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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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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple's Tim Cook: Why don't we make netbooks? Because they suck — Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook, who's leading the company in Steve Jobs' absence, took some sharp jabs at netbooks (computers that are smaller and cheaper than laptops) this afternoon.
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The Local:
Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial — A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:Pirate Bay judge and pro-copyright lobbyist accused of bias
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News Corporation:
Chris DeWolfe to Step Down as CEO of MySpace — Will serve as strategic advisor to Company — Los Angeles, CA, April 22, 2009 - MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and News Corporation's Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller, announced today that, by mutual agreement, Mr. DeWolfe will not be renewing …
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Fred / A VC:
A Second Market Is Emerging — Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities. She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock. — I've written about this idea in the past and I think it is badly needed.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets — SAN FRANCISCO — Founders of start-ups and the venture capitalists who finance them have two ways to get their money out of the company: sell it to another company or sell shares to the public. — The market for initial public offerings has dried …
Bruce Perens / perens.com:
A Cyber-Attack on an American City — Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city.
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Ze Pequeno / Tiny Mix Tapes:
Joe Biden's Problem with Music — A different perspective on the RIAA's takeover of the Department of Justice — If there's something to be said about Vice Presidents, it's that they can wield unlikely power. They may be just background figures at times, men who are simply one heartbeat away from becoming President themselves.
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William P. Barrett / Forbes:
Steve Jobs: Nobody Loves Me — Steve Jobs, adulated gadget hero, was feeling underappreciated not too long ago. — Steve Jobs, the man rolling out iPods, iPhones and cool computers to millions of adoring customers, once felt he wasn't getting enough respect—from his own board of directors.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
New Jawbone Headset: More Comfortable, Better Sound, Flashy Colors — I feel like I should start anything I write about headsets with a disclaimer: I've still never met one I can love unreservedly. I have trouble getting them to stay in my ear; I find myself having to futz with buttons and Bluetooth …
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MobileCrunch, Engadget, The Toybox, SlashGear, New York Times, Gizmodo, Electronista and Crave
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Time Warner, Embarq Fight to Outlaw 100 Mbps Community Broadband in Wilson, NC — The cable companies aren't happy that they've been one-upped in both price and quality of service — Time Warner Inc., after finally dropping its plans for metered internet services for the time being, appears to be back to its old ways.
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DigiTimes:
MSI to showcase Android-based netbook at Computex, says paper — Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to showcase an Android-based netbook at Computex 2009 aiming to gain orders from global PC vendors, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Asks Users If They'll Pay For Vanity URLs — As Facebook searches for ways to increase their revenue, some users are being asked if they are willing to pay for vanity URLs. For those unaware of what vanity URLs are, they are the short strings that follow “facebook.com”.
Rick Klau / tins:
Music rights are killing good TV shows — Mike Masnick at TechDirt has repeatedly identified cases where the difficulty of obtaining rights to music played in TV shows is either holding up or killing attempts to reissue those shows on DVD. WKRP in Cincinnati is probably the best-known example …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
First Look: We Take YouTube RealTime For A Spin — Earlier today we reported on YouTube's plans to roll out a new real-time product that adds a new social layer to YouTube, allowing friends to share the videos they're watching with each other in real time, without having to turn to outside chat programs or Twitter.
Austin Modine / The Register:
Lost laptops cost companies $50k apiece — Encryption no match for corporate accounting — Free whitepaper - It's all about the salesperson: Taking advantage of Web 2.0 — A single lost or stolen laptop costs a business an average of nearly $50,000. At least, that's the word …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios — Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can't wait for the industry to sue Google.
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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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Engineering Windows 7:
Ink Input and Tablet PC — There's a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and create software in Windows that builds on this experience to streamline …
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GottaBeMobile.com
Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Google Street View cleared of breaking Data Protection Act — Google Street View privacy complaints are rejected by Information Commissioner's Office — Google Street View, the controversial website that shows 360-degree street views of many of Britain's cities does not breach the Data Protection Act …
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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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