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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue — Windows 7 momentum continues. — Income Statements — Segment Revenue and Operating Income (Loss) — Third Quarter Form 10-Q — View the PowerPoint Earnings Release — Microsoft Corp. today announced record third-quarter revenue …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Oh My God, Apple Just Passed Microsoft In Market Cap!!!! Wait. Nope. — News is quickly spreading around the Internet today that Apple has passed Microsoft in market cap. The only problem? It's not true. — We've been following this trend closely in recent weeks.
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Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Macworld, Electronista, TUAW, MacRumors Page 2 and VentureBeat
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft earnings propelled by Windows 7, PC upgrades
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Tech Eye, BBC, Datamation, CNET News, The Register, eWeek, TechFlash, Tech Trader Daily, New York Times and internetnews.com
Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
HTC declining Palm, leaves Lenovo in the field-source — * Lenovo emerges as leading candidate for Palm — * Palm could potentially fetch $1.3 billion — HTC (2498.TW), the world's No.5 smartphone brand, will not bid for Palm (PALM.O) after reviewing the company's numbers …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Smartphones and Cell Phones, Fonehome.co.uk, SlashGear, Phones Review, Pocket-lint, never know tech and PreCentral.net
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Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
Palm pledges to survive as an independent — The head of Palm has insisted that the troubled smartphone maker can survive as an independent company in spite of disappointing sales of its flagship handsets. — Jon Rubinstein, chief executive, said that Palm would look at letting …
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Engadget, Softpedia News, Electronista, Phone Arena, Phones Review, Maximum PC and PreCentral.net
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook And Microsoft Check-In With Foursquare. Will Crowley Sell? — There is a lot of action surrounding Foursquare right now. And CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley has a tough decision to make. — It's already been widely reported that Yahoo is seriously pursuing a Foursquare acquisition …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One Millionsquare: Foursquare Hits The Big Number — Congratulations QuakeHOLD I. of Escondido, California, you're Foursquare's one millionth user. Or, at least, you're the user with the one millionth ID. Yes, the much talked-about location-based service crossed the milestone today.
Brad Stone / Bits:
What Danger Do Blippy and Swipely Pose to Amazon? — The social buying site Blippy is part of what one might call the Internet's “Too Much Information Movement,” which I write about in Friday's paper. — The startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., allows people to link their credit cards …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
August Capital And CRV Spend $11.2 Million At Blippy. Valuation Now $46.2 Million.
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Bobbi Newman / Librarian by Day:
Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook's New Instant Personalization - Yes You Have to Opt Out — Facebook does it again! I see this when I check my page today. — Connect with your friends on your favorite websites. — Sounds great. Sounds suspicious.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, CenterNetworks, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Technologizer
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol — I attended Facebook's F8 conference yesterday (missed the keynote IRL, but you can catch it online) and came away pondering the Open Graph Protocol. — In they keynote Zuck said (as Luke Shepard calls him):
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Sethgoldstein / @seth:
Here We Go Again... I remember that Monday morning, January 10, 2000. The day that AOL announced it was buying Time Warner. The word starting seeping out the night before, Sunday night. I went to sleep like it was Christmas eve, and couldn't wait for what market madness the morning would bring.
Thanks:seth
Katie Allen / Guardian:
ARM boss pours cold water on Apple bid rumours after shares soar — ARM Holdings and Apple go way back and on Thursday the market was taking the view their relationship could be about to become even tighter. — Shares in the Cambridge-based chip designer soared to an eight-year high …
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Google To Bring Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation To The iPhone — A neat thing about Android (which now also works on the iPhone) is that it comes with a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app. I mean, TomTom and Navigon are great, but having to drop almost a $100 on them is very painful.
Brian Prince / eWeek:
1.5 Million Facebook Accounts for Sale in Web Forum, VeriSign Reports — Security researchers at VeriSign iDefense can put a price on your Facebook account. As a recent attempt to sell 1.5 million accounts shows, social networking credentials are gaining value in the cyber-underworld.
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Sarah Lai Stirland / Broadband Breakfast:
Google Exec: Incumbent Telcos Welcome On Our Gigabit Network — What Happens When You Can Get a Gigabit of Information Per Second In and Out of Your Home? — LAFAYETTE, La., April 22, 2010 - Incumbent communications companies are welcome to set up shop on Google's experimental super-high …
Joseph Menn / blogs.ft.com:
Yahoo wants to do what Facebook did, only slower — Some very nice Yahoo executives came by the FT bureau in San Francisco this afternoon to remind us that they have a search strategy and that they are still planning to integrate Facebook and Twitter activity so that Yahoo users …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Now a Larger Seller of Stuff Other Than Media — Amazon.com is still known by many consumers primarily for selling books, music and DVDs, even though it also offers a ridiculous variation of other products, like HDTVs, patio furniture and replicas of human fat.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
McAfee admits “inadequate” quality control caused PC meltdown — If your company uses enterprise security products from McAfee, you probably had a bad day yesterday. If you're an IT professional at one of those companies, you're probably still cleaning up the mess caused …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
India's copyright proposals are un-American (and that's bad) — India's copyright office website is “best viewed in 1024 x 768 true colors, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or above.” — That might sound a bit dated, but it has nothing on the country's copyright law, which was last overhauled completely in 1957.
Rob Jackson / Android Phone Fans:
Android 2.2 Allows Automatic App Updates? — I was a bit skeptical when a user from 4chan claimed to be an “android trusted tester” and posted screenshots of a MyTouch 3G supposedly running Android 2.2 Froyo - afterall we know how easily those “About” screens are faked.
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Pocket-lint, Go Rumors, MobileCrunch, Geekword, RCR Wireless News, Android and Me, Erictric, Neowin.net and Gizmodo
Bloomberg:
Apple Captured 72% of Japan Smartphone Market in 2009 — Apple Inc. shipped 1.69 million iPhones in Japan in the fiscal year ended March 31, capturing the top share of the country's smartphone market, MM Research Institute Ltd. said. — The iPhone, offered by Japan's third-largest wireless …
