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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Leaves the Internet — Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic …
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Andree Toonk / BGPmon.net Blog:
Internet in Egypt offline — Different media are reporting that Internet and other forms of electronic communications are being disrupted in Egypt. Presumably after a government order in response to the protests. Looking at BGP data we can confirm that according to our analysis 88% …
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Complete Internet Blackout in Egypt — After blocking Twitter on Tuesday and, intermittently, Facebook and Google on Wednesday, the Egyptian government has upped the ante, throwing a complete Internet access block across the whole of the country. Additionally blocked are Blackberry service and SMS.
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Lori Kozlowski / Chatter:
Egypt with no Internet: Is Web access a human right?
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record $0.77 Earnings Per Share in Second Quarter — Holiday sales and business demand drive record revenue. — Redmond, Wash. - Jan. 27, 2011 - Microsoft Corp. today announced record second-quarter revenue of $19.95 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7: 300 Million Licenses Sold
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Still Strong: Microsoft Beats Estimates as Quarterly Sales Neared $20 Billion
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Steve Sordello / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn files registration statement for Initial Public Offering — Ed. Note: We'd like to share with you the press announcement related to our filing registration statement for a proposed Initial Public Offering. — LinkedIn Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement …
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Google's Schmidt wants to set the record straight — Eric Schmidt opens up about his company's executive shuffle, whether or not Facebook poses a threat, and where Google is competing with Apple. — Image via Wikipedia — The media speculation about why Eric Schmidt is ceding the Google …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: “We Had Our First $10 Billion Quarter” — Amazon just released results for its for its fourth quarter ending December 31, 2010. The company's sales came in at $12.95 billion, which is up 36 percent from $9.52 billion in fourth quarter 2009.
Ken Florance / The Netflix Tech Blog:
Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks — Hi there. This is Ken Florance, Director of Content Delivery here at Netflix. — As we continue to stream more and more great movies and TV shows, we find ourselves in the unique position of having insight into the performance of hundreds …
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Bono's Silicon Valley Soap Opera — The rocker's days as a tech mogul could be ending: A key founding partner is ditching Bono's private-equity firm, Elevation, in a nasty spat that's going public, just as the company is trying to launch a second investment fund.
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David / TmoNews:
(Updated: New Pic!) Sidekick 4G In The Wild! — Update: A couple of things have been pointed out, one it absolutely looks like there is a front facing camera present. Secondly, you can clearly see the Samsung etched logo on the back of the device. Most important, it seemingly retains …
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:
LivingSocial Closing the Gap — Let's face it, $6 billion is a lot of money, especially considering the hyper-innovation we're seeing in the social buying space. — In a previous post less then two months ago we analyzed the difference between Groupon and LivingSocial visitors.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily — Apple and News Corp sent out invitations on Thursday to press for the launch of the Daily, a newspaper designed specifically for iPads. — According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch …
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion — The NAP of the Americas, the huge Terremark data center in downtown Miami. Verizon says it will buy Terremark (and the NAP) for $1.4 billion. — Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal …
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Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
How Selerity Got Microsoft's Earnings Early — Ryan Terpstra didn't post Microsoft's quarterly earnings early. Microsoft did. Terpstra just found them first — forcing Microsoft to broadly release its numbers before the close of trading Thursday. — Terpstra's 22-person company …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft Considering Whether to Bring Office to Apple's Mac App Store — Microsoft says it continues to be pleased with sales of the Mac version of Office, but has not yet decided whether to offer the product or any of its components in the Mac version of the App Store, which launched earlier this month.
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William Gibson / New York Times:
25 Years of Digital Vandalism — IN January 1986, Basit and Amjad Alvi, sibling programmers living near the main train station in Lahore, Pakistan, wrote a piece of code to safeguard the latest version of their heart-monitoring software from piracy. They called it Brain, and it was basically a wheel-clamp for PCs.
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Joseph Alexiou / The Business Insider:
FAIL! One Year Later, Here Are 7 Naysayers Who Thought The iPad Would Fail — Exactly a year ago, the iPad — which was a heavily guarded rumor that everyone knew existed — was debuted to gushing masses. People loved it, they hated it, they made fun of its name (remember the sophomoric jabs).
James Sterngold / Business Week:
Say Goodbye to All Those Passwords — The Commerce Dept. is backing a new security system for online identity checks that could be a boon for e-commerce — The convenience promised by the Internet often seems to evaporate when you log in every morning. First comes the user name …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Second-Guessing SecondMarket — This week, the CEO of SecondMarket, the secondary market for illiquid assets, traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where SecondMarket was given a “technology pioneer” award. — The distinction didn't come as a surprise to anyone in Silicon Valley.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing Display Ads In Gmail — Google appears to be testing display ads in Gmail. I have not spoken to anyone at the company but discovered the following image ad in my own Gmail account this morning: — Image ads have made their way into paid search on Google.com and various other properties on Google.
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Pete Warden / ReadWriteWeb:
Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines — The popular startup question and answer service Quora only allows the largest search engines to index its site. As Gabe Rivera of Techmeme pointed out yesterday, its robots.txt file explicitly grants Google, Bing, Blekko and other big players access, but excludes everyone else.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Shares Dip 7% In Most Recent SecondMarket Auction — A week ago Facebook shares were being traded at $28.26 per share, a $70 billion valuation. In this week's auction at SecondMarket the per share price declined just over 7%, to $26.25, a $65.5 billion valuation with around 2.5 billion shares outstanding.
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eMarketer:
Who Will Win the Android vs. iPhone Race? — Google's mobile OS will be on top by year-end 2012 — The iPhone may have captured the hearts and minds of many tech-savvy early smartphone adopters—not to mention marketers—with its sleek design, multitouch interface and available apps.
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled — This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication. Not really, I confessed. The Times doesn't have encrypted phone lines, or a Cone of Silence.
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