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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2009 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. — “Google had a strong quarter—we saw 7% year-over-year revenue growth despite the tough economic conditions,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
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Reuters:
Google to launch online electronic book store — Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle. — The Web search giant said on Thursday …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Can Apple Spoil Microsoft's Day? — The impending launch of Windows 7 is being seen by Jobs & Co. as an opportunity to lure PC users away — The entire personal computer industry is gearing up for Microsoft's (MSFT) Oct. 22 release of Windows 7, by most accounts the best version of its operating system in years.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing. A Great New Feature. — Twitter has just rolled out its new Lists feature to a slightly larger portion of its user base right now. The feature allows you to group users you follow together and then lets you share those for others to also follow.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery — On Thursday morning, Amazon.com took another step in its effort to bring instant gratification to its customers, introducing a new “Local Express Delivery Option.” If an eligible item is ordered between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (depending on the city) Amazon will have it delivered on the same day.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users — Data Restoration to Begin as Soon as Possible for Affected Customers. — Dear T-Mobile Sidekick customers, — On behalf of Microsoft, I want to apologize for the recent problems with the Sidekick service and give you an update …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Opens Up ‘In App Purchasing’ for Free iPhone Applications — Apple has just sent out an e-mail to registered iPhone developers informing them that In App Purchasing, previously restricted to paid applications, is now also permitted in free applications.
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Daniel Tenner:
What problems does Google Wave solve? — There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media. — Is Wave the next Twitter?
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Ousted Twitter Co-Founder's Twitter Derivative Has a Hometown — It's easy to get the idea Jack Dorsey is acting out a revenge fantasy. Fired one year ago as CEO of his brainchild Twitter, Dorsey now says he's planning a startup with “similar ideas” — right in Twitter's back yard.
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NBC Bay Area
Fred / A VC:
The ‘We Need To Own’ Baloney — Over the past few months, I've heard countless VCs utter the words ‘we need to own’ followed by some number. Often it is 20pcnt, but it is frequently 30pcnt. I heard someone tell me about a VC yesterday who said they needed to own 44pcnt.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Rumors swirl over Apple's iMac Blu-ray, quad-core plans — The latest rumors surrounding Apple's plans for its upcoming iMac makeover hint that Blu-ray could remain a “bag of hurt” for a bit longer, while the company taps Intel for its latest mobile chips to help fill the void.
Computerworld:
Husband, wife team arrested for allegedly stealing $23M from Cisco — Federal authorities arrested a husband and wife team for allegedly stealing $23 million from Cisco in a scheme that had the network giant shipping replacement parts to fake businesses in eight states.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
News Corp Lawyer: Aggregators Steal From Us! News Corp: Hey Check Out Our Aggregator! — We've already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy.
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
The Hype Is Right — Apple's tablet will reinvent computing. … From the magazine issue dated Oct 26, 2009 — Apple is supposedly working on a tablet computer, and though it doesn't even exist yet, it has already enjoyed more reviews than most products that actually do.
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Google Docs previews — Being an avid Google Docs user, I receive a ton of emails with links to documents that my co-workers and friends share with me. From technical design documents at work to my roommate's expenses spreadsheet, my inbox is full of document links that I need to view as I reply to my mail.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Judge: ringtones aren't performances, so no royalties — Songwriters and publishers won't be able to collect royalties each time a cellphone plays an annoying musical ringtone in public, thanks to a federal judge's ruling that ringtones aren't public performances.
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Computerworld:
I don't want to sell Twitter, says Biz Stone — When you're co-founder of one of the hottest companies on the Internet dealing with acquisition rumors is a constant part of the job, but on Thursday Twitter's Biz Stone sought to put an end to the persistent talk that he wants to sell the company.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
False Alarm: New iPhone 3GS Not Jailbreak-Proof — Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple's new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Why Kai-Fu Lee Turned Down Steve Jobs (And Is Still Cool with That) — BEIJING, CHINA- Kai-Fu Lee may have left his post as president of Google China, but he didn't go very far. While still president he learned that Google was going to give up some of its space at Beijing's Tsinghua Science Park.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
David Kaplan / paidContent:
IAB Calls For Reversal Of ‘Unfair and Unconstitutional’ FTC Blogger Regs — The Interactive Advertising Bureau is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its recently revised guidelines governing dealings between bloggers and marketers. The ad trade group says the rules …
Jboriss / Boriss' Blog:
Microsoft Proposes a Browser Ballot for European Windows Users, it is Not Awesome — Background on the European Commission/Internet Explorer case — This January, the European Commission (EC) announced it would investigate Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer (IE) with Windows.
Maya Baratz / SFoodie:
Twitter is Launching Its Own ‘Fledgling’ Wine Label — Forget drinking the company Kool-Aid. Twitter employees will soon be drinking the company wine. — ​Also known on Twitter as Bottles for Books , Fledgling Wines marks Twitter's foray into the winemaking business.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
iPhone Sales: Now Bigger Than Ever — It's a great time to be a phone buyer, for we are seeing a whole new crop of what The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls super smartphones (I prefer the simpler “superphones") come to the market. Motorola's CLIQ, an Android-based device that launched …
Economist:
Clash of the clouds — The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others — DO YOU have plans for next weekend? If not, don't worry: perhaps a friend will be throwing a party to celebrate the launch of Windows 7 …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
EXCLUSIVE: Foursquare Launches in 15 New Cities — Whether or not you're actually playing the incredibly addictive location-based game Foursquare [iTunes link], you've probably seen the buzz surrounding it and heard something about its notable investors, or why it may be the next Twitter.
