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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
What we know and what we don't know about Facebook's finances — Is Facebook desperate for cash because its growth has caused costs to far outpace revenue, as TechCrunch suggests? Not necessarily. Revenue will be in the hundreds of millions, and will greatly exceed the $150 million …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. — When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase.
Scott Moritz / Technology news:
Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry — Free. That's Vodafone's (VOD) recently-unveiled price for the hotly-anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) in the United Kingdom. — In a sign of just how desperate phone companies are to lock customers …
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well — Here is a confession: I am getting pretty tired of netbooks running Windows XP. So when we got our Windows 7 Beta disc at PDC earlier this week, I couldn't wait to get it running on a netbook. — This morning we loaded Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H.
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CrunchGear, jkOnTheRun, WinExtra, Computerworld Blogs, Electronista, Redmond Pie and Liliputing
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Microsoft parks “I'm a PC” recording booth outside Apple Store — Microsoft Corp., engrossed in multi-million dollar marketing blitz to counter comical ads from rival Apple, Inc., is now using a portion of its budget to fuel guerilla retail tactics near the Mac maker's stores.
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Engadget, Apple Watch, Silicon Alley Insider, Gadget Lab, steve clayton, Electronista, Pulse 2.0, Gizmodo, CNET News, VentureBeat, Gearlog, Redmond Pie and MacDailyNews
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft faces uncertain financial future as it looks to the cloud — LOS ANGELES — The Ray Ozzie Era at Microsoft has begun. — The man who assumed Bill Gates' role of chief software architect unveiled a new blueprint for the company here this week, detailing plans …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Yahoo! Video Streams Surge 56% in September to Claim Second Spot to YouTube which has broken 5 Billion Monthly Videos Serve, Nielsen Online — Video streams on Yahoo! dramatically increased in September to 265 million, up 56 percent from August's 169 million.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Tweaks AdWords To Reward “Quality” (And Juice Revenues) — There is nothing like a downturn to force a company focus on the bottom line, even a company like Google whose bottom line is still growing at a healthy pace. Continuing its recent efforts to juice advertising revenues wherever it can …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek expects to ship US$200 Eee PC in 2009, says president — Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$78.26 billion (US$2.39 billion) for the third quarter this year, while net profit after tax was NT$6.38 billion, an increase of 13% on quarter, but a drop of 14.2% on year.
Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast:
One Sinowal Trojan + One Gang = Hundreds of Thousands of Compromised Accounts — The RSA FraudAction Research Lab would like to share its startling findings based on its tracking and research of the Sinowal Trojan, also known as Torpig and Mebroot. Our findings based on the data we have collected …
Mike Elgan / PC World:
Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 — Subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You'll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Sprint, Cogent in Peering Feud - Sprint disconnects from Cogent network, impacting customers — Cogent is no stranger to peering disputes, fighting with Level3 back in 2005 and AOL back in 2002. While most peering arrangements involve carriers trading equal amounts of bandwidth …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? — Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking of away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? — How's this for covering your bases in a story …
David Hill / Medialets:
Android Market, Unleashed — Here we are a little over a week since the launch of the first Android-powered phone, the G1. As of Monday, Android Market has been open to developers to distribute their applications as they wish. We've made some more observations on how the Android Market is evolving …
Jon Udell:
URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform — When friends and family ask about the Professional Developers Conference I attended this week, I tell them it's kind of like Microsoft's State of the Union address. I've been to a number of these over the years.
Live Mesh:
Update on installation of Live Mesh for Mobile - FIXED! — Thank you for using the Live Mesh for Mobile client! For users who saw a failure to add their mobile phone to their mesh, we have deployed an updated build of Live Mesh for Mobile. You will need to download the Mobile Installer from http …
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Reuters:
Tesla sees new financing, founder offers support — Tesla Motors Inc expects to close a financing round of over $20 million from existing investors as soon as next week to bolster a cash balance now at $9 million, said Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of the electric car start-up.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, CNET News, Venture Chronicles, VentureBeat, Valleywag and Earth2Tech
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss — Microsoft said Friday that it is changing the leadership of its Macintosh Business Unit, the group responsible for Office for Mac. — Eric Wilfrid, a product unit manager in the division, will succeed Craig Eisler, who is moving to a role elsewhere …
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Experimental Monkeys Now Available — We often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Is There Still A Big Loophole For Software And Business Method Patents? — I've been talking to plenty of people (mostly lawyers) about the Bilski ruling on software and business method patents while also having more time to reread the discussion in detail, and I'm going to backtrack on my original assessment.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Economists Realizing That Current Music Industry Structure Leads To ‘Sub-Optimal Outcomes’ — from the you-noticed? dept — The music collection society MCPS PRS in the UK apparently had three economists coming from different viewpoints work together on a paper concerning the economics of the music industry on the internet today.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat? — That's the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. — The details, from MusicWeek (via Coolfer): You give the company 100 British pounds, and for the next year you can download all the music you want.
comScore:
comScore Reports 6.5 Million Americans Watched Mobile Video in August With 4.4 percent of its subscribers tuning in, AT&T leads the pack in mobile video adoption — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, reports that 6.5 million Americans tuned into mobile video in August.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The New Xbox Experience with Netflix — Netflix Week continues (and we're not even done yet)... This morning, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) was delivered to my console. After quickly creating a non-representative (i.e. slender) avatar, I jumped right into Netflix.
Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
Apple fanboys vs. Microsofties: A scientist's verdict — Since embracing Incorrectness, I have noticed that the passion of those who love either Microsoft or Apple seems even to exceed a Goth's passion for black eyeshadow. — The more I have come to know the two sides …
