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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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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.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, But Google's Still A One-Trick Pony — That “$2.5 Billion Of Display Revenue” Is Not As Impressive As It Sounds — Google had a very strong quarter, and the company is in an unbelievably strong financial position. The core search business is healthy, and investors are right to be jazzed about that.
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ExchangeWire.com and Electronista
Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript — Here's a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs. — It's long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. — UPDATE: Here's an audio version …
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winandmac.com, displayblog, Digital Daily, Engadget, Computerworld, CBS News and WinBeta
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs' Success [Exclusive Interview]
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYT Replaces Editors' Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now — You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You're getting it—and eventually, you'll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) flagship is updating its Editors' Choice iPad app with an expanded version …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Exclusive: High-Profile Hires for Palm-Nokia's Ari Jaaksi and Samsung's Victoria Coleman — Earlier this month, Ari Jaaksi resigned as head of Nokia's MeeGo division, citing “personal reasons” as the cause for his departure. — Turns out “personal reasons” was actually a euphemism for “I'm joining Palm.”
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why The Verizon iPad Is A Very Good Sign For The Verizon iPhone — And The Future — This morning, Apple issued a press release where the first word in the title was one many of us have been waiting years for: Verizon. No, they didn't announce a version of the iPhone for Verizon's network.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Verizon to offer data plans for iPad of up to 5GB for $50, with a catch
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Computerworld, IntoMobile, O'Grady's PowerPage, Go Rumors, BlogsDNA, DSLreports, Boy Genius Report, Erictric and Engadget
David Winograd / TUAW:
The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure — It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its money.
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9 to 5 Mac and TeleRead
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Galaxy S Android 2.2 Froyo update begins to trickle out (update: official) — Based on breathless reports we're seeing on Twitter and in the XDA-Developers' forums, it would appear that Samsung has just pushed out the official Android 2.2 Froyo update for its Galaxy S as promised.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Found by Ray Ozzie: Microsoft Windows 1.0 press kit — Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, is blogging again. And for his first post he uploaded a gem: the press materials for Microsoft's launch of Windows 1.0. — Here's an excerpt from a news release by The Waggener Group …
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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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Guardian:
WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting — Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations — The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Why Microsoft? Ballmer's reply to underwhelmed college student — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer drew a large crowd of students at the University of Washington computer science department today, giving a broad overview of the company and the direction of the tech industry.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please) — “Dear website owner, congratulations on your excellent site, which includes features covered by our registered patent, #5,251,294. As the description indicates, many of the components on your pages, particularly your menus …
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Fast Company and Download Squad
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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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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Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Puck Yeah: Clearwire's 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.
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Bobby Caina Calvan / Sacramento Bee:
Talk about going viral: Touch-screen devices can harbor flu germs — A squeeze, a flick, a touch - but keep those grimy, germ-infested hands off that iPhone. Who knows where those fingers have been? — Personal touch-screen devices - iPads, BlackBerrys and Droids - are now seemingly everywhere …
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Bloomberg:
TPG Said to Be in Talks to Buy Seagate for $7.5 Billion With KKR — TPG Capital and KKR & Co. are in talks to acquire Seagate Technology Plc, a deal that would mark the disk-drive maker's second leveraged buyout in a decade, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
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Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters:
Seagate confirms talks to go private
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options? — When I talk to entrepreneurs in other countries— whether they are other Western countries like France or England or developing countries like Brazil and India—the biggest reason they say they envy Silicon Valley is a culturally subtle one.
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Enterprise Irregulars and GigaOM
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Cars Born to Run With Smartphone Apps — MOST auto dealers will tell you that more buyers ask about how to connect an iPhone to a car or about the latest collision avoidance systems than they do about how quickly a car goes from zero to 60. So automakers are pumping up the technology.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T to sell iPads direct to the enterprise — AT&T said Friday that it will sell Apple's iPad direct to business customers in a move that could bolster enterprise adoption of the popular tablet. — AT&T has said that it was seeing a strong corporate response to the iPad. Now it is ramping up the distribution.
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AppleInsider and PR Newswire
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Lessons From Silicon Valley VC Legend Don Valentine — With all the fuss surrounding the recent “AngelGate” meetings and the tension between angels and super-angels and traditional venture funds, it's instructive to listen to one of the legends of the Silicon Valley VC business …
