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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities — Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion. (Fun venture fact: Fred Wilson's Flatiron Partners was an investor).
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results — Lower operating expenses narrow revenue gap in difficult economic environment. — Income Statements — Segment Revenue and Operating Income (Loss) — Third Quarter Form 10-Q — View the PowerPoint Earnings Release
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Rob Stacey / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android and iPhone — In my spare time, I like to build computer systems at home. So I often use Google Product Search on a desktop computer to look for video cards, memory, and peripherals. Google Product Search gives me information like prices, ratings, reviews, and product details from all over the web.
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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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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial — It's been almost a week since the verdicts of one year in prison and heavy financial damages were passed against the four accused in the Pirate Bay trial. The sentence seemed surprisingly tough to many analysts …
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Claudine Beaumont / Telegraph:Pirate Bay trial judge denies accusations of bias
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Amazon: “Kindle exceeded our most optimistic expectations”; beats Q1 estimates — Amazon may be taking a lesson from Apple when it comes to earnings. Forecast low, come in high and keep everyone on Wall Street smiling. The company surpassed expectations, giving much of the credit to the re-launch of its e-book reader, the Kindle.
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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Financial Results — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009. — Operating cash flow was $1.76 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.04 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2008.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Android Catches Up To Palm In Mobile Ad Market Share. IPhone Still Blows It Away. — Android is making steady gains in mobile ad market share, accounting for 6 percent of all mobile ad requests measured by AdMob in its latest March metrics (full report embedded below).
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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:With Private Trades, Venture Capital Seeks a New Way Out
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell miss out on Susan Boyle windfall — ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell have missed sharing a million-pound windfall because they have failed to reach a deal to sell advertising against clips of Susan Boyle, the internet singing sensation.
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.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's Q2: Analyzing the analysts — No analyst we know of correctly predicted Apple's (AAPL) second fiscal quarter results for 2009, in which the company proved that computer makers don't have to slash prices or build “junky” $400 netbooks to weather an economic storm. But some analysts did better than others.
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Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Aliph and Plantronics in ears race escalation — It's an ears race rather than an arms race, but the contest for the coolest and quietest Bluetooth headset has just been stepped up another notch with new releases by Aliph and Plantronics. — San Francisco-based Aliph brought forward …
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp:
Salma Hayek's Apple MobileMe account hacked, couldn't have been easier — As I write this, people are accessing the personal Apple MobileMe account of Hollywood actress Salma Hayek, after its login details were posted earlier today on Anonymous imageboard 4chan.org.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The State Of The iPhone Is Strong — Very Strong — Of the major companies that announced their earnings yesterday, two of them, AT&T and Apple, beat Wall Street estimates largely thanks to a single product: The iPhone. We're approaching the two year birthday of the device, and it still remains one of the hottest items out there.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Researching Methods to Offer Customized Control of Browser-Based Audio Content — In a patent application filed in November 2007 and released today, Apple reveals that it is researching methods for providing customized audio control for Internet browser content.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook TOS Voting Concludes, Users Vote for New Revised Documents — Facebook's first-ever user vote on proposed changes to the site's Terms of Service has just concluded, and the results are in: the new documents have won out over the old documents by a 74% - 26% margin.
Dan Morrill / Android Developers Blog:
Future-Proofing Your Apps — Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some great new features in there, but don't get too excited yet — some of you will need to fix some problems in your apps before you can start taking advantage of Android 1.5.
Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
PixelQi puts three displays in one — SAN JOSE, Calif—You have to be able to see a screen before you can use multitouch gestures on it. — Here at the Interactive Displays 2009 conference, while the rest of the budding touch-screen industry talks about the best way to incorporate multitouch …
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Ubuntu 9.04 is available for download — Right on schedule, the folks at Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu Linux this morning. Ubuntu 9.04 adds a number of new features including a revamped notification system, support for the Ext4 file system, and updated applications like Firefox 3 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
‘Us Weekly’ Sells Facebook Fan Page Ad to State Farm — Social Network Doesn't Get Any Revenue From Deal — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Us Weekly has sold sponsorship of its new Facebook profile to State Farm in what appears to be a first for a media company on the social network website, as well as a first for a company's fan page.
Bill Bergstrom / Associated Press:
Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill — PHILADELPHIA - — Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.
Sumner Lemon / Network World:
Researchers show how to take control of Windows 7 — Proof-of-concept code takes control of the computer during the boot process — Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.
csh.rit.edu:
Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System — Anybody who hasn't been living under a rock knows about YouTube. It's a video site built entirely around user-submitted content. Anybody can film anything, upload it to the site, and anybody on the Internet can watch it if they so choose.
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