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2:00 AM ET, October 29, 2010

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Microsoft Corporation:
Earnings Release FY11 Q1  —  Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Results  —  Growth across all business segments drives record first-quarter revenue and earnings per share.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced record first-quarter revenue of $16.20 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30 …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Apple Rocketed Past Microsoft In Revenue This Past Quarter By Over $4 Billion  —  When Apple passed Microsoft in market cap this past May, the Microsoft fanboys were out in full force.  “This means nothing.”  “Microsoft still makes so much more money than Apple.”  “Look at the revenues.”
Discussion: MacRumors, winrumors and displayblog
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft Q1 2011 by the numbers: Beats consensus but not Apple  —  Microsoft started fiscal 2011, which first quarter closed on September 30, ahead of analyst consensus.  Slower PC shipment growth didn't take the spark out of Windows revenues, and Office 2010 delivered during its first full quarter of license sales.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Runs Basically The Worst Internet Startup Ever.
Discussion: AppleInsider
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
LIVE BLOG: Microsoft Earnings Call
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
PDC: Why Steve Jobs' Pixar uses Microsoft Windows Azure  —  Everyone knows Pixar, the studio that makes fantastic computer-graphics movies.  Most people probably realize they couldn't just make one of those films with their desktop PC.  But few people may know that's not necessarily …
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Amazon.com:
Amazon to Launch Kindle App for Windows Phone 7
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
IE9 Developer Preview 6 launched, and new Test Drive site now live
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Launching Places Powered Deals Service  —  Facebook is currently testing a new “Facebook Deals” service which enables businesses to provide deals whenever visitors check-in to a physical store.  The new service is being tested with a limited number of partners …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung  —  The Nexus Two is real.  It's made by Samsung, and a friend of ours got to play with it.  It's not going rock your face like the Nexus One did.  But it will record it with a front-facing camera.  —  “When I first saw it from 10 feet away …
Wayne Kao / Facebook Blog:
Telling the Story of Friendships  —  One of my favorite Facebook moments is browsing photos from friends in the News Feed after they've begun a new relationship, gotten engaged or gotten married.  It gives me a fun and meaningful glimpse of the friendship between two people I know.
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces Friendship Pages That Show Friends' Mutual Content
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
John Nack / John Nack on Adobe:
Adobe demos Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool  —  Where there's pain, there's opportunity.  —  Pre-Adobe, I made my living building rich, Flash-intensive sites for Gucci, Coca-Cola, Nike, and other big brands.  Doing that job today, I'd be in a jam: How could I create rich experiences that run on desktops …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Leaving Position To Take Advisory Role  —  I'm currently in Dublin, Ireland, for a (most excellent) event dubbed Founders, where I was invited to handle a fireside chat / interview with YouTube cofounder and CEO Chad Hurley earlier tonight.
Leland / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Windows Phone: Pivot Power  —  There is a new addition to our mobile family: Twitter for Windows Phone.  This Twitter client is available now for all Windows Phone 7 devices.  We want you to be able to get Tweets quickly and easily, no matter what device you're using …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Where in the World Is Eduardo Saverin?  In Singapore Funding Facebook Games.  —  I haven't run into him, but have confirmed from at least ten local programmers and angel investors that Eduardo Saverin- the Brazilian-born estranged Facebook co-founder who helped Ben Mezrich write …
Denise Leung / Flickr Blog:
Sign up for Flickr with your Google Account!  —  With dozens of different login usernames and passwords out there on the Interwebs, who needs to add yet another one to the list?  To help solve this, Flickr is rolling out a new feature to make it easier than ever for new users to join our community.
Anant Narayanan / Mozilla Labs:
Cloud, meet Rainbow  —  Enabling video & audio recording in the browser.  —  Introduction  —  At Mozilla Labs, we're constantly trying to push the boundaries with respect to what the browser can do.  We've experimented with audio recording in the browser as part of the Jetpack prototype earlier, and want to revisit the idea.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Foursquare Blog:
Check in and vote on foursquare  —  With election day right around the corner, we're giving people yet another reason to go to their voting booth on Tuesday (in case choosing your government isn't reason enough): a new ‘I Voted’ foursquare badge.  On election day, simply head …
Jim Moran / Yipit Blog:
Groupon Releases Pricing For Self-Serve Product  —  Over the weekend, we learned Groupon is quietly testing a new self-serve offering, with potentially major implications to the future of the company.  Today, we found full details on the program in a welcome page to merchants.
Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:jdmoran
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Launching Another New Homepage On Monday  —  AOL plans to launch yet another new homepage design, at least for some of its viewers, on Monday, the WSJ reports.  —  The new design “will display more articles as well as pictures and online video,” the WSJ's Emily Steel reports.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon's tiered data plans go live, including $30 for a smartphone buffet or $15 for 150MB  —  It's October 28th, and Verizon's full suite of data plans have changed just as foretold — if you want to save a few bucks, you can revise your megabyte-munching lifestyle right now.
Discussion: Gumball Tech and Ubergizmo
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nook Color processor revealed: ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP3621  —  Barnes & Noble provided most of the specs for the Nook Color when it launched the device on Tuesday, but notably absent was any word on the processor that powers the e-reader.  Thankfully, Texas Instruments has now come …
 
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Milo Takes Local Product Inventory Search Mobile With Android App
Discussion: Internet2Go and WalletPop Blog, Thanks:jackabraham
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
Oracle takes stake in networking pal Mellanox
Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg and PC World
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Government Withholds Records on Need for Expanded Surveillance Law
Philip Willan / Computerworld:
Italy opens investigation into Google data gathering
Discussion: DSLreports, SAI and Search Engine Land
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple ‘Clarifies’ Device-To-Device iTunes Rental Limits: Don't Do It
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google, HP, eBay And Yahoo Fund Group Behind Pro-Death Penalty Attack Ads
Discussion: Gawker, VatorNews and MarketWatch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Experimental Real-Time Location Tracking Comes To Google Latitude On Android
 Earlier Items: 
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring nitride coatings for scratch-proof devices
Discussion: Gizmodo, TiPb and TUAW
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
When Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY]
Discussion: WebProNews and The Huffington Post
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Fred Wilson on The Empire State of Startups
 

 
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