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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google's Income Rises 32%, Topping Forecast — SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent the last few months arguing to anyone who will listen that its new advertising businesses — including ads with images and video and on cellphones — will fuel its next phase of growth.
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AppleInsider, Datamation, internetnews.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog and SiliconANGLE
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Google's Mobile Ads Now a $1 Billion Global Business — Worldwide Growth Driven by Boom Among Smartphones, Android Devices; Aided by Apple — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Amid third-quarter earnings, Google revealed a startling number: Mobile ads are now a $1 billion business worldwide, annualized based on the prior quarter.
Google Investor Relations:
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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IntoMobile, The Register, 24/7 Wall St., VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, ClickZ, Financial Times, Erictric, Android Community and Eurodroid
Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Reveals Display And Mobile Revenues For First (And ONLY?) Time
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Electronista
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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Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gadget Lab and TUAW
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript
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winandmac.com, Computerworld, Daring Fireball, Engadget, CBS News and WinBeta
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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mocoNews, Wall Street Journal, Post Tech, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, GigaOM, Under the Radar, USA Today, Epicenter, Yahoo! News, Internet2Go, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com, Switched and Gawker
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Netflix on PS3 gets 1080p, adds 5.1 surround, loses the disc — Microsoft thought it was being all fancy with its dashboard update that brought search to Netflix, but Sony has just announced its own competing update to Netflix streaming. Starting October 18, you'll be able to access Netflix …
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CrunchGear, SlashGear, BetaNews, PlayStation Blog, USA Today, eHomeUpgrade, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Switched, Gadget Lab and Digital Trends
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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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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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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L.A. Times Tech Blog and CNET News
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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AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET News, PC World, Ars Technica, Appletell, MacDailyNews, MacStories, Erictric, TiPb, Daring Fireball, TUAW and MacNN
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Puck Yeah: This 4G Hotspot Can Replace Broadband [Review] — Clearwire's ugly little pucker proves itself to be a marvelous addition to a road warrior's weaponry. — This is the Rover Puck 4G mobile hotspot from Clearwire. If you're wondering, a 4G connection is indeed on par with an average broadband connection.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp. approached about Yahoo buy — Private equity firms eye alternatives to AOL deal — NEW YORK — As Yahoo shareholders cheer a possible sale of the company to private equity firms, perhaps with the aid of AOL, private equity players also have approached News Corp. as a potential strategic partner, according to sources.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ozzie starts blogging (again) — For being a social-networking fan, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie hasn't been big on sharing publicly via blogging or Twitter. — But on October 14, after a four-year hiatus, Ozzie started a new blog.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Found by Ray Ozzie: Microsoft Windows 1.0 press kit
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Ray Ozzie and The Register
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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Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web and TechCrunch
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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InformationWeek, Mitchell's Blog, Bits, John's Blog, Network World, TechCrunch, Digits, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, CNET News, Erictric and VatorNews
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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Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net, PhoneDog.com, AndroidGuys, MobileCrunch, Droid Life, IntoMobile, Androinica, Geek.com, Android Community and Android Police
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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SiliconANGLE, Download Squad, All about Microsoft Blog, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and LiveSide.net
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Google sees a browser in every TV — In a discussion with Google's Rishi Chandra, I got insight into what Google sees for the future of TV. — Rishi Chandra demonstrating GoogleTV at Google I/O via Androidandme.com — Demo units are still en route to reviewers but I thought …
Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters:
Seagate confirms talks to go private — (Reuters) - Seagate Technology Plc shares surged over 20 percent after the hard-drive manufacturer said on Thursday it was approached by another company interested in taking it private. — The hard drive manufacturer also said it retained Morgan Stanley & Co Inc …
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE and Bloomberg
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Why Skeptics of Kleiner Perkins are Eating Crow (or Will Be Soon) — On Tuesday, the Japanese mobile company DeNa announced plans to buy Ngmoco, a San Francisco-based startup that develops games for the iPhone. DeNa is paying $400 million, including an earnout of $100 million, according to the blog Mobile Entertainment.
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TechCrunch, Mobile Entertainment and www.pocketgamer.biz
