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Google Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. — “Google had an excellent quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Our core business grew very well, and our newer businesses …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Q3: $7.29 Billion, Display And Mobile Showing “Momentum” — Google said it earned $7.29 billion in Q3 2010, growth of 23% compared to the same period in 2009. Quarterly growth was 7%. Although these numbers aren't broken out, the Eric Schmidt quote included in the press release highlighted display …
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Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Reveals Display And Mobile Revenues For First (And ONLY?) Time — Google's Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, took some time on this afternoon's Q3 earnings call to discuss some specific user numbers for newer Google businesses. — He said this was a one time thing, so get pumped.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Wallops Q3 Estimates — There's the beat Wall Street was looking for. Google reports earnings $7.67 a share and net revenues of $5.48 billion. The consensus was for $6.67 and $5.25 billion. GAAP EPS was $6.72. — Google has been plowing money into capital expenditures and people …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google's Income Rises 32%
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Apple:
Verizon Wireless Offers iPad at Stores Nationwide on October 28 — BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—October 14, 2010—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available at over 2,000 Verizon Wireless Stores nationwide beginning Thursday, October 28.
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Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:
iPad Coming to AT&T, Verizon Stores Oct. 28 — An official press release from Apple reveals that a new partnership between it and Verizon Wireless will see the iPad make its way to the wireless provider's store shelves on Oct. 28. In a separate press release, Apple also said the iPad will be available at AT&T stores on the same day.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs' Success [Exclusive Interview] — John Sculley, Apple's ex-CEO, talks for the first time about Steve Jobs. Illustration by Matthew Phelan. — In 1983, Steve Jobs wooed Pepsi executive John Sculley to Apple with one of the most famous lines in business …
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Rick Osterloh / The Big Blog:
Skype with Facebook integration and group video calling — We're excited to announce a brand new version of Skype for Windows, which will help bring you and your friends, family and co-workers together like never before. Download it now, or read on to find out what's inside.
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Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow — If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it's probably because on average they're sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month. That's more than six per every hour they're awake - an 8 percent jump from last year.
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Greg Peters / PlayStation Blog:
Netflix on PS3: Disc-free Next Week — If you instantly watch movies and TV shows from Netflix on your PS3, here is the news you've been waiting for: starting Monday, October 18 you'll be able to instantly watch movies and TV shows without inserting an instant streaming disc into your console.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Following Pivot To Celebrity Tracking Site, Twitter Cuts Off Scoopler's Firehose Access — A couple days ago, we noted that real time search engine Scoopler was pivoting away from that product and transforming into JustSpotted, a celebrity tracking site. A key to this new service is the use …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter investor backs celebrity-tracking site
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Shannon Prior / The Mozilla Blog:
Introducing our new CEO: Gary Kovacs — We're pleased to announce that we have appointed Gary Kovacs as our new CEO. His first day will be November 8th. — Gary's appointment as CEO comes as part of a planned leadership transition that we announced earlier this year.
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Bloomberg:
Yahoo Said to Hire Goldman to Handle Takeover Approaches — Yahoo! Inc., which spurned an unsolicited offer from Microsoft Corp. in 2008, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help defend against possible takeover approaches, said three people familiar with the matter.
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Apple MobileMe News:
New MobileMe Calendar. Now Available to All Members. — The new MobileMe Calendar is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank everyone who took part in the beta for helping to make this the best MobileMe Calendar yet. — To start using the new calendar …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Adobe tops 1 million Flash downloads on Android — Adobe has more than 1 million downloads of Flash Player 10.1 on the Android market, but still has a few kinks to work out on the mobile front. — Since Flash Player 10.1 launched on Android the reception has been solid.
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Jeff Kunins / The Windows Blog:
Messenger Connect is out of beta and available worldwide — Continuing with our ongoing partnering strategy, Messenger Connect enables our 500 million users to easily share what they're doing across the web with their friends in Messenger & Hotmail. It also makes it easy for our partners …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Spark Capital Raises a New Fund — Spark Capital, the Boston-based venture capital firm that has investments in Twitter, Tumblr and Boxee, has raised a new fund to invest in Web and digital media companies. — The new fund is $360 million, the same size as Spark's last one.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Outage: Not-So-Perfect Timing — Yahoo is never down. — So the fact that its massive Web site is showing a “server outage” sign and little else is pretty astonishing. — And not in a good way, since the company is in the midst of a swirl of takeover rumors, executive turmoil and worries about weak earnings next week.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple component allocations point to new form factor sub-notebook — Activity within Apple's supply chain throughout the better part of 2010 has shown signs that the Mac maker is gearing up to introduce a new notebook that doesn't fit into any of its existing hardware designs, according to one Wall Street analyst.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple's Ping Wants Rock ‘n’ Roll, but No Sex and Drugs — Ping may never move beyond the “interesting idea, executed poorly” stage. But it might! And in any case, it's Apple, so if you're a music act you ignore it at your own risk. — Which means those acts need to create a “profile” for Steve Jobs's social network.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intuit's New Version Of Quicken Gets Mintified With Financial Data Insights And More — One of the reasons Aaron Patzer founded personal finance site Mint.com was because of his frustrations with Intuit's financial management software Quicken. Quicken, says Patzer wasn't user-friendly …
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