Tuesday afternoon. — Mr. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, has not taken part in one of the company's conference calls with analysts since 2000, according to the company.
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Apple:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — 6.9 Million iPhones Sold Mac Sales Reach All-Time High — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Why the iPhone is now Apple's most important product — When Apple Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January 2007, even he might not have realized how soon it would become a huge part of Apple's business. — (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET News) — The rampant success of the iPhone …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
7 Real Reasons Why iPhone is a Smash Hit — Love it or hate it... there is no denying that Apple's iPhone is not only a game changer but a certifiable hit. Apple shared some interesting stats about the iPhone. I culled some of the more interesting facts come from the transcript …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Phone Company — For a long time — the entire decade of the '90s and the first few years of this decade — the story of Apple was the story of a company searching for a way to be something other than “the Mac company”. From a financial perspective of revenue and profit, the Mac was Apple, and Apple was the Mac.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jerry Yang Email To All Yahooers: 10% Of You Are Fired — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo'ers at 2:20 pm PST, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting 10% of employees go to help save $400 million in annual costs.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:Yahoo bets on a glass half full
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's iPhone Boosts AT&T's Wireless Business, But Whacks Profits — Why did AT&T (T) make sacrifices to become Apple's (AAPL) official U.S. iPhone carrier? Because it's leading the company in growth: AT&T says it activated 2.4 million (about a third of Apple's 6.9 million total) …
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AT&T:
Strong Wireless Gains, Sound Operational Execution Highlight AT&T's Third Quarter; Results Led by 2.4 Million iPhone 3G Activations, Rapid Wireless Data Growth — $0.55 reported earnings per diluted share versus $0.50 in the year-earlier quarter — $0.67 adjusted earnings per diluted share …
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Canned Responses — Hello, you've reached Chad's mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I'm on paternity leave so I won't be able to respond personally. Instead, I hope you'll enjoy this automated message.
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Metaplace raises more funding to be the MySpace of virtual worlds — Metaplace, a company that will allow anybody to build their own virtual world and access it through through an ordinary web browser, has taken $6.7 million in funding as it nears a public release.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mobile ad network AdMob hits profitability, raises $15.7 million — Mobile advertising network AdMob has become a darling of Silicon Valley this past year, having grown large alongside the recent explosion of mobile web traffic in the U.S. and around the world.
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Karen E. Klein / Business Week:
The Growing Frustration of eBay Sellers — Changes at eBay, especially its new ratings feedback policy, have many longtime sellers angry. Some are even leaving for upstart sites like Shopify — When Julie Rodarte and her husband started selling on eBay (EBAY) six years ago, they stored their meager inventory in the family garage.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Like.com's Perfect Timing: $32 Million Series C Round — Silicon Valley based Like.com managed to raise a monster round of financing at just the right time: $32 million in Series C round of funding that closed in August, led by Menlo Ventures. Crosslink Capital also joined the round, as well as all previous investors.
Suzanne Tindal / ZDNet.com.au:
Intel slams ‘slow’ iPhone ARM CPU — Any speed shortcomings in Apple's iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan yesterday. — “The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple,” Intel's director of ecosystems …
LarsBrubaker / Reflexive Arcade:
Reflexive is acquired by Amazon.com — Here at Reflexive we've got some really big news - and I wanted you to hear it directly from me, Lars Brubaker, CEO of Reflexive. — Reflexive Entertainment Inc. has been acquired by Amazon.com! — As I'm sure you can all imagine this is a very exciting day for us at Reflexive.
Miriam Marcus / Forbes:
Bad Day For Midway — Sumner Redstone's videogame publisher Midway Games had a doozy of a day, losing 12% of its market value with the billionaire wrapped up in talks with his creditors. — Shares in Midway Games (nyse: MWY - news - people ), whose game titles includes Unreal Tournament 3 …
