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Apple:
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Best March Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 28, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Crushes Earnings, Guidance Fine — Apple (AAPL) handily beat the Street's sales and earnings estimates for the March quarter, and June quarter guidance looks fine — conservative as usual. — No breaking news on the company's earnings call: As usual, COO Tim Cook says he's bored …
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Between the Lines, Microsoft Pri0, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Guardian, Apple 2.0, Reuters, Epicenter, Macworld, VentureBeat, eWeek, AppleInsider, MediaMemo and BusinessWeek, Thanks:atul
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple's Tim Cook: Why don't we make netbooks? Because they suck — Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook, who is leading the company in Steve Jobs' absence, took some sharp jabs at netbooks (computers that are smaller and cheaper than laptops) this afternoon.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former Facebook Exec Van Natta Set to Take Over at MySpace, as Founder DeWolfe Prepares to Step Down — Finally, Owen Van Natta is about to win out over a founder. — The former Facebook COO (pictured here) is poised to become the CEO of MySpace, replacing Co-founder and current CEO Chris DeWolfe.
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HipMojo.com, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Gawker and The SiliconANGLE
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The First Ten Things the New CEO of MySpace Should Do — There has been a lot of speculation on the future of MySpace since today's news that Chris DeWolfe may step down as CEO. A few disclaimers: First, I'm personal friends with Chris and think the world of him. He is a visionary, a great leader and a true gentleman.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
AT&T Vs Pre: Internal Document Smackdown. Oh No You Didn't! — Want more evidence that the Pre release is imminent? How about AT&T sending a document around their internal network for employees to bone-up on some anti-Pre, pro-iPhone talking points ...and then holding some in-store seminars …
Biz / Twitter Blog:
What's The Deal with OAuth? — OAuth is an open protocol that Twitter is experimenting with along with other companies such as Yahoo, Netflix, and Google. The idea is that folks can use awesome Twitter related applications and services like We Follow or TipJoy without giving away their account credentials.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows 8 starts to come into focus — I get questions periodically about whether Windows 7 marks the end of the Microsoft operating system road. — Some users wonder whether will Microsoft's next version of Windows be completely cloud-based? Will it be Midori with the Windows name slapped on it?
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Results — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The ecommerce company posted first quarter revenue of $2.02 billion, a $171.6 million year …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple removes ‘Baby Shaker’ from App Store — Apple has removed the Baby Shaker application from the App Store, just hours after it was discovered. — The application still shows up in the App Store search, but upon clicking on the title, an error message appears.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
To Tweet or Not to Tweet — SAN FRANCISCO — Alfred Hitchcock would have loved the Twitter headquarters here. Birds gathering everywhere, painted on the wall in flocks, perched on the coffee table, stitched on pillows and framed on the wall with a thought bubble asking employees to please tidy up after themselves.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web — Public television may be non-profit and government-sponsored, but it has many of the same problems as commercial broadcasters when it comes to the Web. More and more viewers want to watch “Nova,” “Frontline,” and “Antiques Roadshow” …
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Podcasting News, CenterNetworks, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, eHomeUpgrade, Lifehacker, NewTeeVee, TVover.net and Digits
Rodrigo Davies / BBC:
Slow start for Nokia's music plan — Nokia's all-inclusive Comes With Music mobile service has been much slower to attract UK consumers than expected, according to an industry consultancy. — Music Ally claimed yesterday that Comes With Music has won 23,000 British subscribers since launching last year.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Starts Experimenting With Real-Time Notifications — The real-time web is all the rage, with FriendFeed widely deploying live feeds earlier this month and Facebook working hard on bringing real-time streams to its homepage. Now YouTube is looking to get in on the action …
Epicenter:
In Iraq With Web 2.0 Luminaries: Helios, Helmets, Hummus — By Steven Levy, Senior Writer, Wired magazine — BAGHDAD — The sight is so weird that the people waiting for the military flight to Baghdad at the Amman airport just have to ask: Who are you guys?
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Reuters, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, Associated Press and Generation Shift, Thanks:johncabell
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle — The research firm iSuppli tears apart the Kindle 2 to determine how much its components really cost — It has taken the online retailer Amazon less than two years to make its Kindle device more or less synonymous with the electronic book reader,
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Engadget, iSuppli, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, TechFlash, MobileContentToday, CNET News, Electronista, The Toybox, CrunchGear and Silicon Alley Insider
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Pro Apps and MacBooks to see update at WWDC — We just got a call in from our favorite Apple source who says that Apple is going to have a minor update at WWDC for MacBooks and MacBook Pros. He said he wasn't sure what the minor upgrade was but there was speculation that there might …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public — Microsoft pubCenter, an ad publishing tool (think Google Adsense) from Microsoft Advertising, after existing as a private beta for a number of months, goes into public beta today, April 22. — Kevin McCabe, Senior Product Manager for pubCenter beta …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
No data caps, no DOCSIS 3.0? TWC's math doesn't add up — Time Warner Cable suggests that DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts might be delayed now that its consumption-based billing trials have been canceled. The company says that it needs the extra revenue to pay for the upgrades and all that bandwidth that people insist on using.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Will Hit A Billion Apps At 1:24:06 AM PST On April 23 (As Of Right Now) — We all know that Apple is closing in on a billion app downloads in the App Store. Currently, the counter on the main Apple.com claims it's about 10 million away from the major number.
Washington Post:
‘Causes’ Social Networking May Be All Talk, No Cash for Nonprofits Seeking Funds — Though Popular, ‘Causes’ Ineffective for Fundraising — It seems foolproof: nonprofits using the power of the Internet to raise money through a clever Facebook application.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why AT&T Wants to Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon — AT&T's earnings report on Wednesday highlights the enormous stakes involved in the renewal of its exclusive contract to distribute Apple's iPhone in the United States. — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last week …
Reuters:
Microsoft CEO says not interested in hardware buys — * not interested in buying hardware company — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is not interested in buying any hardware companies, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in Cairo on Wednesday. — On Monday, software rival Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) …
