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Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:
An update from the Chairman — When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective sum of the world's knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process.
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Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Results and Management Changes — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010. — “Q4 marked a terrific end to a stellar year,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
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GigaOM, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, MacRumors, paidContent, Digits, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, SAI, Mashable, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, ArabCrunch, TUAW, Droid Life, IntoMobile, 24/7 Wall St., The Next Web, The Domains and Network World
Eric Schmidt / @ericschmidt:
Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed! http://goo.gl/zC89p
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TechCrunch, Digits, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, CNNMoney.com, Digital Daily, John Battelle's Searchblog, BetaNews, DealBook and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt Out As Google CEO, Larry Page Takes Over — Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO of Google, and Larry Page is taking over the company just announced in its earnings. Here's Google: Starting from April 4, Larry Page, Google Co-Founder, will take charge of Google's day-to-day operations as Chief Executive Officer.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
LIVE: Google Explains Why Larry Page Is CEO — Google is about to kick off its quarterly earnings call, but a whole lot of people are going to more interested in people, not profits, today. That's because Google is moving Eric Schmidt out of his CEO job, to be replaced by cofounder Larry Page.
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TechCrunch, internetnews.com, Gearlog and GottaBeMobile
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Grows Revenues 26% In 4th Quarter To $8.44 Billion [Slides]
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MacDailyNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable and MarketWatch
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Tweets can now become Techmeme headlines or discussion. So tweet away. — For as long as newsmakers have used Twitter, tweets have broken news stories. And yet for Techmeme, linking directly to tweets was never imperative - after all most newsworthy tweets are blogged within minutes, moreover with helpful context.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, SAI and Softpedia News, more at Mediagazer »
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Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera:
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Techmeme Taps Twitter For Faster Headlines, Pithy Context
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The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Kyle / iFixit Blog:
Apple's Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone — Expecting to be one of the first people in the world to buy the iPhone 4, I was dispatched to Japan for its release last June. Much to the dismay of thousands of Japanese with similar intentions, my mission was thwarted …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
T-Mobile Confirms Sidekick 4G, Samsung Galaxy S 4G — T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm confirmed today that 4G HSPA+ versions of the T-Mobile Sidekick and the Samsung Galaxy S phones will be “coming soon,” according to a slide presented at a press breakfast today.
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Arn / MacRumors:
FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth Icons Confirm Camera in iPad 2 — Apple's developer release of iOS 4.3 Beta 2 has provided more visual evidence confirming that the next iPad will carry a front facing camera as well as the Apple Camera App and Photo Booth App.
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SlashGear, L.A. Times Tech Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Pulse2, Computerworld, GSMArena Blog and The Toybox Blog
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin Leads Qwiki's $8 Million Round — TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki has closed its $8 million series A financing, which I first reported a couple weeks ago when it was midway through the round. Now we know the investors, and it is a very interesting group.
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All Facebook, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, VatorNews and Pulse2
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HP:
HP Announces Changes to Board of Directors — Five highly accomplished business leaders to be added to board — HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed five new members, effective Jan. 21, bringing the total number of board members to 13.
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Tech Trader Daily, NewEnterprise, ITworld.com, DealBook, Mashable! and @hpnews
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Arik Hesseldahl / New Enterprise:
Meg Whitman, Patricia Russo Among Five Joining HP Board
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Bloomberg
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online — Part of Twitter's appeal is that people can ‘connect’ and engage with celebrities online, even if most of them consider it to be, and treat it like, just another push marketing channel rather than a multi-dimensional communication system.
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Pulse2 and TechRadar.com, Thanks:robinwauters
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC to launch Flyer tablet PC in March — HTC plans to launch three tablet PCs in the first half of 2011 with the first model, the Flyer, to begin shipping in the US market in March, according to sources at handset component suppliers. The Flyer, which looks like an enlarged version …
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eWeek, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Engadget, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Pulse2, ITProPortal, Pocket-lint and SAI
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Eric Schmidt: All of Google's Strategic Initiatives in 2011 are Mobile — In the latest Harvard Business Review, guest contributor Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, writes about the company's plans for the coming year, saying “as I think about Google's strategic initiatives in 2011, I realize they're all about mobile.”
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Datamation, Macworld, Computerworld, BetaNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, Electronista, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, @dannysullivan and SlashGear
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
iOS 4.3 beta multitasking gestures demonstrated on iPhone, look like a handful (video) — If you came along for our most recent podcast you heard us discussing some of the new features uncovered in the iOS 4.3 beta, including multitouch gestures for multitasking like four-finger swipes to go between apps.
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GigaOM, MacRumors, TiPb, IntoMobile, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, SlashGear and CrunchGear
Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:
NY Times to Charge Less Than $20/Month for Web Access — New York Times Co. will charge readers less than $20 a month for full access to its namesake newspaper on the Web when the company introduces its paid service, a person familiar with the matter said. — The price has been set at less …
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paidContent and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Considers Integrating a Display into their Magic Mouse — On January 20, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's Magic Mouse. Apple is working on combining the Magic Mouse's touch surface …
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Computerworld and MacRumors
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol — Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol that revolutionized file-sharing, is finalizing the code for his new P2P-live streaming protocol. With his efforts he aims to develop a piece of code superior to all other streaming solutions on the market today.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20 — We've been huge fans of Google Voice for quite a while now — it makes screening calls and managing multiple phones a breeze — but there's always been a huge thorn in its side: it didn't allow people to port their existing phone numbers over.
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Ars Technica, Examiner, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, Digits, Technologizer, VentureBeat, LaptopMemo, Gadgetell, Pulse2, PC World, GMSV and Download Squad
YouTube Blog:
New YouTube homepage launches to all users — You may have noticed we've been experimenting with a new YouTube homepage. After countless user studies and community surveys, one thing came in loud and clear: the homepage in its current form doesn't mean much to most of you, and could be more personally relevant.
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Techie Buzz and Search Engine Watch
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Box.net Upgrades Cloud Storage Platform With New UI, Collaborative Features And More — Today, Box.net unveiled a brand new version of its cloud storage platform. Box's CEO Aaron Levie says that in creating the new version of Box, the company focused on three key themes—simple, open and mobile.
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Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, PC World, VentureBeat and Mashable
Zokem:
In the US Market, iPhone Outperforms Other Mobile Platforms in User Loyalty by a Wide Margin, Android is Second, Blackberry Fourth — Zokem's industry leading Mobile Life panel in the US from the year 2010 reveals that iPhone scores 84% higher in loyalty ratings than the nearest competitor, Google Android.
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Fortune, The Loop, Cult of Mac and Internet2Go
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Demand Media's IPO to Take Place Next Week — According to numerous sources with knowledge of the situation, Demand Media will finally launch its public offering later next week, after it completes its road show for investors. — Once it has its IPO, which is being led by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley …
Erik Sherman / BNET:
Does Apple Plan an Online iPhone/iPad Backup Service? — There are third-party iOS apps that permit users to back up data to a cloud service and restore it when necessary. However, a patent application made public today suggests that those vendors may soon compete with Apple (AAPL) itself.
