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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. — “Google had a good quarter given the depth of the recession—while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year, thanks to continued strong query growth.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever — Google has just announced its Q1 2009 results, and for the first time ever, there has been a dip. Revenue fell 3% for the quarter versus the fourth quarter of 2008. But, for the year, revenues were still up.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:Earnings: Google Beats Expectations; Net Revenues Up 10 Percent
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Kate Perry / Democrat And Chronicle:
Time Warner Cable cancels Internet tier pricing plan — Time Warner Cable is canceling plans for a new Internet pricing plan for the Rochester area that would have billed people according to how many gigabytes they use each month, Sen. Charles Schumer announced today.
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Reuters, CNET News, Ars Technica, WHAM-TV, Epicenter, GigaOM, eWeek, Electronista, Associated Press, Obsessable, Gizmodo and Engadget
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher — While Ashton Kutcher and CNN are trying to be the first to hit 1 million followers on Twitter, Joseph Frieschel, an inconspicuous Australian MD, is quickly catching up. Frieschel only opened his Twitter account last night, but he already has over 200,000 followers.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet Google's New Global Sales Boss, Nikesh Arora — President of international operations Nikesh Arora — best known for running Google Europe until April — will replace Omid Kordestani as Google's (GOOG) global sales boss, according to a note in the company's quarterly filing.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Still Shaking Up Sales Force: Nikesh Arora Replaces Omid Kordestani — Here's the other shoe that hadn't dropped following Tim Armstrong's move from Google (GOOG) to run Time Warner's AOL (TWX). Omid Kordestani, who was the official head of Google's sales, has been moved aside in favor of Nikesh Arora (pictured).
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Ning hits 1 million social networks — It launched just over two years ago. — Ning now has 22 million registered users, about 6.1 million of whom are considered active. Out of the million networks, about a fifth are currently active. — While these numbers are still small compared …
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Pulse2, Ning Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, bub.blicio.us and Mashable!
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Video Prank at Domino's Taints Brand — When two Domino's Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant's kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones, Depicts Front-Facing Video Camera — Apple has been conducting ongoing research into how to further improve their mobile device interfaces as evidenced by a couple of patent applications published over the past couple of weeks.
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AppleInsider, CNET News, Gearlog, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, DailyTech, The Apple Core, I4U News, TUAW and Obsessable
Rory Maher / paidContent.org:
Price Hikes Dampened iTunes Sales — Last week was the first week of iTunes's new, steeper pricing on some tracks, and consumers voted with their wallets, according to Billboard. Sales figures from iTunes show that tracks that now sell for $1.29, up from $.99, sold 12.5 percent fewer units …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's US Market Share Slips in 1Q 2009 — Gartner has released a preliminary report detailing U.S. and worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter of 2009. The report pegs Apple's U.S. market share in fourth place among vendors at 7.4%, down from 8.0% in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Excel-Lookalike Twitter Client Helps You Goof Off At Work — For a full-featured Twitter client, we like TweetDeck. But if we had a real job — something other than tech journalist, where we're obliged to goof off on Twitter at the office — we'd use Spreadtweet.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Mac vs. PC: What You Don't Get for $699 — A 17-in. PC may cost a lot less than a 17-in. Mac. But you get less, too, including security, multimedia tools, and, some say, satisfaction — I'm a sucker for a well-made TV ad. — Inspired by the Nike (NKE) “Just Do It” and “Air Jordan” …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yelp's New And Improved iPhone App Officially Hits The App Store — Yelp's version 2.0 of its iPhone app has officially hit Apple's App store. We reported on Yelp's focus on the mobile space and its importance here. — As we wrote recently, the new app gives consumers even more ease …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Nokia's net profit falls 90 percent — If you were wondering how bad things have gotten for the mobile handset market, just take a look at Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones. — The company on Thursday reported a 90 percent fall in first-quarter net profits as the global recession took …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Tax-free Internet shopping may be at an end — If a little-known but influential alliance of state politicians, large retailers, and tax collectors have their way, the days of tax-free Internet shopping may be nearly over. — A bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube signs Sony, redesigns site for professional content — Move over Hotforwords, lonelygirl15 and all the other YouTube stars. The video site is bringing in more professionally made content and plans to make it a marquee product. — On Thursday, the Internet's largest video site …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Cisco's Unified Server Takes Memory to the Max — A month after Cisco unveiled its Unified Computing System, it has finally released pricing, processing power and memory details. The bottom line is this: the performance of the servers and overall system seem to be in line with competing products …
CBC News:
Cybercriminals create botnet using Mac computers — A piece of malicious software unwittingly shared over a peer-to-peer network in January was the key tool in what security researchers are saying was the first known attempt to create a botnet of Mac computers.
New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, government officials said in recent interviews.
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HTC Press Release:
New HTC Touch Diamond2™ and HTC Touch Pro2™ Signal a New Wave in Communication — New phones simplify information access with HTC Push Internet and unify personal communication with single-view contact integration — HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Announcing The TechFellow Awards With Founders Fund — I'm very pleased to announce a new startup investment program today called The TechFellow Awards in partnership with Founders Fund. The goal is to honor technology innovators and stoke new investment in great early stage ideas.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees? — User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it. — Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation's horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they've been pummeled by competition from the Web.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
The Beatles: Rock Band limited edition bundle priced, detailed — Finally, a few whispers straight from the horse's mouth. While we've heard rumor after rumor regarding the actual hardware to be bundled in with the sure-to-be-hot The Beatles: Rock Band, MTV Games, Harmonix and EA …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Closing The Gap: Facebook Only 9 Million Visitors Away From Passing MySpace In U.S. — One of our favorite parlor games here at TechCrunch is trying to guess when exactly Facebook will pass MySpace to become the No. 1 social network in the U.S. by unique visitors. Worldwide, Facebook took that crown long ago (in April, 2008).
